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Last Friday the Federal Communications Commission bared its teeth. In a 3-2 decision led by Chairman Kevin Martin, and joined by his Democrats colleagues across the aisle, Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, the agency ruled against Comcast, finding that the nation's largest cable company had practiced discriminatory network practices – throttling file-sharing traffic – and did so with a lack of disclosure.

To cut through the hype and hero worship surrounding the release on July 11 of the Apple iPhone 2.0 3G, JackMyers Media Business Report decided to take the pulse across the industry, speaking with players across the gaming and virtual world landscape as well as those creating solutions for mobile technology. Before a moratorium on all things iPhone is declared, there's more than anecdotal evidence that Apple's App Store is a gamechanger. Internet radio pioneer Pandora, for example, released an app that works seamlessly on the smartphone.

Last week Manhattan district judge Louis L. Stanton filed his opinion in the $1B copyright infringement lawsuit Viacom (VIA) first lodged against Google (GOOG) back in March 2007.

Lessons from Personal Democracy Forum, The "Davos of Technology": While the RIAA and MPAA have been frequent whipping boys in any debate on the failure of Big Media to embrace change in a timely fashion, they are positively visionary standing next to government. But that's changing. Just as media has grappled with, and now leverages, user-generated content (UGC), politics is experiencing its first brush with viewer-generated-activism (VGA).

Despite time-shifting and viewer erosion, television remains a $70B market, our most powerful advertising medium. That said, the steady trickle of ad dollars flowing from TV (and newspapers) to the Internet continues apace due to that platform's precision analytics and accountability.

The Filter is the next step in Social Media. When The Filter went beta this past April, it received gushing press, based not only on Peter Gabriel's über-celebrity, but his successful track record in multimedia (CD-ROMs Xplora and Eve; On Demand Distribution).One week after its public launch, JackMyers Media Business Report exclusively spoke with CEO David Maher Roberts.

Grandparents.com CEO Says Targeting Life-Stages is More Important Than Demographics

"Technology is the greatest change agent that humanity has ever seen." There can be little argument that for the last generation technology has accelerated the rate of change beyond recognition. Despite this, cognitively we remain hardwired to envision The Present as a range that includes not beyond the past three years to perhaps one year out from today.