• Know the Difference: White Label vs Private Label

    Understanding white label vs. private label will help you better determine the direction you want to take the brand of our small business.

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    Internet Services Required To Add ‘Nutrition Labels’: Tech Friend Newsletter's Guide To Reading Broadband Consumer Labels

    Tech reporter for the Washington Post and curator of Tech Friend Newsletter Shira Ovide joins the Steve Cochran Show to discuss the necessity of ‘nutrition labels’ for internet services, what information will be included on the labels, and how Broadband Consumer Labels will empower consumers with clearer insights into their fees, pricing, and more.

  • Why No Labels Is the Fyre Festival of Politics

    Chris Lehmann The self-described centrist alternative to the two major parties failed spectacularly this year—but such a lavishly funded shakedown operation may not be dead for good.

  • Macadamia nut labeling legislation in limbo

    Consumers don’t know whether many macadamia nut snacks identified with Hawaii contain any Hawaii-­grown macadamia nuts, and an effort to change that through state law may be doomed this year.

  • Internet service has 'nutrition labels' now

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  • Broadband plans to get "nutrition labels"

    Opaque, confusing, and deceptive: getting service providers to honestly describe their broadband internet "plans" is such a lost cause that the Federal Communications Commission is imposing "nutrition labels" on them to show customers what they're actually getting. The new labels, which go live beginning Wednesday and that all major internet service providers (ISPs) will now be required to show, are among the latest steps by the US government to help consumers make sense of the mix of plans,...

  • Broadband Labels Now Required for Larger ISPs

    Broadband Labels Now Required for Larger ISPs Larger internet providers– those with 100,000 subscribers or more — are now required to meet previously established broadband label requirements. April 10 was the deadline for those providers. Smaller providers have an additional six months to comply. The FCC requirements Telecompetitor

  • Vote on EU cybersecurity label delayed to May

    National cybersecurity experts have shelved a vote on a draft EU cybersecurity label allowing Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft to bid for highly sensitive EU cloud computing contracts to May, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The European Union wants to introduce a cybersecurity certification scheme (EUCS) to vouch for the cybersecurity of cloud services and help governments and companies pick a secure and trusted vendor for their cloud computing business. However,...

  • US implements broadband nutrition labels, should India do the same?

    In 2017, the Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) released a briefing paper suggesting that broadband nutrition labels should be adopted to ensure that internet service providers are meeting quality of service (QoS) standards.

  • "Abortionist": The label that turns healthcare workers into criminals

    In 2007, after Paul Ross Evans pleaded guilty to leaving a bomb outside of a women’s health clinic in Austin, he assured the judge: He never meant for anyone to get hurt. “Except,” he clarified, “for the abortionists.” For almost two centuries, the moniker “abortionist” has branded those who help terminate pregnancies as illegitimate, dangerous, […]

  • Google Ads With People Also Consider Label

    We recently covered Google labeling the Google Ads with Related to your search labels and now we are seeing Google label ads with "People also consider" labels. Why is Google doing this? I really don't understand to be honest.Anthony Higman shared a screenshot of this new "people also consider" label on the Google Ads result on X - here is that screenshot:Here is the screenshot of the related to your search label from earlier:Why is Google placing these labels on some ads?Anthony wrote:Yo...

  • FCC launches mandatory broadband tariff labels

    The US Federal Communications Commission kicked-off its broadband consumer labelling scheme, a policy designed to give consumers greater transparency on mobile and home internet tariffs.