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US Broadband Coalition releases report on US broadband adoption, Muni
The US Broadband Coalition has released its report entitled Expanding and Accelerating the Adoption & Use of Broadband Throughout the Economy (PDF format). The US Broadband Coalition is composed of more than 160 organizations working toward a comprehensive national broadband strategy to ensure America’s success in the emerging knowledge-based global economy. The Coalition includes communications
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/-BDKrHBXZyc/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Residents in Utah Offered to Buy Their Own Fiber Connection, 1600 Already Have, CircleID
Geoff Daily reports today on the App-Rising.com: "A new model is emerging in Brigham City, a city of less than 20,000 in northern Utah, for how user-owned open fiber networks can be financed and deployed. It used to be that the only way you could get fiber was if you were lucky enough to have a private provider lay it or to live in a city that did it itself. Today in Brigham City, for $3,000 you can buy your own fiber. And in fact more
http://www.circleid.com/posts/residents_in_utah_offered_to_buy_their_own_fiber_connection/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

“Framework for a Safe Internet”: Confronting Internet Risks Today, Safe Internet
[This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring key points and issues discussed at Safe Internet Alliance’s event on Capitol Hill on October 20th, “Framework For A Safe Internet: Know the facts, understand the issues, shape the future.”]
http://safeinternet.org/blog/%E2%80%9Cframework-safe-internet%E2%80%9D-confronting-internet-risks-today
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Teens in the digital age, Pew Internet
A snapshot of "Digital Natives": who they are and how they learn.
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/51-Teens-in-the-digital-age.aspx
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Net Neutrality Hard To Enforce, CommLawBlog
The IEEE, a widely respected association of electrical engineers, posted the reflections of FH&H lawyer (and former engineer) Mitchell Lazarus on why the FCC’s proposed network neutrality rules may miss their target.  Read the piece here:
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/jOk3dStqgRk/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnot.htm

When do net neutrality "anecdotes" become "data"?, Ars Technica
In our coverage of debates over the Federal Communications Commission's authority to enforce its proposed Internet nondiscrimination rules, we've taken a look at pro and con arguments over whether Congress gave the agency net neutrality powers. But the question of statutory authority isn't
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/when-do-net-neutrality-anecdotes-become-data.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm

The ITU and IPv6 Transition: Controversy at the IGF, CircleID
At today's "Managing Critical Internet Resources” session of the Internet Governance Forum 2009, the ITU agenda on taking a role in IPv6 distribution once again reared its ugly head.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091116_itu_and_ipv6_transition_controversy_at_the_igf/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

VeriSign Announces DNSSEC Deployment Support Plans to Enhance Internet Security, Verisign
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, announced its strategic approach for working with the Internet community to deploy DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .com and .net Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). Through a collaborative industry-wide effort, VeriSign, and the ICANN and business communities can play a
https://press.verisign.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=AFC0FF0DB5C560D3&version=live&prid=558203&releasejsp=custom_97
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm

AOL Spin-Off Is Set for Dec. 9, NYT
Once heralded as the merger of the century, the union of Time Warner and AOL in 2001 quickly soured; the divorce will be final on Dec. 9.
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a64d5d47c48db41fc8ba91c4f5e59422
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aol.htm

Vonage to Pay $3 Million To Settle Consumer Complaints, Consumer Affairs
Thirty-two states brought action against 'deceptive' tactics
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/11/vonage_settlement.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Fox News DMCA-Bombs News1News on YouTube, Citizen's Media
Like many former newspaper employees, I hate the 24-hour "news" networks.  Be it Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN, I think they're just across-the-board awful.  The only time I'll pay any attention to them is in the midst of some event that demands real-time attention, say a presidential election or a terrorist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/rtpUQwTtfVM/fox-news-dmca-bombs-news1news-youtube
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Fox News Tries Selective DMCA Takedowns: If Liberal Bloggers Use It, Take It Down, Techdirt
An anonymous reader alerts us to the story that Fox News has sent a series of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for a guy who's been putting up clips that have been popular among the "liberal" blogworld. Now, there's an open question as to whether or not these clips are fair use -- but even if we assume that they are infringing, there's an interesting element to this. They only targeted the guy who posts clips that liberal
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091113/1254186924.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Newspaper Industry Lawyers Attack Fair Use, Claim Google Is Illegal, Techdirt
Hmm. So, on Monday Rupert Murdoch suggests that the courts would reject fair use as a concept, and by Friday two newspaper industry lawyers just happen to have an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining how Google violates copyright law by caching the websites it indexes. If the names of the lawyers -- Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown -- sound vaguely familiar, that's because they're the same two
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091113/1357386926.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

FTC Announces Agenda and Speakers for Upcoming Workshop: "From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?", FTC
The Federal Trade Commission today released an agenda for its December 1-2, 2009 workshop on the future of journalism in the Internet age.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/11/newsmedia.shtm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Internet2 and Partners Showcase Breakthrough Cyberinfrastructure To Support Science at SC09, Internet2
No description
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2009-11/msg00004.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet.htm

Facebook's 'unfriend' defines 2009, Globe and Mail
Oxford University Press dips its toe into the world of social networking for its 2009 Word of the Year
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/YJ5-9SHTA5o/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm

Obama said to be again close to naming cybersecurity chief, CW
The Obama Administration is once again reported to be close to naming a White House cybersecurity coordinator.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140948/Obama_said_to_be_again_close_to_naming_cybersecurity_chief?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning', BBC
Many nations are now arming to defend themselves in a cyber war and readying forces to conduct their own attacks, says a report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8363175.stm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

DNS problem linked to DDoS attacks gets worse, CW
Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet's DNS (domain name system), making it easier for hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against their victims.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140839/DNS_problem_linked_to_DDoS_attacks_gets_worse?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm

Email's Not Dead, Neither is Spam, CircleID
Over the past few years, we have seen a plethora of over-hyped articles in the popular press and blogosphere crowing wrong-headedly about how 'email is dead'. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter, new and as-yet unproven technologies are the supposed death-knell for our old reliable friend, e-mail.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091113_email_not_dead_neither_is_spam/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/

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