From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Jul 7 13:01:27 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 4.7 :: Citizen Participation :: Geocaching Offline Last Weekend :: Mapping :: NOFA :: Antitrust :: DNSSEC :: Fast FiOS :: Blogs Not Legit News :: Message-ID: <676134.93879.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard." -Dave Barry FCC Insider Levin Calls for Citizen Participation, Internet News Obama's broadband policy chief asked knowledgeable people to participate at the FCC works out its national broadband plan. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/eLlPU_HU0jQ/3828071 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm U.S. Government Launches New Broadband Website - 226 Days until we actually have a broadband plan..., dslreports Broadband.gov has launched as the centerpiece of the government's effort to figure what to do to resolve our thoroughly mediocre showing when it comes to broadband speed, price and penetration. The (beta) website notes there's 226 days until the plan's finalized, and offers a timetable for the various workshoups, discussions and http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Government-Launches-New-Broadband-Website-103277 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm One Last Warning Before America Screws Up Broadband Mapping - Connected Nation poised to nab $350 million in taxpayer dollars, dslreports Last year, consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge penned a piece that was by and large ignored by the Steve Jobs-obsessed technology media. In it, Art Brodksy exposed broadband mapping group Connected Nation as little more than a policy front group for AT&T and Verizon. The group was created, Brodsky notes, to gloss over the http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/One-Last-Warning-Before-America-Screws-Up-Broadband-Mapping-103305 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm NTIA/RUS NOFA Released, CommLawBlog On July 1 the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the Department of Agriculture released their initial ?Notice of Funds Availability? (NOFA) with respect to two broadband-related programs http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/zUQoBg-3upE/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Online Safety Blogosphere Round Up July 7 2009, Filtering Facts iKeep Safe sounds off about, ?Lori Drew Judge Dismisses MySpace Cyber-bullying Conviction based on Terms of Use Violation? http://filteringfacts.org/2009/07/06/online-safety-blogosphere-round-up-july-7-2009/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Will Section 230 Protect Bloggers From the FTC?, Info/law The Federal Trade Commission has proposed to mandate disclosure of connections between bloggers and advertisers (those selling stuff) under its Section 5 authority, which enables the Commission to prohibit ?unfair or deceptive acts or practices? in commerce. In short, the FTC seeks to hold advertisers and endorsers (those would be the bloggers) liable for 1) false or unsubstantiated statements made in endorsements, and 2) failure to disclose http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/07/05/will-section-230-protect-bloggers-from-the-ftc/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm DOJ Investigation of Telecoms: Not Your Father's Antitrust., PK Although the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) has not confirmed it, the Wall St. Journal reported that DOJ is internally considering whether or not companies ?such as AT&T and Verizon? have abused their market power. Most traditional antitrust lawyers I?ve seen quoted don?t think it likely the telcos have market power ? http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/o8GJrjMOBEU/2521 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm ARIN Deploys DNSSEC Zone Signing, ARIN No description https://www.arin.net/announcements/2009/20090701.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm The Future of Education: Technology and How People Learn, Palfrey No small issue on the agenda here at Aspen Ideas Festival ? the future of education, technology, and how people learn ? but the panel assembled is in fact up to the task. Connie Yowell (MacArthur Foundation, whose brainchild is the $50 million Digital Media and Learning initiative), Howard Gardner (Harvard Graduate School of Education), http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/04/the-future-of-education-technology-and-how-people-learn/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/education.htm Tales of the Sausage Factory: I Have Fun On CNBC: ?Antitrust Is the Best Stimulus.?, Tales from the Sausage Factory I got tapped this morning to do Power Grid on CNBC's Power Lunch as a follow up on my quote in the Wall St. J. and my blog post from yesterday. I think it went reasonably well, as these talking head debates go. We each made our points and followed... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1588 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/antitrust.htm Regulators eye Google book deal, BBC US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8132291.