Goodmail
Is Back Trying to Sell Access to Your In Box
Goodmail's new service that lets media companies and marketers
deliver mail with video embedded in it raises some serious questions
about Net Neutrality and its application to people's E-mail
inboxes.
Saul Hansell, New York Times
Now
ISPs Want to Serve You Ads, Too
Many ISPs also sell TV and wireless services. By placing ads via
broadband as well, they'd become "triple-play advertisers," and
further bombard the public with personalized ads with data gathering
by intrusive data mining techniques.
Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek
Internet
Founder Blasts ISPs for Hurting National Interests
Vint Cerf, who developed the technical principles on which the
Internet works, has blasted telephone and cable companies for
harming national interests by holding investments in their networks
for ransom.
Peter Nowak, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation
Comcast
Tries to Polish Image
Comcast has been in the midst of a public relations nightmare
ever since the cable giant was caught blocking access to BitTorrent.
Now its trying to polish it's tarnished public image in unexpected
ways.
Martin H. Bosworth, Consumer Affairs
Net
Neutrality Issues Pepper FCC Public Hearing
The battle for Net Neutrality could see an important victory in
August if, as expected, the FCC votes to censure Comcast for
blocking the file-sharing network BitTorrent. The future of the
Internet, though, is still in question. (Audio 4:44)
Ellen Pierson, Free Speech Radio News
High-Stakes
Race to Unlock a Wider Web
Engineers from the technology heavyweights, including Motorola
and Philips, lugged their equipment to parks, homes and high-rises
around the Washington area, hoping to prove to the FCC that white
spaces could provide a new form of mobile Internet service.
Kim Hart, Washington Post
Conventions
Offered as White Spaces Test Sites
A company coordinating the use of wireless microphones at both
the Democratic and Republican conventions has offered to test
unlicensed mobile devices during its sound tests in the convention
venues before the action starts.
John Eggerton, Broadcasting &
Cable
U.S.
Has No Idea How Wired for Broadband It Is
A new study from a telecom consulting firm named Costquest finds
that while thirty-nine U.S. states have something vaguely resembling
a broadband plan, only ten have undertaken a definitive broadband
mapping effort.
Karl Bode, Broadband Reports
President
Bush Signs Bipartisan VoIP Public Safety Bill into Law
President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 3403, the New and
Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008, which makes
certain that Americans using Voice-over Internet Protocol services
can dial 911 during an emergency.
Senate Commerce Committee
CBS
Radio Unveils Online Video Strategy
CBS Radio announced a strategy designed to augment its current
delivery methods. Providing all of its stations with a new video
platform will give the stations technology and guidance to create
individual and personalized branded video players.
Mark K. Miller, TV Newsday 
Margins
vs. Ratings Signal the End of Broadcast Television
If you want to see TV ratings improve, the business improve and
the return on investment improve, try investing in programming, not
margins. Yes, the business has changed, but the real culprit is the
business culture and rules that have evolved over the last 30
years.
Shelly Palmer, Huffington Post
Tribune
Plans No More Newspaper Sales in 2008
Tribune Co. has no plans to sell other newspapers in 2008 after
agreeing to sell Newsday to Cablevision Systems, says owner
Sam Zell.
Robert MacMillan, Reuters
Merger
of XM and Sirius Appears Close to Approval
The FCC was on the verge of approving a merger between XM and
Sirius, a move that would end a nearly 18-month government review of
a deal that would essentially create a monopoly in satellite
radio.
Tim Arango, New york Times
Rule
Seeks to Block 'No Hispanic' Ad Dictates
Television and radio stations that serve minority communities are
welcoming a new federal rule that seeks to prohibit discriminatory
advertising practices that some advocates say cost the stations
hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Rebecca Brown, The Hill |
