· The Constitution gives Congress the power to grant patents for the sake of scientific progress. http://bwbx.io/vRBd
· The currently pending patent reform bill (S.515) would severely weaken the cause of action in False Marking cases. http://bwbx.io/p5pQ
· Software patents to be banned in New Zealand. http://bwbx.io/HlaK
· E-publish or perish http://tinyurl.com/yko74sj
· Hope at last http://tinyurl.com/ycspke3
· Time to rebalance http://tinyurl.com/ycuc89v
· Isolating a gene making it patentable is “a ‘lawyer’s trick’ to circumvents prohibition on direct patenting of the DNA. http://bwbx.io/D0SO
· UK: 74% broadband mystery shoppers were not informed their actual speed was likely to be below maximum line speed. http://bwbx.io/hUL
· Shine a light http://tinyurl.com/ygck6em
· IBM demos graphene optical link http://tinyurl.com/ydq536h
· “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” http://bwbx.io/ZdGc
· Australia: Telstra is battling to ensure reasonable price to destroy its dominant position in fixed-line communications. http://bwbx.io/bdHY
· It is unfair to force consumers to obtain technical and policy expertise to present their case before the Regulator. http://bwbx.io/OXOU
· Financial reform battle in the Senate is shaping up to be a fascinating political struggle. http://bwbx.io/35bd
· “The test program (787) has been more robust than any conducted on a Boeing commercial jetliner.” http://bwbx.io/1kdf
· Boeing 787 ultimate load test clearance also marks the passing of a significant hurdle on the way to FAA certification. http://bwbx.io/9Dtr
· Boeing completed the ultimate-load wing up-bending test on the 787 Dreamliner static test unit. http://bwbx.io/YiBt
· We don’t know any more how use govt leverage to have telecom/Net work better after spending more than $20 million. http://bwbx.io/ytx4
· FCC spent $20.62 million to produce the National Broadband Plan. http://bwbx.io/zd0
· “If there are questions about FCC authority, proper answer is not for the FCC to get adventurous…” http://bwbx.io/idja
· The health-care squeeze http://tinyurl.com/ybrkrw5
· Start your engines http://tinyurl.com
· A Franco-German deal on a Greek rescue: who blinked? http://tinyurl.com/ylsb39z
· Verizon never committed to bringing FiOS to its entire local-phone service area. http://bwbx.io/MAsX
· Congress requires from FCC an analysis of the most effective mechanisms for ensuring broadband access. http://bwbx.io/4Yun
· Facebook is for fun. If you’re serious about managing your career, the only social site that really matters is LinkedIn. http://bwbx.io/HU5n
· “This (rewrite Telecom Regulations) is an awfully big hill to climb for Congress this year” http://bwbx.io/gIja
· “Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me” http://bwbx.io/CFuh
· “In the end, the losses in the sector will be shared by all” http://bwbx.io/3Wwd
· This “steal-what-you-want” approach to business is spreading throughout our economy. http://bwbx.io/DlDB
· Paying for the scheme remains an obvious stumbling block, but conceptual support is now in place. http://bwbx.io/lbdF
· In Japan and many European countries, regulators fought hard to bring existing providers around to open access. http://bwbx.io/CAb9
· It seem more than reasonable not to trust the critical infrastructure of the nation to the altruism of the free market. http://bwbx.io/UCPV
· Broadband is the bridge from remote rural communities to the American economic mainstream. http://bwbx.io/rR0
· “What about ‘broadband technology’?” http://bwbx.io/T3Da
· The FCC should take its cue from us and not the companies it is supposed to regulate. http://bwbx.io/eQMt
· “We don’t know how much was shoveled out of the back door of the Federal Reserve Board and to whom” http://bwbx.io/T2N4
· The health-care legislation will cost $940 billion over 10 years and cover 32 million uninsured Americans. http://bwbx.io/9Fqr
· “The underlying problem was solvency. The Fed was slow to recognize that.” http://bwbx.io/i1al
· World changes and rules don’t, opportunities to game the system are created, leaving us with results no one intended. http://bwbx.io/zopo
· With various publications struggling, some have picked up ‘hot news doctrine’ as a way to somehow block competition. http://bwbx.io/BTqm
