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- Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalists
- Anne Broache has excellent coverage of a House panel's vote today to extend reporters' privileges to bloggers who gain some sort of financial benefit. My personal take is Congress should leave the money factor out of it and stick with the definition Anne reports:The bill defines the practice of...
- Tags: Free speech, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Vonage-Verizon patent infringement hearing today: but no decision yet
- Colleague Anne Broache reports that a federal appeals court weighing the patent case that Verizon filed against Vonage heard arguments earlier today but did not immediately reach a decision.Anne thinks that one hint about what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may be thinking...
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, Regulatory, News
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- This AT&T store is taking an iPhone waiting list: "If you're here you'll get it"
- Colleague Anne Broache writes that an AT&T-owned store at Times Square in Midtown Manhattan is taking a mailing list for hopeful iPhone buyers.Thus far there are 100 people on the list.Anne asked a store employee whether being on that list would guarantee priority for buying an iPhone."It depends how accessible...
- Tags: SBC-AT&, T, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- VoIP E911 challenges: and the Master Street Address Guide
- If you think that VoIP E911 is "here," and that most of the problems have been solved, you really need to read my colleague Anne Broache's piece entitled Net phone providers describe E911 obstacles.On the scene this week at a suburban D.C. conference sponsored by the National Emergency Number Association,...
- Tags: Anne Broache, E911
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
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- Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity
- Democratic leaders are preparing to cave to intense pressure to give telecom companies immunity from spying-related lawsuits, News.com's Anne Broache reports. Pitched as a "compromise" by Republicans, the new version essentially gives the Bush Administration "what it wants," Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU's Washington office, says....
- Tags: Court, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Quality, Telecommunications, Networking, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Senate hearing refocuses on China
- Well it's not nice to pick on China these days, what with the earthquake and all. But that didn't stop Dick Durbin from picking on Google, Cisco and Yahoo about their business dealings in China, as Anne Broache reports on News.com. In interesting part, the hearing focused...
- Tags: China, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S. Senate, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff
- eBay auction. Item: F-14 Antenna. Winning bidder: Mahoud A. For sale: Nuclear biological chemical gear. Contact anon1234@craigslist.org eBay auction. Item: Small arms protective inserts. Winning bidder: Hu J. These are just a few of the items the Government Accountability Office discovered for sale on eBay...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, eBay Inc., Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Gag lifted, Verizon, AT&T, Google open up on FCC 700 Mhz auction
- The Federal Communications Commission has lifted its gag order on the winners of the 700 Mhz auction and those telecom giants have been a chatty bunch. And all of them are talking about advanced wireless broadband service. A brief recap Techmeme: AT&T reckons that...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Spectrum, Auction, Wireless Broadband, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearing
- So, I thought this line in Anne Broache's report from Cambridge was odd: "Such intercession into a user's access to the Internet should not result in...the transformation of BitTorrent into BitTrickle," said Markey, drawing a smattering of applause from one corner of the high-ceiling auditorium....
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Internet, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Japanese satellite shows US reliance on private sector is hot air
- I listened into the beginning of today's FCC hearing on Comcast's "network management" practices and I heard a lot about the importance of business models that allows operators to recoup their investments. Commissioner Robert McDowell said something along these lines: If companies can't repay their investors they won't build out...
- Tags: Japan, Wired Inc., Network, Satellite, Kizuna, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Comcast 'on trial' at FCC hearing Monday
- The great debate over Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and perhaps other P2P apps leaves cyberspace and enters the real world as a full panel of the Federal Communications Commission heads to Harvard for a public hearing on the issue. The FCC recently released the agenda PDF...
- Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Comcast Corp., FCC, Federal Government, Government, Professor, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone rates
- Wireless companies want to advertise cell phone plans without including the full monthly cost, which includes hefty taxes and fees to state and federal agencies. The Supreme court declined the case. From Cnet by Anne Broache: Supreme Court rejects cell-phone tax case The case at hand,...
- Tags: Wireless Company, T-Mobile, Cell Phone, Taxes, Wi-Fi, Free Trade, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Will German law make security worse or better?
- A new German law that makes it a crime to build, sell, distribute or obtain so-called "hacking tools" went into effect over the weekend, InfoWorld reports.The new law defines hacking as penetrating a computer security system and gaining access to secure data, without necessarily stealing data. Offenders are defined as...
- Tags: Security, Law, Tool, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Friday rants: RealPlayer is annoying; iPhone-AT&T whining; Watching someone read your blog
- A few odds and ends to mull over as the weekend nears...Why is RealPlayer so #@!$#@ annoying?I've avoided RealPlayer like the plague, but regrettably forgot why until this week. I wanted to view a Webcast that was only available in RealPlayer. Firefox informs me I need a plug-in so I...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, iPhone, Hollywood on Demand, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Google makes plea for H-1B visas, U.S. asks for Google software
- Speaking before a Congressional House Judiciary oversight subcommittee hearing on immigration, Google's Laszlo Bock, vice president of people operations, said that 8 percent of Google's workforce have H-1B visas, and come from 80 different countries. In the news.com story Bock is quoted as saying, "It is no stretch to...
- Tags: Government, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Judge is mulling over Vonage testimony:decision likely by EOD
- Athough a Federal appeals court devoted two hours this morning to Vonages appeal that it continue to be allowed to sign up ew customers throughout the appeals process for its patent infringement dispute with Verizon, no ruling was immediately dictated from the bench.Apparently, Judge Claude Hilton is more...
- Tags: General, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems
- 20 years and $5 billion later, the IRS is still unable to upgrade its computer system and continues to use mainframes running assembly code written in the 1960s, CNET News.com reports. The IRS long-term goal is to run its operations with the efficiency Americans expect of banks and...
- Tags: IT Management, IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- IRS continues to lose machines - and they're not alone
- Anne Broache blogs on News.coms Security Blog that the IRS continues to have troubles holding onto computers. Between 2003-2006, 490 IRS computers were lost or stolen. Quite an improvement over the 2,300 missing computers five years ago. But IRS computers on eBay doesnt exactly make the heart jump. "If...
- Tags: Security, IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- H-1B reform bill may push more work offshore
- On paper a bipartisan Senate bill to crack down on H-1B visa abuses doesnt look half bad. Why shouldnt American workers get priority for technology jobs? The reality is going to be quite different. In fact, dont be surprised...
- Tags: Legal, IT Management, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Dave Winer vs. CNET, platforms of personal expression (PPEs), and why Grandma matters
- A couple of days ago, I did Scoble vs. Ballmer. Now, its Winer vs. CNET. In their search for the creator of the first blog, News.coms Declan McCullaugh and Anne Broache refer to one of their candidates Dave Winer as irascible (a common misconception regarding Mets fans from Brooklyn or...
- Tags: Blogging, Podcasts, Dave Winer, blog, blogger, first blogger, Web, radio, first blog, RSS
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
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