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WASHINGTON — The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children launched a new campaign against online child pornography Thursday morning backed with a $1 million contribution from philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson and Microsoft. The announcement of the new initiative came at a National Press Club affair that included Johnson, Microsoft officials, Interpol Secretary General Ronald […]

WASHINGTON — China moved to ease the growing tension with its global technology trading partners Wednesday by agreeing to support a technology neutral approach to third generation wireless standards. As a show of good faith, Beijing indefinitely suspended a looming deadline to impose a proprietary wireless LAN encryption scheme within its borders. The announcement came […]

NextWave Telecom took a major step toward emerging from bankruptcy Tuesday by agreeing to return large portions of spectrum it won in a controversial 1996 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction. The Hawthorne, N.Y., company agreed to return spectrum covering the equivalent of 155 10 MHz licenses in 60 markets where it is licensed to provide […]

WASHINGTON — The federal government’s policy of applying old rules to a new system of digital telecommunications is hamstringing the deployment of broadband, a top Verizon said Tuesday. Tom Tauke, senior vice president of of public policy for the carrier, told the 2004 Broadband Summit that “maybe” the current rules “made sense” in the telephone […]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says the solution to the invasive programs generally known as spyware is more likely to be found in better technology solutions and intensive consumer education than in either state or federal legislation. Spyware is vaguely defined and often confused by consumers with adware, which are usually legal and […]

WASHINGTON — Executives representing hundreds of small and medium dial-up ISPs will leave the ISPCON spring trade show today with conflicting feelings about the future of their industry. Many believe that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved proposed rules to add another 50 Megahertz of spectrum will help ISPs wirelessly bypass the Baby Bells’ last-mile […]

WASHINGTON — Aiming to deploy more broadband services in rural areas, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to allow unlicensed wireless devices to operate at higher power in the 3650 Megahertz (MHz) band. The FCC’s decision has the potential to extend a swath of Wi-Fi devices that work between the existing 2.4 Gigahertz (GHz) […]

WASHINGTON — Convinced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has abandoned their concerns, several hundred independent Internet service providers (ISPs) vowed Wednesday to mount a public campaign for open access to cable broadband lines. Emboldened by a recent court decision that may force the FCC to change its policy exempting cable broadband companies from sharing […]

WASHINGTON — More than 100 million households will have wireless broadband capability within the next six years, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireless Bureau Chief John Muletta predicted Wednesday during an IPSCON keynote address. As broadband becomes widely available, wireless Internet connections and services are becoming an attractive alternative for the independent ISPs who are holding […]

The nation’s independent Internet service providers (ISPs) will meet in Washington over the next three days for their semi-annual ISPCON meeting with much of the focus on a recent court decision that may breath new life into the beleaguered industry. While independent dialup ISPs were once a dominant business presence in the aftermath of the […]

WASHINGTON — IT executives continued efforts to pre-empt federal mandates Monday by calling on industry, nonprofits and educational institutions to make information security governance (ISG) a priority. Flanked by Amit Yoran, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division, and Orson Swindle, Federal Trade Commissioner, a tech industry task force outlined cyber […]

The Department of Justice has joined the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in asking for a stay of an appeals court decision that could force cable companies to open their broadband networks to rival ISPs. Meanwhile, other published reports indicate that the FCC has decided two key controversial issues — a spectrum swap involving Nextel and […]