usatoday.com - 12/2/2008
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Assuming the plan is approved at the FCC's Dec. 18 meeting, one of the agency's last before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, free broadband could become reality within a year. First proposed in 2006, the plan calls for a chunk of airwaves called AWS-3 (now idle) to be used for wireless ...
engadget.com - 12/1/2008
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engadget.com —
They might not like it , but Sony
looks ripe to enter the netbook market in the...
US. Unveiled today is the backside of this tiny "notebook PC" as described by the FCC under the model numbers PCG-1P1L and PCG-1P2L (PCG synonymous with Sony's VAIO ...
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FCC leaks tiny VAIO with WWAN -- Sony's first netbook?
online.wsj.com - 12/1/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is
pushing for action in December on a plan to...
offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer ...
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Free Web Plan Being Pushed by FCC Head
engadget.com - 12/1/2008
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engadget.com —
Netgear returns with the Digital Entertainer Elite network
media streamer taking an early peek from cover to...
go through its paces at the FCC test center. Two years after the EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD, the EVA9000 model adds support for a ...
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Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite media streamer says ...
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TechBlog —
... Steve Gillmor says that, now that Pownce has been acquired and shut down by Six Apart , Twitter has no competition. • Twitter - the Mumbai myths - Shattering some myths that sprang up from Twitter's role in Mumbai attack reporting. • Nokia N97 Unveiled, The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone - Includes tilting screen, physical QWERTY keyboard. Reminds me of the AT&T Tilt. • Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal - By way of the CalDAV protocol. • FCC to vote on free broadband Internet across USA - And, if passed, it'll be porn-free! • ...
Around the Web 12.02.08: Nokia's new phone and we can't get enough Britney
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- The FCC will vote on free broadband in a few weeks during one of its last meetings before Obama takes over. USA Today ...
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Broadband Stimulus Plan? How About Some Data First
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America May Get Broadband for Free, But Porn Will Cost You [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 10/14/2008 — Last Friday afternoon, the FCC issued a report putting to rest worries about interference from a free wireless broadband service using the AWS-3 spectrum, paving the way for an auction sometime next year. However, opponents of the auction, including ...
Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (Background)
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FCC Clears Free Wireless Web
online.wsj.com 10/13/2008 — A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost as Federal Communications Commission engineers concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers. The report clears the way for the FCC ...
FCC: Consistent to a fault, but there is a (small) hope
networkworld.com 10/15/2008 — The FCC has put out a worse-than-useless report on the status of broadband deployment in the United States. I know this is far from news, since it seems to be the only kind of report on this topic that the FCC knows how to produce, but there may be ...
FCC Head Cancels Vote on Free Internet Plan
online.wsj.com 12/13/2008 — FAWN JOHNSON WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Friday evening canceled next week's meeting at which the commission was scheduled to vote on a free Internet plan, after receiving a letter from key U.S. lawmakers ...
FCC To Rule on Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 12/1/2008 — FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to address the issue of creating a nationwide, filtered broadband network at its Dec. 18 meeting, giving that meeting the potential to be as controversial as the one ...
FCC plan for mobile contingency fails —
The Register 12/3/2008
No power to the people's network An FCC plan that would see every US mobile-phone base station equipped with eight hours of backup power has been rejected by the White House, on the grounds that the regulator failed to consult properly on the ...
FCC boss spices Puritan wireless plan —
The Register 12/4/2008
The treat of unlicensed spectrum FCC chairman Kevin Martin has added some kick to his plan for a free nationwide wireless network, flirting with the possibility of dropping at least a portion of the zero-cost spectrum straight into the hands of ...
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