Europe
WASHINGTON April 25, 2011 – European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda, Nellie Kroes, announced last week that her office, in conjunction with European Union member states, will investigate claims of throttling and service degradation by internet service providers.
Asia
WASHINGTON April 13, 2011- Broadband Breakfast gathered key industry experts to discuss the costs of global piracy at its monthly Intellectual Property Breakfast Tuesday morning. “It’s quite difficult to accurately measure the true level of global piracy, and it’s even harder to determine what the
Broadband Calendar
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2011 – The internet and intellectual propertynews and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com will hold its April 2011 Intellectual Property Breakfast Club event, “The Costs of Global Intellectual Property Piracy: How Can the Phenomenon Be Empirically Quantified?” on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011. In hosting the event, BroadbandBreakfast.com continues
Broadband Data
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2011 – The New America Foundation and Google gathered government officials Wednesday to present an overview of the organizations’ website that gathers, compiles and maps international broadband connection speed data. The site, Measurement Lab, provides the broadband data for r
Spectrum
WASHINGTON, March 7, 2011 – A study to track and forecast trends in the global mobile network that was released by Cisco Systems last month shows that mobile internet traffic is rising faster than expected.
Copyright
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011 — Congress’ traditionally brash China-bashing rhetoric isn’t “going to work very well” in advancing American companies’ interests as the world’s most populous nation’s own global influence begins to eclipse the U.S., said a top House Democrat on Tuesday.
Asia
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011 — Despite U.S. companies’ loud and frequent complaints about rampant intellectual property infringements in China, relatively few of them use China’s legal system to stop it, according to a group of legal experts who spoke on the subject of China and intellectual proper
Asia
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011 — The Chinese government has undertaken unprecedented measures to boost intellectual property enforcement in recent months, according to the government’s attache in Washington, D.C.
broadband mapping
WASHINGTON, February 7, 2011 – Online content providers Netflix and Akamai released data recently indicating that U.S. internet service providers meet expectations for promised peak broadband speeds, but fall short when it comes to sustained speeds.
Intellectual Property
WASHINGTON, January 20, 2010 — Representatives of major U.S. businesses expressed cautious optimism over China’s promise on Wednesday to abandon its government’s plans to buy products only from mainland Chinese companies.
international
[https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ChinaInternetTimYang.jpg]https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ChinaInternetTimYang.jpg More than a third of China’s citizens use the internet, according to a new report in Xinhua, China’s official news service. There a
Asia
[https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SteveBallmerMSFTSweden1.jpg]https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SteveBallmerMSFTSweden1.jpg The CEOs of some of the largest and most influential U.S. technology companies made the guest list at a gala White House state
Tribal
Long Term Evolution is growing faster than any other mobile platform in history, according to a recent report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). The GSA report includes both variants of LTE: Time Division Duplex and Frequency Division Duplex. Mobile carriers are developing 128 netw
Copyright
Government officials from both the United States and China on Wednesday said that they had made progress on several key issues that had been on the table during their trade negotiations in the past couple of days in Washington, D.C.
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For all of the tough talk coming out of Congress as the United States and China embark on a high profile trade summit today, a confidential memo sent by U.S. Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman at the beginning of 2010 illustrates how the fortunes of the two countries have changed in modern times, and how th
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As requested by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday released the first of two comprehensive reports detailing the impact of China’s “indigenous innovation” policies and its local intellectual property enforcement regime on the U.S. economy.
