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  • NewsClips - May 28, 2010
    The Federal Communications Commission's recent effort to ensure it can police Internet providers has prompted new interest in Congress toward rewriting the nation's aging telecommunications laws for the Internet era. The rewrite won't happen right away—and could stretch on for more than a year—but phone and cable companies are already gearing up for a lobbying battle that is likely to be expensive.
    Posted: May 28, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 27 2010
    Becky and Dale Carlson are relying on fast and cheap Internet access as they sell photos and online greeting cards in the home business they hope will carry them into retirement. So Becky Carlson said she opposes a North Carolina legislative proposal that would make it harder for cities and towns to build broadband Internet systems that compete with big telephone and cable companies and hold down rates.
    Posted: May 27, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 26, 2010
    Sony Corp. has agreed to offer on-demand access to HBO programming through its PlayStation 3, the latest example of a videogame console maker aiming for a bigger role in the digital living room. Sony and its chief competitors in the videogame console market, Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co., have agreed a series of distribution deals recently with leading media providers, including cable networks, major film studios, Netflix Inc. and Major League Baseball.
    Posted: May 26, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 25, 2010
    Two top Democratic legislators said Monday that they would begin a process to modernize telecommunications laws that were last overhauled in 1996 but barely mention the Internet. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said in a joint statement...
    Posted: May 25, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 24, 2010
    Federal regulators have given Verizon Communications Inc. the green light to sell nearly 5 million phone lines in 14 states outside of its core service areas to Frontier Communications Corp. Friday's approval by the Federal Communications Commission marks the final step for the $8.6 billion cash-and-stock deal, which was announced more than a year ago and is expected to close on July 1.
    Posted: May 24, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 21, 2010
    Dish Network Corp. is dropping the Weather Channel for more than 14 million of its satellite-television customers, in another sign of the growing friction between TV programmers and distributors. Instead, Dish Network said it is airing a new weather-focused channel that will replace Weather Channel.
    Posted: May 21, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 20, 2010
    Comcast’s bid for NBC Universal received a boost this week after two House lawmakers urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to keep to its timeline for reviewing the deal. The lawmakers want to ensure the FCC finishes evaluating the unprecedented deal between one of the nation’s largest cable companies and one of the four national television broadcasters within 180 days from when the review started.
    Posted: May 20, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 19, 2010
    Hard-drive companies are on a new mission to do more than just back up your data. Now they want to bring you and your digital content into the living room. For that, you can thank the growing collection of digital media — photos, videos and music — that largely has replaced CDs, DVDs and photo prints.
    Posted: May 19, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 18, 2010
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Cablevision System Corp.'s challenge to a federal statute that requires cable operators to carry local over-the-air broadcast stations on their systems. A divided high court previously upheld the must-carry requirement twice in the 1990s. Cablevision argued that the court should reconsider the issue in light of major competitive and technological changes in the market for video programming. The Supreme Court, in a short written order, declined to do so.
    Posted: May 18, 2010
  • NewsClips - May 17, 2010
    When freshman state Rep. Frank Burns (D) held a cookout-fundraiser last summer, he invited every Democrat seeking statewide office to speak before 300 or so of his constituents in Johnstown. No one came except for a guy no one had ever heard of, from nearly 200 miles away.
    Posted: May 17, 2010