[Cybertel-Ann] 3.27.7 :: WiMax? :: Happy to be Dumb :: Rock the Net :: Que? :: Refuseniks! :: Dead Company Walking ::

Tue Mar 27 13:14:44 PST 2007

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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with
Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning
for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had
very little chance of reading a document written on
another computer, another word processor, or another
network. - Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July
1996

Sprint unveils WiMax plans, CNET, 3/27/2007 
Sprint adds several cities to its upcoming mobile
WiMax network, and names device vendors and a chip
development ecosystem.
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6170672.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

Supreme Court to Review Child Porn Pandering Law,
Ecommerce Times, 3/27/2007 
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the
constitutionality of a child pornography law that a
lower court criticized as criminalizing merely talking
about illegal images. The issue arose in the case of
Michael Williams, whose conviction in...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/56508.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

At Least One Broadband Provider Is Happy To Be A Dumb
Pipe, Techdirt, 3/27/2007 
One of the interesting subplots of this latest
internet boom is the steady elimination of the
bandwidth glut from the previous boom. Basically,
during the last bubble, there was a lot of
overinvestment in fiber, causing many early investors
to...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070323/073625.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Independent Musicians Launch “Rock The Net” Network
Neurtality Campaign, Tales from the Sausage Factory,
3/27/2007 
My good friends at Future of Music Coalition (FMC)
launched a major campaign today for net neutrality.
Called “Rock the Net” (a name whose lameness caused
some modest embarsement at the begining of the call,
but sometimes you gotta gr...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/751
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Latinos Online, Pew Internet, 3/27/2007 
Latinos comprise 14% of the U.S. adult population and
about half of this growing group (56%) goes online. By
comparison, 71% of non-Hispanic whites and 60% of
non-Hispanic blacks use the internet. Several
socio-economic characteristics that are often
intertwined, such as low levels of education and
limited English ability, largely explain the gap in
internet use between Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/204/report_display.asp
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Offline Americans see Internet of Little Value, Park
Assoc, 3/27/2007 
Twenty-nine percent of all U.S. households (31 million
homes) do not have Internet access and do not intend
to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12
months, according to Parks Associates’ National
Technology Scan.
http://newsroom.parksassociates.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=3510
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

ICANN reviews domain name sellers, Globe and Mail,
3/27/2007 
Agency says the existing rules were written when there
was little competition among registrars, while there
are about 860 today
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/104551577/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

ICANN to vote Friday on .xxx domain, CW, 3/27/2007 
The Internet regulation body ICANN is planning a vote
on Friday on whether to create an .xxx domain
exclusively for Internet pornography.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/104560516/article.do
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/xxx.htm

FCC Adopts Order on Reconsideration of Condition in
AT&T-BellSouth Merger., FCC, 3/27/2007 
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-44A1.doc
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

FCC Releases Text of AT&T Inc.-BellSouth Corp. Merger
Order., FCC, 3/27/2007 
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-189A1.doc
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

Verizon Gives Alcatel-Lucent $6B Wireless VoIP
Mandate, Ecommerce Times, 3/27/2007 
The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major
boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, $6
billion contract to its primary network infrastructure
provider, Alcatel-Lucent. Under the contract,
Alcatel-Lucent will supply a...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/56522.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

Vonage: Dead Company Walking?, Internet News,
3/27/2007 
Not a chance, declares the Internet telephone company
as clock begins ticking to permanent injunction.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/104559516/3667931
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

DMCA's author says the DMCA is a failure, blames
record industry, Boing Boing, 3/27/2007 
A Boing Boing reader writes, "Bruce Lehman, the
architect of the DMCA and the WIPO Internet Treaties,
appeared at a conference in Montreal today and made a
series of admissions that are obvious to everyone but
still remarkable given the source."
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/24/dmcas_author_says_th.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca/

Internet takes to the ice in new CBC-NHL TV deal,
Globe and Mail, 3/27/2007 
Canada's public broadcaster plans to lean heavily on
new digital platforms – such as cellphone broadcasts,
video-on-demand and streaming over the Internet – to
help pay the tab
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/104659083/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Ask a Ninja, OK Go win YouTube Awards, Globe and Mail,
3/27/2007 
Winners hailed as people who have changed how a 'star'
is defined
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/104551576/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Wikipedia rival makes its debut, CNET, 3/27/2007 
Citizendium offers community-contributed encyclopedia
content with a few editorial controls (like full-name
registration).
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6170405.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Project Safe Childhood, DOJ, 3/27/2007 
Guided by the leadership of the Attorney General,
Project Safe Childhood (PSC) aims to combat the
proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual
exploitation crimes against children.
http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

IETF meeting: US government and NATO want right-of-way
on data highways, Heise Online, 3/27/2007 
Representatives of the US government have demanded
that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) come
up with a solution for prioritizing certain data
within government networks and at the interfaces to
other networks.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87240
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/priority.htm

RULES AND REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE CONTROLLING THE
ASSAULT OF NON-SOLICITED PORNOGRAPHY AND MARKETING ACT
OF 2003; RULES AND REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE
TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT OF 1991. Denied the
Petition for Reconsideration filed by Cingu, FCC,
3/27/2007 
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-26A1.doc
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/fcc.htm

The Patent Thicket That May Destroy VoIP, Techdirt,
3/27/2007 
You have to wonder how many times fans of the patent
system have to repeat the mantra that "patents
encourage innovation" before they can actually believe
it. There continues to be new evidence on nearly a
daily basis of patents doing the exact...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070327/002850.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

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