[Cybertel-Ann] 10.8 :: Huge Growth in WiFi Poachers Expected :: 'Sue Everyone' Strategy Fails Miserably :: Can You Play Hockey on Frozen Whitespaces? ::

Wed Oct 8 10:23:01 PDT 2008

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Broadband Data Bill Faces Implementation Hurdles, PK
Sometime next year, the new Administration will start to figure out a plan for collecting information about where broadband is, and how to increase deployment. The delay will be necessary because while Congress passed the bill to improve broadband data collection, S. 1492, there isn’t any money actually set aside to pay for the program. Until appropriations bills are passed for the next fiscal year, FY 2010, which starts Oct. 1, 2009, there wo
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/410549226/1780
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/706.htm

Study: Huge growth in Wi-Fi devices expected, CNET
In-Stat predicts that a billion consumer electronics devices will come equipped with Wi-Fi by 2012.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10059064-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Unlicensed White Space Use as an Airwave “Freeze”, PK
Professors Tom Hazlett and Vernon Smith have an op ed piece in the Oct. 3rd edition of the Wall Street Journal entitled “Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves.” Apparently advocacy by Google, Microsoft, the New America Foundation and others in favor of unlicensed access to unused broadcast television channels freezes out even better reallocation of spectrum that could eventually be auctioned off for highly efficient private use.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/410478828/1777
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm#white

Beyond the Bailout: Congress Passes a Flurry of ‘Child Safety’ Bills, CDT
One bill that is awaiting a Presidential signature confronts child pornography head on in a constructive way is S. 1738, the “PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008. Among the important and positive steps taken in this new law are (a) a dramatic increase in funding for fighting child pornography, (b) a mandate to the Department of Justice that it develop a real strategy to fight such material, and (c) the provision of new forensic and other resources to help state law enforcement protect kids. These provisions should – if the
http://blog.cdt.org/2008/10/06/beyond-the-bailout-congress-passes-a-flurry-of-child-safety-bills/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Senate calls for FCC to consider content-blocking technologies, CNET
Bill passed in the Senate calls for the Federal Communications Commission to examine technologies that allow for parental control over media content
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10057281-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Bandwidth Cap Hysteria & the Alternative, PFF
Over at TechDirt, Tom Lee has a sharp critique of Muayyad Al-Chalabi's much-circulated paper (via GigaOm) opposing bandwidth caps. Make sure to read Tom's entire essay, but here's the key take-away:
http://blog.pff.org/archives/2008/10/bandwidth_cap_h.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Top 50 U.S. Web Properties, August 2008, Clickz
Which Web properties climbed to the top 50 rankings in August 2008?
http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzstats/~3/410297494/showPage.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Congressmen finally allowed on YouTube, CNET
Congressmen can now use third-party sites, after both the House and the Senate recently approved new rules.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10058034-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

Senator Raises Red Flag Over Google-Yahoo Ad Deal, Ecommerce Times
Of all the protests mounted against the pending ad partnership between Google and Yahoo, the one lodged by Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., is bound to be among the most worrisome. Kohl, who oversees the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, has asked the Justice Department to continue to monitor the competitive landscape of the online advertising industry no matter what its initial findings on this particular deal might be. "If,
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/64715.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Skype Messes Up, Badly, CircleID
The Open Net Initiative's Information Warfare Monitor project has published a stunning report by "Hacktivist" Nart Villeneuve titled: "Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China's TOM-Skype platform." It has been covered by both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The report's key findings are as follows
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081002_skype_messes_up_badly/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/skype.htm

Skype, Filtering, and Privacy, Info Law
The New York Times reports on some terrific research done by my former ONI colleague Nart Villeneuve - he found that the TOM-Skype text messaging service in China not only scans messages for sensitive keywords, it also stores copies of offending messages along with information identifying the sender and receiver. This raises a host of scary issues. First, these messages are clearly stored for a purpose. It
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/10/03/skype-filtering-and-privacy/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/skype.htm

Verizon Pushes Toward a 100Gbps Core - Announces additional trials with Nortel...., dslreports
"There are very few routes in Verizon's network with less than 100 Gigabits of traffic," says Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon's director of Backbone Network Design at Optical Expo '08. Unfortunately for them, they're meeting this demand by combining multiple 10-Gig wavelengths -- because "that's the only technology available at the right price when the existing networks were built." This is why Verizon, who has
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Pushes-Toward-a-100Gbps-Core-98256
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

Five Years Into Suing Fans, RIAA's 'Sue Everyone' Strategy Has Failed, Miserably, Techdirt
The EFF has a long and comprehensive look into the RIAA's five year (and running) legal campaign against file sharing. It's a great overview that not only brings you up to speed if you haven't been following the whole thing, but also puts the entire campaign in perspective. The summary? Almost every move the RIAA has made in its legal campaign has backfired.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081003/0945452446.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

Hulu to stream presidential debates live, CNET
Video site will also premiere Crawford, a documentary about the town best known for President Bush's ranch.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10059756-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Cox Cleared in Verizon VoIP Patent Suit, Internet News
Unlike its earlier case against Vonage, Verizon's claim of patent infringement on Internet telephony against Cox hits the skids.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/TiL097cyy5w/3776216
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

Verizon Gets Smacked Down For Its VoIP Patent Suing Spree, Techdirt
Verizon was one of the last players to the VoIP party. Cable companies had been offering VoIP for years, and then Vonage, AT&T and a variety of other startups really built the market before Verizon even bothered to enter the space with an overpriced, uninspiring "me too" product that the market made clear it
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081006/2246322473.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

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