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July 10, 2010

14:18
Australia bows to complaints, delays 'Net filter for a year
The Australian government has backed off its plan to impose a nationwide Internet content filter that would go far beyond child sex abuse and cover all material that is "refused classification" by Australian censors. read more
14:17
Katie Stanton leaves State Dept. for Twitter
State Department special adviser and former White House staffer Katie Stanton is leaving government to work for Twitter. read more

July 9, 2010

07:35
The Medium Is the Medium
The Internet-versus-books debate is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message. But sometimes the medium is just the medium. read more
07:34
Media Executives Flock to Sun Valley Conference
Each July, billionaires and mere multimillionaires flock to Sun Valley to mingle and be rich and maybe, just maybe, cut a deal. And so this week the private jets returned again, bearing a Who's Who of Wall Street financiers, Hollywood types and technorati to the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference. read more
07:32
Writers Guild Says Merged Media Could Fund Public TV
The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) has advised the Federal Communications Commission that if it lets any more big media companies merge, it should make them help pay for public affairs programming on public television. read more
07:31
Google Says China Renews Its Internet License
Google said the Chinese government has renewed its Internet license, after the company submitted a revised application to meet regulations in the world's biggest Internet market by users. read more
07:30
Critics: FCC Can't Be Trusted To Maintain Broadband Light Touch
Critics of the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to reclassify some aspects of broadband as a telecommunications service argued Thursday that while FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has pledged to maintain a light regulatory touch, such promises can't be trusted to be upheld by future members of the agency. read more
07:29
Smartphone Patent Suits Challenge Big Makers
NTP, a patent-holding company best known for prying a settlement of more than $600 million from the maker of the BlackBerry, is now suing the other big names in the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG and Motorola. read more
07:27
Top European Court Rules Against Portugal in Dispute Involving Telefónica
Europe's highest court ruled Thursday that the Portuguese government had used an illegal method to block an attempt by Telefónica of Spain to buy full control of a Brazilian wireless venture it holds with Portugal Telecom. read more
07:26
EU Court Rules on Ad Keywords
Europe's highest court July 8 confirmed an earlier ruling that companies using the names of their competitors as Internet advertising keywords are not infringing European trademark laws. read more

July 8, 2010

21:15
Gun Rights Stir Passions in the Blogosphere
Although Supreme Court rulings rarely have been among the top social media topics, last week's decision bolstering the right to bear arms generated strong reaction in the blogosphere -- almost all of it from cheering gun advocates. For the week of June 28-July 2, more than a quarter (28%) of the news links on blogs were about the ruling, making it the No. 1 subject. read more
21:03
Economists write FCC to rebut statement from 74 Members of Congress
On May 24th, 2010, 74 Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission requesting the halt of net neutrality regulations. On July 7, Policy Integrity's Scott Holladay along with three other economists, wrote to the FCC in response. read more
21:01
Highs and lows on the broadband stimulus front
IT managers have a saying: No one ever got fired for buying IBM. And there did seem to be a bit of that sort of thinking behind the first Round 2 awards announcement. read more
20:58
Recovery Act Funds Sit Still
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) have until September 30 to complete disbursement of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act broadband stimulus funds. read more
20:56
Comcast-NBC merger conditions eyed
Stifel Nicholaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast says the Comcast-NBCU merger conditions she believes will be the most relevant for regulators reviewing the deal are... read more
20:54
Sec Locke touts stimulus broadband funds for western Massachusetts
On July 8, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke appeared in Greenfield (MA) to promote a $45.4 million Recovery Act grant aimed at expanding broadband Internet access in western Massachusetts. read more
20:52
No-Show Genachowski Irks Free Press
Free Press, an advocacy group opposed to media consolidation, thinks that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski should rearrange his schedule and preside at the agency's public forum on the proposed Comcast-NBCU merger July 13 in Chicago. read more
20:51
Broadcast Viewership Hits Record Low
Americans avoided television in historic levels over the past week. CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox together had the smallest number of primetime viewers last week in two decades of record-keeping. read more
20:49
Military says good cyber offense equals good defense
The military must improve its offensive and defensive cyberwarfare capabilities to protect the nation's networks from foreign hackers, military leaders said. read more
20:47
Official calls securing critical infrastructure against cyberattack impractical
Securing the nation's power grid and other computer systems that operate the nation's critical infrastructure against cyberattack is unrealistic, because companies cannot afford to check if suppliers have provided trustworthy products. read more