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July 27, 2010

07:46
On landmark law's 20th anniversary, House passes bill to make Internet more accessible for disabled
The House passed a bill that aimed at making the Internet and mobile phones more accessible to the disabled through video captions for the hearing impaired and better descriptions of smartphone screens for the blind. read more
07:44
Obama Assails Republicans on Campaign Finance
President Barack Obama sought political advantage from the expected defeat of a campaign finance measure that he has championed by pre-emptively attacking its Republican opponents for "nothing less than a vote to allow corporate and special-interest takeovers of our elections." read more
07:43
Let the Spending Begin
The starter's gun went off last week in the squalid new race for unlimited campaign cash. read more
07:41
Lessons of the Census
The 2010 census, in its final stages, has apparently been a success -- something not thought possible just a couple years ago, when unsteady management, political interference and other problems threatened to derail the effort. The count was salvaged only after last-minute scrambling and major new spending -- and after new leaders were put in place by the Obama administration. read more
07:39
Tribune Faces New Hurdle in Report
A bankruptcy investigator lent credence to claims that Tribune Co.'s $8.2 billion buyout deal in 2007 left it too shaky to survive, throwing up another possible hurdle to the media company's efforts to exit bankruptcy protection after nearly 20 months. read more
07:37
Obama finds that the Internet bites back
[commentary] For a man who came to power by harnessing the potential of the Internet, President Obama has been oddly out of sorts in recent days as the medium turned against him. read more
07:35
The new journalism
The house Cronkite built did many fine things. It also locked out competing points of view, buried inconvenient bodies, spun the news and racked up a formidable list of Shirley Sherrods all its own. read more
07:33
Second Circuit Seeks More Input on Fleeting Nudity
According to one of the parties in the case, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has asked both sides for supplemental briefs in the NYPD Blue indecency case, wanting to know what effect a recent ruling by a three-judge panel of that same court has on the Federal Communications Commission's fleeting nudity enforcement policy under challenge in the NYPD Blue case. read more
07:32
Expletives Fly at Raucous Labor Union Convention Over Telecom 'Czar'
Tempers flared at the 72nd annual convention of the Communications Workers of America over a proposed amendment to the union's constitution that would establish the new position of Telecommunications Sector Vice President. read more
07:28
Economy Tops the Agenda
A media stalwart prompting a policy debate with an in-depth investigation ended with a vivid illustration of the perils of the rapid-fire nature of modern cable and the edges of Internet news. But even with that, the economy nevertheless dominated the week's news, edging out the Washington Post's two-year investigation of America's intelligence-gathering apparatus and the firing of an Agriculture Department employee named Shirley Sherrod. read more
07:26
Why thousands of Verizon customers in New York lost service
Verizon returned service to thousands of customers in midtown Manhattan late Monday afternoon after a failed circuit board silenced phones across New York. read more
07:25
Town and country digital divide could widen in the UK
The so-called "digital divide" between rural and urban areas in the UK is likely to widen further before it narrows, according to Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, as city dwellers benefit from a wider choice of broadband providers and Internet service providers are likely to invest in urban areas first. read more
07:23
Daily Paper for Children Defies the Craze for Digital
Mon Quotidien is one of the most popular daily newspapers in France. The paper invites several of its readers, children, twice weekly to help edit the paper, except for the front page, choosing stories that will be featured in its seven other pages. read more
07:20
Honduras Faces Criticism Over Journalist Killings After a Coup
The Honduran government's failure to investigate the killings of seven journalists this year has fostered "a climate of lawlessness that is allowing criminals to kill journalists with impunity." read more
07:19
Move to Limit Cantonese on Chinese TV Is Assailed
More than 1,000 people gathered July 25 in Guangzhou, in southern China, to demonstrate against a local politician's proposal to force a major local television network to stop broadcasting in Cantonese and switch to the country's official language, Mandarin. read more

July 26, 2010

20:05
New Library of Congress rules allow unapproved iPhone apps
Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven't been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced July 26. read more
20:03
FCC, FDA unveil partnership to promote wireless medical technology
The Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration announced a partnership on July 26 designed to promote wireless medical technology, a field they say will cut medical costs and improve care. read more
20:01
Industry Group to Study How a Mobile Nation Uses Media
Some of the nation's biggest media companies and advertisers, seeking to develop new ways of measuring audiences, could make Apple's iPhone the vehicle for a study of how Americans consume media on a range of devices -- from TV sets to mobile phones to computers. read more
19:58
Vermont broadband Internet access: Where is it?
Vermont is in the heat of a gubernatorial campaign, and the candidates are making a new round of promises about broadband and fixing Vermont's spotty cellular phone coverage. read more
19:56
ACA Chairman: Comcast/NBCU Would Have More Power Than Any Company Deserves
Talking to a roomful of small and medium-sized cable operators, American Cable Association Chairman Steve Friedman said it was time for the discrimination against smaller operators to stop, including arguing that a Comcast/NBCU merger has more clout "than any one company deserves." read more