Connect with us
WASHINGTON, June 30 - The FCC on Monday announced that it would be holding another field hearing on broadband issues. Titled "Broadband and the Digital Future,"...
MCLEAN, VIRGINIA, June 26 – Whether wireless networks are open or closed to competition was the subject of sharp dispute at the Digital Media Conference on...
WASHINGTON, June 25 – The congressman who represents the headquarters of telecommunications giant AT&T used a Wednesday subcommittee hearing on the impact of online advertising to...
NEW YORK, June 24 - The final breakout panel of the Personal Democracy Forum examined the state of political watchdogging in the Internet age. Ellen Miller...
NEW YORK, June 24 - The Personal Democracy Forum here featured a panel with some of the leading minds on technology policy. Moderator Andrew Rasiej wanted...
NEW YORK, June 24 – A group of non-profits, businesses and other organizations seeking to guide the creation of a national broadband plan on Tuesday announced...
NEW YORK, June 24 - Jonathan Zittrain, author of “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It,” took to the stage at the Personal...
NEW YORK, June 24 - Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig presented his 'Declaration For Independence' to the Personal Democracy Forum here today, fingering this problem in...
NEW YORK, June 24 - "What happens next?" is the question Andrew Rasiej used to start off the Tuesday morning panel discussion at the Personal Democracy...
June 24 - Communications Workers of America has claimed credit for the Federal Communications Commission's recent order requiring broadband companies to provide the FCC with more...
WASHINGTON, June 23 - Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama should issue a statement underscoring the importance of broadband in the United States, said one...
NEW YORK, June 23 - In an effort to address the anti-competitive behavior that impacts various aspects of the Internet and technologies markets, as well as...
NEW YORK, June 23 - On the Internet, everything is public now. The afternoon panel at the Personal Democracy Forum here, on the "Clickocracy" and the...
NEW YORK, June 23 - The final morning panel on the first day of the Personal Democracy Form here focused on worked and what didn't in...
NEW YORK, June 23 - The morning speakers and break-out sessions during the first morning at the Personal Democracy Forum here focused on some of the...
NEW YORK, June 23 - The Personal Democracy Forum here wants to shift the influence on Washington from big money to small money, enhance accountability through...
Drew Bennett, a recent master's student graduate of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will be blogging and reporting from the Personal Democracy...
June 22 - Whether or not new bandwidth demands on the Internet cause carriers to offer tiered pricing or to throttle particular applications or protocols, independent...
June 20 - All Americans, whether they be poor, handicapped, or rural, have the right to universal broadband service, Rep. Ed Markey said on Friday. The...
June 20 – The community of persons with disabilities has been rallying behind a measure, introduced in Congress on Thursday, that would require companies that make...
June 19 – Concern about the future of the media, particularly newspapers, pervaded a Thursday forum on antitrust issues hosted by the American Antitrust Institute as...
June 18 - Technologies exist that allow Chinese internet users to evade government censorship, but their deployment is being thwarted by American companies based in China,...
June 17 – Black and Hispanic Americans need to be more prominent and “in positions of authority” within the media in order to appeal to a...
June 17 - During the opening sessions of Tuesday's “Beyond Broadcast” conference, panelists took the “Mapping Public Media” conference title literally, and showcased a number of...
Press Release WASHINGTON, June 16, 2008 - New Data Order 'Inadequate' to Provide Information About Local Broadband Availability, BroadbandCensus.com Executive Director Drew Clark says in a...
June 15 - In an effort to increase the data that the Federal Communications Commission has available as it designs broadband policies, on Thursday the FCC...
June 14 - Critics and proponents of Network Neutrality squaring off on the topic on Friday agreed that recent actions by both cable and wireless providers...
June 13 - America's wireless policies continue to be emulated by developing nations, Ambassador David Gross, United States coordinator for international communications and information policy, said...
June 12 - Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., decried the move to impose Network Neutrality on broadband carriers, speaking at a keynote luncheon address at the Broadband...
June 12 - Questions about the availability and detail of broadband data featured prominently in presentations and in discussions at Thursday's sessions of Broadband Policy Summit...
June 12 - Three policy officials on Thursday suggested differing variations of a proposal that would put federal, state and local government officials in the business...
June 12 - Industry and consumer groups butted heads at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday over early termination fees, or charges imposed on the customers...
Question and answer from the Broadband Policy Summit IV about congressional consideration of various broadband data mapping bill, including the Broadband Census of America Act by...
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps said Thursday that the issue of a national broadband strategy is beginning to take on a life of its own in...
June 11 - Technology and being connected on the Internet are playing a central role in the upcoming election, a panel of new media-style journalists and...
Network Neutrality was the key sticking point in a Tuesday presidential debate, by proxy, between two former chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission chairmen: Reed Hundt...
Media consolidation has led the American media to become spineless and insipid because they no longer believe that the media are organs of the public trust,...
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain said Tuesday that he would propose and sign into law measures to permit the tax deductibility of new information technology...
Experts on both sides of the Atlantic squared off on Monday about whether the United States' broadband policies were a success.
High-speed Internet connections, social networks, and "cloud computing" make it possible to "live a lot of your lives online," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
