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The Coming Federal Communications War - Businessweek :  "“If the courts decide the FCC doesn’t have the legal authority to enforce the network neutrality rules, it not only could gut the rules, but it also gives ISPs a free pass to start making decisions about the information aspects of their service—and in today’s non-competitive broadband environment—that could mean throttling Netflix or charging Google more money to deliver a clean YouTube stream. It also neuters the agency moving forward when all content will flow as information over broadband pipes—from TV to your doctor visits.”"

Praise Continues to Pour In For FCC Confirmees | Cable Television News | Broadcast Syndication | Programming | Multichannel.com :  ""The Communications Workers of America commends the U.S. Senate confirmation of Tom Wheeler to head the FederalCommunications Commission. CWA looks forward to working with Mr. Wheeler on critical policy issues in thetelecommunications industry, including affordable high-speed Internet access and how FCC policy should help createstable and quality employment in the industry."" ...ero.

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Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Responsibility for Healthcare.gov's IT problems lie with dot gov | Clay Shirky | Comment is free | theguardian.com :  "Before Obama 's remarks on launch day, someone should have said: Hey, chief, say it's a soft launch , or the first day of public testing. Say we need feedback, or that the we're going to fine-tune it. Say anything but "Come and get it."" ...ero. Related articles Responsibility for Healthcare.gov's IT problems lie with dot gov Shirky- Ch. 5 Consumers Abandoning Healthcare.gov

Is Verizon Wireless 'Profit Pumping,' Dumping Expenses Into the Wireline Networks? Time to Investigate | Bruce Kushnick :  ""We assert that there is evidence that the reported losses are substantially the result of misallocation of revenues and expenses as between the landline and wireless systems. The evidence is strong enough to require the Commission to consider it, and seek such additional information as will prove or disprove the existence of systematic and intentional misallocation by the Company, with consequences for customers/ratepayers of both systems, the tax payments due to federal, state and local jurisdictions, and policy decisions made by the Commission.""

Don't Count On Your Cell Phone For Help After The Next Huge Hurricane : "One year after Hurricane Sandy triggered a communications blackout across the country's most populous region, city governments, federal regulators and wireless carriers are still grappling with how to keep cell phones working in a disaster. Phone companies have come under pressure to ensure they can provide service in emergencies, and while they have taken steps to bolster their networks, many question whether it will be enough for the next big storm." ...ero.

Hi-res panorama: Space shuttle Endeavour's flight deck - latimes.com :  "In space shuttle Endeavour's flight deck, where the commander and pilot would sit, there are more than 2,000 switches, dials and buttons cover the walls and ceiling. Spare surfaces are covered with Velcro, where astronauts would stick anything — pens, cameras, food bags, laptops — to keep them from floating away. View the panorama above in fullscreen and zoom in to see the details."

Evidence Of Prehistoric Recycling Suggests Our Ancient Ancestors Were ‘Green,’ Too :  "There’s evidence that Neanderthals -- close relatives of modern humans who inhabited Europe beginning as long as 600,000 years ago -- near Rome shattered elephant bones to extract marrow, and even shaped the fragments into tools. These tools were abandoned, but picked up later to be reworked and used again, said Giovanni Boschian, a geologist from the University of Pisa, according to IOL SciTech."

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Make the Spectrum Auction Truly Open | Speed Matters - Internet Speed Test : "T-Mobile and Sprint are asking the FCC to place limits on the participation of AT&T and Verizon in the spectrum action. According to Marx, “T-Mobile and Sprint claim that more small companies will participate in the auction if Verizon and AT&T aren’t allowed to bid for what they want, and that the small companies will place higher bids than what Verizon and AT&T would have bid.”"

Verizon on privacy: Do it yourself | BGR :  "“If you’re worried about it, do something about it. Take security on yourselves, and don’t trust anybody else to do it. Don’t look at us to protect your data. That’s on you,” Sachs said. “There are services out there up to a certain point. You want encrypted phone calls? There’s an app for that.”"

Analysts: Government shutdown could imperil FCC's agenda - FierceWireless :  ""Generally, during a shutdown all FCC activities other than those immediately necessary for the protection of life or property will cease," the FCC noted in its shutdown plan. "Suspended activities include, among many others: Consumer complaint and inquiry phone lines cannot be answered; consumer protection and local competition enforcement must cease; licensing services, including broadcast, wireless, and wireline, must cease; management of radio spectrum and the creation of new opportunities for competitive technologies and services for the American public must be suspended; and equipment authorizations, including those bringing new electronic devices to American consumers, cannot be provided.""

Verizon launches new built-from-scratch enterprise cloud — Tech News and Analysis :  "John Considine, Verizon’s CTO wants you to know that the company spent 5 years researching cloud and built this new Verizon Cloud offering from the ground up. “We used Xen hypervisor as baseline and enhanced that to allow higher performance and have more control over performance and enhanced it to run different VM formats natively,” he said in an interview."

The mobility opportunity for fixed telephony and TV operators » Telecoms.com :  "Increasingly large LTE bundles and proliferation of free WiFi or access via the phone network make it easy for fixed operators to effectively become OTT mobile players without investing a cent in mobile access networks. Upselling opportunities may exist by offering households additional personal fixed numbers with home call management features (call home, call one, transfer, group video call). The differentiator compared to Skype and other OTT services is that a fixed operator softphone app is linked to the existing home phone account. Customers can use their existing account and bundled minutes even when away from home. Most importantly, customers benefit from universal nature of the PSTN because they can fall back to the lowest common denominator of a simple voice call to any telephone number world-wide."

FCC Set to Enforce New Telephone Privacy Rules - Direct Marketing News :  "In harmonizing its rules with the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call Implementation Act, the FCC's revise does away with the exception of presumed consent for preexisting customers. “Previously, if you had an existing relationship with a customer, you didn't have to get additional consent to market to them. Now from a texting and telephone point of view, you need to get prior written consent,” says Linn Foster Freedman, leader of the privacy and data protection group at law firm Nixon Peabody." ...ero.