Green: Creating Standards That Worked Nov 9, 2009
Engineers at American Telecommunications Corp., which later became Time Warner Cable, had demonstrated the use of fiber to transport video in 1987. But the first lasers were extremely expensive, costing over $20,000 recalled Jim Chiddix, who led the effort to develop fiber delivery at ATC and later was Time Warner Cable's head of engineering and technology. (Multichannel News)
Bill would give president power to disconnect private networks Aug 29, 2009
From American telecommunications to the power grid, virtually anything networked to some other computer is potentially fair game to [President Barack] Obama to exercise emergency powers, " Crews said. When government asserts authority over security technologies, it hinders the evolution of more robust information security practices and creates barriers to non-political solutions both mundane and catastrophic, he said. The result is that we become less secure, not more... (FCW.com)
SeaChange Powers Up VOD Server Sales Jun 5, 2009
The increase was principally due to significantly higher shipments of VOD servers to "our largest North American telecommunications customer" as well as increased VOD server shipments to several North American cable TV providers. In its annual report filed in April, SeaChange lists only one North American telecommunications provider -- Verizon Communications -- and cites cable customers including Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Cox Communications and Rogers. (Multichannel News)
U.S. plans to resume migration talks with Cuba May 23, 2009
In April he ordered to lift restrictions on travel and money transfers by Cuban-Americans to Cuba, and allowed American telecommunications firms to provide services for the Cubans. Since the victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959, the U.S. administrations have invariably adopted a hostile policy toward Cuba. (Xinhuanet, China)
Scotia Capital Hires Campbell as Telecommunications Analyst From Merrill May 23, 2009
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Scotia Capital, the investment- banking arm of , hired to cover North American telecommunications and cable companies. Campbell was previously the head of Canadian equity research at Merrill Lynch, now a unit of Bank of America Corp. He will start at Canadas third-largest bank in June, spokeswoman said in an e-mail today. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
U.S. spy agency went beyond limits, sources say Apr 16, 2009
After a contentious three-year debate that was triggered by the 2005 disclosure of the warrantless wiretapping program approved after the Sept. 11 attacks by President George W. Bush, Congress gave the NSA broad new authority to collect, without court-approved warrants, vast streams of international phone and e-mail traffic as it passed through American telecommunications gateways. The targets of the eavesdropping had to be "reasonably believed" to be outside the United States. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
NYT: NSA intercepts exceed limits set by Congress Apr 16, 2009
After a contentious three-year debate that was set off by the disclosure in 2005 of the program of wiretapping without warrants that President George W. Bush approved after the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress gave the N.S.A. broad new authority to collect, without court-approved warrants, vast streams of international phone and e-mail traffic as it passed through American telecommunications gateways. The targets of the eavesdropping had to be reasonably believed to be outside the United States. (MSNBC -- Race)
News Briefs | Apr. 15 Apr 15, 2009
Restrictions on American telecommunications companies are also being loosened. The move is in direct opposition to that of the Bush administration. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
At summit, U.S. may face blame for crisis Apr 15, 2009
On Monday, to visit or send money to family members on the island and opened the door for American telecommunications companies to expand satellite and cellphone service there. But Obama has said that he does not intend to lift the 47-year-old trade embargo until the Castro brothers make democratic reforms and improve the government's human rights record. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Russian General: Satellite Collision Was U.S. Plot Mar 6, 2009
Officially, a defunct Russian satellite collided with an American telecommunications bird, one of 66 owned and operated by the Iridium company which relay signals to and from satellite phones on Earth. Shershnev doesn't buy it. (Fox News)
* Williams Formula One team to lose RBS as sponsor Feb 27, 2009
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