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The FCC, the Public Interest and the Blue Book | Moyers & Company

December 19, 2012

Victor Pickard, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, has researched and written about the battle over the Blue Book, when broadcasters used red-baiting scare tactics to prejudice the public against the report’s proposed guidelines.

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PSY Hates America The Hobbit Movie Review And The Top Culture Stories Of The ... | Policymic

December 16, 2012

Football is Breeding a Culture of Violence, But It Does Not Need to Change (Michael Calabrese) – “League policies such as requiring third-party trainers on site, mandatory concussion testing and advancements in equipment technology will be enough to ...

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Public Knowledge: Increase Oobe Limits On H-Block | Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine

November 29, 2012

... of H Band spectrum at 1995-2000 MHz, for the purpose of a future auction, appear remote and hypothetical in comparison to the immediate delay and possible loss of a market entrant," wrote Michael Calabrese of the New America Foundation in the filing.

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Noss: Use New TLD Auction Proceeds to Bring More Internet to Africa | Domain Name Wire

November 28, 2012

Tucows CEO Elliot Noss, along with “internet in a suitcase” advocate Sascha Meinrath, have penned an op-ed for Slate arguing that new TLD auction proceeds should be used to grow internet access in Africa. In ICANN, Make a Difference, the pair suggests ...

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RELEASE: OTI Calls on Web Domain Profits to Be Used for Free, Wireless Internet in Africa

November 28, 2012
Washington, DC — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — which controls the Internet’s best domains such as .com and .org — is set to release hundreds of new, generic domains such as .web or .cars.
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Pisc Argues For Approval Of Aws-4 Rules | Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine

November 26, 2012

An ex parte filing submitted to the FCC last week on behalf of Michael Calabrese of the New America Foundation, Harold Feld of Public Knowledge, and Matt Wood and Lauren Wilson of Free Press, who met as representatives of the Public Interest Spectrum ...

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Nach der Us-Wahl: "Die Regierung Versteht Netzwerk-Effekte Nicht" | Heise Newsticker

November 13, 2012

An der bisherigen Bilanz Barack Obamas insgesamt und speziell im Bereich der Kommunikationstechnik, des Urheberrechts und der Netz-Infrastruktur lässt Sascha Meinrath kein gutes Haar. "Was die Obama-Regierung erreicht hat, ist im Vergleich zu ihren ...

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What Sandy Has Taught Us About Technology, Relief and Resilience | Forbes

November 10, 2012

[For more on the power of mesh networks, see this excellent talk by Sascha Meinrath at Personal Democracy Forum this year.] The Red Hook Initiative has been working on such a project with the New America Foundation (NAF)'s Open Technology Institue, ...

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First News Briefs For November 8, 2012 | Wireless Week

November 8, 2012

The New America Foundation is wading into the 700 MHz interoperability debate. The director of the nonprofit's Wireless Future Project, Michael Calabrese, met with the a legal advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday to urge the commission ...

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FCC To Make Spectrum Sharing Reality, Whether Carriers Want It Or Not | Ars Technica

September 14, 2012

For one thing, just figuring out what each chunk of spectrum is used for is difficult, said Michael Calabrese, who contributed to the PCAST report and is director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation. "Congress needs to mandate ...

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