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Tue Dec 1 09:13:20 PST 2009

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Comcast Data Usage Meter Launches, Comcast
Today, we announced the pilot market launch of the Comcast data usage meter in the Portland, Oregon area. After a short period, we’ll roll it out nationally. It’s designed to be simple and easy to use and will help customers better understand how much data they consume in a month. (Note: the median usage for Comcast’s customers is about 2 to 4 GB per month.)
http://blog.comcast.com/2009/12/comcast-data-usage-meter-launches.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm

NATOA Files Comments to the FCC on "Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber", NATOA
NATOA filed comments today in response to the FCC’s National Broadband Plan Public Notice #12 seeking comments on “Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber.”  The comments as filed and can be read here.  Please let me know if...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natoa-news/~3/ESY7p31Wu3c/natoa-files-comments-to-the-fc.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm

FCC Identifies Broadband Gaps, bandwidth reports
A Harvard study commissioned by the FCC found that open access to broadband lines through local loop "unbundling" is one key factor in fostering widespread adoption of broadband in the US and other countries.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0911/indextest.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm

NTIA Awards Grants for Broadband Mapping and Planning, ntia
NTIA announced that it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, and Missouri under NTIA’s State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will increase broadband access and adoption through better data collection and broadband planning.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/BBMappinggrants_AKCODEKSLAMO_091130.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm

Connected Nation Receives Recovery Act Funding For Broadband Mapping and Planning Initiatives in Alaska and Kansas, Connected Nation
Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced approximately $4 million in grant awards for Alaska and Kansas, enabling Connected Nation to launch comprehensive broadband mapping initiatives in partnership with those states.
http://connectednation.com/in_the_news/the_blog/2009/11/connected-nation-receives-recovery-act.php
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm

ALA files comments to NTIA and RUS on broadband stimulus programs, ALA
ALA files comments to NTIA and RUS on broadband stimulus programs
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/november2009/comments_wo.cfm?persistent=0&expy_dt=
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm

A new 'TV Guide' to children's 'television', Net Family News
For those of us not using search engines to find TV shows on the Web and wishing for a TV Guide of the Web, as Adam Thierer over at TechLiberation.com put it, there is now a TV Guide of the Web: Clicker.com. What distinguishes it from regular search engines is it's a search engine for full-length shows – not trailers or snippets. You can browse by category too; e.g., you'll find Looney Tunes or "Leave It To Beaver"
http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/11/new-tv-guide-to-childrens-television.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/fcc.htm

Net Neutrality: War of the Words, Center for Internet and Society
The debate over net neutrality is rapidly devolving into a war of the words--increasingly, words that take the form of hyperbole. Case in point: as reported last week by the Washington Post’s Cecilia Kang, White House Deputy Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin told attendees at a recent conference that the Obama administration is committed not only to neutrality but to global free speech, and that indeed, neutrality
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6367
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Wikipedia denies editors' exodus, BBC
The online encyclopaedia disputes claims that the numbers of people editing Wikipedia are in sharp decline.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8382477.stm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Verizon CEO: Hulu Will Be Dead Soon - Leading Internet video service just a fad..., dslreports
According to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, the telco isn't worried about the threat Hulu poses to their freshly created TV empire, because Hulu will probably be dead in a year or two from now. "This is in for the next eight to twelve months and in two years it won't matter because the world will have moved on," the CEO was recently quoted as saying. He might not be wrong -- Hulu very well could be headed for also-ran status
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-CEO-Hulu-Will-Be-Dead-Soon-105669
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm

Should an Independent Regulatory Agency Head Be Visiting the White House This Often?, Tech Lib Front
Move over, health care reform, climate change, and the economy. Judging by White House visits by various government agency heads, the Obama administration instead appears preoccupied with the re-regulation of communications, media, and the Internet. The Administration has just released logs of all visitors to the White House and Executive Office Buildings from Obama’s inauguration through August—including a
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/yP9QEqoRJ3c/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Scammers get better tools for tapping social networks, CW
New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving online scammers a powerful new weapon, say security researchers.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141601/Scammers_get_better_tools_for_tapping_social_networks?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm

FHH to FCC: Think Again, CommLawBlog
Here, the FCC’s new form would require each and every individual with an “attributable interest” in a broadcast licensee to cough up his/her social security number to the Commission (in order to get themselves FCC Registration Numbers – or FRNs – which they would then have to include in the new Form 323). Forcing disclosure of such sensitive Identity-Theft-Prone information as SSNs is certainly a new and significant regulatory burden.
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/DwcYCroGze4/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.htm

Court orders spam network to pay $15.2M, CW
A U.S. district court judge has ordered the largest "spam gang" in the world to pay nearly $15.2 million for sending unsolicited e-mail messages marketing male-enhancement pills, prescription drugs and weight-loss supplements, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141599/Court_orders_spam_network_to_pay_15.2M?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/enforce.htm

US Court Levies $15 Million Fine Against Spammer, CircleID
Earlier this year, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Australian CMA broke up a large fake drug spam ring known as Herbal Kings, run by New Zealander Lance Atkinson. The NZ government fined him NZ$108,000 (about US$80,000) which, while a substantial fine, seemed pretty small compared to the amount of money he must have made. But today, at the FTC's
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091130_us_court_15_million_fine_against_spammer/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/enforce.htm

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