RegulationReport: U.S. Justice Department to Investigate AT&T-iPhone ExclusivityAuthored by Jay Baage on July 6, 2009 - 1:08pm.
Washington D. C. - The U.S. Justice Department has begun looking at big telecom companies to try to determine if they have abused their market power when signing exclusivity agreements with handset makers, such as AT&T’s (NYSE: T)
deal with Apple (NASD: AAPL) and the iPhone, according to Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Teen Hacker Releases Jailbreaking Programs for iPhone 3G SAuthored by Jay Baage on July 6, 2009 - 11:18am.
New York - Teenage hacker George Hotz, 19, claims to have created an application that can “jailbreak” the iPhone 3G S, thus install third-party software, even if that software is not approved by Apple. Four People Associated With The Pirate Bay Found Guilty In High-Profile CaseAuthored by Jay Baage on April 17, 2009 - 7:30am.
Stockholm, Sweden - The four men involved in the Swedish-based BitTorrent tracking website The Pirate Bay were found guilty on Friday of being accessories to violating copyright law in the high-profile court case in Sweden. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde (interviewed in the video embedded above) were each sentenced to a year in jail and 30 million SEK in damages (around 3.5 million USD).
Is An ISP Flat Fee A Good Way To Monetize Music In A Digital Age?Authored by Jay Baage on March 17, 2009 - 6:41am.
Buzz Watch: Transcript of Jim Griffin's Keynote at Digital Music Forum EastAuthored by Jay Baage on February 27, 2009 - 8:49am.
tags: Law | Music | Events | Regulation | Warner Music | Jim Griffin | Copyrights | Digital Music Forum East | Choruss |
DMFE: 'The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Lawyers'Authored by Paul Sweeting on February 26, 2009 - 9:26am.
tags: Law | Music | Events | Copyright | Regulation | Jim Griffin | Digital Music Forum East | Choruss |
Analysis: Will the House Pass the DTV Extension?Authored by David Oxenford on February 3, 2009 - 9:42am.
It's Official - Senate Votes To Delay Digital TV TransitionAuthored by Jay Baage on January 30, 2009 - 9:34am.
How Do You Plan To Watch The Presidential Inauguration?Authored by Jay Baage on January 16, 2009 - 11:13am.
Buzz Watch: Is Cisco's Padmasree Warrior Obama's New CTO?Authored by Jay Baage on January 16, 2009 - 7:37am.
Padmasree Warrior, currently the CTO of networking giant Cisco and formerly the CTO of Motorola, is reported to be on the short list for President-elect Barack Obama's first chief technology officer for the United States. An recent GigaOM interview with her embedded above. The other name that is mentioned in press reports today as being on Obama's list for possible CTO is Vivek Kundra, the CTO for the government of Washington, D.C. tags: Games | Mobile | Video | Law | TV | Music | Motorola | Regulation | Cisco | Barack Obama | Padmasree Warrior |
Julius Genachowski as New FCC Chair - What Will It Mean to Broadcasting's Future?Authored by David Oxenford on January 15, 2009 - 8:58am.
Newsweek: Lessig Argues FCC Must GoAuthored by Ned Sherman on December 24, 2008 - 4:23am.
In a Newsweek Web Exclusive, Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School and outspoken critic of big media's use of copyright to stifle innovation, argues that President Obama should put pressure on Congress "to shut down the FCC and similar vestigial regulators, which put stability and special interests above the public good." Lessig argues that in their place, Congress should create a new agency called the Innovation Environment Protection Agency (iEPA), with the mission of "minimal intervention to maximize innovation." Lessig believes that we will continue to stifle innovative companies like Skype and YouTube if we do not demolish the regulators that oversee our digital pipelines. Lessig's opinion is always an interesting one and his thoughts on the FCC and possible creation of the new iEPA are no exception. The article is available online.
Analysis: RIAA - A Change of Heart, Or a Tactical Retreat?Authored by Paul Sweeting on December 19, 2008 - 9:59am.
I think we can now put away for good the old canard about the RIAA
funding its operations from settlements extracted from lawsuits against
alleged illegal downloaders. If the strategy were actually a
money-maker, it's unlikely the RIAA would be abandoning it, as the Wall Street Journal reported this morning,
especially given the tight budgets its member companies (like everyone
else) are probably facing for 2009.
New FCC Chair Needs To Push For Less Broadcast RegulationAuthored by David Oxenford on December 10, 2008 - 6:58am.
Buzz Watch: Sin No Longer In At YouTubeAuthored by Paul Sweeting on December 2, 2008 - 12:03pm.
It was destined to happen anyway, and might be for the best in the long
run, but it's still sort of sad to see the day finally come: The
grownups are taking over YouTube. In a post
on its main corporate blog, the popular video sharing site said it is
cracking down on hanky-panky. Henceforth, the site will impose
"stricter standards" for what qualifies as "sexually suggestive"
material subject to age-restricted viewing.
Analysis: ".tel" Domain Name To Become Available SoonAuthored by David Oxenford on November 26, 2008 - 11:28am.
Analysis: YouTube Tipping Point QuestionAuthored by Heather Hopkins on November 24, 2008 - 7:14am.
tags: Video | Law | TV | Metrics | YouTube | Copyright | Regulation | NBC Universal | Rick Cotton | Future of Television |
Analysis: Obama Off To A Promising Start With Recent FCC AppointmentsAuthored by Paul Sweeting on November 17, 2008 - 8:24am.
Analysis: Obama's Promised CTO Should Set A New Tone For Policy-MakingAuthored by Paul Sweeting on November 10, 2008 - 7:20am.
The Promise of an Obama Administration for Broadcast and Communications RegulationAuthored by David Oxenford on November 6, 2008 - 8:22am.
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