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[Robert Cannon]

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America's broadband shame, Salon, 10/26/2007 
The back story: The 1996 Telecommunications Act
massively deregulated the telecommunications industry
in the United States, but even so, ...
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/25/america_s_broadband_shame/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

250Mbps Over Copper? - Australian PhD claims
significant advancement
, DSLreports, 10/26/2007 
The Melbourne Herald Sun says that an Australian PhD
student has devised a way of getting extra bandwidth
out of copper. Dr John Papandriopoulos, who is waiting
for patents to get processed on his technology, says
it could provide speeds up to 250Mbps over traditional
copper lines. The article, which offers scant
technical specifics, says the technology "uses
mathematic modeling to reduce the interference that
slows down downloading."
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/250Mbps-Over-Copper-88751
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/dsl.htm

T-Mobile opens hotspots in S. California,
MuniWireless, 10/26/2007 
T-Mobile is making its private Wi-Fi hotspot service
public in southern California counties affected by the
recent forest fires that have displaced about
half-a-million people. It is a generous move that,
hopefully, will enable displaced families to contact
worried loved ones and to use the Internet to find
help and identify resources.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/175012156/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Laguna Beach turns to Wi-Fi for fire watch,
MuniWireless, 10/26/2007 
Wi-Fi continues to prove its mettle in the public
safety realm. After providing critical data to first
responders during the bridge collapse in Minneapolis
earlier this year, it is now being deployed in Laguna
Beach, California, as a way to monitor wild fire
threats with minimal threat to human life.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/175305055/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

US federal court overturns anti-child pornography act
- Monsters and Critics.com, Monsters, 10/26/2007 
.. 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has
overturned the 1988 Child Protection and Obscenity
Enforcement Act, labelling it as unconstitutional. 

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1368546.php/U.S._federal_court_overturns_anti-child_pornography_act&cid=1122627716&ei=tqIgR5OGEYO00QHQ46n-Dw
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

6th Cir.: § 2257 Facially Unconstitutional, Joe Gratz,
10/26/2007 
In a beautifully written, powerfully reasoned opinion,
the Sixth Circuit today declared 18 U.S.C. § 2257
facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment
for overbreadth. The opinion, in Connection
Distributing Co. v. Keisler, is here.
http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2007/10/23/6th-cir-%c2%a7-2257-facially-unconstitutional/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with
BitTorrent, CNET, 10/26/2007 
In interview with CNET, Rep. Rick Boucher becomes the
first U.S. politician to take a public stance against
cable giant's blocking of BitTorrent file sharing.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9804158-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Anti-Neuts agree Comcast out of line, Isen.blog,
10/26/2007 
Timothy B. Lee, who wrote this anti-Network Neutrality
piece for the New York Times, doesn't particularly
like what Comcast is doing or how they're explaining
it.
http://isen.com/blog/2007/10/anti-neuts-agree-comcast-out-of-line.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Here's the Low-Down on Comcast's P2P Policies, IP
Democracy, 10/26/2007 
I caught up with a few senior executives at Comcast
this afternoon who talked with me about the growing
controversy surrounding the company's policy regarding
P2P traffic. Right off the bat, they pointed to a
follow-up article by Peter Svensson, the AP reporter
who last week propelled Comcast's purported blockage
of P2P uploads into the national spotlight.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/10/24/#002729
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Comcast and Net Neutrality, Freedom to Tinker,
10/26/2007 
The revelation that Comcast is degrading BitTorrent
traffic has spawned many blog posts on how the Comcast
incident bolsters the blogger’s position on net
neutrality — whatever that position happens to be.
Here is my contribution to the genre. Mine is
different from all the others because 
 um 
 well 

because my position on net neutrality is correct,
that’s why.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1218
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Major Conversions on Net Neutrality, Open Left,
10/26/2007 
While the legislative landscape has remained static on
net neutrality, the case for net neutrality has been
moving forward fairly dramatically.  Stephen H.
Wildstrom at Businessweek recently penned this column
on his conversion to the cause.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2070
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

