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Free Snacks and a Photo Op with Larry Page
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-09-23
The tech coalition pushing the use of empty spectrum (white spaces) between digital television channels to deliver unlicensed broadband is preparing its latest spin dose in the war of words
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America's Newest Addiction: Selling Hot Online Goods
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-09-23
WASHINGTON - America has become a nation of thieves hustling stolen goods off the back of a truck to sell on eBay. You name it, we steal it and we put it up for auction: infant
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McCain Kicks Media Out of Innovation Event
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-09-19
Ike Brannon, a senior policy adviser to the McCain presidential campaign, will hold a private audience Sept. 19 with AeA (the former American Electronics Association founded in 1948 and soon
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Why Broadband Is Important and the U.S. Senate Is Not
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-09-16
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation held a hearing here Sept. 16 on "Why Broadband Is Important." Two senators -- Chairman Daniel Inouye and
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Toss Broadband Hogs into the Sausage Factory
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-09-09
WASHINGTON -- Rob Atkinson, the affable founder and president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, has an interesting notion in these politically charged times: Can't we
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Railhead Probe May Get Nasty
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-09-08
I know this may come as a shock to you, but the nation's second largest defense contractor has been accused of misusing taxpayer dollars while working on one of the government's top counterterrorism
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Verizon: Keep Politics Out of Network Neutrality
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-08-20
Verizon CTO Richard Lynch told the Progress & Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit Aug. 19, "We need to guard against turning technical and business decisions into political
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Bloggers Celebrate Network Neutrality Victory
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-08-01
It was a rare day Aug. 1 for public advocates of network neutrality: an actual regulatory victory that found Comcast guilty of unfairly blocking P2P applications and failing to adequately
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Blogger Puts Dems on Network Neutrality Record
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-07-24
Every major Senate Democratic challenger this fall has gone on the record as supporting network neutrality, largely as a result of blogger Matt Stoller, co-founder of OpenLeft.com. Since
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Google-Yahoo Antitrust Hearings Come Up Tilt
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-07-15
Google and Yahoo went two heavyweight rounds with Microsoft July 15 as both the U.S. House and Senate waded into the proposed advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo. In hearings in
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FCC Comcast Decision Just the Beginning
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-07-11
No matter the FCC's final decision on Comcast's blocking of peer to peer traffic, litigation is sure to follow. Just for starters, Comcast doesn't believe the FCC's network neutrality principles
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Telcos Win Warrantless Wiretap War
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-07-09
Congress has proved once again the joke is on us when it comes to lawmakers protecting the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. After years of telephone companies turning over our phone calls and
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NebuAd Program May Violate Wiretapping Laws
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-07-08
On the eve of a Senate hearing on behavioral advertising, the Center for Democracy and Technology has published a report everyone should read. Your Internet service provider doesn't want you
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South Korea Gets to Meat of Free Trade Agreement
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-30
A year ago, U.S. Trade Rep. Susan Schwab hailed the free trade agreement her office had just negotiated with South Korea as the "most commercially significant free trade agreement the
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Chertoff Thumbs Nose at Laptop Seizure Hearing
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-26
The U.S. Senate held a hearing June 25 to investigate the possible constitutional violations of a government program that allows Customs officials to search, seize or copy contents of
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