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  1. Weekly output: LocalSend, Mark Vena podcast, AST SpaceMobile launch

    I hope you all are enjoying the liminal time between Christmas and New Year’s–or, as I’ve come to think of it over the last 25-plus years, my last moments of occupational tranquility before work returns with force in the form of CES.

    (I’ve used some of that semi-idle time to write an extra post for Patreon readers about the free trips that I didn’t take in the last quarter of this year.)

    12/22/2025: This Free App Makes Transferring Files Between Devices Ridiculously Easy, PCMag

    Quizzing LocalSend’s developer via e-mail taught me a lesson in how namespaces and nations can mix. As in: He goes by Tien Do Nam, in Vietnam last names come first, he lives in Berlin, so I thought to ask for his surname. He replied that the correct full name is Do Nam Tien, while his German documents list him as Tien Do Nam.

    12/24/2025: Ep 117 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Trump’s impact on tech, AI data centers and energy, FCC and Google, Mark Vena

    As the token Washingtonian on this podcast, I took up the first item on the agenda. My take on President Trump’s tech policy wasn’t all bad–it looks like the government is in line to save tens of billions of dollars in broadband-buildout costs, assuming that Amazon Leo satellite broadband comes online on schedule–but I can’t call it anything close to good overall.

    12/24/2025: AST SpaceMobile Launches Its Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite Yet, PCMag

    Was I going to use this post as an opportunity to remind PCMag readers about India’s impressive spaceflight ambitions? Absolutely.

    #AirDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #BEAD #BlueBird #broadbandBuildout #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #IndiaSpaceProgram #LocalSend #lowEarthOrbitBroadband #LVM3 #MarkVena #QuickShare #satelliteBroadband #Starlink #TienDoNam

  2. Weekly output: LocalSend, Mark Vena podcast, AST SpaceMobile launch

    I hope you all are enjoying the liminal time between Christmas and New Year’s–or, as I’ve come to think of it over the last 25-plus years, my last moments of occupational tranquility before work returns with force in the form of CES.

    (I’ve used some of that semi-idle time to write an extra post for Patreon readers about the free trips that I didn’t take in the last quarter of this year.)

    12/22/2025: This Free App Makes Transferring Files Between Devices Ridiculously Easy, PCMag

    Quizzing LocalSend’s developer via e-mail taught me a lesson in how namespaces and nations can mix. As in: He goes by Tien Do Nam, in Vietnam last names come first, he lives in Berlin, so I thought to ask for his surname. He replied that the correct full name is Do Nam Tien, while his German documents list him as Tien Do Nam.

    12/24/2025: Ep 117 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Trump’s impact on tech, AI data centers and energy, FCC and Google, Mark Vena

    As the token Washingtonian on this podcast, I took up the first item on the agenda. My take on President Trump’s tech policy wasn’t all bad–it looks like the government is in line to save tens of billions of dollars in broadband-buildout costs, assuming that Amazon Leo satellite broadband comes online on schedule–but I can’t call it anything close to good overall.

    12/24/2025: AST SpaceMobile Launches Its Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite Yet, PCMag

    Was I going to use this post as an opportunity to remind PCMag readers about India’s impressive spaceflight ambitions? Absolutely.

    #AirDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #BEAD #BlueBird #broadbandBuildout #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #IndiaSpaceProgram #LocalSend #lowEarthOrbitBroadband #LVM3 #MarkVena #QuickShare #satelliteBroadband #Starlink #TienDoNam

  3. Weekly output: LocalSend, Mark Vena podcast, AST SpaceMobile launch

    I hope you all are enjoying the liminal time between Christmas and New Year’s–or, as I’ve come to think of it over the last 25-plus years, my last moments of occupational tranquility before work returns with force in the form of CES.

    (I’ve used some of that semi-idle time to write an extra post for Patreon readers about the free trips that I didn’t take in the last quarter of this year.)

