GigaOM (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Earlier today in response to my post about Nimbuzz, a good pal emailed to find out why the service didn’t work over the iPhone’s 3G connection. After all, a few weeks ago AT&T announced support for VoIP over 3G with much fanfare, a move that was widely applauded, including kudos from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. A [...]
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... for Rep. Richard Gephardt. Like several administration colleagues, including FCC chairman Julius Genachowski and Cabinet Secretary Christopher Lu, Butts graduated with Obama from Harvard Law School in 1991. Butts's appointment took some of her new colleagues by surprise. One MCC staff member Tweeted that she learned of the news from a Twitter post.
Red State (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In the flurry of news this week, you may have missed another body tossed under the insatiable Obama bus : Internet Czar Susan Crawford. The Obama administration has faced a vocal and growing opposition to the radical so-called net neutrality advocated by folks like Crawford and FCC Chair Julius Genachowski. Bi-partisan opposition , I hasten to add. The radicals in the administration, whose...
Fuelishness! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Washington DC – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Wednesday that they are launching a joint effort to evaluate technologies that may help curb the dangerous epidemic of distracted driving. The DOT-FCC partnership will also include outreach efforts to educate the public about the dangers of texting while [...]...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | yesterday
... favor of government action on network neutrality thought this was an important first step by the Genachowski commission. I am actually startled at how thorough and extensive it is, given how recently the new chairman was confirmed. It is a tremendously detailed notice which includes with it the proposed rules that they would like to put forward. In and of itself, that is a tremendous achievement,...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... candidate Obama's communications policies portfolio. Now-President Obama's FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski hired Free Press Press Secretary Jen Howard to serve in the same capacity for the FCC. And Marxist 9-11 "Truther" Van Jones - who was President Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" until his multi-layered, anti-American and paranoid past came to light, forcing him to resign...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... which opposes the waiver, joined with other groups to send a letter to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski restating their opposition after they said they got signals the Media Bureau was about to rule in the studio's favor. "We are actively looking at it but no decisions have been made," Lake told Multichannel News Friday. Parties on both sides of the issue have been actively talking to the...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... is weighed in their favor or not. "These issues have been pending for years," FCC chairman Julius Genachowski wrote in a letter to Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) recently, "and I appreciate the understandable frustration of many parties regarding the commission's lack of progress in addressing special access issues." In its notice, the FCC indicated initial comments and replies on special...
CNSNews (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
(CNSNews.com) – The head of the Federal Communications Commission refused to say if he agrees with the FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd that freedom of speech is an “exaggeration” and that concerns about free speech serve only as a “distraction” from policy debates.FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, after testifying at a congressional hearing on texting while driving Wednesday, was asked...
The Copyright Alliance Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... “Openness does not apply to lawful content,” Ms. Espinel replied, echoing FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski when he also appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee as an Obama Administration nominee. Her role as IPEC will be to work across the government coordinating IP enforcement, and she said she would certainly be working with the FCC “to develop strategies to stop intellectual property...
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... sees the issue as a matter of control over what kind of TV you can use. It sent a letter to FCC Genachowski asking the Commission to deny the MPAA the waiver. Public Knowledge wrote : [O]ver the past year, the MPAA has failed to provide a reason as to why the limited interests of its six member movie studios should be allowed to outweigh the interests of those consumers that will be forced...
PC Mag (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... and will also coordinate outreach efforts to educate the public about the dangers of the practice.Genachowski and LaHood , during which senators discussed competing driving-while-texting bills. One bill would withhold federal transportation funds from states that fail to enact texting-while-driving legislation, while the other takes the incentive route and provides grants to states with...
Red State (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... who is aware of the technical issues wants any part of what Barack Obama and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are planning.
Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... and Verizon as they management traffic on their networks. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski sent this morning, the legal scholars -- all long-time proponents of net neutrality -- are asking the agency to clear up ambiguity on "reasonable network management" practices in a draft of rules. "We trust Genachowski," said Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia...
Jesus is Lord, A Worshipping Christ (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... who live homosexual and other “alternative” sexual lifestyles. Addressed to FCC chief Julius Genachowski, the petition asks for a “notice of inquiry into hate speech in the media.” “We are concerned about this issue because of the possible connection between hate speech and violent hate crimes and the lack of information for members of the public concerned about the issue,” the petition...