ICANN Investigating “Domain Name Front Running”,
CircleID, 10/26/2007 
ICANN is investigating complaints that insider
information is being used to snatch desired domain
names before an individual or business can register
them. The Security and Stability Advisory Committee of
ICANN termed the practice "domain name front running"
and likened it to a stock broker buying or selling
shares ahead of a client's trade, in anticipation of a
movement in price. In the case of Internet addresses,
many people who see a domain name available the first
time they check find it already taken by the time they
return to buy it. More...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_idomain_name_front_running/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Insider Domain Name Snatching Probed, Wash Post,
10/26/2007 
The Internet's key oversight agency is investigating
suspicions that insider information is being used to
snatch desired domain names before an individual or
business can register them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102401108.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

ICANN as Fake Institution: WHOIS, Privacy and Credible
Commitment, IGP, 10/26/2007 
When is a policy adopted unanimously in ICANN not
really a consensus policy? A: When the US Government
says it isn't. Case in point. A new top level domain
registry, TELNIC, has been authorized to run the .tel
domain. Their idea is that .tel will allow and
encourage individuals and corporations to manage a
universal identity on the Internet. If its idea works,
lots of ordinary people will register under the .tel
domain and combine their telephone numbers, email
addresses, and other identifiers. The company is based
in the UK.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlog/~3/173937078/3309763.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

ICANN Meeting Will Proceed Despite Fires, Tech Daily
Dose, 10/26/2007 
Next week's meeting of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers in Los Angeles will go on
as planned, despite the massive wildfires in southern
California, officials said this week on the conference
Web site.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/10/icann_meeting_will_proceed_des.php
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

WHOIS Redux: Demand Privacy in Domain Name
Registration, CircleID, 10/26/2007 
Doc's post and the impending comments deadline for the
next iteration of ICANN's never-ending WHOIS saga
finally pushed me to write up my thoughts on the
latest iteration of ICANN debate. As Doc points out,
much of the current debate is very inside baseball,
tied up in acronyms atop bureaucratic layers. Small
wonder then that ordinary domain name registrants and
Internet users haven't commented much, while the fora
are dominated by INTA members turning out responses to
an "urgent request" to "let ICANN know that Whois is
important to the brand owners I represent"...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/710254_whois_privacy_domain_name_registration/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/whois.htm

Google's Motion to Dismiss American Airlines' Lawsuit
Denied, Tech & Marketing Law, 10/26/2007 
American Airlines, Inc. v. Google, Inc., 4:07-cv-00487
(W.D. Tex. Oct. 24, 2007) In an uninsightful one-page
order,...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/10/googles_motion.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm

602b Anyone? The E-Mail Tax Comes To Life, Tech Daily
Dose, 10/26/2007 
Remember Bill 602b? That legislation, which you
probably heard about in a message forwarded to you by
a well-meaning relative or friend, would have placed a
five-cent tax on e-mails.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/10/602b_anyone_the_email_tax_come.php
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

Coming next week: A tax on your e-mail?, CNET,
10/26/2007 
As Senate prepares to consider a Net access ban
extension, Democrat behind original ban warns changes
to current law approved by the House of
Representatives could make that so.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9804569-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access,
e-mail, CNET, 10/26/2007 
But it's not going to the president's desk yet, as the
House still has to approve the changes. The current
ban is scheduled to expire next week.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9805069-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

AT&T Wants $300 From Wildfire Victim - They didn't
think to grab their Dish network receiver
,
DSLreports, 10/26/2007 
I was hit hard by the floods in the Northeast last
year, having everything I owned destroyed by eight
feet of raging mud water. At the time, I was
pleasantly surprised to find that neither Time Warner
Cable nor DirecTV charged me for destroyed modems
and/or DVRs. In fact, both operators were kind enough
to reconnect my service high on a hill free of charge.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Wants-300-From-Wildfire-Victim-88826
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

Verizon Agrees to Stop 'Unlimited' Claims, Consumer
Affairs, 10/26/2007 
Settlement with New York applies to wireless broadband
customers nationwide.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/10/ny_verizon.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

