Emerson Radio is being “exploited” by parent Grande Holdings to Emerson’s “terrible detriment” so Grande can finance its other affiliates, Emerson board member Michael Driscoll said in a resignation letter filed with the SEC.
Wireless carriers want to work with the FCC against those that send their subscribers spam, CTIA President Steve Largent said in a letter to the agency. A new CTIA working group is eyeing strategies to block wireless spam, sources said. But carriers need the FCC to prosecute companies that violate consumer protection laws, the letter said.
Wireless carriers want to work with the FCC against those that send their subscribers spam, CTIA President Steve Largent said in a letter to the agency. A new CTIA working group is eyeing strategies to block wireless spam, sources said. But carriers need the FCC to prosecute companies that violate consumer protection laws, the letter said.
Broadband providers sounded alarms over an FCC proposal to create a national broadband mapping program. In comments last week, phone carriers and cable operators expressed concerns about costs and confidentiality. Wireless and satellite providers argued that they should escape any data filing requirements. But the FCC proposals -- made last month in a further notice attached to an order on broadband data collection - received strong support from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors and the American Library Association.
The extent to which Internet service providers are in a unique position to track their subscribers’ Web use was hotly disputed at the House Telecom Subcommittee Thursday. Some witnesses and lawmakers pointed to what they called nearly identical use of deep-packet inspection (DPI) by Web giants. ISPs should give users “meaningful opt-in consent” before targeting advertisements to users’ online behavior, said Chairman Ed Markey, D-Mass. Witnesses gave uniformly murky answers when asked whether they favored mandatory opt-in. Bob Dykes, CEO of targeting firm NebuAd, reprised his role from last week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing as the only person to defend ISP targeting (CD July 10 p5).
Cable Internet providers have agreed to check up and report back on Web sites that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says are distributors of child pornography. The center and the NCTA announced an agreement Thursday, which was obtained by Washington Internet Daily.
The extent to which Internet service providers are in a unique position to track their subscribers’ Web use was hotly disputed at the House Telecom Subcommittee Thursday. Some witnesses and lawmakers pointed to what they called nearly identical use of deep-packet inspection (DPI) by Web giants. ISPs should give users “meaningful opt-in consent” before targeting advertisements to users’ online behavior, said Chairman Ed Markey, D-Mass. Witnesses gave uniformly murky answers when asked whether they favored mandatory opt-in. Bob Dykes, CEO of targeting firm NebuAd, reprised his role from last week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing as the only person to defend ISP targeting (WID July 10 p2).
SAN FRANCISCO -- About 150 Chinese-American seniors gathered Tuesday for DTV transition education from officials including the head of NTIA, which runs the federal converter- box coupon program. When speaker Roger Goldblatt, a special adviser in the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau asked how many in the audience had heard of digital television, about a half-dozen raised their hands. “Make sure you tell everyone you know - neighbors, relatives, seniors who are stuck at home,” he said.
SAN FRANCISCO -- About 150 Chinese-American seniors gathered Tuesday for DTV transition education from officials including the head of NTIA, which runs the federal converter- box coupon program. When speaker Roger Goldblatt, a special adviser in the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau asked how many in the audience had heard of digital television, about a half-dozen raised their hands. “Make sure you tell everyone you know - neighbors, relatives, seniors who are stuck at home,” he said.
Though federal wiretapping law may prohibit Internet service providers’ plans to target their customers with online advertising, state laws may present a bigger hurdle, digital activist groups told reporters Tuesday. But the vague wording of some state wiretapping laws and a shortage of case law may fall short of a slam-dunk case against targeting, they conceded. The best-known targeting firm in the U.S., NebuAd, is trying to get around consent concerns by offering “direct, initial online notification and periodic reminders” to Internet users being targeted, and talking up endorsements by privacy experts.