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OVERNIGHT TECH: Opposition building to Genachowski's net neutrality proposal
Net Neutrality advocates come out against Genachowski's plan Opposition to Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski's open Internet proposal is building on both the left and the right ahead of a potential vote on the proposal at the Commission's December 21 open meeting. A group of net neutrality advocates declared their opposition to the plan during a meeting with Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Thursday. A number of prominent individuals and organizations in...

Level 3 Feigns Net Neutrality Violation in Contract Dispute
Internet company Level 3 recently claimed that Comcast, in violation of Net Neutrality principles, was attempting to impose a new “toll” against Level 3 to deliver online movies on behalf of its client, Netflix.  This dispute comes at a time when the Federal Communications Commission is currently in process of codifying its ‘net neutrality’ principles into law. After undergoing a competitive bid process, Level 3 was selected to house and distribute the majority of Ne...

Key net-neutrality advocates oppose Genachowski's plan
A who's-who of the most influential net-neutrality advocates has decided to oppose Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski's plan for regulating Internet lines, which he announced earlier this month. The groups declared their opposition to the proposal in a meeting with Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and his staff on Thursday. The groups released the ex parte document describing the meeting on Monday. "At the outset of the meeting, the participants expres...

FCCs Open Internet proposal heading for defeat?
Conservatives have kept a close eye on Julius Genachowski, chair of the FCC, especially after his first attempt to regulate the Internet by regulatory decree got slapped down by Congress.  Now it looks like the chastened Genachowski has lost the Left, too.  His scaled-down “Open Internet” proposal had no chance of winning support from the conservatives on the FCC board, and his Net Neutrality allies are urging the Democrats on the panel to oppose it as well: Opposition to Federal...

Upton: No net-neutrality rules for NBC-Comcast
Incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) wrote to the Federal Communications Commission on Friday urging them not to impose net-neutrality conditions on Comcast as part of the proposed acquisition of NBC Universal. Upton said the only thing the commission should be reviewing is whether or not the new entity would be able to unfairly influence the markets for video content creation and distribution to the detriment of consumers. He warned against using the merg...

Upton Wants FCC to Expedite Review of Comcast, NBC Merger
In a letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski dated December 10, U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) inquired into the FCC’s commitment to a fair, fact-driven review of the Comcast-NBC Universal Merger. The merger would call for the transfer of assets to a new Joint Venture for NBC Universal.  The Joint Venture combines NBC and Telemundu as well as 26 NBC television stations and national Cable Networks with Comcast’s regional sports networks and ...

Regulators Concerned About What Comcast-NBC Merger Means For The Internet
Here's hoping Waxman manages to plug up the worst Loopholes before this deal gets rammed through, because they're right: the future of the Internet will be greatly affected by this Merger. Is there no merger too large that the Justice Department won't rubberstamp? .Although there has been a lot of talk in media circles about what Comcast's ownership of NBC Universal would mean for viewers' choice of news and entertainment, the two branches of the Federal Government reviewing the merger — ...

Comcast, the biggest cable company in Bay Area and nation, looks to get bigger
WASHINGTON -- Comcast is by far the biggest pay-TV provider in the Bay Area. It controls TV rights to Giants, A's, Sharks and Warriors games. Many of its customers also sign up for high-speed Internet service. And the company, if it has its way, is about to get a whole lot bigger. In a deal valued at $30 billion that was announced a year ago but has received scant attention outside the nation's capital, Comcast is attempting to buy a majority share of NBC Universal. The Merger would give the nat...

Sanders slammed Comcast merger during epic speech
During his eight-and-a-half-hour Speech against President Obama's tax Compromise with Republicans, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also took on another of his favorite topics: the pending Merger between Comcast and NBC Universal.  His Friday speech, labeled a #filibernie on Twitter, included a few bars of criticism about the mega-merger under review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Justice Department. Sanders wants the deal blocked.  "I think it is a bad idea," Sanders said...

Comcast, the biggest cable company in Bay Area and nation, looks to get bigger
WASHINGTON -- Comcast is by far the biggest pay-TV provider in the Bay Area. It controls TV rights to Giants, A's, Sharks and Warriors games. Many of its customers also sign up for high-speed Internet service. And the company, if it has its way, is about to get a whole lot bigger. In a deal valued at $30 billion that was announced a year ago but has received scant attention outside the nation's capital, Comcast is attempting to buy a majority share of NBC Universal. The Merger would give the nat...

A look at possible conditions in Comcast, NBC deal
Federal Regulators are considering a number of conditions to ensure that Comcast Corp. cannot use its control over NBC’s vast media empire to stifle the growth of online video. Their key concerns: — The darkest fear of companies in the Internet video market is that Comcast could withhold or ratchet up prices for popular NBC Universal programming, including hit shows such as “30 Rock” and “The Office.” So Regulators may force Comcast to abide by the Federal Com...

Sanders tells FCC to block NBC-Comcast merger
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote to the Department of Justice on Tuesday urging them to block Comcast's proposed acquisition of NBC Universal on the grounds it would damage the media landscape by reducing competition and increasing prices. "Because this Merger would lessen competition in three separate markets, and because it would put our media landscape in grave danger, I urge you to deny approval," Sanders wrote to assistant Attorney General Christine Varney. Sanders has been one of the mo...