    12/22/2025: This Free App Makes Transferring Files Between Devices Ridiculously Easy, PCMag

    Quizzing LocalSend’s developer via e-mail taught me a lesson in how namespaces and nations can mix. As in: He goes by Tien Do Nam, in Vietnam last names come first, he lives in Berlin, so I thought to ask for his surname. He replied that the correct full name is Do Nam Tien, while his German documents list him as Tien Do Nam.

    12/24/2025: Ep 117 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Trump’s impact on tech, AI data centers and energy, FCC and Google, Mark Vena

    As the token Washingtonian on this podcast, I took up the first item on the agenda. My take on President Trump’s tech policy wasn’t all bad–it looks like the government is in line to save tens of billions of dollars in broadband-buildout costs, assuming that Amazon Leo satellite broadband comes online on schedule–but I can’t call it anything close to good overall.

    12/24/2025: AST SpaceMobile Launches Its Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite Yet, PCMag

    Was I going to use this post as an opportunity to remind PCMag readers about India’s impressive spaceflight ambitions? Absolutely.

    #AirDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #BEAD #BlueBird #broadbandBuildout #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #IndiaSpaceProgram #LocalSend #lowEarthOrbitBroadband #LVM3 #MarkVena #QuickShare #satelliteBroadband #Starlink #TienDoNam

  4. Weekly output: LocalSend, Mark Vena podcast, AST SpaceMobile launch

    I hope you all are enjoying the liminal time between Christmas and New Year’s–or, as I’ve come to think of it over the last 25-plus years, my last moments of occupational tranquility before work returns with force in the form of CES.

    (I’ve used some of that semi-idle time to write an extra post for Patreon readers about the free trips that I didn’t take in the last quarter of this year.)

    12/22/2025: This Free App Makes Transferring Files Between Devices Ridiculously Easy, PCMag

    Quizzing LocalSend’s developer via e-mail taught me a lesson in how namespaces and nations can mix. As in: He goes by Tien Do Nam, in Vietnam last names come first, he lives in Berlin, so I thought to ask for his surname. He replied that the correct full name is Do Nam Tien, while his German documents list him as Tien Do Nam.

    12/24/2025: Ep 117 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Trump’s impact on tech, AI data centers and energy, FCC and Google, Mark Vena

    As the token Washingtonian on this podcast, I took up the first item on the agenda. My take on President Trump’s tech policy wasn’t all bad–it looks like the government is in line to save tens of billions of dollars in broadband-buildout costs, assuming that Amazon Leo satellite broadband comes online on schedule–but I can’t call it anything close to good overall.

    12/24/2025: AST SpaceMobile Launches Its Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite Yet, PCMag

    Was I going to use this post as an opportunity to remind PCMag readers about India’s impressive spaceflight ambitions? Absolutely.

    #AirDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #BEAD #BlueBird #broadbandBuildout #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #IndiaSpaceProgram #LocalSend #lowEarthOrbitBroadband #LVM3 #MarkVena #QuickShare #satelliteBroadband #Starlink #TienDoNam

  5. US plans maneuverable defense satellite amid China space gains

    Defense technology company Anduril Industries and propulsion startup Impulse Space announced on September 16 that they will jointly…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #anduril #AndurilIndustries #AU #Australia #China #Defense&Military #defensesatellite #ImpulseSpace #military #Satellite #SatelliteBroadband #Science #U.S.SpaceForce #UnitedStates
    newsbeep.com/au/150143/

  6. Amazon executives tout gigabit data speeds during test of Project Kuiper satellite network - A screenshot shows a data downlink speed in excess of 1.2 gigabits per second. (P... - geekwire.com/2025/amazon-gigab #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #amazon #space

  7. Google’s Pixel 10 launch sends T-Mobile’s satellite phone service into the data zone - T-Mobile says satellite access will get rid of “dead zones” for mobile phone apps. (T-Mo... - geekwire.com/2025/google-pixel #satellitebroadband #t-satellite #starlink #t-mobile #pixel10 #google #spacex #tech

  8. The end of May coinciding with the end of a four-day workweek was a pleasant bonus of Memorial Day’s spot on the calendar this year. Another bonus: I had my last client-paid copy for the month filed by 2:09 p.m. Friday.

