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- (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created...
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- FCC Chair outlines view of broadband availability, rights
- FCC Chair Kevin Martin is addressing NXTComm now via a satellite hookup.Priorities he's mentioned include: Making sure that Uni versal Service fee assessment policies are updated so that people live in rural areas can be connected to broadband. He backed reverse auctions as a way to fast-track this goal. Making sure that...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- FCC extends disability provisions of Communications Act to VoIP
- Late Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission extended the disability access requirements of Sections 225 and 255 of the Communications Act, which currently apply to traditional phone services, to providers of interconnected VoIP services and to manufacturers of equipment used to provide those services.Section 255 of the...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- FCC Fines FedEx For Interfering With Local Police Signals
- FedEx has a squeaky clean image. It is hard to imagine them running afoul of local law enforcement by interfering with police dispatching signals.But thats exactly what FedEx did in and around Riverside, California. And in a judgement announced by the FCC last Friday, FedEx is going to have...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Smells like stream spirit, but FCC's payola settlement is a joke
- Heres an even more apt reference than a play on the title "Smells Like Teen Spirit," by Nirvana.We go a little further back for this one: "One likes to believe in the power of music"But glitter and prizes and endless compromises, shatter the illusion of integrity""Spirit of Radio,...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval
- From Washington comes late word tonight that a compromise has apparently been hammered out that will clear the way for AT&T to acquire BellSouth for $85 billion.Thats the AT&T headed by "one-time," fierce net neutrality opponent Edward Whitacre, Jr. Youre lookin at him. The compromise is said to be...
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- FCC Commish's reservations on voting in AT&T-BellSouth merger cheer net neutrality advocates
- Turns out that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell wont vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger.I have to tell you I am surprised. In the last six years, we havent seen all that many Republicans buck the "free market" mantra enthusiastically championed by the GOP. And it is not common that regulators...
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- FCC, meet the First Amendment
- Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission said that broadcasters have "only limited First Amendment protection," that the V-chip is "ineffective," and that they have every right to mete out punishment for the use of swear words as indecent practice.I dont know about you, but when I hear a...
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
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- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Samsung Sway SCH-U650 (Verizon Wireless)
- It's clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design. Indeed, we've seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650 for Verizon Wireless. Also called the Sway, (why,...
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Samsung SCH-U430 (Verizon Wireless)
- Photo gallery:Samsung SCH-U430If you're looking for a basic flip phone with a VGA camera, you can always count on Samsung to deliver. Indeed, the company pumps them out by the dozen and the Samsung SCH-U430 is the latest of the batch. Sporting a simple, compact design and minimal features, the...
- Product reviews 2008-10-06
- Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?
- Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft had offered to pay for Yahoo in February. On top of that, the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?
- Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?Mono is an IP trap. Don't touch it with a barge pole.ntStrategic options[i]What I sometimes wonder, however, is why Microsoft has no interest in doing such a thing themselves.[/i]According to Scoble, MS management is reserving the option of suing non-MS versions into oblivion, as discussed at...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- End the spectre of science for sale
- End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- AT&T layoffs, Step 1: Reorganization
- AT&T layoffs, Step 1: ReorganizationDSL and WirelineThe driving force behind manpower in the wireline and DSL venue is FCC and State Commerce Commissions requirements for repair times. Provisioning is also still going to be a major concern. It too is subject to Fed and State CC regulations.As long as...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Welcome to the White Space
- The Wireless Innovation Alliance (brought to you by Google, Micosoft, Motorola, Public Knowledge, etc.) has produced an excellent video on the benefits of white spaces as part of the Google-led lobbying campaign. Among the arguments, according to the video: Unused spectrum has a large...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- News to know: Debate Hub, Clickjacking; RIM's Q2; Twitter; Slingbox goes HD
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled ‘Debate Hub' as social, political destination Former Google product manager ‘disappointed' by T-Mobile G1 ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Motorola i365 - black (Nextel)
- If there ever was a Nextel phone, the Motorola i365 would be it. Big, burly, and bulky, the i365 looks as if it could withstand just about anything. Make no mistake: this is a serious phone for making voice and push-to-talk PTT calls. There's no camera or music player, and...
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
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