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Thu Feb 12 09:47:27 PST 2009

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Public Knowledge Hails Open Internet Provisions of Stimulus Bill, PK
“We understand that open network provisions of the stimulus package are part of the final agreement and that the legislation will use the Senate version of the bill to allow some sort of interconnection and nondiscrimination requirements to be part of the conditions of the grant money to be distributed by the National Telecommunications and
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/537641493/1990
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Network Neutrality Preserved In Stimulus, OpenLeft
Quick note: there was a rumor floating around the Internet today that anti-network neutrality language was about to be inserted into the job stimulus package during the conference report. While I do not have any details yet, all indications are that the language was not included.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11563
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Let's Be Clear: ISPs Don't Want Accurate Public Broadband Data - They want public data that paints a rosy picture & keeps government at bay..., dslreports
New York Times tech columnist Saul Hansell, who only a few weeks ago called broadband coverage gaps "hooey," pens a piece today reminding us that $350 million of the broadband stimulus package passed yesterday will go toward mapping broadband coverage. That's incredibly important, since we have absolutely no idea who has broadband.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Lets-Be-Clear-ISPs-Dont-Want-Accurate-Public-Broadband-Data-100815
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/706.htm

U.S., Russian satellites collide, CW
A commercial Iridium communications satellite and decommissioned Russian satellite have been destroyed after an unprecedented collision in space.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=aa61981e40c9b875f040bf1bff5f15bd
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/satellite.htm

Safer social networking and self regulation, Google
Although there are European laws in place to protect online users (remember, if an act is illegal offline it's illegal online also), legislative processes can be time consuming and have the potential to be out of date before they can be enforced. That's why self-regulation is a crucial tool for industry be able react quickly to immediate policy needs. We
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/u9nUATfn4Tg/safer-social-networking-and-self.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Content Filtering Kept Out of Broadband Stimulus, At Least for Now, CDT
Yesterday’s Senate passage of its version of the big economic stimulus bill sets the stage for final negotiations between the House and Senate to come up with a final bill. As is often the case with major packages of legislation, there’s a risk of eleventh-hour additions for which the policy implications have not been clearly thought out.
http://blog.cdt.org/2009/02/11/content-filtering-kept-out-of-broadband-stimulus-at-least-for-now/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Google surges in U.S. search engine rankings, CNET
The company solidifies its lead in the U.S. search market in January, capturing 62.8 percent share last month, according to Nielsen Online.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10161418-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

U.S. Government Misses DNSSEC Deployment Deadline, CircleID
The U.S. federal government has missed its initial deadline for rolling out DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on its .gov top-level domain. Federal officials now say they will cryptographically sign .gov by the end of February, one month behind their original schedule.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/us_government_misses_dnssec_deployment_deadline/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/dnssecurity.htm

Measuring the use of IPv4 space with Heatmaps, CAIDA
To visualize the use of IPv4 Internet address space, we create heatmaps that use intensity of color (heat) to show the use of addresses belonging to the same network. These heatmaps also make use of a fractal mapping technique that describes a space-fitting curve. This technique, most recently popularized by Randall Munroe's xkcd #195, John
http://www.caida.org/research/traffic-analysis/arin-heatmaps/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Does the Authors Guild Want to Sue You for Reading Aloud to Your Kids?, EFF
The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that the Authors Guild is up in arms over a feature of the new Amazon Kindle 2 that reads e-books aloud using a text-to-speech algorithm. According to Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken, "They don't have the right to read a book out loud." Why not? According to Aiken, when a book is read aloud by
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/does-authors-guild-want-sue-you-reading-aloud-your
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

TV Stations Say Thanks, But No Thanks To Analog Switch Delay, Techdirt
As was widely expected, Congress voted last week to delay the switch-off of analog TV signals, sort of. It did move the hard deadline of February 17 until June 12, but it is also allowing TV stations to switch off their analog broadcasts any time before then, and many stations say they'll do so as soon as they can, beginning next week. Over a third of the
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090211/1532203737.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm

DTV Transition Extension - June 12 is Now THE Date, CommLawBlog
Word has just arrived that President Obama has signed the DTV Delay Act into law. That makes it official: the national DTV transition date has moved from February 17 to June 12. In case you've been stuck in a cave for the last couple of weeks, see our earlier posts (e.g., here and
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/537648228/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/dtv.htm

NYT: Internet dooms most media… but not TV, Lost Remote
With all the doom and gloom about the end of the old-media world, the New York Times notes that there’s one media that is still thriving: TV. Newspapers are drying up — books aren’t selling — and people are spending more and more time online. But they’re also still watching TV — in record amounts in fact. “People are showing a clear preference for
http://www.lostremote.com/2009/02/10/nyt-tv-stands-out-as-one-old-media-with-resiliance/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/meida/

Judge Seeks Further Briefing on Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity, EFF
Today Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California federal court asked for further briefing on a key constitutional question in the litigations brought against AT&T and the other telecommunications carriers for their involvement in the NSA's warrantless wiretapping. The Court noted that the FISA Amendments Act, the law passed by
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/judge-seeks-further-briefing-constitutionality-tel
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

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