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- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Bidding+stalls+again+on+key+U.S.+wireless+airwaves
- Bidding+stalls+again+on+key+U.S.+wireless+airwavesThe smart move would be to let Google have it.Let Google spend the 4 or 5 billion and watch them struggle to meet the service requirements coverage area and access set by the FCC.With zero infastructure (cell towers, backbone to the towers, switch gear, etc., etc.) the chaces of them...
- Tags: Federal government, TVs, TV & Home Theater, spectrum, airwave, Google Inc., FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Report: Lucrative future for mobile TV
- Report: Lucrative future for mobile TVWiMax - It is Japan - It is USA - It is not EUA colleague returned from Japan with news that mobile TV, interactive TV, wireless broadband Web 2.0, digital democracy, YouTube, what every you want to call it, is already being rolled out in...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, TV, airwave, mobile TV, WiMAX, mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Google ready to bid on wireless spectrum - but their way
- Google will bid $4.6 billion -- and no doubt much more -- in next year's auction of wireless spectrum. But there's a catch -- Google will only bid if winners are allowed to lease part of the airwaves to other companies seeking to offer high-speed Internet and other services, reports...
- Tags: Google, FCC
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Fujitsu Siemens' 3G laptop lineup
- Fujitsu Siemens' 3G laptop lineupNo Ax was correct - WiMAX is the future for wireless.And WiMAx is also the future of economic vitality and freedom in the USA. But the key is to keep the airwaves of most value out of corporate hands. Lets back up. Post WWII a generation...
- Tags: WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, bandwidth, airwave, laptop computer, WiMAX, 3G, Post-WWII, media, Fujitsu Siemens
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- Selling ads on the airwaves
- Google beta lets advertisers buy radio ads via the search giant's online system.
- Tags: advertiser, airwave, beta, advertisement, radio, Google Inc.
- Image galleries 2006-12-07
- British Telecom Secures Its Wireless Airwaves
- BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. BT needed a solution that could detect intruders and rogue access points automatically and secure their airwaves cost effectively. It needed a solution that could distinguish between the multiple legitimate...
- Tags: Airwave, British Telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies 2006-12-05
- FCC lets wireless sneak between TV airwaves
- FCC lets wireless sneak between TV airwavesVery significant application of cognitive radioHaving this very valuable sub 700Mhz spectrum available for wireless data is a huge step forward. Intel again drives leadership in getting the clearing major regulatory hurdles for the industry to prosper. This will allow companies like...
- Tags: TVs, wireless, TV, spectrum, airwave, FCC
- Discussion threads 2006-10-13
- Cuba targets illegal TV dishes as U.S. weapon
- Cuba targets illegal TV dishes as U.S. weaponThe Iranians say the same thingbut the enforcement is not there. The police have their own dishes!The US Government FCC allows Americans to receive ANY broadcast, ANY time, ANY frequency, period. They do however restrict regulate broadcasting. This allows for subversive regimes to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, airwave, government, Cuba, broadcasting, advertisement, U.S. Government, TV
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- Tech CEOs urge progressive policies on wireless
- The government needs to find more wireless airwaves to accomodate a coming explosion of wireless apps, high-tech CEOs say in a new report, Reuters reports. The Technology CEO Council issued a report today, called "Freeing Our Unused Spectrum," that urges Congress to order the...
- Tags: airwave
- Blog posts 2006-02-23
- Property rights and the broadcast flag
- Property rights and the broadcast flagAh, propertyAlas, you're leaping to the same fallacy that is fashionable today: the assumption that "intellectual property" [1] is equivalent to physical property.However, your neighbor deconstructing your novel isn't the same as your neighbor deconstructing your lawn mower.If you really think that there should be...
- Tags: Intellectual property, Manufacturing, Digital media, Digital music, physical property, Thomas Jefferson, airwave
- Discussion threads 2005-06-23
- Property rights and the broadcast flag
- Joe Brockmeier recently castigated members of Congress for attempting to sneak the broadcast flag into law by attaching it to an appropriations bill. Along the way, Joe agreed with Rick Boucher, representative for Virginia's Ninth Congressional district, that if the content industry wants the broadcast flag, they should agree to...
- Tags: airwave, media
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- High court declines media ownership appeals
- High court declines media ownership appealsThe airwaves belong to the people,not the broadcasting companies. They merely license space from the American people. Nice to see the Supreme Court backing up our rights, our ability to get a variety of viewpoints and hopefully a clearer picture of the truth...
- Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Gannet, FCC, clearer picture, government involvement, American People, airwave, High Court
- Discussion threads 2005-06-13
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- Google lobbies for 'open' wireless networks
- Google lobbies for 'open' wireless networksGoogle lobbies for 'open' wireless networksDon't trust it. The only reason Google would want this is so they can drive around the streets of metro areas with a wireless sniffer to scan your data. This data is yours, NOT Google's. Google will...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., network, Google Inc., spectrum, TV, wireless network, wireless
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- FCC chairman OK with expanded airwave auction plan
- FCC chairman OK with expanded airwave auction planLets not make mobility a problemLets not make mobility a problem and lets lease not sell the air waves. This is a great public commons and the spectrum that penetrates walls will greatly enhance mobile devices in cities. I can not get satellites...
- Tags: Federal government, FCC
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- News to know: Yahoo Photos out; Google vs. Sharepoint; Microsoft patches coming
- Notable headlines: TechCrunch: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr. Dan Farber: Yahoo Photos out, Flickr in, Flickr video coming soon.NewTeeVee: YouTube starts paying star users. Dan Farber and Donna Bogatin on YouTubeMatthew Miller: T-Mobile offers free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to Dash owners. Gallery left.David Berlind:...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Leading by Example: Why HP Standardized on Its Own Wireless Technologies
- This case study from ProCurve Networking by HP describes some of the wireless challenges that HP faced following its merger with Compaq Computer Corporation. The paper details the issues associated with melding wireless technologies from two of the world's largest companies, and explains why HP ultimately decided to standardize on...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Wireless Technology, HP ProCurve, Utility Computing, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies 2005-10-01
- 'Cord-cutting' frays phone revenues
- 'Cord-cutting' frays phone revenuesWill happen, but problems existI "cut the cord" a few years ago. I had received only 2 calls on my landline in about a year, and realized it was useless for my lifestyle.Cell phones have changed our assumptions. - A decade ago, a phone was...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Dial-up, DSL, phone, cell phone, cable
- Discussion threads 2004-02-25
- ProCurve Networking Case Study: HP
- HP is a technology solutions provider that serves everyone from consumers to Small and Mid-sized Businesses SMB to enterprises to public sector customers. With wireless communications becoming increasingly important to its operations - as well as increasingly complex to manage - HPIT decided to standardize worldwide on a single platform...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, Smb/Sme, Utility Computing, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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