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm New FiOS Speeds A Little Faster Than Promised - 25/15 really 25/25, while 35/20 really 35/35...., dslreports Last month we were the first to report on a slew of new Verizon pricing tiers, many of which came with faster speed -- but at a higher price. Sometimes broadband users report getting considerably less than their advertised speed -- but many customers in our Verizon FiOS forum say they're getting a little more from the tiers than advertised. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/New-FiOS-Speeds-A-Little-Faster-Than-Promised-103282 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Iran 'lifts block on SMS texting', BBC Reports from Iran say SMS text messaging services have been unblocked for the first time since disputed presidential elections. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/8131095.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm As Jammie Thomas Seeks New Trial, RIAA Claims (Incorrectly) That She Distributed 1,700 Songs To Millions, Techdirt This will come as a surprise to just about no one, but Jammie Thomas' lawyers have pointed out that the $1.92 million verdict against her is excessive, and is asking the judge to either throw out the award, lower it to the statutory minimum or grant a new trial. That was pretty much expected. What's odd, however, is the note at the very bottom of http://techdirt.com/articles/20090706/2348035462.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Bad Assumptions Made By American Press Institute Will Stop It From Helping Newspapers, Techdirt Last month, we wrote about the problems with the American Press Institute's "plan" to help save newspapers, which seemed really misguided. Steve Yelvington has now gone through the report and does a great job explaining why the report is so far off: it's basic assumptions are all wrong. He lists out each assumption and explains why it's http://techdirt.com/articles/20090706/0149165451.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Judge Says Blogs Not Legitimate News Source; No Shield Protections, Techdirt Back in May we wrote about a lawsuit questioning whether or not a blogger could use journalism shield laws to protect a source who sent her info she used for a blog post. The company the info was about is suing her for slander (which is odd, since slander is usually spoken, while libel is written). The woman, Shellee Hale tried to claim that she http://techdirt.com/articles/20090704/1355045441.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Rise of Internet Video, Isen We've seen it coming for a decade. It's not quite here yet, but the New York Times reports that CommScore reports that 150 million U.S. Internet users now watch an average of 97 videos per month with an average duration of 3.4 minutes per video. http://isen.com/blog/2009/07/rise-of-internet-video.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm First ABC show appears on Hulu: A few episodes of Grey?s..., Lost Remote First ABC show appears on Hulu: A few episodes of Grey?s Anatomy have appeared on Hulu, just over two months after Disney joined the NBCU-Fox joint venture. ABC says other shows will begin appearing on the site over the next couple weeks. http://lostremote.com/post/136567887 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm Study Proves that SSNs Are Terrible Authenticators, CDT Perhaps we finally have the last piece of evidence to help everyone admit that, in regards to the use of social security numbers as an authenticator, the emperor has no clothes. http://blog.cdt.org/2009/07/06/study-proves-that-ssns-are-terrible-authenticators/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy.htm Social Security Numbers Guessable, Study Finds, Wash Post Researchers have found that it is possible to guess many -- if not all -- of the nine digits in a person's Social Security number using publicly available information, a finding they say compromises the security of one of the most widely used consumer identifiers in the United States. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070603786.html?wprss=rss_technology More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ NSA Shields Government Networks With More Secret AT&T Rooms, Wired A NSA monitoring box is being set up in telecoms to track data to and from government networks. Critics worry it might vacuum in more than government data. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/painMiAxJPY/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm DHS Cybersecurity Plan Will Involve NSA, Telecoms, Wash Post The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070202771.html?wprss=rss_technology More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm Datacenter Fire Grounds Bing's Travel Site [and Geocaching!], Internet News A fire and subsequent power outage in Seattle over the holiday brought down Microsoft's Bing Travel and other sites. