AT&T takes another step towards filtered network with investment in Vobile
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| AT&T announced earlier this year that was planning to introduce content
| filtering of some sort for all video passing across its network. Exactly what
| AT&T was thinking remained unclear: would the company truly attempt to
| reassemble the fragments of peer-to-peer transmissions, then extract video
| from all sorts of different codecs, then attempt to match it-in real time-to
| some database of copyrighted works? Would such a thing even be possible?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071114-att-takes-another-step-towards-filtered-network-with-investment-in-vobile.html
http://tinyurl.com/3a998z
>From the folks who censor the Web on behalf of a paranoid president who does
not undertand "teh internets and the google".
Google Favored by Web Admins
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| Web-site policy makers are playing favorites, and Google is the beneficiary,
| researchers say.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139710-page,1/article.html
AT&T: king of suppression and a Google foe. Almost as bad as the RIAA.
Related:
AT&T admits it censored other bands
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| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web
| site.
|
| [...]
|
| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Customers can sue AT&T, after all
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| A federal court in San Francisco has decided that AT&T's wireless contract
| is "unconscionable".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/court_slames_att_wireless_contract_clause/
How AT&T chewed up, and spat out Net Neutrality
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| In an interview with Business Week in October 2005, Whitacre said
| he thought taking over BellSouth would be rejected by the FCC.
| He also made another memorable comment that began the process
| which culminated in the FCC's approval in December.
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http://www.theregister.com/2007/01/10/whitacre_wins_big/
AT&T slams Google over open-access wireless proposal
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| AT&T has asked Capitol Hill not to enable an open nationwide wireless
| spectrum, claiming that Google's lobbying of such a network is a bid by the
| search giant to obtain broadband airwaves at bargain-basement prices.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B592E3C6-E5F3-4ECA-93C1-3A5A3392024A
IPhone Unlock Delayed After AT&T's 'Friendly Advice'
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| Fear of litigation has led to an indefinite delay in the planned Saturday
| release of software to unlock Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
|
| John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
| said Saturday that he received a phone call about 3 a.m. Saturday local time
| from a man claiming to be from O'Melveny & Myers LLP, an international law
| firm, calling on behalf of AT&T. The firm has worked with Apple in the past.
|
| The man informed McLaughlin that if he posted the unlock code, he could be
| sued for copyright infringement and for dissemination of Apple's intellectual
| property (IP).
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070825/tc_pcworld/136410
iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice
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| The company will be selling licenses to the hack, minimum quantity 500, at a
| price not yet announced. These hacks are much bigger news for those outside
| America. Expect to see an industry spring up to meet European (and Asian?)
| demand for freed iPhones.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/24/1858252&from=rss
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