Bernie Sanders: Block the Comcast Takeover of NBC Universal, Would Create Anti-Competitive Media Monopoly
Warning that a huge media monopoly would drive up Cable Television prices and stifle the free flow of information, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged the Department of Justice to block Comcast's planned takeover of NBC Universal.   The senator's concerns about the Comcast-NBC deal were detailed in a letter that he sent to Christine Varney, the assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust division at the Department of Justice. "Especially in an age of entrenched corporate power...

Experts Gather to Discuss Mobile Healthcare for Disadvantaged Communities
Last week, during a round-table summit in Washington, D.C., the nation’s premier healthcare practitioners, policy makers, industry executives and government health officials gathered to discuss the ways that mobile Broadband can be used to help people with chronic diseases in rural and underserved areas better manage their conditions. The summit was organized by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Media and Technology Institute, a D.C.-based policy Think Tank and research i...

The Dream Act affects more than Latinos
If Senate Republicans kill the DREAM Act, I and many millions of Hispanics will take it as a slap in the face. The Legislation is so clearly in the country's interest that its rejection essentially means: You don't want me here. You fear that the country is being overrun by Latinos and that, almost as bad, we will vote Democrat. Senate Republicans can obfuscate, but arguments about costs and laws are so flimsy when it comes to the House-approved Dream Act that if they block it this week, as seem...

Rise of the 'wealthy homosexual activists'
Byron's and my story today is a kind of a sequel to Josh Green's great '07 piece on the gay tech Millionaire Tim Gill's stealth campaign against anti-gay State Legislators: NEW YORK — Last spring, a low-profile Colorado millionaire, Tim Gill, and other gay Donors financed a quiet wave o...

Hotze: Hispanic Christians Will Be "Our Natural Allies Against the Democrats and Muslims"
Earlier this month, a conservative Activist in Texas named Norman E. Adams unveiled a new group called "Texans for Sensible Immigration Policy" that seeks to implement a "sensible" immigration policy that falls somewhere between the draconian laws in Arizona and calls for "Amnesty" by requiring ID cards, fines, and a call for "taxes on noncitizens [to be] a minimum 50% higher than Social Security/Medicare for citizens." The reason Adams supports allowing ...

Culture Wars: How Junk Food and Obesity Became Politicized - Marion Nestle - Food - The Atlantic
grendelkhan/flickr Every now and then, I enjoy answering questions posed by Eating Liberally's Kerry Trueman. Here's one for today. Let's Ask Marion: How Did Junk Food and Obesity Become a Red State/Blue State Debate? (With a click of her mouse, Kerry Trueman, aka kat, corners Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of nutrition and author of Feed Your Pet Right, Pet Food Politics, What to Eat, Food Politics, and Safe Food): Kerry Trueman: The "agri-culture war" that's long been simmering is coming...

Here Come The WikiLeaks Copycats: IndoLeaks, BrusselsLeaks And BalkanLeaks
When Daniel Domscheit-Berg defected from Wikileaks in September to create his own leak-focused project, he told Der Spiegel that “there must be a thousand WikiLeaks.” The four that launched in just the last few days aren’t a bad start. Last Thursday, a group of former European Union officials and Journalists launched a site they’ve called BrusselsLeaks, focused on obtaining and publishing leaked internal information about the backroom dealings and secrets of the E.U. The ...

Alison Rose Levy: Wisdom 2.0 Panel Explores the Power of New Media for Inner and Outer Transformation
Social Media has the power to connect us like never before, but the constant buzz of new messages, tweets and information can also fragment focus, induce a frenzied pace and produce overwhelm. Perhaps we need a new name for this state of constant information consumption -- Attention Excess Disorder? Yet what are the actual up and downsides of social media's impact on spiritual awareness, compassion, authentic interconnection and social transformation? To explore these questions, Wisdom 2.0 ho...

Israel's fight for survival and the comfort of Mick Davis
[The following, by Adam Levick , is crossposted from CiF Watch.] I was sharing a ride with a Jewish colleague during the height of the 2nd Intifada in 2002 - a terror war against the Jewish State that would claim over 1100 Israeli lives - and discussing the increase of anti-Semitic acts around the world triggered by the conflict when she exclaimed, "Ariel Sharon is causing Anti-Semitism." Of course, what she was talking about was the upsurge in anti-Semitic violence directed towards Jews in th...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: Green News Report: December 14, 2010 (Audio)
Twitter: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Sorry, Rush. You're a liar: November 2010 the Hottest on record; Visit sunny, glowing Chernobyl; Midwest blizzard now threatens Florida's crops; PLUS: A New and Improved climate agreement! Now with more U.S. and China! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)... Link: Embed: Got comments, tips, love lett...

WebMD to Redeem its Outstanding 3 1/8% Convertible Notes
NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) announced today that it intends to redeem all of its outstanding 3 1/8% Convertible Notes due 2025 on December 30, 2010.  A Notice of Redemption will be distributed on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 and will set forth the applicable redemption procedures. As provided in the Indenture for the 3 1/8% Notes, holders may convert their 3 1/8% Notes into WebMD Common Stock at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Tim...

Video: Seton Motely With The Best Explanation Of Net Neutrality That Ive Seen
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C12G Labs Announces Enterprise-class Distribution of OpenNebula 2.0
MADRID, December 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- C12G Labs announced today a major new release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise-ready edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. OpenNebula is the most flexible and innovative enterprise-class Cloud Computing tool for managing a Data Center's virtual infrastructure. The open-source toolkit includes production-ready features for integration, management, scalability, security and Accounting that many enterprise IT shops need for private and hybrid cloud Adoption. O...