    Patreon readers got one other post, a rant about the woeful UX of a Hilton offer for double points on upcoming hotel stays. That didn’t get published until almost 9 p.m. on Friday–which is still a lot better than the filing frenzy I’ve exhibited in the final minutes of the final days of other months.

    5/28/2024: T-Mobile to Buy Regional Carrier UScellular, PCMag

    I didn’t notice the name on the credit of the photo of a T-Mobile flag on a golf course that I’d selected from Getty Images to illustrate this post until I copied that metadata to paste into PCMag’s CMS. That’s when I realized that my Georgetown Voice friend Darren Carroll, a seriously talented photographer, had taken that shot during an idle moment at a golf tournament sponsored by the carrier.

    Screenshot

    5/28/2024: A Lot of Websites Ask You About Cookies. How Should You Answer?, AARP

    My editor at AARP asked if I could write an explainer about those dialogs you see on so many pages that suggest, ask, implore or assume that you’re okay with the site–and, in most cases, advertising networks–writing information about your visit to small text files saved on your device. After talking to numerous experts, I continue to think that your best response to those dialogs, should you not want to be tracked by advertisers, is to use a browser like Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox that will block ad-network trackers by default.

    5/29/2024: Verizon Enlists AST SpaceMobile to Kill Off Its US Dead Zones, PCMag

    Verizon’s apparent disinterest in using low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide at least emergency-level coverage in dead zones was looking increasingly weird. Then the carrier signed up the same satellite operator as AT&T to provide that backup connectivity, although it seems to be more conservative in its sales pitch than AT&T.

    5/30/2024: Android Update Will Let You Fix Dumb Texting Typos (to Other Android Users), PCMag

    I’ve yet to get the update to Google’s Messages app that enables this editing of sent RCS messages–assuming the recipients also have the same update installed–so I cannot yet report on how satisfying it might feel to fix a text typo.

    5/30/2024: IRS Direct File App to Return for 2025, Welcome Taxpayers in More States, PCMag

    This was one bit of news that I didn’t expect to see coming this week, but with the information-security conference I was attending not yielding any obvious breaking news, I jumped on the chance to write this up instead. And to point out to readers that while the IRS may call this rollout of its free tax-prep app “permanent,” you have to expect that voters returning convicted felon Donald Trump to the White House would soon be followed by Trump scrapping this program.

    5/31/2024: FCC: It’s Game Over for Affordable Broadband Connectivity Program, PCMag

    The official end of the ACP and the $30 monthly discounts on broadband it provided for more than 20 million American households led to my editors asking me to cover this program one more time.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/06/02/weekly-output-t-mobile-buys-much-of-uscellular-cookie-permissions-dialogs-verizon-taps-ast-spacemobile-android-update-irs-keeps-direct-file-affordable-connectivity-program-ends/

    #ACP #AffordableConnectivityProgram #AndroidFeatureDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #cookies #DirectFile #IRS #RCS #satelliteBroadband #TMobile #taxPrepSoftware #textingTypo #trackingCookies #USCellular #UScellular #verizon

  9. The end of May coinciding with the end of a four-day workweek was a pleasant bonus of Memorial Day’s spot on the calendar this year. Another bonus: I had my last client-paid copy for the month filed by 2:09 p.m. Friday.

    Patreon readers got one other post, a rant about the woeful UX of a Hilton offer for double points on upcoming hotel stays. That didn’t get published until almost 9 p.m. on Friday–which is still a lot better than the filing frenzy I’ve exhibited in the final minutes of the final days of other months.

