Atom Feed from Searchles Sun Jul 06 05:45:06 -0400 2008 en-us 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 20:40:31 -0400 2008 FTP: "To qualitatively advance the cause of media justice, its advocates must begin to take the political offensive, to dictate the agenda, and to stay on the offensive. We must engineer what the media system is designed to ... an ongoing public debate on whether media --- the broadcast spectrum, the internet, cable and telecom networks should be controlled by and for a wealthy corporate elite, or whether people ought to be... as a right, to speak with and to hear their own voices, and to access the broadband technology that undergirds prosperity in the 21st century. 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 19:35:35 -0400 2008 FTP: ""You don't have to prove actual distribution. You need to prove there's works in the share folder, and that is distribution," said Joseph Geisman, MPAA's chief intellectual property attorney, as he described the so-called "making available" concept." 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 19:20:18 -0400 2008 FTP: "There's no question about it: the U.S. is falling behind in the broadband race. Not only is broadband service unavailable in many of this nation's rural areas but the service that is available is often slow and expensive compared to services in other developed nations. As a result, we're steadily dropping in international broadband penetration rankings. " 747btrfly Fri Jun 13 19:06:05 -0400 2008 Take Action: Save the Internet A new bill has been introduced in U.S. House that would stop Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from controlling what you do, and where you go online. 747btrfly Fri Jun 13 19:02:10 -0400 2008 FTP: "In legal memoranda filed with the Federal Communications Commission last night, Free Press presented definitive legal support for the federal agency’s authority to protect consumers' right to an open Internet." 747btrfly Fri Jun 13 17:41:30 -0400 2008 FTP: "AT&T, the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. "A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable," spokesman Michael Coe said this week." 747btrfly Fri Jun 13 11:58:43 -0400 2008 FTP: "Back in the mid-1990s, the owners of TV stations promised Congress that ,,,f DTV would bring .. a wide selection of new programming, educational and children's shows, frequently updated local newscasts and interactive content, all free, over the new digital broadcast airwaves. Of course, they lied. 747btrfly Fri Jun 13 11:50:27 -0400 2008 From the Page: "Right now, they don't know that Wilmington's four local TV stations are about to become 16 stations with no increase in local accountability, no new local news or public service, no local arts and certainly no local ownership. They must be told." Rob Tue May 20 06:07:10 -0400 2008 Whitepaper based on a unique Total Telecom study into how UK telecom operators are tackling the issues surrounding governance, risk and compliance Rob Mon Apr 28 06:36:49 -0400 2008 Practical TDM Service Migration to a Converged Ethernet Infrastructure 747btrfly Tue Apr 22 07:36:18 -0400 2008 From the Page: "An investigative report reveals the how TV military analysts have a vested economic interest in selling the Bush admin's happy talk about Iraq." 747btrfly Tue Apr 22 07:01:41 -0400 2008 AT&T is pleading poverty - um, where have they been for the last 20 years? Give me a break - guess they just can't monoplize the telecoms and net as fast as they would like. Read on! Rob Mon Apr 14 11:11:28 -0400 2008 SMEs are still the engine of economic growth - the challenge for service providers is how to serve these demanding clients 747btrfly Fri Mar 28 22:56:56 -0400 2008 Comcast promised today that it would adopt an agnostic approach to Internet traffic and would no longer target and block file-sharing protocols such as San Francisco's BitTorrent. The nation's largest cable provider said it would work with BitTorrent and ultimately other peer-to-peer file sharing technology providers to come up with new ways to speed traffic efficiently. Comcast said it would still manage traffic during peak periods but would not discriminate on specific applications, a recent practice that prompted federal scrutiny and pressure.~~~We'll just have to see about that won't we! Rob Fri Mar 28 13:24:42 -0400 2008 Page hosted by Pageflakes comprising a range of telecom related RSS feeds - all as widgets so can be grabbed for your own use and pages.... Regularly updated. 747btrfly Wed Mar 26 20:48:06 -0400 2008 CNN makes anti-war protests look like a circus 747btrfly Wed Mar 26 20:32:05 -0400 2008 From the Page: "A panel of pundits debates the deep political implications of Bill Richardson's beard. Think junk news like this is bad news for America? Tell your Congresspeople to Stop Big Media -- before the new shot clock in the Senate runs out" ~~BTW, you gotta be kidding - Richardson's beard a subject of political reporting - nonsense!. 747btrfly Wed Mar 26 20:27:12 -0400 2008 Well it looks like there's an all out attack on net neutrality and content. From the Page: "The MPAA has allied themselves with cable and phone companies in their multi-million dollar fight against Net Neutrality. And the increasing disappearance of editorial from newspapers correlates with the rise of media consolidation. 747btrfly Sun Mar 16 22:12:20 -0400 2008 Something as drastic and fatal as global warming is minimized by our Media - read on! 747btrfly Wed Feb 27 22:11:47 -0500 2008 Seems that Comcast still needs to come clean on a few things. Thank God for the Freepress.net. BTW - I use Comcast and have had problems.