We Want the Airwaves, Baby …
A bid of $4.7 billion in the Federal Communications Commission’s 700-MHz auction pushed the nationwide C block over its $4.6 billion reserve price this morning, triggering the spectrum’s open-access provision.
Great news for Google, which sought the provision that requires the winning bidder to open the C block spectrum to all devices and software applications. Great [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
FCC Sets Date for Your New HDTV Purchase
Looks like there are a few more years of life left in those old rabbit-eared TV sets yet. The Federal Communications Commission this week unanimously adopted rules designed to prevent analog-only cable subscribers from losing their local TV stations’ signals for three years after the switch to digital TV occurs.
“This item, at its core, is [...]
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Your Search–‘Put Up or Shut Up’–Did Not Match Any Documents. Did You Mean: ‘Go Screw Yourself’?
Oh, it’s on now. Google yesterday dismissed AT&T’s criticism of its conditional pledge to drop at least $4.6 billion on the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming 700-megahertz spectrum auction, characterizing it as the rhetoric of an oligopolist more interested in monopoly profits than openness and innovation.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Xbox 360 ‘Big-Button Pad’ Now Available at Best Buy, Good Vibrations
But if You Opened the Spectrum It Would Be Like the Richer Companies Had No Advantage at All …
Come fall, Google’s lobbying and legislative operations in the nations capital will move from Pennsylvania Avenue to quarters much closer to the traditional K Street corridor of lobbying outfits. Not that they really need to – their presence is being felt in a big way even at a distance. To wit, the draft rules for an upcoming auction of wireless radio spectrum currently being circulated by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, which could hand Google its first significant victory in a battle wrest some control over wireless broadband communications from incumbent telecoms.
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
