Convergence
NTIA/RUS Decide on One More Round of Broadband Funding
Nov 10, 2009 | The two federal agencies in charge of the Recovery Act's $7.2 billion in broadband funding programs, USDA's Rural Utilities Service Read More
Supernova Conference Returns to SF, Dec. 1-3
Nov 9, 2009 | We're looking forward to taking part in this year's Supernova Conference as a media sponsor, and we hope you'll Read More
You're Invited: Tech Policy Summit @ CES
Nov 4, 2009 | Join us in Vegas! We're very excited to be partnering with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to co-host a special Read More
The Move Toward Universal Phone Chargers
Oct 26, 2009 | According to News.com, the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved a standard for a universal cellphone charger based Read More
The Move Toward Universal Phone Chargers
Oct 26, 2009 | According to News.com, the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved a standard for a universal cellphone charger based Read More
Today is OneWebDay
Sep 22, 2009 | Founded in 2006 by Susan Crawford, who now serves as President Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology and Innovation Read More
Podcasts from Tech Policy Summit
Sep 14, 2009 | We received an inquiry from someone asking where to find the podcasts from our last Tech Policy Summit conference, Read More
U.S. CTO's Silicon Valley Visit
Aug 12, 2009 | Silicon Valley welcomed Aneesh Chopra to town last week for a series of events and meetings designed to introduce him to Read More
FCC Commissioners Sworn In; Broadband Workshops Starting
Aug 3, 2009 | Good news! It's official...After months of transitioning, there are once again five commissioners in place at the Federal Communications Commission Read More
Senate Confirms FCC, NTIA Leadership
Jun 26, 2009 | Yesterday evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nominations of three individuals who are sure to play a pivotal role in Read More
Watch Live: Robert Scoble Interviewing CEA's Gary Shapiro
May 13, 2009 | Robert Scoble is on stage at Tech Policy Summit '09 right now, interviewing Gary Shapiro of the Consumer Electronics Association. Read More
Agenda for TPS: Broadband Innovation and Tech Policy Summit '09
May 6, 2009 | There are only a few days left until the opening of TPS: Broadband Innovation conference and the 3rd annual Read More
President Names Aneesh Chopra as National CTO
Apr 18, 2009 | After months of speculation about who would be selected as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer, news broke yesterday that Read More
FCC Kicks Off Effort to Develop a National Broadband Plan
Apr 8, 2009 | At its public meeting in D.C. earlier today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took the first step toward creation of Read More
Exclusive: Steven Levy's Interview with Vint Cerf
Apr 2, 2009 | As part of the run-up to our 3rd annual Tech Policy Summit conference, taking place May 11-13 at the Read More
Obama picks FCC's Adelstein to head RUS
Mar 20, 2009 | President Obama announced his intent today to nominate Federal Communications Commission (FCC)commissioner Jonathan Adelstein to head the U.S. Department of Read More
Meet-up with Tech Policy Central in Silicon Valley
Mar 13, 2009 | As we announced last month, Tech Policy Central is hosting a free breakfast meetup on Wednesday, March 25th at the Read More
Stimulating Broadband Growth
Mar 10, 2009 | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a notice today inviting suggestions on how the FCC and U.S. Department of Agriculture Read More
Obama Makes Genachowski Nomination Official (brought to me by Twitter)
Mar 4, 2009 | I was on my way home yesterday from the DEMO conference in Palm Springs when I learned, via Twitter, Read More
Join Us March 25th for a Breakfast Event Featuring Dr. Vint Cerf
Feb 18, 2009 | As we pre-announced earlier this week on Twitter, we are very excited to be hosting a new Tech Policy Read More
Digital TV Delay By the Numbers
Feb 5, 2009 | The DTV Delay Act, which pushes the digital TV transition from February 17th to June 12th, is on its way Read More
Who's on the "People to Watch" list?