    5/28/2024: T-Mobile to Buy Regional Carrier UScellular, PCMag

    I didn’t notice the name on the credit of the photo of a T-Mobile flag on a golf course that I’d selected from Getty Images to illustrate this post until I copied that metadata to paste into PCMag’s CMS. That’s when I realized that my Georgetown Voice friend Darren Carroll, a seriously talented photographer, had taken that shot during an idle moment at a golf tournament sponsored by the carrier.

    Screenshot

    5/28/2024: A Lot of Websites Ask You About Cookies. How Should You Answer?, AARP

    My editor at AARP asked if I could write an explainer about those dialogs you see on so many pages that suggest, ask, implore or assume that you’re okay with the site–and, in most cases, advertising networks–writing information about your visit to small text files saved on your device. After talking to numerous experts, I continue to think that your best response to those dialogs, should you not want to be tracked by advertisers, is to use a browser like Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox that will block ad-network trackers by default.

    5/29/2024: Verizon Enlists AST SpaceMobile to Kill Off Its US Dead Zones, PCMag

    Verizon’s apparent disinterest in using low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide at least emergency-level coverage in dead zones was looking increasingly weird. Then the carrier signed up the same satellite operator as AT&T to provide that backup connectivity, although it seems to be more conservative in its sales pitch than AT&T.

    5/30/2024: Android Update Will Let You Fix Dumb Texting Typos (to Other Android Users), PCMag

    I’ve yet to get the update to Google’s Messages app that enables this editing of sent RCS messages–assuming the recipients also have the same update installed–so I cannot yet report on how satisfying it might feel to fix a text typo.

    5/30/2024: IRS Direct File App to Return for 2025, Welcome Taxpayers in More States, PCMag

    This was one bit of news that I didn’t expect to see coming this week, but with the information-security conference I was attending not yielding any obvious breaking news, I jumped on the chance to write this up instead. And to point out to readers that while the IRS may call this rollout of its free tax-prep app “permanent,” you have to expect that voters returning convicted felon Donald Trump to the White House would soon be followed by Trump scrapping this program.

    5/31/2024: FCC: It’s Game Over for Affordable Broadband Connectivity Program, PCMag

    The official end of the ACP and the $30 monthly discounts on broadband it provided for more than 20 million American households led to my editors asking me to cover this program one more time.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/06/02/weekly-output-t-mobile-buys-much-of-uscellular-cookie-permissions-dialogs-verizon-taps-ast-spacemobile-android-update-irs-keeps-direct-file-affordable-connectivity-program-ends/

    #ACP #AffordableConnectivityProgram #AndroidFeatureDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #cookies #DirectFile #IRS #RCS #satelliteBroadband #TMobile #taxPrepSoftware #textingTypo #trackingCookies #USCellular #UScellular #verizon

  10. The end of May coinciding with the end of a four-day workweek was a pleasant bonus of Memorial Day’s spot on the calendar this year. Another bonus: I had my last client-paid copy for the month filed by 2:09 p.m. Friday.

    Patreon readers got one other post, a rant about the woeful UX of a Hilton offer for double points on upcoming hotel stays. That didn’t get published until almost 9 p.m. on Friday–which is still a lot better than the filing frenzy I’ve exhibited in the final minutes of the final days of other months.

    5/28/2024: T-Mobile to Buy Regional Carrier UScellular, PCMag

    I didn’t notice the name on the credit of the photo of a T-Mobile flag on a golf course that I’d selected from Getty Images to illustrate this post until I copied that metadata to paste into PCMag’s CMS. That’s when I realized that my Georgetown Voice friend Darren Carroll, a seriously talented photographer, had taken that shot during an idle moment at a golf tournament sponsored by the carrier.

