The Government Accountability Office has issued its report, as required by law, to Congressional committees on its review of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS') fiscal year 2007 Automated Commercial Environment expenditure plan and its management of ACE.
A late night Senate deal to extend the Internet tax moratorium for seven years faces an uncertain fate in the House, but the bill (HR-3678) is still likely to be considered next week either in the Judiciary Committee or on the House floor. House leaders hadn’t decided by our deadline how many years to extend the moratorium, a Democratic aide said Friday. Many Senate and industry sources said they expected the seven-year deal, which includes some changes to tax provisions requested by Democrats, to pass in the House despite reservations by some House members.
A late night Senate deal to extend the Internet tax moratorium for seven years faces an uncertain fate in the House, but the bill (HR-3678) is still likely to be considered next week either in the Judiciary Committee or on the House floor. House leaders hadn’t decided by our deadline how many years to extend the moratorium, a Democratic aide said Friday. Many Senate and industry sources said they expected the seven-year deal, which includes some changes to tax provisions requested by Democrats, to pass in the House despite reservations by some House members.
The Internet is a boon for both terrestrial broadcasters and websites specializing in streaming music, witnesses told a Wednesday Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the radio industry. For-profit and public radio stations are using the Web to serve listeners better, while online-only music outlets are using new technology to personalize radio, the committee was told.
The Internet is a boon for both terrestrial broadcasters and websites specializing in streaming music, witnesses told a Wednesday Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the radio industry. For-profit and public radio stations are using the Web to serve listeners better, while online-only music outlets are using new technology to personalize radio, the committee was told.
The Environmental Protection Agency will consider including language in Energy Star agreements that would bar Freedom of Information Act release of sensitive information about set-top box shipments and deployment, Product Manager Katharine Kaplan said Wednesday.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective October 24, 2007, which amends the Export Administration Regulations to move Burma into more restrictive country groupings and impose a license requirement for exports, reexports or transfers of most items subject to the EAR to persons1 listed in or designated pursuant to Executive Orders (EOs) 13310 and 13448.
Spending little time on statutory issues raised by the American Radio Relay League in its brief challenging the FCC’s broadband over power line rules, a panel of judges of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit focused during oral arguments Tuesday on questions such as whether BPL emissions create harmful interference to mobile ham services and what is the FCC’s duty to make public the staff analyses the agency bases rules on.
LONDON -- With European Commission (EC) proposals for new e-communications rules widely leaked ahead of their expected November 13 publication, neither side showed much enthusiasm for a centralized EU telecommunications authority Tuesday at the Chatham House/International Institute of Communications conference. Speakers indicated feelings are strongly divided over whether regulators should be able to order dominant players to split their infrastructure from their services divisions via functional separation.
Spending little time on statutory issues raised by the American Radio Relay League in its brief challenging the FCC’s broadband over power line rules, a panel of judges of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit focused during oral arguments Tuesday on questions such as whether BPL emissions create harmful interference to mobile ham services and what is the FCC’s duty to make public the staff analyses the agency bases rules on.