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Net neutrality, patents, broadband top new Congress's tech agenda

When the 110th Congress convenes next year, a number of tech-related initiatives will take center stage, Grant Gross writes for IDG News Service. Among them privacy, patents and network neutrality. Privacy and data breach notification With data breaches exploding all over the private and public sectors, there...

Tags: Universal Service Fund, Representative Rick Boucher, patent

Blog posts 2006-12-25

The Universal Service Fund will now tax VoIP: so what?

The Universal Service Fund will now tax VoIP: so what?So what? It's unfair!VoIP depends on Broadband and DSL to work. Unlike a standard landline which provides its own power. Plus, it's not even available in all areas while regular landline phone service is. To those...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, Network technology, tax, VoIP, Universal Service Fund

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

No to Internet taxes

When I read that Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, was a strong supporter of plans to tax Internet communications in order to prop up the wilting Universal Service Fund a pool of funds used to subsidize telecommunications services in rural areas, I had...

Tags: telecommunications, Internet, Universal Service Fund

Blog posts 2006-03-01

Rep. Barton to VoIP providers: you shouldn't have to pay into Universal Service fund

The FCC's $5 billion Universal Service Fund funnels money from traditional phoneservice subscribers, throughstandard phonecompanies, and then to a kitty that subsidizesphone service torural areas and poor households.The program makes social and business sense. The poor are sometimes transient, a fact thatincreases service churn and resulting overhead.With low populationdensity and...

Tags: VoIP

Blog posts 2004-12-04

Additional Resources

RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs (with a dash of DRM)

RealNetworks on Monday launched RealDVD, an application that allows you to rip DVDs to your hard drive with limits set by digital rights management software. The company announced the software along with the opening of DemoFall in San Diego. RealDVD (Techmeme, statement, site) is supposed to make...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, RealNetworks Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout

One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard drive. But a lot of them are sold by no-name companies at budget prices with limited feature sets. Other manufacturers...

Tags: Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Photograph, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-07

102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age

This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the...

Tags: Event, Camera, Amateur, Documentary, Corporate Communications, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions

Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-07

To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before

Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, who isn't extremely turned on or even intimidated by them. I've never seen...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Imaging, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the perspective of how Iceberg this benefits student, check the post over at iGeneration. Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. A few weeks ago...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, Client, Web Site, Workflow, Iceberg, Collaboration, Groupware, Web Site Development, Storage, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Internet, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Iceberg for students: developing made simple

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the enterprise side of Iceberg, check the post over at Enterprise Alley (that's right readers, I'm cheating on you). Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Server, Iceberg, Cynicism, Channel Management, Storage, Web 2.0, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

The pain moves up the chain

You hate the price of gasoline if you drive a car in America. Many of us are driving less. Some are even buying more efficient cars. Waiting lists for Smartcar and hybrids are old news. I recently blogged about the mini-fad for golf carts on the...

Tags: Car, Gasoline, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...

Tags: Web, Business, SOA, Organization, WOA, WOA Story, REST, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Enterprise password management really isn't a good ideaLastpas password manager a new alternative to roboform et. alAs a user of the service, lastpass has been developed to conform to user behavior making web browsing easier, faster and safer. On the security side and control side, Lastpass does all the encryption...

Tags: Enterprise Password Management, password, password management

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

BlueAnt V1

We've grown to be pretty big fans of BlueAnt headsets over the past year, especially with the BlueAnt Z9 and the BlueAnt Z9i. Both Bluetooth headsets impressed us with excellent sound quality, while the Z9i improved upon the original with extra features like better audio and the addition of multipoint...

Tags: earpiece, BlueAnt, headset, BlueAnt Z9

Product reviews 2008-09-05

Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence

According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......

Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-05

DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic

Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?

I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web hosting is more limited than what you can get from $1.99 a month hosts, and, well, I'm just not...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upGoogle Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upFile this in the "No Surprise" category. The shoddy programming at Google which has been reflected on many of their applications and services should come as no surprise to anyone on Chrome. Google is trying to live...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Chrome vulnerability, Google Inc., Google Chrome, vulnerability, Chrome, programming

Discussion threads 2008-09-05