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/nDkbQ5hpkFM/3828391 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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Clyburn Touts Connected Recovery at Broadband Census Breakfast, Nextgenweb House Majority Whip James Clyburn joined broadband advocates, providers and policymakers to discuss how the FCC?s National Broadband Plan will affect the broadband stimulus. Clyburn believes that broadband is essential to the recovery effort today. http://www.nextgenweb.org/uncategorized/rep-clyburn-touts-connected-recovery-at-broadband-census-breakfast More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Home Broadband Soars, Becomes Hot Housing Commodity, USTelecom The results are in ? and the prevalence and popularity of broadband among consumers is clear. In fact, home broadband adoption increased more than six-fold between 2001 and 2008, according to a study recently released by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA). According to the study, ?The Substantial Consumer Benefits of Broadband Connectivity for U.S. Households? consumers received more than $30 billion in benefits annually from using broadband at home. http://www.ustelecom.org/Video_Blogs/Blog/index.php/2009/07/23/home-broadband-soars-becomes-hot-housing-commodity/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Levin: Your Broadband Comments Weren't Helpful - Broadband plan leader complains of sloppy, vague suggestions..., dslreports Blair Levin, the man in charge of the FCC's national broadband plan, wasn't impressed with the first round of requested comments on how best to achieve our national broadband goals. According to Levin, "sloppiness" and the "lack of seriousness and purpose" in most comments weren't useful to the agency in formulating a plan. "There's actually very little in the 8,500-something pages that moves the ball forward," Levin said. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Levin-Your-Broadband-Comments-Werent-Helpful-103555 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm "Net neutrality" gets white hot as FCC drafts broadband plan, Ars Technica The downside to opening up the US broadband plan to "public comment" is that, sooner or later, you're actually going to get some. The FCC's docket on this issue is stuffed with comments from individuals, most of which appear to be verbatim copies of a form letter, with the rest consisting of items like this http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/net-neutrality-gets-white-hot-as-fcc-drafts-broadband-plan.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Comments on BTOP collection of information requirements due by August 31, NTIA Federal Register Notice: Broadband Technology Opportunities Program publication of OMB control number for information collection. Comments on the collection of information requirements in the BTOP NOFA are due by August 31, 2009. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2009/FR_BTOPcontrolnumber_090716.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Online Child Safety, Privacy, and Free Speech: An Overview of Challenges in Congress & the States, Nextgenweb On July 27, the Progress and Freedom Foundation hosted an event titled ?Online Child Safety, Privacy, and Free Speech: An Overview of Challenges in Congress & the States?. Click below to watch full archived footage from the event. http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/online-child-safety-privacy-and-free-speech-an-overview-of-challenges-in-congress-the-states More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Online Safety Blogosphere Roundup July 21, 2009, Filtering Facts iKeep Safe tells us about ?Rochester Institute of Technology Offers First Ever Online Graduate Education Courses in Cyber Safety? The online classes are designed especially for K-12 educators, as well as IT professionals employed in any business sector concerned about youth Internet safety, information security, responsible decision-making, network environments, and the community. http://filteringfacts.org/2009/07/21/online-safety-blogosphere-roundup-july-21-2009/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Public Knowledge Study Finds Internet Content Filtering Ineffective, Harmful, PK Public Knowledge today released a landmark analysis showing that filtering of Internet content as advocated by big media companies will not work and will be harmful to the Internet. The full paper is here. http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2557 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/filters.htm Apple Denies Google Voice App for iPhone, Internet News Is Apple bowing to AT&T in rejecting Google Voice for the iPhone? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/8xEDq1yP-zA/3832091 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm AT&T blocks image-sharing site, sparks net neutrality row, CW AT&T yesterday blocked sections of a popular image-based bulletin board, adding more fuel to the debate over network neutrality. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135943/AT_T_blocks_image_sharing_site_sparks_net_neutrality_row?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm AT&T Block of 4chan Raises a Ruckus, Internet News The ISP said it blocked a popular underground site to thwart an attack -- but it's kicked up quite a fuss in the process. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/bDexa7MjL5k/3831961 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Tweeting #netneutrality, Google This week the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wrapped up its hearings on Internet traffic management. Earlier in the proceeding I testified on behalf of the Open Internet Coalition (of which Google is a member) to argue that "innovation without permission" requires a robust, open Internet -- a view echoed by consumer groups, Internet policy advocates, content producers and distributors. