CyberTelecom Blog

The Story of EDSAC

2013-05-07T09:11:00.002-04:00

EDSAC, the first general purpose computer, went into service this week in 1949 at the University of Cambridge.

RFC :: Direct Access to Phone Number Resources by VoIP Providers ::

2013-04-22T23:27:00.000-04:00

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RFC :: FTC Seeks Input on Privacy and Security Implications of the Internet of Things

2013-04-17T20:44:00.001-04:00

Notice: Commission Staff to Conduct Workshop on Nov. 21 The staff of the Federal Trade Commission is interested in the consumer privacy and security issues posed by the growing connectivity of consumer devices, such as cars, appliances, and medical devices, and invites comments on these issues in advance of a public workshop to be held on November 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C. The

4.10 :: Hello, It's Been a While :: BITAG :: DNSSEC :: Price of Free :: Online Honesty Box :: Austin Google Fiber :: Beyond Dubai :: CISPA :: Aereo :: CFAA :: DOS ::

2013-04-10T21:17:00.000-04:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project My top men tell me the Internet is going to be big! Daguerreotype big! I've decided to buy this Internet, one domain at a time. -Charles Montgomery Burns  Dear Netflix, We Can't Hear You! Signed, 50 Million Americans, NPR :: Keyword: [ADA] Recent scientific research

3.19 :: #deregulation :: #100Gbps :: #IPv6 :: #DNSSEC :: #Microsoft :: #Cloud :: #NextFCCChair :: #Cyberwar :: #ECPA :: #Cybersecurity ::

2013-03-19T17:49:00.003-04:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato  Adickman, Cary E., Special Access: The Harm of Premature Deregulation in Telecommunications (December 1, 2012). Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law

3.12 :: The Best Experience :: Fear Interference :: Promise Vast Opportunities :: Not Invicible :: Dangerous Government Surveillance :: Sloppy Coding :: Sue Everybody ::

2013-03-12T20:58:00.002-04:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain  Netflix ISP Speed Index, Netflix :: Keyword: [Broadband] More than 33 million global members view over

3.5 :: Snowquester :: Snow Caps :: Shovel Ready :: Not in School :: Cold War ::

2013-03-05T21:40:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein  Recapping the 2013 Policy Symposium, PK :: Keyword: [Broadband] February 26th marked the first Public Knowledge Symposium on Capitol Hill. The event was an opportunity

[Video] Susan Crawford, Captive Audience (NAF)

2013-03-04T18:44:00.000-05:00

"The New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative marks the release of Susan Crawford's Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age."

2.26 :: Danica Patrick :: As it Escalates :: Unintelligible Acronyms :: Strike 6! :: The Missing Link :: Streisand Effect ::

2013-02-26T21:34:00.001-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project “Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.” - Dave Barry  FCC ANNOUNCES TECHNOLOGICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING ON MARCH 11, 2013., FCC :: Keyword: [

2.20 :: Very Scary :: Tricky Stuff :: Just Common Sense :: Have it Your Way! :: Zombies :: A Friendly Reminder :: However :: Still Slow ::

2013-02-20T18:42:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” ― Milan Kundera  Bringing Broadband to Rural South Dakota, NTIA

Video: Regulation and the IP transition GTown School of Business

2013-02-14T21:53:00.000-05:00

See GN Docket No. 12-353: Transition from legacy transmission platforms to services based on Internet Prototol (IP) Released: 12/14/2012. PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED ON AT&T AND NTCA PETITIONS. (DA No. 12-1999). (Dkt No 12-353 ). Comments Due: 01/28/2013. Reply Comments Due: 02/25/2013. WCB . Contact: John Visclosky at (202) 418-1580 DA-12-1999A1.doc DA-12-1999A1.pdf DA-12-

Vimeo: Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair

2013-02-14T19:34:00.000-05:00

Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

2.13 :: This isnt Our First Rodeo :: It Totally Screwed Up :: Made Rapid Progress :: a major catastrophe :: Who are we kidding? ::

2013-02-13T18:00:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” ― Mark Twain  FCC RELEASES NEW DATA ON INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES. , FCC :: Keyword: [Sec. 706] This report contains data through December

2.5 :: Abuzz :: The Real Story :: Thanks for Checking :: Wrong or Misleading :: So Powerful and Broad :: um, and the power went out in NOLA ::

2013-02-05T20:36:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. – Abraham Lincoln  Misuse