· 2012 to 2014 represents payback time for a Who’s Who of private equity firms and the now highly leveraged companies. http://bwbx.io/jhzH
· “Market improvement and our (Boeing) conservatively managed production made it necessary to raise aircraft output.” http://bwbx.io/gpeX
· IMF: EU needs to come up with “a fire brigade” to deal with collapse of banks that operate across several countries. http://bwbx.io/YPXq
· How higher taxes on consumers and industry – instead of more tax credits – will effectively expand broadband access? http://bwbx.io/y2xY
· FCC is ignoring the most obvious avenue to extending broadband. http://bwbx.io/CztQ
· (Australia) Telstra engaged in the negotiations with both the NBN Co and Government on a “business-to-business” basis. http://bwbx.io/Lxzg
· Lucent, not Alcatel, owned the patents held by the trust and Alcatel has never had right to license or sublicense them. http://bwbx.io/2smJ
· Ericsson is to acquire the 50% stake (plus one share) in the profitable LG-Nortel joint venture. http://bwbx.io/wU8P
· Wired broadband is dominated by few large providers, because of large start-up costs to build physical infrastructure. http://bwbx.io/zBxt
· We could have been looking at schemes that rejected old way of doing business; but how to survive, innovate, and thrive. http://bwbx.io/nqLr
· National Broadband Plan isn’t a set of regulations. It’s not a piece of legislation, but an aspirational plan. http://bwbx.io/Jw17
· Some analysts predict FCC would consider reclassification of broadband services as common carrier service. http://bwbx.io/cNz4
· Federal preemption of Internet taxation could be beneficial, but only if it results in more freedom. http://bwbx.io/Desl
· “Plan may contain stalking horses for investment-killing ideas, like net neutrality mandates or monopoly-era regulation” http://bwbx.io/nbei
· “We really have to move conceptually from iPhones to iFridges. That is the next step in energy and electricity sector.” http://bwbx.io/WtKb
· The National Broadband plan could force television broadcasters to change channels and reduce service areas. http://bwbx.io/n4ga
· “Turning good intentions into real reform will require a bare-knuckle fight” http://bwbx.io/WaXa
· Half of FCC proceedings will deal with competition, including wholesale competition, devices and consumer transparency. http://bwbx.io/Je1L
· We were joking for everyone to love 80 percent, marginalize 10 percent of it, and really hate 10 percent. http://bwbx.io/fdqy
· Imposing a minimal public safety fee on all U.S. broadband users a fair, sustainable and reasonable funding mechanism. http://bwbx.io/1XY6
· Problems plan faces aren’t technical, for a nation packed with oodles of fiber, bright network engineers and wealth. http://bwbx.io/ED8Z
· The plan (FCC Broadband Plan) also properly focuses on identifying the barriers to swift deployment and adoption. http://bwbx.io/G7sU
· Sprint is committed to offering better broadband solutions to consumers, businesses, government and public safety users. http://bwbx.io/M1Qv
· “As the world moves online, America’s digital borders are not nearly as secure as its physical borders.” http://bwbx.io/t4Ll
· If Genacowski had mapped out this plan 10 years ago, it would be lofty, bold and visionary. Today? Modest. http://bwbx.io/hBN8
· “Multichannel video providers need the freedom to innovate to meet different consumer demands and needs.” http://bwbx.io/c46r
· “It’s not the most efficient thing to have everyone watch the Super Bowl on broadband” http://bwbx.io/pePq
· The broadband plan recognizes that private investment will largely drive broadband deployment in the U.S. http://bwbx.io/6PLX
· Senate Commerce Committee (Mar 23) and House Energy & Commerce Committee (Mar 25) plan hearing on FCC Broadband Plan. http://bwbx.io/NyAP
· There’s still not much of an indication the company (Verizon) plan to ever roll broadband out on a widespread basis. http://bwbx.io/Ldwr
· “Expanding broadband across the nation will build a foundation of sustained economic growth,” President Barack Obama. http://bwbx.io/WDyw
· The current estimate to build Oregon’s network – Oregon Wireless Interoperability Network (OWIN) – is $414 million. http://bwbx.io/TBkx
