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A Startup, the Supreme Court, and the Future of TV [telecom]
By Michael Phillips, The New Yorker Blog, January 15, 2014 | Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by | America's largest broadcast television networks -- CBS, NBC, Fox, | ABC,...
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If you think your router is secure, the NSA will prove otherwise [telecom]
--- Jack Myers forwarded a message from Thad Floryan to --- Hi Igor, My preference tends towards *BSD [Berkeley Software Distribution, one of the canonical flavors of Unix - Mod] also. [Some routers...
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Net Neutrality 2014: D.C. Circuit Tosses Most of the FCC's "Open Internet" Rules [telecom]
By Paul J. Feldman, CommLawBlog, January 16, 2014 | Court affirms FCC's authority to engage in some Internet | regulation, but FCC faces complex choices on next moves. | | In the war over how, if at...
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NCTA pushes Congress to stop forcing subscribers to buy basic cable [telecom]
By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, January 16, 2014 | Cable subscribers shouldn't be forced to buy basic-cable | programming packages containing local broadcast channels, National | Cable &...
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Update: Comment Deadlines Set in In-Flight Cell Phone Proceeding [telecom]
By FHH Law, CommLawBlog, January 15, 2014 | Cell phones on airplanes? Everybody seems to have an opinion about | the FCC's proposal (about which we reported last month) - and it | seems to be the same...
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Appeals court shoots down FCC net neutrality rules [telecom]
By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, January 14, 2014 | In a big victory for broadband providers such as Verizon and | Comcast, the U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the FCC Tuesday to | rewrite network...
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How to torment telemarketers (LA Times) [Telecom]
The air-horn-blasting technique recommended by the retired police detective obviously wouldn't work nearly as well as suggested, because the PSTN's dynamic range of is intentionally capped at a small...
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Why T-Mobile wants Verizon's discarded 4G airwaves [telecom]
by Kevin Fitchard JAN. 6, 2014 Verizon has owned these 700 MHz licenses for six years but never found a use for them. One's man trash is another's treasure. By buying these licenses T-Mobile can build...
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Communications Act Overhaul Underway ... Sort of [telecom]
By Howard Weiss, CommLawBlog, January 11, 2014 by Howard Weiss | Commerce, Communications Committee chairmen seek public input | on fundamental questions about federal regulation of | communications....
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OTT and 4K: Vaporware and a field of dreams [telecom]
By Josh Wein, FireceOnlineVideo, January 8, 2014 | Headlines from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are | heralding the arrival this year of two would-be milestones in | online video: a...
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Supreme Court to weigh in on Aereo [telecom]
As widely expected, the U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it would review /ABC v. Aereo/, one of a number of cases involving Aereo's remotely-operated-broadcast-tuner service and similar...
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Aereo: Supreme Court Bound! [telecom]
By Harry Cole, CommLawBlog, January 10, 2014 Poster's note: as I indicated in a previous message, "Cert" = certiorari, an order issued by the U.S. Supreme Court to a lower court (typically one of the...
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[telecom] Distracted Driving and Risk of Road Crashes among Novice and Experienced Drivers
Distracted Driving and Risk of Road Crashes among Novice and Experienced Drivers Sheila G. Klauer, Ph.D., Feng Guo, Ph.D., Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Ed.D., M.P.H., Marie Claude Ouimet, Ph.D., Suzanne E....
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[telecom] The Hybrid Tablet Temptation
The Hybrid Tablet Temptation Jan 5, 2014 Monday Note In no small part, the iPad's success comes from its uncompromising Do Less To Do More philosophy. Now a reasonably mature product, can the iPad...
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[telecom] Shameless Carriers
Shameless Carriers Dec 15, 2013 Monday Note Wireless carriers used to rule smartphone suppliers. In 2007, Steve Jobs upended such rules. Why can't the carriers accept the change and enjoy the revenues...
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