HIGH-COST
BROADBAND PROJECTS get NTIA, RUS approval. Questions emerging
over how agencies are deciding who wins, loses.
COMCAST
HEARINGS BODE WELL for NBCU deal, say participants, observers.
Further hearings likely in March.
GLOBALSTAR
SECOND-GENERATION satellites have longer life expectancy,
increased radiation protection, executive says.
TELECOM
NOTES: Request for records in Google, NSA partnership should be expedited,
EPIC says ... USF support for wireless carriers should be limited
to a connection per home, Qwest says ... CTIA says FCC should outlaw
unauthorized signal boosters.
HD
CHANNEL GROWTH to sustain operator spending, BigBand says. Despite
overall spending cuts, video spending seen up in 2010.
MEDIA
NOTES: CableCARD NOI again sought by Motorola ... Iseman talks
about media consolidation ... WGCB not guaranteed DirecTV carriage,
FCC says ... Allen disclosed to own 37 percent of Charter.
GOOGLE
SETTLEMENT 'a bridge too far,' Justice says, 'reluctantly'
opposing new deal. But it proposes several 'safeguards' for approval.
Opt-in would 'address many concerns.'
AGENCIES: EPIC
files FOIA for Google-NSA communications … PTO
grants reexamination of VoIP patent at EFF request.
COURTS: Venezuelan
man pleads guilty to hacking VoIP networks and reselling service.
STATES: Iowa
lottery chief anticipates federal legislation opening ticket purchases
over Internet, cellphones … Nebraska sticks
with NIC unit for state portal.
INTERNATIONAL: U.K.
file-swapping legislation raises human rights issues, parliamentary
panel says.
PRIVACY: IBM,
Yahoo researchers develop privacy score to simplify self-protection
by social-network members.
GLOBAL
LCD TV SALES TO RISE 21 percent this year, accounting for 80 percent
of total TV shipments, Corning says.
PANASONIC
POSTS PROFIT in Q3 with improved AV sales, but still sees
year-end loss.
HD
CHANNEL GROWTH to sustain operator spending, BigBand says. Despite
overall spending cuts, video spending seen up in 2010.
COMPONENTS & DEVICES: HDMI 1.4's release puts Silicon Image
on ‘front end’ of favorable product introduction cycle,
new CEO says.
INDUSTRY
NOTES: Motorola still backs notice of inquiry about why CableCARD rules
haven’t been successful, it tells FCC.
