[Cybertel-Ann] 1.2.8 :: F2C :: Muni Wifi in FL :: FOIA Reform :: RIP Netscape :: Calling it Quits :: Settling with Vonage :: Obama's Digital Policy ::

Wed Jan 2 06:59:28 PST 2008

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"The lightning speaks and holds converse with man!
What can be more sublime!"—Taliaferro Preston
Shaffner, The Telegraph Manual, 1859

Muni Wi-Fi on the march in south Florida, Muni
Muni wireless is expected to be implemented in Miami
Beach by the end of the year. Broward County may join
the local school district, area universities, and
hospitals in an area-wide Wi-Fi network to facilitate
municipal services. And Plantation is considering
Wi-Fi network as a way ro revitalize areas of town.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/206132785/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Will 2008 be the WiMAX Year?, CircleID
There has recently been some good and bad news about
WiMAX. On the good news part, an announcement made by
the WiMAX Forum this month regarding the launching of
the Mobile WiMAX certification program through which
vendors can get their IEEE 802.16e-2005 equipment
tested and possibly certified... On the bad news part,
there was the Sprint-Clearwire breakup after three
months of announcing a plan to join forces in building
a nationwide WiMAX network in the US.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/712301_2008_wimax_year/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

EFF Protects Free Speech Rights for New Jersey
Blogger, EFF
A Superior Court judge in New Jersey quashed a bogus
subpoena for the identity of an anonymous blogger
Friday, protecting the free speech rights of a critic
writing about a local government controversy.
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/12/21
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

IPv4 Address Exhaustion and a Trading Market, CircleID
There are discussions starting within the Regional
Internet Registries (RIRs) about the creation of
trading market in IPv4 addresses as we approach the
inevitable exhaustion of unallocated addresses. The
view being put forward is basically "this is likely to
happen anyway and by discussing it now, we can ensure
it happens in an orderly way".
http://www.circleid.com/posts/712279_ipv4_address_exhaustion_market/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Update: ICANN Projects Underway to Improve Whois
Accuracy, ICANN
No description
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-21dec07.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/whois.htm

Bush Signs FOIA Reform Bill; New Definition of News
Media Will Benefit Bloggers and Non-Traditional
Journalists, Citizen Media Law Project
In one of his last executive actions of the year,
President Bush signed into law the "OPEN Government
Act of 2007" on December 31, 2007. The Senate
unanimously passed the reform bill earlier in
December, and it passed the House of Representatives
by voice vote on December 18. The Associated Press is
reporting that Bush signed the bill without comment.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/209499936/bush-signs-foia-reform-bill-new-definition-news-media-will-benefit-bloggers-and-non-tradit
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/foia.htm

RIP: AOL kills Netscape, CW
Development work on Netscape Navigator, the browser
that once owned the vast majority of the browser
market, will cease Feb. 1, AOL announced today.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/207750101/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aol.htm

Google Policy Fellowship Applications Due January 11,
Berkman
Google has launched a new student Fellowship Program
that will provide opportunity for students interested
in Internet and tech policy to advance their studies
through summer work at public interest organizations! 
Check out their information below.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=3105
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

$14,000 Sprint Bill - That was supposed to be $59,
DSLreports
A Sprint customer tells the Consumerist she just
received a bill for $14,000 for just one month of
wireless service. According to the user, she signed up
for Sprint's $59 unlimited plan, but struggled with
getting the data card to work, resulting in her
canceling the service before the thirty day trial
period expired.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/14000-Sprint-Bill-90605
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/sprint.htm

Vonage Gets Off Cheap in Nortel Settlement, Ecommerce
Times
Vonage Holdings and Nortel Networks have settled their
patent litigation, allowing for cross-licensing of the
telecom companies' technology. The agreement does not
call for any payments by either company.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/60998.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Quick! Who Else Has A VoIP Patent That Vonage Can
Settle Over?, Techdirt
We've covered in too much detail how it's some sort of
"open season" on Vonage when it comes to VoIP patents.
After dealing with ridiculous and expensive patent
lawsuits from companies who failed to actually
innovate in the same way Vonage did, the company was
pressured by Wall Street to quickly settle the various
patent lawsuits filed against the company. Of course,
rather than settle matters, that simply opened the
door for other companies to go searching through their
patent portfolios to see if there was anything they
could sue Vonage over.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071231/142458.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Cincinnati, Kentucky newspapers call it quits, Lost
Remote
The Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post newspapers have
printed their last edition, but the Kentucky paper
will continue online.
http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/01/cincinnati-kentucky-newspapers-call-it-quits/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Malware evolving too fast for antivirus apps, CW
We've feared it for a long time, and now the situation
has come to pass: The malware's moving faster than the
tools to thwart it. But since you can't simply hide
under a non-wired rock and hope it goes away, it's
worth knowing how AV manufacturers are battling back
-- and how you can too.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/209651884/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

Google Orkut Worm, US Cert
No description
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#orkut_cross_site_scripting_worm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

Storm Worm Activity Increases During Holiday Season,
US Cert
No description
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#storm_worm_activity_increases_during
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

Obama’s Digital Policy, Freedom to Tinker
The Iowa caucuses, less than a week away, will kick
off the briefest and most intense series of
presidential primaries in recent history. That makes
it a good time to check in on what the candidates are
saying about digital technologies. Between now and
February 5th (the 23-state tsunami of primaries that
may well resolve the major party nominations), we’ll
be taking a look.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1241
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

Announcing F2C: Freedom to Connect!, Isen.blog
Please come to F2C: Freedom to Connect in Washington,
DC on
March 31 and April 1, 2008.
http://isen.com/blog/2007/12/announcing-f2c-freedom-to-connect.html

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