bloomberg.com - 11/13/2008
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FCC's Martin to Push Against Clock, Cable During Final Months By Todd Shields Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- After roiling Comcast Corp. and other cable operators for almost four years, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin shows no sign of relenting as his term nears its likely end. ...
phonescoop.com - 11/11/2008
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phonescoop.com —
Today documents seen on the FCC Web site
provided details about the Samsung U440. The U440 is...
a clamshell reminiscent of the compact LG Lotus with a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging. It has been released in Canada as ... (follow link to read)
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FCC Reveals Samsung Clamshell with Full QWERTY
cellphonesignal.com - 11/12/2008
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cellphonesignal.com —
Today FCC just passed the new Blackberry Curve
8900 for North America. The Blackberry 8900 will be...
available in United States at AT&T and T-Mobile. BGR reported few days ago that The Blackberry 8900 will be available at T-Mobile this Black Friday. ...
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Blackberry Curve 8900 American version passed FCC
tvnewsday.com - 11/14/2008
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tvnewsday.com —
Two academics Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach will
lead the Obama FCC transition team with the responsibility...
of advising the incoming administration on policy, budget and personnel matters, the Obama-Biden office announced today. Crawford is a ...
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Obama Names FCC Transition Team
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Cable Industry to FCC: Don't Ask About Our Rates
Bits —
Kevin Martin is certainly trying to make his last weeks as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission eventful. (To be perfectly accurate, Mr. Martin doesn’t have to step down when Barack Obama becomes president, but it is the tradition.) After backing off from a fight over the complex way phone companies pay each other for long distance calls, Mr. Martin is now poking at rates for cable television service. Last week, he sent a letter ...
Internet Video in Korea Eclipses the DVD
Bits —
I read an interesting item on Bloomberg the other day about how Warner Brothers is scaling back its DVD operation in South Korea because of rampant illegal movie downloading. But at the same time it is greatly expanding its authorized Internet movie distribution. It will now start renting moves over the Internet two weeks before they are released on DVDs, making South Korea the first market in the world where movies will appear online before they hit the store shelves. South Korea, of course, is a hothouse of digital technology, with a gadget-loving populace, an advanced cellphone network and widespread use of very fast Internet connections. And ...
Bits: Cable Industry to F.C.C.: Don't Ask About Our Rates
NYT > Technology —
Kevin Martin is certainly trying to make his last weeks as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission eventful. (To be perfectly accurate, Mr. Martin doesn’t have to step down when Barack Obama becomes president, but it is the tradition.) After backing off from a fight over the complex way phone companies pay each other for long distance calls, Mr. Martin is now poking at rates for cable television service. Last week, he sent a letter ...
Bits: Internet Video in Korea Eclipses DVDs
NYT > Technology —
I read an interesting item on Bloomberg the other day about how Warner Brothers is scaling back its DVD operation in South Korea because of rampant illegal movie downloading. But at the same time it is greatly expanding its authorized Internet movie distribution. It will now start renting moves over the Internet two weeks before they are released on DVDs, making South Korea the first market in the world where movies will appear online before they hit the store shelves. South Korea, of course, is a hothouse of digital technology, with a gadget-loving populace, an advanced cellphone network and widespread use of very fast Internet connections. And ...
ISP Pricing Plans: Open Season on Consumers
Internet Evolution: —
There is a confrontation brewing between ISPs and their users over pricing models. Internet users should brace for the worst. The ISPs are about to take advantage of an already-strapped consumer by raising prices, for largely unfounded reasons ...
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techliberation.com 11/29/2008 — I need not remind anyone here about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s ongoing “ war on cable .” Even if you hate the cable industry or capitalism in general, there’s just no way I can see how anyone who believes in the rule of law ...
Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (Background)
techliberation.com 11/4/2008 — Tomorrow morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the potentially historic free speech case of Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. I plan on attending and will try to post some thoughts about how the ...
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 ...
Broadband Stimulus Plan? How About Some Data First
blog.wired.com 12/25/2008 —
During the Great Depression, the government tried to revive the economy with the New Deal's public work projects, and ended up paying people to dig unneeded ditches.
In today's deep recession, digital age advocates are trying to ...
FCC to vote on opening up "white spaces"
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com 10/16/2008 — Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel For nearly two years, a broad-based coalition of public interest groups and technology companies including Google has been advocating for unlicensed ...
Official Google Blog: A vote for broadband in the "white spaces"
googleblog.blogspot.com 11/4/2008 — All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the " white spaces " spectrum -- the unused airwaves between ...
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 to vote on free broadband Internet across USA
usatoday.com 12/2/2008 — 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 ...
FCC's Kevin Martin To Resign Jan. 20
paidcontent.org 1/16/2009 — FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican, said today that he will be stepping down from his post once the new administration takes over next week, Reuters reports . Martin will be joining The Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, AP reports . ...
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 ...
DTV Ad gets Mileage in Race Car Crash: FCC chief —
I4U News 11/11/2008
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nine-car NASCAR pileup may have wrecked a vehicle
sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission, but it gave the agency more
mileage in advertising the imminent switch to digital TV signals, the ...
Clearwire looks to white space for reduced costs —
The Register 11/14/2008
New network approved, needs paying for While the white space vote might have got all the attention last week - along with that other vote - the FCC also approved the creation of "New Clearwire" and it turns out that the two votes could well prove ...
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