1.31 :: Would Not Be Possible :: I Double Dare You :: The Debate Is Far From Over :: (back)Fired! :: What Hasnt Changed :: Magic Pixie Dust ::

2013-01-31T18:34:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project "Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years" -Thomas Edison, 1913 speaking about motion pictures  CAIDA "Anonymized Internet Traces 2013 Dataset" dataset available, CAIDA :: Keyword: [Backbone] This

Dial "L" for Liability :: Sec. 230 Protects Online Service for Errant Phone Number

2013-01-25T17:58:00.000-05:00

Photo by Chris Campbell (cc) The Communications Decency Act has been described as the greatest Internet law. The first major Internet law designed to censor the Internet actually enabled the interactive Internet. While the censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act went down in unanimous supreme court flames, a separate provision remains standing. The Good Samaritan provision

1.24 :: To Track and To Evaluate :: Wrong Number :: No TV? :: Hello, Cuba? :: Quite a Beating :: Libraries?? Libraries?!?! ::

2013-01-24T20:54:00.001-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project You affect the world by what you browse. - Tim Berners-Lee   State of the Net Panel on Broadband Reveals Common Interests, Cabletechtalk :: Keyword: [bROADBAND] The growth of business and broadband was the featured topic during the panel, “Big Broadband: What

TPRC Call for Papers

2013-01-23T16:30:00.001-05:00

2013 TPRC | 41th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy September 27-29, 2013 George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and Internet policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary researchers and policymakers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit

No Cybersquatting Liability where Defendant Set up Gripe Website to Criticize Plaintiff #ACPA

2013-01-16T17:58:00.000-05:00

JALIN REALTY CAPITAL ADVISORS, LLC v. A BETTER WIRELESS, NISP, LLC, Dist. Court, Minnesota 2013 FACTS: Defendant "sought a loan from [Plaintiff] and the parties entered into an agreement under which [Plaintiff] would attempt to fund the loan in exchange for a $37,500 commitment fee. After [Plaintiff] did not fund the loan and did not refund the commitment fee, [Defendant] created a

2.15 :: Aaron Swartz :: Critical :: Under Fire :: Exempts Itself :: Bad Faith :: The DISH Hopper :: Leaving ::

2013-01-15T20:09:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”—George Orwell, author, c. 1945  FCC

1.8 :: Competition was Decimated :: I Fell off the Wagon :: An Exhaustive Review :: Not Particularly Helpful :: 30000 Spies :: The Bicholim Conflict ::

2013-01-08T20:31:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. - Clifford Stoll  Wildman on the Benefits of Usage Based Pricing , NCTA, Youtube :: Keyword: [Broadband] A brief clip discussing the importance of making inexpensive home broadband packages an option. Vint Cerf:

12.26 :: The Xmas without Netflix :: Incognito :: Watching Those Who Watch :: Under Seige ::

2012-12-26T17:01:00.000-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tannenbaum  John Chuang (UC Berkeley), Loci of Competition, Market Power, and the Evolving Internet Industry Structure, WIE 2012 :: Keyword: [Backbone] The 3rd Workshop on Internet

Data and Text on Cell Phone Not Protected by Stored Communications Act #ECPA

2012-12-24T13:00:00.000-05:00

Case: Garcia v. City of Laredo, Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit 2012 Issue: Are data and text stored on a personal cell phone protected by the Stored Communications Act? Rule: 18 USC § 2701 Access: (a) Offense.- Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section whoever- (1) intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communication service is

12.18 :: Captive Audience :: Telegraph & Privacy :: The Ghost of Theodore Vail :: It Was Fun While it Lasted :: Internet Cold War :: Whimper ::

2012-12-18T21:02:00.001-05:00

CyberTelecom News Weekly Federal Internet Law and Policy :: An Educational Project "It's a great invention but who would want to use it anyway?" President Rutherford B. Hayes after a demonstration of Bell's telephone  Full Video, The Evolving Internet: Patterns in Usage and Pricing, Cabletechtalk :: Keyword: [Cable] For those who missed last Friday’

AT&T ~1970 Video - The Benefits of a Regulated Monopoly

2012-12-18T18:42:00.000-05:00

A marvelous video prior to divestiture, and at the historical moment when MCI is being allowed into the long distance market, and customers were allowed to attach their own equipment to the network. You can hear the ghost of Theodore Vail saying that "competition is inefficient."