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Supreme Court To Rule On FCC’s Ban On “Fleeting Expletives”
Tuesday, a
case concerning indecent speech during radio and television broadcasts was
heard by...
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FCC Opens Up Unused Airwaves
Tuesday,
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave the go-ahead to a plan issued
by...
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Fleeting Expletives Brought Before The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court discussed on Tuesday the problem of dirty
words on television and, while...
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Supreme Court Hears Case about Dirty Talk on TV
Tuesday, the
Supreme Court heard a case concerning the use of indecent speech on live
television...
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FCC Vs. F-Word in Supreme Court
Justices of the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday to mull a 30-year-old indecency law in...
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Broadcasters Oppose FCC’s White Spaces Report
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is currently challenging a
report issued by the...
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FCC's Decision On The Unregulated Spectrum Criticized
Two days ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued
a statement, saying that the...
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FCC Report Gives the Go-Ahead to Free Wireless Web
Two days
ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a report stating that the use of...
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FCC Plans Tours in 80 Markets to Increase Awareness of DTV Transition
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been working on a nationwide strategy to increase...
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FCC Takes One Step Further in Making Digital TV Switch-Over Public
U.S.
communications commissioners will be traveling throughout the whole country
during the next...
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Comcast Prepares For Doomsday: Unfavorable Decision On The Way
Five FCC commissioners are expected to announce later this
week the decision against Comcast’s...
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The $550,000 Fine Is Overturned by Court
The $550,000 indecency fine against CBS, regarding Janet
Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” at the...
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FCC Heavily Penalized Wardrobe Malfunction Rejected by Appeals Court
It’s been a good four years but the controversy is far from
over – having a federal appeals court...
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Kevin Martin Plans to Sanction Comcast for Imposing Web Restrictions
Kevin Martin, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said that he will ask the...
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Comcast, Time Warner Start Heavy Users Hunt
After all the aggravation with
limiting traffic and heavy users affecting other users’ experience,...
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FOX Sued By Justice Department For Refusing To Pay FCC Fine
Lawyers representing the U.S. Justice Department have filed a lawsuit against FOX Television...
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Fox Refuses to Pay “Arbitrary” Indecency Fine
Fox Broadcasting announced Monday it would not pay the
$91,000 fine it received for broadcasting...
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FCC Investigating "60 Minutes" Alabama Blackout
The Federal Communications Commission has decided to look into a recent blackout on an Alabama...
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Fox TV Fined For Indecency
The Federal Communications Commission decided to reject Fox’s arguments that the reality...
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ABC To Be Fined For 2003 Indecency Incident
ABC is in hot water nearly five years after airing an episode of “NYPD Blue” that...
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ABC Faces $1.4 Million Fine Over 'NYPD Blue' Nude Scene
US television network ABC is facing a $1.4 million fine brought by the Federal Communications...
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Court To Review Jane Jackson’s ‘Wardrobe Malfunction’
Janet Jackson’s "accident" in which her breast was briefly exposed in front of 90 million...
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Business
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Google Prepares Its Strategy For 'Attacking' The White Spaces
California’s San Jose hosted yesterday the Wireless
Communications Association International...
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Update: FCC's Ruling Will Lead To Significant Changes
Despite the opposition of many broadcasters, producers and
other franchises, the Federal...
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FCC's Decides On The Unregulated Spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission reached the unanimous
decision that the air waves must be...
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The White Space Battle May Come To An End
On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a measure that would make...
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FCC's White Space Ruling Is Just One Day Away
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to reach a conclusion tomorrow on the highly...
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Lawmakers, Concerned about Google Spectrum Plan
The National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and NASCAR...
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FCC Report Gives The Go-Ahead To Free Wireless Web
Two days
ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a report stating that the use of...
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Comcast Fights Back
The Federal Communications Commission considered that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy by...
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Comcast Cannot Shake The FCC At All
As a result of the conclusion reached by the Federal
Communications Commission regarding Comcast’s...
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FCC Approves First Android-Powered HTC Phone For T-Mobile
On Monday the Federal Communications Commission approved what appears to be the world's first...
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Delta Air Lines Is Preparing For The First Sky-High Wi-Fi Try
Delta Air Lines, one of U.S.’s major carriers, recently
announced its plans to provide Wi-Fi...
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On Friday, The Federal Communications Commission Ruled Against Comcast
On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to support the complaint filed against...
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Sirius, XM Finalize Merger
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. finalized the takeover of the other satellite radio pioneer XM...
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FCC’s Take on Comcast’s Traffic Management Coming Soon
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scheduled a meeting for Friday during which one of...
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F.C.C. Finally Approves Sirius-XM Satellite Radio Merger
The two satellite radio pioneers, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, have...
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Sirius-XM Merger Very Close To Get FCC Approval
The New York, subscription-based satellite radio firm Sirius Satellite is very close to getting the...
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FCC Chief Recommends Comcast Imposed Web Restrictions To Be Barred
Federal regulators are ready to take some action against Internet
providers that intend to...
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FCC Rules Against Verizon
On Friday, the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission ruled against Verizon in a matter regarding...
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FCC Chief Presents Plan for Early Termination Fee
Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission, has announced a plan that...
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The FCC Considers That Less Is More When It Comes to ETFs
The Federal Communications Commission recently scheduled a
hearing in order to discuss the highly...
