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- The <strike>Four</strike> Five 'Net Freedoms
- In February of 2004, then FCC Chairman Michael Powell gave a speech in which he outlined four 'Net freedoms. David Isenberg who wrote the famous paper on the Rise of the Stupid Network has excerpted the four freedoms and Powell's explanation for easy reference. The...
- Tags: silo, Net Freedoms, Net
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
- Face-to-face: Michael Powell
- Face-to-face: Michael PowellDaddy goneso now is son. The Spoils system sometimes s*cks!
- Tags: Michael Powell
- Discussion threads 2005-03-10
- Watch Retiring FCC Chair Powell's Remarks on VoIP
- On the eve of his retirement, FCC Chair Michael Powell has offered his thoughts on VoIP at the Spring 2005 VON conference.Powell had a lot to say, including the responsibilities of telephony industry leaders to ensure VoIPs bright future.To reach a page where you can see a six-minute streaming video...
- Tags: VoIP, Michael Powell
- Blog posts 2005-03-09
- Face-to-face: Michael Powell
- My colleague Charlie Cooper catches up with outgoing FCC chairman Michael Powell at the Voice on the Net 2005 conference in San Jose. Powell called FCC member Michael Copps' opinion that U.S. broadband policy is a mess "ridiculous," and talk the flurry of telco mergers, and the growth of VoIP,...
- Tags: FCC, Michael Powell
- Blog posts 2005-03-09
- What FCC chair Michael Powell's regulation means for VoIP
- What FCC chair Michael Powell's regulation means for VoIPWill you be following the FCC nomination hearings?Hi, your moderator Russ here. Michael Powell's replacement at the FCC will be in an influential position to influence the federal government's VoIP policy. Does his replacement matter to you? Will you be following the...
- Tags: Federal government, Telephony, FCC, Michael Powell, VoIP, FCC Chair
- Discussion threads 2005-01-21
- FCC's Michael Powell at AO2004
- From Steve GillmorAt the AO2004 conference, Marc Canter, no shrinking violet he, asked the most telling question of FCC Chairman Michael Powell. It came at the tail end of a vigorous fireside chat between Powell, Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig, and Steve Jurvetson of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson VC firm. Powell...
- Tags: Michael Powell
- Blog posts 2004-07-14
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- AOL names its Board of Directors
- AOL, which is expected to be spun off from Time Warner as an independent company later this year, has named the members of its Board of Directors, who will join CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong at the table. They are: Richard Dalzell, former Chief Information Officer of...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Board, Board Of Directors, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules
- How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...
- Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- What open source should tell the FCC
- What open source should tell the FCCyou are rightThe very wealthy in the US will not give up their power easily. Open and free internet is the enemy of the rich and powerful.The free flow if ideas is what they are trying to stop, here and in places like China.I...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Federal government, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, open source, DSL, broadband, FCC, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- In tight times, FCC pushes forward with emergency network
- With the greatest credit crunch since the 1930s in full swing, this is perhaps not the greatest time to sell your house. Or your airwaves. But the FCC is not dissuaded. The agency is pushing ahead with an attempt to get private investors to foot the bill on a public...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Chairman, Emergency Network, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Dishing It Out
- There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)
- This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...
- Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- The Business of Changing The World: Corporate Philanthropy
- Last night I attended a dinner to celebrate the release of The Business of Changing The World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy, a book by salesforce.coms Marc Benioff written with Carlye Adler that covers corporate philanthropy, with essays by Michael Dell, Craig Barrett Intel, Mike Eskew UPS, Jean-Pierre...
- Tags: Venture capital, Marc Benioff, nonprofit
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
- George Ou, I respectfully disagree with you on net neutrality
- George Ou, I respectfully disagree with you on net neutralityYour understanding of Broadband is completely wrongThen there's the matter of what constitutes a "slow down." Say I am a cable broadband service provider running at 4 mbps. Then I upgrade my downstream to, say, 7mbps. I promote the hell out...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), DSL, Broadband Internet, Network technology, Cable, cup, Internet Service Provider, prioritization, lake, Mbps, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-06-09
- George Ou, I respectfully disagree with you on net neutrality
- I have buckets of respect for my ZDNet colleague George Ou. He is that rare technologist with a gift for peering through the haze, and offering concrete explanations of the conceptual and the opaque in the tech world.Yet George Ou's views skew more toward market-based solutions and remedies than...
- Tags: Federal government, NETWORKING, network provider, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Open source in the political fray
- I must admit that the net neutrality debate has begun to surprise me.Those seeking guarantees of network neutrality via Savetheinternet.com are right on the facts, and right on the technology. Cisco already sells boxes that would let Bell or cable ISPs throttle service from any server, or guarantee delivery.At the...
- Tags: network, neutrality, network neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Reed Hundt says, make the Internet a top priority
- Appearing like a ghost of Internet past, Reed Hundt showed up at Freedom2Connect to defend his record and attack the incumbent's assumptions.His point was that the Internet is a public good, that fast, ubiquitous access to it is an economic essential, and it would be incredibly cheap to deliver that...
- Tags: Reed Hundt
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Boucher's route to network neutrality may run through the Judiciary Committee
- Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia told the Freedom2Connect conference today he will try to get strong network neutrality language into the Telecommunications Act rewrite going before a House committee tomorrow, and failing that will go after the Whitacre Tiering plan through the House Judiciary Committee.In answer to a question from...
- Tags: Rick Boucher
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Is the Network Neutrality bill in trouble?
- After a day at the Freedom2Connect conference outside Washington, I am afraid that Senetor Ron Wyden's Network Neutrality bill may be going nowhere this year.It's not that the legislation has no merit. It has great merit. It's not that the idea of Bell companies violating net neutrality, favoring some content...
- Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway
- The network neutrality war is just starting to heat up. A campaign to make new fees for existing Internet services palatable is underway. At stake is the ability of the Internet to scale from the edges or a surrender and return to a telco-dominated network like the one...
- Tags: carrier
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
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