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- Wyden: "toll-strewn info superhighway on way"
- A draft of a bill scheduled to be voted on next week by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee would specify that the Federal Communications Commission would not have the oversight authority to enact "net neutrality" legislation that would require telco broadband service providers...
- Tags: Ron Wyden, Internet, Wyden
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Senator Wyden describes his 'net neutrality' bill- and we have the bill here
- Just got off a conference call with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon).Earlier today, Senator Wyden introduced the Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006 - popularly called the Net Neutrality Act.We have all 15 pages of this act posted in a Gallery. Here's the link. Before I include comments from the conference...
- Tags: network, Ron Wyden, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
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- The real health care debate has begun
- Forget the Presidential election process. The real health care debate starts only after the new President is inaugurated next January. Or does it? Both sides are already gearing up. From the right, we see that Medicare Advantage plans are becoming major...
- Tags: Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight
- In a front-page piece on Monday, Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal argued that the NSA has been building, over the past several years, the same capability that was planned for Total Information Awareness. TIA was an "experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic...
- Tags: U.S., Phone, Story, NSA, E-mail, Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Bush wants immunity for telcos that assisted in illegal searches
- With dozens of lawsuits against phone companies for cooperating with the Bush Adminisrations domestic spying operations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundations suit against AT&T, President Bush is now asking Congress to give immunity to the phone companies, The Washington Post reports. Lots of luck getting that...
- Tags: Privacy, Justice, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Local govts struggle to stem tide of e-waste
- As mountains of electronic waste are filling up the nations landfills and creating environmental and health hazards, local government agencies are trying to keep up with the growing problem, reports the Washington Post. From televisions to cellphones, household "e-waste" is ending up in landfills, but a variety of local...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Inouye amendment fails for net neutrality
- More details on net neutrality vote yesterday, from News.com. Failing the defeat of the Snowe-Dorgan amendment, Sen. Daniel Inouye, the top-ranking Democrat, offered a broader amendment, including not just Net neutrality language but also addressed video franchising and universal service. That lost 12-10. The full bill then passed the committee...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, carrier, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Sen. Wyden falls into Net neutrality misinformation trap
- George Ou clearly thinks the dirt he keeps finding under the Craigslist/Net neutrality rug is amounting to a story that's stranger than fiction. To the extent that it's disturbing, it is indeed strange. But, from my point of view, it's business as usual. In case you've been missing...
- Tags: Cox Interactive, Craigslist, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- 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
- Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it
- Yesterday at the TelecomNext, the same AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre at right who has been calling the idea that his company does not have the right to charge extra carriage fees for high-bandwidth Web content "nuts," sounded like he's mellowed out."Any provider that blocks access to content is inviting...
- Tags: Ed Whitacre, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- Senator: Net neutrality may not happen
- Senator: Net neutrality may not happenThe final solution...I keep seeing these bills and proposed bills to legislate the internet and it occures to me that the final solution will come when the US nationalizes the backbone and WiMAX replaces the existing connection paradigm.The only real question in my mind is...
- Tags: auction, Net neutrality legislation, Internet, Net Neutrality, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- Subsidizing the status quo Internet
- Jeffrey Young writes about the Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006--also known as the Net Neutrality Act:Are we in a new episode of The Prisoner? Is Patrick McGoohan about to walk through my browser? Hasn’t the socialist managed economy model been discredited enough already with the rise of the free...
- Tags: Internet
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- Subsidizing the status quo Internet
- Are we in a new episode of The Prisoner? Is Patrick McGoohan about to walk through my browser? Hasn’t the socialist managed economy model been discredited enough already with the rise of the free for all scrum of the Internet?There’s an old saw that goes: “To a carpenter everything...
- Tags: Internet
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- My analysis: what will the AT&T-BellSouth merger mean?
- That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-05
- Wyden introduces Net Neutrality bill
- Rep. Ron Wyden pictured has introduced a net neutrality bill, the Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006, to stop cable companies, telcos and other pipe owners from offering some companies and users preferred access to their systems, the Times reports. "You best compete by letting every company play on...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, network operator
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Are you a pro- "Open Internet?" Libertarian or Republican? Better read this
- I try not to get overly political on these pages, but I feel the need to make an exception here.Reading my colleague Anne Broache's excellent coverage of Tuesday's net neutrality hearings before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, it is plain to see that those Committee Members who would prohibit...
- Tags: broadband, broadband Internet
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Senators grapple with Net neutrality
- Some highlights from News.com's coverage of the Senate hearings on Net neutrality: Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said at the hearing that he plans to introduce a bill that "will make sure all information transmitted over broadband networks is made available on the same terms so...
- Tags: broadband, network
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
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