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/Aq6n8BakgbY/tweeting-netneutrality.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Could NTIA Please Put ICANN Out of Its Misery Before It Embarasses Itself Further., Tales from the Sausage Factory I mostly follow the ICANN follies from sentimental reasons. Can it really be more than ten years ago when naive Clintonistas conspired with engineers trying to insulate themselves from politics and a slew of bullies from the intellectual property ... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1606 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Video: Google's IPv6 Deployment Strategy, CircleID The IPv6 Act Now website, aimed at encouraging the adoption of IPv6, has featured a video today on Google's implementation of IPv6, which resulted in the launch of ipv6.google.com. In this video, Lorenzo Colitti, network engineer at Google, explains the planning, deployment, and future plans for making Google services available over IPv6. The best way to proceed with an IPv6 deployment, Colitti says is "to run everything http://www.circleid.com/posts/video_googles_ipv6_deployment_strategy/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Government advice urges tweeting, BBC New government guidance is published urging civil servants to use the micro-blogging site Twitter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8171597.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Google Sells AOL Stake Back, NYT The deal values AOL at less than $5.66 billion, a sharp drop from when Google bought the stake in 2005. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0e9eac28458daf9e356ebe93aef3e89d More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aol.htm Comcast/Sandvine Traffic Managment System Evolves - 'Fairshare 2.0' can tackle more users, more quickly..., dslreports Sandvine Corporation, whose traffic shaping hardware sat at the heart of Comcast's P2P throttling controversy, was considered one of the tech-sector's hottest companies in 2007. However, things went south in 2008, when Comcast was investigated by the FCC for implementing traffic management technology that throttled all customers' upstream bandwidth by using TCP packet forgery. But Sandvine and Comcast http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ComcastSandvine-Traffic-Managment-System-Evolves-103583 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Comcast Wireless Broadband Hits Atlanta - And completes San Francisco DOCSIS 3.0 deployment, dslreports Comcast dropped two announcements on us this afternoon. First, the company says they're expanding their new Clearwire-powered Mobile WiMax service Comcast2go into the Atlanta market. As we discussed when the service premiered last month in Portland, Comcast is slowly following up behind existing Clearwire deployments, which so far exist in Portland, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Baltimore, with nine launch markets http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Wireless-Broadband-Hits-Atlanta-103652 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Google spending more on D.C. lobbying, CNET Faced with issues ranging from online ads to copyright laws, Google spent $950,000 lobbying Washington in the second quarter, according to a federal government database. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10293774-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm The Power of Connectivity, CISCO Last month I had the amazing opportunity to meet President Kikwete of Tanzania and hear his vision for the future of his country. I was struck by how passionate he was about technology being the key for his developing country to leap-frog into the 21st century. He spoke with excitement of the promise that the subsea fibre-optic cable SEACOM (now live!) will bring by connecting the people of Tanzania to the rest of the world; and how broadband will help his country overcome an acute shortage of teachers and doctors. http://blogs.cisco.com/gov/comments/the_power_of_connectivity/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm Verizon offers free Wi-Fi to consumer customers, CW Free Wi-Fi hotspots in the U.S. are now available to nine million Verizon residential broadband customers that use the carrier's more expensive DSL or FiOS internet services plans, Verizon said today. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135949/Verizon_offers_free_Wi_Fi_to_consumer_customers?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Shield Law Overturns Warrant for Student Photographer, Wired A San Francisco Superior Court recognizes journalistic entitlements of a student photojournalist who invoked shield law. The decision strengthens support for freelance photographers and journalists who want to protect their sources and notes. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/ClfTV4tBYLU/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web, NYT Software on each article will state what uses are permitted and notify the news agency how the article actually is used. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=548d810e980763c527a2f52c02517514 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Is The BBC An AP Parasite?, Techdirt Over the last few months we've been hearing all these claims about how various "aggregators" and internet sites that simply rewrite articles from "mainstream" publications are somehow "parasites." But, of course, that ignores the fact that many of those mainstream publications do the exact same thing themselves. So, for example, earlier this week, there was a cute AP article getting passed around about a girl by the name of http://techdirt.com/articles/20090722/0126305618.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm CTIA Pleased FCC Nomination Process is Moving Forward for Meredith Attwell Baker & Mignon Clyburn, CTIA Below is a statement I issued regarding today?s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nominations of Meredith Attwell Baker and Mignon Clyburn: http://www.ctia.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/15/CTIA-Pleased-FCC-Nomination-Process-is-Moving-Forward-for-Meredith-Attwell-Baker--Mignon-Clyburn More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm reboot.FCC.gov: a website devoted to FCC reform comes online, Ars Technica Federal Communications Commissioner Julius Genachowski says that FCC staff can now access a new tool for improving the agency: reboot.FCC.gov. Its purpose is to "solicit reform proposals from every FCC employee," Genachowski explained on Tuesday. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/rebootfccgov-a-website-devoted-to-fcc-reform-comes-online.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Twitter: A Growing Security Minefield, CW In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users--and people who hadn't even heard of the microblogging service--were suddenly and simultaneously witnessing its potential. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135814/Twitter_A_Growing_Security_Minefield?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ U.S. seeks 'top guns' for cybersecurity, CW A consortium of U.S. government and private organizations aims to identify students with strong computer skills and train them as cybersecurity guardians, warriors and "top guns." http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135944/U.S._seeks_top_guns_for_cybersecurity_?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ Rockefeller Issues First Subpoena as Chairman of Senate Commerce Committee Demands Critical Answers for Internet Consumers, Senate Commerce No description http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=8102ff92-9469-47b5-ba0e-24049da72dd9 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fraud.htm Rumored new iPod Touch to boost VOIP, multimedia use, Muni Rumors of a new iPod Touch are making the rounds and people are speculating that the new Touch will include a camera, built-in microphone and 64 GB of memory. If this turns out to be true, I?ll be first in line to buy one. I already have an iPod Touch, not an iPhone, because I do not want to pay for AT&T?s lousy service and I do not want to tied down to a long-term contract. For voice calls, I use a prepaid T-Mobile card whic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/sn-UpmcNvyI/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Thu Jul 30 08:43:31 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 7.30 :: Libraries and Stimulus :: Dont Steal More Wifi :: WiMAX in Baltimore :: Jailbreak your iPhone and the World Ends :: MSahoo! :: Check Your Facts :: Message-ID: <116348.58975.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity, over error and oppression. -- James Madison, 1799 City libraries shut out of broadband stimulus money?, Ars Technica Millions of Americans are turning to the Internet to look for new jobs. But in many parts of the United States, public libraries are the only free provider of that crucial combo: a computer plus Internet access. This http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/libraries-shut-out-of-broadband-stimulus-money-1.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Securing Wi-Fi for Hackers, Internet News Is the Black Hat network a hostile network? Wireless vendor Aruba isn't so sure. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/Fz9_m0aHIKM/3832186 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm With WiMax, Walking on the Wireless Side in Baltimore, NYT WiMax, which delivers the Internet through radio signals broadcast from cellphone towers, is rolling out across the nation. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0097dcbb4717ff09af75eab203a2ab7f More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm Don't Jailbreak Your iPhone Or The World Ends - Apple fights EFF attempt to open up device..., dslreports The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been busy petitioning The Copyright Office to legalize the act of iPhone jailbreaking, which gives users complete control over what applications they can run and what other networks the device runs on (assuming there are any). But in a filing, Apple lawyers are arguing that the act of jailbreaking http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Dont-Jailbreak-Your-iPhone-Or-The-World-Ends-103663 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm Apple claims jailbreaking could crash cell towers, Ars Technica Apple has filed responses to specific questions from the Copyright Office considering a proposed DMCA exemption for jailbreaking its phones. Aside from the usual issues concerning copyrights, which Apple naturally http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/apple-claims-jailbreaking-could-bring-down-the-network.