· National framework for digital goods and services tax would reduce barrier to online entrepreneurship and investment. http://bwbx.io/MhZb
· FCC wants new “gateway” to be a standard interface to “bridge” conditional access, tuning and reception functions alone. http://bwbx.io/q8hG
· The plan doesn’t specifically address how to get to 100M bps for most of the U.S. http://bwbx.io/qKtR
· Forum shopping, also known as regulatory arbitrage, is undesirable, but smart bankers are always going to do it. http://bwbx.io/SLc9
· The unregulated market (swaps) made it difficult for government agencies to know how interconnected banks had become. http://bwbx.io/6xVP
· Bankers, traders and brokers enjoy big paydays when things go well and stick taxpayers with losses when they don’t. http://bwbx.io/IWFR
· The fifth dot-com domain ever registered, DEC.com, now resolves to a page on the site of Hewlett-Packard. http://bwbx.io/21LZ
· Building broadband networks—especially wireline—requires large fixed and sunk investments. http://bwbx.io/4aH4
· “To judge the FCC’s proposal fairly, we first need to define the problems we’re trying to solve.” http://bwbx.io/PiSm
· “If successful, we will transform our country and as America does when it transforms itself, transform the world.” http://bwbx.io/KL1E
· “World-leading 21st-century broadband networks and their benefits will not occur spontaneously.” http://bwbx.io/ZfhP
· Brandband Plan excludes any line-sharing requirement telecom carriers renting their networks to competing ISPs. http://bwbx.io/vgyh
· FCC has proposed Congress pay to build a nationwide, interoperable wireless broadband network for public safety. http://bwbx.io/aVSn
· Without immunity law (1996) social networking revolution of MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter would never have occurred. http://bwbx.io/Lqbm
· Challenge for Alcatel-Lucent: can it pull enough critical mass of service partners to make bundled play interesting. http://bwbx.io/IKgZ
· The Geel site (Belgium) was first to industrialize Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology. http://bwbx.io/PbcU
· “Each bullet point (in FCC Broadband Plan) will trigger its own tortuous battle.” http://bwbx.io/9Hiu
· “Broadband is important and difficult because it threatens every established communications sector.” http://bwbx.io/v8dw
· “We’re hopeful that doesn’t suddenly become ‘voluntary’ with a gun to our heads” http://bwbx.io/SzJH
· “Although the potential of mobile broadband is limitless, its oxygen supply is not” http://bwbx.io/5Iqf
· The accounting tactic, first used by Lehman in 2001, had one catch: no American law firm would sign off on its use. http://bwbx.io/EM63
· If senators can pass banking reform bill in a week then states who elect them might as well send robots to the Senate. http://bwbx.io/xlgR
· As the United States eliminates its only other option, the fare for hitching a ride with the Russians is skyrocketing. http://bwbx.io/vwhJ
· NASA could be forced to haul the shuttle back to its hangar for repairs, delaying a planned April 5 launch. http://bwbx.io/7aBF
· (Australia) Telstra can’t voluntarily put its head in the noose offered by the government, even if it wanted to. http://bwbx.io/9p0q
· Proposed banking reform would shrink Fed oversight to about 35 of the largest U.S. banks. http://bwbx.io/UwAb
· Perhaps “the right of the first inventor to file” was created by throwing eight words into a word blender, for absurdity http://bwbx.io/TE83
· Allowing Verizon Communications to sell 600,000 Illinois phone lines would hurt service quality. http://bwbx.io/5oib
· “Broadband.gov is a great idea, but with some extra work it could be far greater.” http://bwbx.io/5pW9
· Cisco has pulled the plug on its WiMAX base station operation. http://bwbx.io/Kbg
· “How many times have we talked about that legislation that passed in 1994? And the Federal Reserve didn’t do anything.” http://bwbx.io/5I2s
· Boeing may conduct 787 Dreamliner hot-weather testing in Australia. http://bwbx.io/LQB5
· This arrangement will result in the innocent being punished for offences that haven’t actually taken place. http://bwbx.io/n4iL
· You can watch NASA crew assemble components of the James Webb Space Telescope set to launch in 2014 on Webcam. http://bwbx.io/Y5P3
