FCC Docket 09-23, Petition For Rulemaking And Request For Declaratory Ruling Filed By The Coalition United To Terminate Financial Abuses Of The Television Transition, has drawn filings from Mitsubishi, Valley View, Philips/LG Electronics, Funai, Thomson, …

The “FATT” is fighting back this week in comments filed at the US FCC against the “Coalition United To Terminate Financial Abuses of the Television Transition” (CUT FATT) proposal to address patent overreaching in the …

What a telling and timely juxtaposition.
On the day responses are due to the US FCC’s request for comments to the CUT FATT request for an official inquiry into patent overcharging in the US digital TV …

Royalty-free standards, the very foundation of the Open Internet, are not even mentioned in the FCC’s 60-page Broadband Plan notice of inquiry.
Surprising?  Not really.
Bridging even first principles of the Internet era to the realities of …

Good to see prominent billing for “Java in Brazilian Java DTV” at the upcoming JavaOne conference.
Second topic listed in the press release right after cloud computing!
SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 13, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: …

Yesterday’s kickoff of the FCC’s Broadband Plan proceedings were broadcast over the Internet in a proprietary video format.
Worse, it was likely converted from a standards-based format to a proprietary format before it was put on …

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the “Recovery Act”, has allocated an unprecedented $7 Billion to broadband and has launched a new chapter of broadband policy in the US.
The coming months will inspire …

What would the Internet look like today if history had been just slightly different?
Say for example the Internet’s open, royalty-free foundation — protocols, HTML, etc. — hadn’t mostly won out?
Leaving only proprietary solutions or shifting …

The FCC has requested comments on the CUT FATT petition (discussed here) to review DTV patent abuses.
Some articles on the FCC request are here and here, the FCC notice (comments due April 27) is here, …

The crying need for Open Video continues to break out from under the radar, as evidenced by the blue-ribbon sponsors and diverse community of the just-announced inaugural Open Video Conference to be held June 12.
Organizers …