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July 12, 2010

07:59
Police were right to monitor personal use of office cellphone
Toward the end of its 2009-10 session, the Supreme Court struck a welcome balance between the mandates of law and the dictates of common sense in a case involving the privacy rights of government employees. read more
07:57
Diller calls Google travel deal 'disturbing'
Google's use of its search engine to support its expansion into new Internet services gives it an unfair advantage and puts it on a collision course with antitrust regulators, according to a prominent US media mogul. Barry Diller, chairman of online travel company Expedia and InterActiveCorp. read more
07:56
Power balance shifts at Sun Valley
This year's Sun Valley conference hosted by boutique investment firm Allen & Co may not have produced the next blockbuster media deal, but it did cement the impression that the balance of power between media and technology companies had shifted. read more
07:54
Malone Is Fired Up by Cable and Ready to Buy
A Q&A with Liberty Media Chairman John Malone. read more
07:53
Services attract complaints of favoritism
Not all the results that appear high up on Google's results pages are there because a dispassionate algorithm has filtered them out from a mass of less relevant material on the web. read more
07:50
Rep Waters: Commissioner-Lite Chicago Forum 'Unacceptable'
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who has been pushing the Federal Communications Commission to take its review of the Comcast/NBCU merger on the road, is not happy with the commissioner turnout for its July 13 Chicago field forum on the deal. read more
07:49
Local news finds itself more wanted than ever -- but in new ways
A funny thing happened on the way to writing the obituary for the battered institution that is local TV news... read more
07:48
Free Press nabs Joel Kelsey
Joel Kelsey of Consumers Union is moving to Free Press to become the organization's political advisor. read more
07:46
Google's China Search Result
The Google-China standoff pitted the world's largest technology and media company against the country with the most sophisticated online censorship and the greatest number of Web users. Considering that Google had to operate without backing from its home government, the result is a surprising victory for the free flow of information. read more
07:43
Google's China compromise stuns observers
When Google dropped the bombshell in January that it would no longer self-censor web searches in China, the Internet company set up that rarest of spectacles - a public fight between Beijing and a foreign company. The view in most business circles in China, as well as among China watchers in the west, was that the only winner in such a confrontation would be the Chinese government. read more
07:41
Challenging Chavez's grip on Venezuela
During one of his interminable appearances on national television, Hugo Chávez demanded to know last month why Guillermo Zuloaga, the majority owner of Venezuela's last opposition television station, was not in jail. The answer is fairly simple: Zuloaga's statements about Chávez were hardly criminal, and years of government investigations had turned up nothing else prosecutors could plausibly use against him. read more
07:39
Chávez's Assault on the Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's sinking popularity has intensified his resentment of Globovision, one of only three remaining privately held Venezuelan television stations. read more
07:37
Despite Privacy Inquiries, Germans Flock to Google, Facebook and Apple
Despite Germany's strict data protection laws, millions of users have helped make Facebook, Apple and Google successful. read more
07:35
Gates Foundation playing pivotal role in changes for education system
Across the country, public education is in the midst of a quiet revolution. States are embracing voluntary national standards for English and math, while schools are paying teachers based on student performance. It's an agenda propelled in part by a flood of money from a billionaire prep-school graduate best known for his software empire: Bill Gates. read more

July 10, 2010

15:29
High Speed Internet for the Sparsely Wired
The $7.2 billion in the stimulus package for extending high-speed Internet access is just beginning to be spent, and the beneficiaries could not be happier. read more
15:27
Local Authorities Urge Full Broadband Stimulus Funding
The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) and the National Association of Counties (NACo) have written Senate letters urging them to reinstate broadband stimulus funds for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utility Services (RUS). read more
15:23
FCC broadband plan will put US in "second tier of countries"
In questions to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, Sens Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Mark Begich (D-AK) asked if why the new National Broadband Plan sets such apparently modest goals for the US as 4Mbps universal service by 2020. And Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) wanted to know why urban areas were targeted with 100Mbps connections while rural areas looked likely to end up with the minimum 4Mbps. read more
15:20
Free Press: What spectrum crisis?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the White House, and the wireless industry are all agreed on something: a spectrum crisis is looming. But Free Press policy coordinator Adam Lynn says the rhetoric about a "crunch" has arrived a little too early. read more
15:16
In Spectrum, Wishing Won't Make It So
According to broadcast television industry engineers, you really can't put two "high-quality" signals on one broadcast channel. Channel sharing is"not viable" because one or both of the signals would be "significantly degraded." read more
15:15
State Department tweeters must look out for spies, guidelines say
State Department employees who tweet must be aware that they could be targeted for intelligence-gathering purposes, according to the agency's social media rules released on July 8. read more