    Screenshot

    5/28/2024: A Lot of Websites Ask You About Cookies. How Should You Answer?, AARP

    My editor at AARP asked if I could write an explainer about those dialogs you see on so many pages that suggest, ask, implore or assume that you’re okay with the site–and, in most cases, advertising networks–writing information about your visit to small text files saved on your device. After talking to numerous experts, I continue to think that your best response to those dialogs, should you not want to be tracked by advertisers, is to use a browser like Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox that will block ad-network trackers by default.

    5/29/2024: Verizon Enlists AST SpaceMobile to Kill Off Its US Dead Zones, PCMag

    Verizon’s apparent disinterest in using low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide at least emergency-level coverage in dead zones was looking increasingly weird. Then the carrier signed up the same satellite operator as AT&T to provide that backup connectivity, although it seems to be more conservative in its sales pitch than AT&T.

    5/30/2024: Android Update Will Let You Fix Dumb Texting Typos (to Other Android Users), PCMag

    I’ve yet to get the update to Google’s Messages app that enables this editing of sent RCS messages–assuming the recipients also have the same update installed–so I cannot yet report on how satisfying it might feel to fix a text typo.

    5/30/2024: IRS Direct File App to Return for 2025, Welcome Taxpayers in More States, PCMag

    This was one bit of news that I didn’t expect to see coming this week, but with the information-security conference I was attending not yielding any obvious breaking news, I jumped on the chance to write this up instead. And to point out to readers that while the IRS may call this rollout of its free tax-prep app “permanent,” you have to expect that voters returning convicted felon Donald Trump to the White House would soon be followed by Trump scrapping this program.

    5/31/2024: FCC: It’s Game Over for Affordable Broadband Connectivity Program, PCMag

    The official end of the ACP and the $30 monthly discounts on broadband it provided for more than 20 million American households led to my editors asking me to cover this program one more time.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/06/02/weekly-output-t-mobile-buys-much-of-uscellular-cookie-permissions-dialogs-verizon-taps-ast-spacemobile-android-update-irs-keeps-direct-file-affordable-connectivity-program-ends/

    #ACP #AffordableConnectivityProgram #AndroidFeatureDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #cookies #DirectFile #IRS #RCS #satelliteBroadband #TMobile #taxPrepSoftware #textingTypo #trackingCookies #USCellular #UScellular #verizon

  11. SpaceX launches the first set of Starlink satellites for T-Mobile’s direct-to-cell plan - SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends Starlink satellites to space from a California... - geekwire.com/2024/spacex-first #satellitebroadband #satellites #satellite #cellular #starlink #t-mobile #spacex #space

  12. Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links - This graphic shows how Project Kuiper would use optical signaling between satelli... - geekwire.com/2023/amazon-secre #satellitebroadband #meshnetworking #projectkuiper #satellites #satellite #amazon #space #laser

  13. Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in 2024 - Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon's Proje... - arstechnica.com/?p=1923953 #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #biz#policy #amazon

  14. ‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network - Amazon’s Dave Limp compares the size of the smallest Kuiper antenna, at right, to... - geekwire.com/2023/amazon-anten #satelliteconference #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #satellites #satellite #amazon #space

  15. ‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network - Amazon’s Dave Limp compares the size of the smallest Kuiper antenna, at right, to... - geekwire.com/2023/amazon-anten #satelliteconference #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #satellites #satellite #amazon #space

  16. ‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network - Amazon’s Dave Limp compares the size of the smallest Kuiper antenna, at right, to... - geekwire.com/2023/amazon-anten #satelliteconference #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #satellites #satellite #amazon #space

  17. ‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network - Amazon’s Dave Limp compares the size of the smallest Kuiper antenna, at right, to... - geekwire.com/2023/amazon-anten #satelliteconference #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #satellites #satellite #amazon #space

  18. ‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network - Amazon’s Dave Limp compares the size of the smallest Kuiper antenna, at right, to... - geekwire.com/2023/amazon-anten #satelliteconference #satellitebroadband #projectkuiper #satellites #satellite #amazon #space