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FCC Delays Its Wireless Network Plans
The Federal Communications Commission’s plan to offer free high-speed
wireless Internet all across...
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The FCC Prepares For Spectrum Auction Debate
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced its decision to move forward with its plans to...
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FCC to Regulate Early Termination Fees for Mobile Phone Service
The president of the Federal Communications Commission
announced Friday that the commission is...
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FCC’s Dispute On Broadband Access
On Thursday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission had
its widely anticipated hearing on...
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Comcast Takes Another Damage Control Step
Comcast has taken another step to contain damage after coming under heavy fire for its interference...
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FCC Fines Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Best Buy over DTV Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has underlined the fact that the transition to digital...
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Comcast Turns The Page on Traffic Management
Accused of interfering with the traffic towards certain
Internet file-sharing services, Comcast...
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Sirius-XM Merger Cleared by US Regulators
New York-based Sirius Satellite, subscription-based satellite radio firm, has received the go-ahead...
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The Winners of Airwaves Auction Revealed
The Federal Communications Commission made public the results of the 700-megahertz spectrum...
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Supreme Court to Examine Fleeting Expletive Case
The US Supreme Court has said it will hear in September arguments in the case of the so-called...
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Technology
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Looking For Obama’s CTO: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Not Interested
The race for Obama’s Chief Technology Officer is still on,
but Google CEO Eric Schmidt does not...
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FCC Voted Unanimously to Open Up White Spaces Spectrum
Tuesday,
November 4, while American citizens were electing their next president, the
Federal...
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Sprint Facing $1.2 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit Over Illegal ETFs
Bad weather heading Sprint’s way these days, as the company
faces yet another class-action lawsuit...
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FCC Frees The White Spaces To Give Consumers "WiFi On Steroids"
The Federal Communications Commission has finally given green
light to the much disputed issue of...
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FCC Chairman Disappointed Over Decision To Delay Phone-Rate Voting
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin has
halted the voting on the...
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The White Space Battle May Come to An End
On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a measure that would make...
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White Space Debate Intensifies
As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to deliver
the vote on the controversial issue...
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White Spaces: As Dolly Parton Asks For Time, Mundie Lobbies For Action
Just days before the Federal Communications Commission
members are scheduled to cast their vote on...
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Sports Technology Alliance Requests Delay On White Space Vote
A number of lawmakers and professional sports organizations
have been urging the Federal...
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More Questions for the FCC’s Report on White Spaces
A couple of
weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Kevin Martin introduced...
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Concerns Are Raised Against White Spaces
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has been asked by Several U.S. lawmakers and...
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Broadcasters, Tech Companies React To FCC’s White Spaces Report
Immediately after the Federal Communications Commission released a report on a second round of...
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FCC Chairman Supports the Use of 'white space' Spectrum
Kevin Martin, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, said Wednesday during a rather...
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Will FCC Free The White Spaces? 2nd Test Looks Promising
After conducting a second set of measurements on the
capabilities of prototype white space...
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FCC: Nationwide Wi-Fi Broadband Plan Not A Threat To T-Mobile’s 3G
The Federal Communications Commission has released a report
at the end of last weak, meant to ease...
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Report by the FCC Dismisses Wireless Internet Interference Claims
The Federal Communications Commission released an engineering
report on Friday, which gives the...
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Sprint XOHM Service In Baltimore Raises Internet Throttling Concerns
On September 29, Sprint launched XOHM, the 4G wireless
network based on the WiMAX technology, and...
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Google Thinks It’s High Time The FCC Acted on Vacant Channels
Google co-founder Larry Page, who spoke at a Capitol Hill event Wednesday, wants the Federal...
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Larry Page’s Wireless Testing Could Have Gone Better
With a perpetually increasing need of fast access to
information, a world connected by wireless...
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FCC Expected To Respond As Google Pushes For White Spaces
It seems that Google's initiative to push for the general use of the “white spaces” did have an...
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Digital Transition Testing Begins In Wilmington, North Carolina
The Federal Communications Commission announced that the
Wilmington North Carolina DTV Transition...
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Comcast Appeals FCC Ruling Over Inappropriate Findings
The long dispute between Comcast and the Federal
Communications Commission is far from being over,...
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Comcast Opens Up About Monthly Internet Usage Cap
Comcast subscribers are in for a change starting next month,
when the nation’s second largest...
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Greedy Comcast Does Not Repent of Traffic Limiting
Comcast shows no signs of repentance for its dubious business practices. The company, as with a...
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Comcast Undecided About New Management System
Comcast, the largest Internet service provider in the United States, said it hasn’t decided yet how...
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Comcast’ New Management System To Limit Speed Of Heavy Net Users
Comcast, the country’s largest Internet service provider, said it plans to implement a new policy...
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White Spaces Debate Fires Up With Google's “Free The Airwaves”
As the Federal Communications Commission is still debating
over the approval of free, unlicensed...
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HTC Dream Approved For U.S. Sale, Android Phone Expected On Nov. 10
The rumors about a Google-HTC combo for the official Android
debut seem to be getting closer to...
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Update: Comcast Considers Its Legal Options After FCC's Decision
After the Federal Communications Commission concluded during the August 1 meeting that Comcast's...
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FCC's Message: Comcast-like Practices Will Not Be Tolerated
The Federal Communications Commission declared Comcast's Internet management practices to...
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