· Under Title I, private investments likely to continue. Under Title II, infrastructure improvements will come to a halt. http://bwbx.io/kGRY
· In sum, this bill (S. 515) would be a job killer. http://bwbx.io/ySqV
· “It’s not that we don’t understand there’s a gap. We just have a different approach to responding to that gap.” http://bwbx.io/aUSv
· Eventually, this unprecedented surge of (Govt) debt would increase interest rates. http://bwbx.io/5v2l
· “Investors only give the fund a particular investment period, typically three to six years, to invest the capital” http://bwbx.io/swyM
· AIG was saved with $182 billion taxpayer bailout. Most of rescue money went to pay obligations on credit default swaps. http://bwbx.io/QPdP
· “There was concern that a broad grant to ban abusive swaps would be unsettling.” http://bwbx.io/GR6C
· “Naked CDS (credit-default swap) serve no useful purpose and are dangerous.” http://bwbx.io/Fc32
· Cisco CRS-3 offer downloads of up to 322 Terabits per second. Stream every movie ever created in less than 4 minutes. http://bwbx.io/Q3Bl
· “Title I” referred to is the general language in the law that gives the FCC some broad, if vague, authority. http://bwbx.io/Y1yQ
· The (FCC) plan “is not self-executing.” http://bwbx.io/ctEi
· “Absent structural remedies lack of small business credit could become serious impediment for real economy recovery.” http://bwbx.io/fr3k
· FCC may allocate spectrum for a “free or very low cost” wireless broadband service. http://bwbx.io/CTaM
· “Broadband is important not for technology’s sake but because it can be our Great Enabler.” http://bwbx.io/ew6U
· Program intended to protect nation’s cyber infrastructure has been hampered by a lack of coordination and transparency. http://bwbx.io/GlC7
· There was a kind of winking acknowledgment that they were not going to let Greece fall out of the EU due to debt. http://bwbx.io/dazp
· MontaVista has shown that you can boot up a complete modern operating system in less than a second. http://bwbx.io/TY0A
· Verizon Wireless field trials is capable of “peak download speeds of 40 to 50 Mbps”. Real-world numbers are lower. http://bwbx.io/82k4
· Broadband: A primary solution could be open access, but no plans for such changes. http://bwbx.io/U7mB
· FCC chairman acknowledged that the lack of competition in the U.S. is a problem he doesn’t know how to solve. http://bwbx.io/XV62
· 42% of those without broadband – are either intimidated by the technology or don’t consider it relevant to their lives. http://bwbx.io/1aJy
· The stimulus is relatively short-term, though. Amending the REA (1936) would have some permanence to it. http://bwbx.io/vs7V
· Cincinnati Bell and Insight say USDA’s changes raised their interest in expanding coverage or enticing to sign up. http://bwbx.io/o4JG
· The aim of regulators should be to force banks to do what is in their own and society’s interests. http://bwbx.io/u3FL
· After six years of litigation – both suits were dismissed; Apple couldn’t prove its claims, Xerox had waited too long. http://bwbx.io/gbwM
· “Congress should hold a new hearing to listen to the views of real inventors.” http://bwbx.io/GoJJ
· “reforms” in the bill (S. 515) won’t do much to solve the real problems of the patent system. http://bwbx.io/EzYO
· The bill contains provisions that permit patent applications to be filed by the assignee rather than the inventor. http://bwbx.io/lY9s
· ‘conception,’ ‘reduction to practice’ and ‘reasonable diligence’ are expensive to prove, make contests unpredictable. http://bwbx.io/UlS9
· 2009 Recovery Act invested $4B in grants for broadband to unserved, underserved and rural communities across the nation. http://bwbx.io/V42i
· (Australia) NBN has to attract vendors as shareholders in the venture and eventually achieve full privatization. http://bwbx.io/VzWP
· 21 projects proposals to select vendors to build out their broadband networks, but have not yet selected a vendor. http://bwbx.io/F8qr
· FCC plan will accelerate construction of broadband networks if Congress approves a one-time injection of $9 billion. http://bwbx.io/lvVu
· FCC’s plan don’t need additional revenue from Congress to achieve 99 percent of U.S. households with broadband by 2020. http://bwbx.io/b85B