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm Wireless Internet Use, Pew Internet More than half of Americans - 56% - have accessed the internet wirelessly on some device, such as a laptop, cell phone, MP3 player, or game console. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/12-Wireless-Internet-Use.aspx More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Online video consumption doubles since 2006: ?Online video..., Lost Remote Online video consumption doubles since 2006: ?Online video has become more deeply integrated into daily life, and has started move into the spaces that are typically reserved for traditional television viewing,? the new Pew Internet report reads. http://lostremote.com/post/151831494 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/statapps.htm Internet2's Health Network Initiative points to a future of telesurgery, telepsychiatry, Internet2 No description https://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-internet2-healthcare.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/emed.htm Microsoft and Yahoo Tie a Loose Knot, Ecommerce Times Microsoft and Yahoo have inked an Internet search advertising agreement, finally entering a partnership that seemed to die more than one death over the past two years. In broad terms, the deal gives Microsoft access to Yahoo's content and http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/67728.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/search.htm Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape, Yahoo No description http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=399781 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/search.htm Irony: Columnist Who Berates Bloggers For Not Fact Checking, Didn't Fact Check, Techdirt A month ago, we wrote about a column by Connie Schultz, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, supposedly talking up a a plan to change copyright law to better protect newspapers from "parasites." This was a dumb plan no matter how you look at it, and Schultz ended up in a battle of words with Jeff Jarvis that kind of derailed the actual discussion http://techdirt.com/articles/20090728/0431435683.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm The AP of Oz: Associated Press Prohibits Reporters from Peeking Behind its False DRM Curtain, CMLP Last Friday, the Associated Press briefly became the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. It announced, in a booming press release, an ?initiative to protect news content from unauthorized use online.? To accomplish this feat, the AP will use an informational http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/m0XivhGQzX4/ap-oz-associated-press-prohibits-reporters-from-peeking-behind-its-false-drm-curtain More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Podcasting patented! VoloMedia claims major tech patent, Ars Technica Hold onto your iPhones?a company called VoloMedia was yesterday granted a patent on a "method for providing episodic media content." Or, as the company puts it in today's announcement, VoloMedia now owns http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/podcasting-patented-after-2003-application-approved-by-uspto.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/radio.htm Company Claims Patent On Pretty Much All Podcasting, Techdirt VoloMedia, an online ad tools company, is gleefully declaring that it has been awarded a patent on podcasting. The specific patent, 7,568,213, is for a "Method for providing episodic media content." Not surprisingly, it's a continuation patent (sometimes referred to as a submarine patent) where the claims are changed over time to keep http://techdirt.com/articles/20090729/1129435699.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/radio.htm FCC Chairman Genachowski appoints Sharon Gillett as head of Wireline Competition Bureau, muni FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has wasted no time at all in filling the top positions at the FCC. Among his new appointees is Sharon Gillett, who is Director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute and who previously served as the head of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable. Many of you have probably seen http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/yq9ZbpJ_uv4/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Details on presidential motorcades, safe house for First Family, leak via P2P, CW Details about a Secret Service safe house for the First Family -- to be used in a national emergency -- leaked on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told today. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136053/Details_on_presidential_motorcades_safe_house_for_First_Family_leak_via_P2P?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ McAfee Warns Spam, Trojans and Botnets Skyrocketing, Wired Botnet penetration and spam e-mail are jumping to record levels, a new security report shows. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/t6u0I70TFmw/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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