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AskCALEA NewsWeekly March 5, 2010

• The Wired Interview: FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on Broadband, Google and His iPhone
  Julius Genachowski wants to be the Federal Communications Commission chairman who brings cheap and fast broadband to a technologically backward nation - the United States.
• FCC's broadband plan critiqued as overly broad, unfeasible
  Seybold said the upcoming National Broadband Plan needs to focus on only a few top priorities instead of being so broad.
• RSA: Google, PayPal, Equifax, Others Form Open Identity Exchange
  Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton on Wednesday at the RSA Conference announced that they have formed a non-profit organization to oversee the exchange of online identity credentials on public and private sector Web sites.
• 21 apps Apple doesn't want on your 3.0 iPhone
  Not every worthwhile iPhone app can be found at the App Store
• U.K. may outlaw public Wi-Fi spots
  The U.K.'s new Digital Economy Bill might outlaw Internet cafes, warns some legal experts who point to an official advisory issued last week that exceptions on the proposal's copyright-infringement provisions - that are aimed at individuals - have not been carved out for universities, libraries and small businesses offering open Wi-Fi service
• Skype lands in Nokia's Ovi Store
  Yesterday, the only good way to get Skype for Symbian on a Nokia Series 60 smartphone was to download it from Skype's Web site or a site like CNET Download.com.
• America's Most Wired Cities
  Raleigh is the kind of tech-forward city that, innovative as it is, often gets overlooked in favor of San Francisco, San Jose or Seattle. But this year the North Carolina capital passed its flashier rivals to grab the No. 1 spot on Forbes' Most Wired Cities list.
• The Three Giants of Linux
  In the land of Linux, there are three giants. Three distributions which have stood the test of time and from which most others have come. What makes these three unique and how have they shaped Linux as we know it today?