Feb 4, 2009 | Ars Technica has just unveiled its picks for the 2009 Tech Policy "People to Watch" list -- check out the Read More
Commerce Secretary v.2
Feb 4, 2009 | Now that President Obama has ended the suspense about who will replace Governor Bill Richardson as the Commerce Secretary designate, Read More
Pew Report on the Stimulus Plan and Broadband Adoption
Jan 22, 2009 | What will it take to increase broadband adoption in the United States? It looks like the economic recovery bill will Read More
Inside the Transition's Tech, Innovation and Government Reform Team
Jan 19, 2009 | With less than a day to go until the Inauguration, the Obama-Biden transition team released a video introducing its Technology, Read More
Berkman to Webcast RIAA Legal Hearing
Jan 15, 2009 | In what Wired calls a "groundbreaking" ruling, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner has granted permission for the Courtroom View Network Read More
What Will Boucher Do?
Jan 13, 2009 | We were sitting in a tech policy session at the International CES show in Las Vegas last week when the Read More
Getting Closer to a New FCC Chairman
Jan 12, 2009 | It's a sign of the times, I suppose...I first heard that President-elect Barack Obama had selected Julius Genachowski to chair Read More
Reforming the FCC
Jan 7, 2009 | Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig created a bit of a stir during the holiday break with his Newsweek column calling Read More
Debating Decriminalizing File-Sharing
Dec 24, 2008 | Should people who share copyrighted material online without permission be punished, or should the act of doing so be decriminalized? Read More
Announcing the Tech Policy Predictive Market
Dec 10, 2008 | As we first mentioned on Twitter, we have been working on a new project in partnership with the Information Read More
Why the Actors Guild May, or May Not, Strike
Dec 3, 2008 | To strike or not? That is the question that members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) need to answer as Read More
Call for Nominations: People to Watch
Nov 18, 2008 | We are excited to officially announce the launch of the first 2009 Tech Policy Who's Who: People to Watch Read More
News.com: 'NBC Finds Formula For Fighting Piracy'
Sep 24, 2008 | According to a News.com article titled "NBC Finds Formula for Fighting Piracy," the entertainment company is succeeding in its efforts Read More
Agreement Reached on Royalties for Some Digital Music Services
Sep 23, 2008 | Several groups representing the digital music industry, including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) .and the Digital Media Association Read More
Public Interest Groups File Opposition to MPAA Petition
Jul 23, 2008 | As we wrote about last month, members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are interested in making high Read More
MPAA Wants to Release Movies Earlier; Prevent Recording
Jun 9, 2008 | According to Ars Technica, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) petition for "expedited Read More
News From Who's Who
May 6, 2008 | Below is a quick roundup of recent press releases from Tech Policy Central's Who's Who, which profiles nearly 100 think Read More
Ramping Up for the DTV Transition
Apr 9, 2008 | As everyone reading this site hopefully knows, television broadcasters in the U.S. are required by law to switch from analog Read More
Kara Swisher at Tech Policy Summit
Apr 1, 2008 | Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.com hosted two roundtables at last week's Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood. The first one featured AOL's chief Read More
Viviane Reding's Video from Tech Policy Summit
Mar 31, 2008 | We opened the second day of Tech Policy Summit '08 with a special videotaped message by Viviane Reding, the European Read More
EU Endorses DVB-H as Mobile TV Standard
Mar 18, 2008 | As expected, the European Commission took the next step in promoting a single standard for mobile television in Europe when Read More
Writers Back at Work
Feb 13, 2008 | It took 100 days, but members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) negotiated a deal with the Alliance of Read More
UK's Three-Strikes Rule Against Piracy
Feb 12, 2008 | According to U.K. newspaper The Times, the British government plans to consider new copyright enforcement legislation that includes a tough Read More
Sources Say: DOJ's Looking at Total Music
Feb 8, 2008 | The Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an antitrust inquiry into Total Music, a proposed subscription service by Universal Music Read More
Davos Leaders Discuss Wireless Future
Jan 27, 2008 | "When people say content is king, it's not true anymore. Customer is king." That quote from Sony CEO Howard Stringer Read More
NYT's Copyright Mini-Series
Jan 17, 2008 | The New York Times' Bits blog has been hosting a weeklong debate about digital copyright between NBC's general counsel Rick Read More
Comcast Resolves to Promote Open Standard
Jan 7, 2008 | Hoping to avoid regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Comcast and other cable operators are finally planning to introduce Read More
Microsoft and Viacom Find Common Ground in $500M Deal
Dec 19, 2007 | Microsoft and Viacom are teaming up to help each other grow their digital content and advertising businesses. As part of Read More
Video Takedown Does the Trick?