Vonage Death Vigil: Verizon Patent Suit Settled, IP
Democracy, 10/26/2007 
Besieged independent VoIP provider Vonage has settled
its patent lawsuit with Verizon, agreeing to pay a
total of $120 million to end the protracted legal
battle and to eliminate the uncertainty hanging over
its head. Vonage will pay out an additional $32
million on top of $88 million it has held in escrow
ever since a jury awarded Verizon $58 million in
damages plus ongoing royalties last spring.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/10/25/#002732
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Vonage Settles Verizon Patent Dispute; Next Up: AT&T,
Tech Dirt, 10/26/2007 
Just a couple weeks ago, we noted that Vonage appeared
to be settling all its patent disputes -- with the one
exception being Verizon. Well, you can cross that one
off the list as well, as Vonage is paying $120 million
to Verizon to settle its patent dispute.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071025/184419.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Senate Commerce Hearing Tackles Performance Royalties,
Future of Music, 10/26/2007 
Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a
hearing on the Future of Radio. This hearing was set
up to address a range of issues -- LPFM, ownership,
royalties, public radio, etc -- but after a New York
Times article last week disclosed that FCC's Chairman
Kevin Martin was considering a fast track effort to
loosening media ownership rules even further, the
Senators also used this time to send a message to the
FCC, reminding the commission that a bi-partisan
majority had objected to the efforts to deregulate
media in 2003, and the Senate was ready to do so
again.
http://futureofmusiccoalition.blogspot.com/2007/10/senate-commerce-hearing-tackles.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/carp.htm

Web Radio Seeks Resolution, Wash Post, 10/26/2007 
Internet radio webcasters are hoping a Senate hearing
today will renew legislators' interest in their
negotiations with the recording industry over royalty
fees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302123.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/carp.htm

Whistleblower Reacts To FCC Clearing The FCC On
Supressing Study For Politican Reasons, Techdirt,
10/26/2007 
About a year ago, Senator Barbara Boxer surprised FCC
chair Kevin Martin by asking him why a study on the
impact of local TV ownership on the news wasn't
published. A whistleblower claimed that the FCC had
actually ordered the report destroyed because it
didn't agree with the political statements those in
charge of the FCC were making.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071024/220251.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Fire Emergency Puts Stress on Telecom, eWeek,
10/26/2007 
The fire emergency proves the mettle of the Reverse
911 warning system and shows weaknesses in some VOIP
services.
http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/tech/~3/174801486/0,1759,2206604,00.asp
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/emergency.htm

Automated Phone System Warns San Diego, NYT,
10/26/2007 
With wildfires bearing down on the northern end of San
Diego, the authorities used a technology bought two
years ago, after California’s deadliest outbreak of
wildfires, to warn more than a half-million people to
evacuate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/us/24alert.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/emergency.htm

Obama and Clinton on Telecom Immunity Filibuster,
Daily Kos, 10/26/2007 
Last week, Chris Dodd promised to filibuster any
version of the FISA bill including a provision for
retroactive immunity for telecom companies that helped
the Bush administration engage in warrantless
wiretapping.
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/174078642/261
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

GAO-08-212T, Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in
Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan, October 23,
2007, GAO, 10/26/2007 
Since the early 1990s, growth in the use of the
Internet has revolutionized the way that our nation
communicates and conducts business. While the Internet
originated as a U.S. government-sponsored research
project, the vast majority of its infrastructure is
currently owned and operated by the private sector.
Federal policy recognizes the need to prepare for
debilitating Internet disruptions and tasks the
Department of Homeland Security ...
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08212t.pdf?source=ra
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/protection.htm

How Big is the Storm Botnet?, CircleID, 10/26/2007 
The Storm worm has gotten a lot of press this year,
with a lot of the coverage tending toward the
apocalyptic. There's no question that it's one of the
most successful pieces of malware to date, but just
how successful is it? Last weekend, Brandon Enright of
UC San Diego gave a informal talk at the Toorcon
conference in which he reported on his analysis of the
Storm botnet. According to his quite informative
slides, Storm has evolved quite a lot over the past
year... More...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/7102410_how_big_is_storm_botnet/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing Anti-Virus Programs,
eWeek, 10/26/2007 
New technique leaves AV running but brain-dead; expert
says we haven't come close to witnessing Storm's true
power.
http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/tech/~3/174364282/0,1759,2205606,00.asp
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

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