· Ayn Rand describes two opposite kinds of businessmen – those she calls “producers” and those she calls “looters.” http://bwbx.io/S4Nu
· Congress has not enacted any major patent reforms in 55 years. http://bwbx.io/XnPD
· The new Patent bill, referred to as managers’ amendment, is being touted as providing a critical boost to innovation. http://bwbx.io/45Fo
· “The Fed has repeatedly shown a lack of desire to enforce the laws that are already on its books.” http://bwbx.io/XqnW
· Canada will keep in place Business Credit Availability Program to tackle financial crisis, but will let others expire. http://bwbx.io/ZNA9
· 275,000 employees the 20 largest banks have let go since 2007. http://bwbx.io/9ScV
· “No way. No how. We need all the spectrum we have.” http://bwbx.io/EN3D
· AT&T network wireless data has grown more than 50X over past three years, due to smartphones. http://bwbx.io/xdNZ
· Business case for Australian Broadband network is strongest if Telstra accept $8 billion and shutdown its network. http://bwbx.io/wSTD
· Energy Dept. dropping application for the Yucca Mountain waste site could hobble efforts for new nuclear power plants. http://bwbx.io/ZoTf
· California miss out on Race to the Top program. http://bwbx.io/IEff
· More and more copy protection will only prolong the battle between content producers and users. http://bwbx.io/3OEB
· RealNetworks has agreed to kill its DVD-copying software and pay $4.5 million in settlement. http://bwbx.io/RoMX
· In US limited competition at network and ISP level means potential for consumer harm by traffic management is greater. http://bwbx.io/htxk
· Congress is getting message American people want them to be transparent about all things, including cap and trade.” http://bwbx.io/8Pmg
· Verizon argues that, in the “Internet ecosystem,” all parts should be treated the same. http://bwbx.io/yKBv
· “We need government policies to be industry neutral and avoid promoting dotcom interests over the ISPs.” http://bwbx.io/8n9f
· Information packed infographics – must see! http://bwbx.io/U1SI
· Net neutrality attracts positions ranging from extreme and controversial, to moderate advocating reasonable practices. http://bwbx.io/QrAF
· The CLEAR Act, clocking in at 39 pages, has more appeal than Waxman-Markey’s 1,200. Sometimes simpler is better. http://bwbx.io/TMov
· “The cap-and-trade bills in the House and Senate are dead. The concept of cap-and-trade is going to be replaced.” http://bwbx.io/LsBQ
· “Congress has been talking about carbon markets. Now they’re saying to heck with that – we’ve got a problem to solve.” http://bwbx.io/Ba3p
· “With the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.” http://bwbx.io/Gmnx
· It remains to be seen how much existing broadband providers resist, or if Congress back it with funding. http://bwbx.io/HtPN
· 93 million Americans, or nearly one-third of the population, don’t have broadband Internet at home. http://bwbx.io/kPtx
· Washington State to get $84 million broadband stimulus money from the NTIA. http://bwbx.io/sS4h
· Wireless: “If there is interference, there’s no one to hold accountable. Who’s responsible?” http://bwbx.io/Y2hv
· By setting monthly Internet limit, EU hopes that tendency for operators will be to bring price of surfing the Web down. http://bwbx.io/1zhr
· Bust the Silos: Next 25 years will be about organizing demand chain for sustainable, profitable, long-term growth. http://bwbx.io/UJb8
· Australia- NBN’s commercial survival rests on Telstra customers, Telstra an opportunity to restore its market dominance. http://bwbx.io/8k9y
· Broadband: Being a retailer isn’t just about hanging out a shingle and calling one’s self a retailer. http://bwbx.io/2Oyo
· “We’re now learning lack of transparency and regulation in derivatives market can bring down a country.” http://bwbx.io/8tnq
· “We became the weak victim, the guinea pig, we stood unprotected before the markets’ wild appetite.” http://bwbx.io/7mvS
· The government has agreed to absorb unlimited losses for the next three years and up to $400 billion after that. http://bwbx.io/rTKE
· “Fannie Mae’s financial performance indicates clean-up period is going to extend for at least the next several years.” http://bwbx.io/PVW