Dec 18, 2007 | A well-known Bay Area band once sang a song with these lyrics: "Once in a while, you get shown the light Read More
The "What's Content Worth?" Question
Dec 10, 2007 | A weekend profile in The New York Times once again has called attention to Radiohead's set-your-own-price digital music experiment. Though Read More
Universal's Download Deal with Nokia
Dec 5, 2007 | In its latest digital music experiment, Universal Music Group will offer "free" downloads of its entire catalogue to customers who Read More
Publishers Launch Standard to Better Control Content
Nov 30, 2007 | After a year-long pilot project, an international coalition representing the publishing industry unveiled a new standard yesterday that is designed Read More
ATT CEO: "We're a Very Open Network"
Nov 29, 2007 | We are probably one of the most open networks in the world, not just in the United States. We have Read More
This Week's Videos
Nov 19, 2007 | If you haven't checked out the Media Vault yet today, we've posted three new clips: If you're a fan of Read More
Gene Simmons on Digital Music
Nov 15, 2007 | Gene Simmons, the outspoken and outlandish bass player from rock band Kiss, talked trash about the digital music business during Read More
NewTeeVee Live: MTV Exec's Antidote to Piracy
Nov 14, 2007 | [This is being cross-posted at last100 as part of our coverage of the NewTeeVee Live conference today.] At NewTeeVee Live, the subject of Read More
NewTeeVee Live: AT&T's Vision for IPTV
Nov 14, 2007 | We're at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco today where I'm also blogging for a site called last100 (our Read More
FCC's Seattle Hearing on Media Consolidation
Nov 12, 2007 | Last week, we wrote about the controversey surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) public meeting on localism and media consolidation. Read More
Viacom's Defending Its Castle
Nov 8, 2007 | Sumner Redstone, executive chairman of both Viacom and CBS, gave a speech earlier today at Dow Jones' Media and Money conference Read More
FCC Chairman Slammed for Seattle Hearing
Nov 5, 2007 | One of the events listed in the Town Hall this week is the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) last public hearing on localism Read More
Hollywood Strike On
Nov 5, 2007 | It's official. Early this morning, film and television writers followed through on their promise to go on strike after talks between the Writers Read More
New Video Site Lets Users Share Popular Shows
Oct 29, 2007 | After a great deal of hullabaloo, and an estimated $100 million, the new online video site by News Corp. and Read More
Hollywood Writers Seek "New Media" Royalties
Oct 23, 2007 | The Wall Street Journal (sub required) ran a story yesterday about the looming possibility of a labor strike among Hollywood Read More
Digital Music News Abounds
Oct 9, 2007 | TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wrote a post last week titled, "The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free," in Read More
Mark Your Calendars for February 17, 2009
Jul 26, 2007 | There's been a lot of buzz surrounding what rules the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to use for auctioning off Read More
EU Picks Among Competing Mobile TV Standards
Jul 18, 2007 | As expected, the European Commission yesterday announced that it is endorsing Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) as the preferred standard for Read More
The Fame Game
Jul 16, 2007 | As Warner Music and imeem demonstrated last week, the convergence that is bringing Hollywood and Silicon Valley together (sometimes, at Read More
EU Considers Single Mobile Video Standard
Jul 16, 2007 | The International Herald Tribune reports that the European Commission is expected to announce this week that it is backing a Read More
Video Twofer (Courtesy of Jonathan Schwartz)
Jul 11, 2007 | Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz points to two videos in his latest blog post that focus on the future of Read More
Q and A with Verizon's CTO
Jul 6, 2007 | Verizon's CTO Mark Wegleitner fields questions about his company's $18 billion investment in FiOS in this Q&A at News.com. Verizon Read More
Video on the Future of Video
May 11, 2007 | The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, led by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), held its hearing yesterday on the Read More
Viacom Demands YouTube Remove Clips
Feb 2, 2007 | Reuters is reporting that Viacom has demanded that Google remove all of Viacom's clips from YouTube -- an estimated 100,000 Read More
