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1) Blackboard Plans to Acquire Course-Management Rival
WebCT in a Deal Worth $180-Million
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101301t.htm
The courseware provider community is consolidating even as the number of
courseware adopters is increasing.
2) Missouri May Track Cell Phones for Traffic Data
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1214736
Driving to work, you notice the traffic beginning to slow. And
because you have your cell phone on, the government senses the delay,
too. A congestion alert is issued, automatically updating electronic
road signs and Web sites and dispatching text messages to mobile
phones and auto dashboards.
In what would be the largest project of its kind, the Missouri
Department of Transportation is finalizing a contract to monitor
thousands of cell phones, using their movements to map real-time
traffic conditions statewide on all 5,500 miles of major roads.
3) Limits on wireless leave U.S. at risk By Reed Hundt
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12917284.htm>
For the past two years, everyone in Washington has agreed that the
country needs a new telecommunications law. But no one has been able
to provide a reason in terms that any voter could grasp. One of the
many outcomes of the Katrina and Rita catastrophes is that we all
know, tragically and inescapably, that America needs a new,
up-to- date communications network. If a law will give us that, then
Congress should pass that law. In a hurry.
We can start by identifying some things not to do. For example,
Louisiana and Florida adopted legislation in recent years intended to
slow the deployment of municipal wireless broadband communications
networks. These states are not alone; a dozen other legislatures have
tried to slow the deployment of municipal broadband.
In theory, the legislation has helped traditional suppliers of fixed
telecommunications services serve existing and potential customers
without competition from local governments. But this public-policy
choice has hurt and will continue to impede first-responder access to
communications by making it difficult or impossible for cities to
deploy on-the-spot wireless broadband communication systems.
In the wake of Katrina and Rita, ``new'' telecommunications options,
such as wireless broadband, were among the fastest to reconnect first
responders and citizens in the affected regions. These new
competitors are using the latest technologies, such as voice over
Internet protocol phones, mesh networking, and WiFi and WiMax
technologies that operate on unlicensed spectrum. In fact, WiFi mesh
technology has demonstrated yet again that it is one of the most
robust communications systems -- one that will stay up the longest
when a catastrophic event occurs and can be back up first to aid in
the rescue effort.
4) FCC temporary modifications to Universal Service Fund
Rules in response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Order itself may be viewed at
http://www.neca.org/wawatch/wwpdf/101705_1.pdf
5) A PDF of FEMA Katrina e-mails
(on some pages including "see-through"
blackouts) has been released.
article
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701
230.html>
The e-mail PDF
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/hurricane/brownemails10
.17.pdf>
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1) Blackboard Plans to Acquire Course-Management Rival WebCT in a Deal Worth $180-Million http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101301t.htm The courseware provider community is consolidating even as the number of courseware adopters is increasing.
3) Limits on wireless leave U.S. at risk By Reed Hundt <http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12917284.htm> For the past two years, everyone in Washington has agreed that the country needs a new telecommunications law. But no one has been able to provide a reason in terms that any voter could grasp. One of the many outcomes of the Katrina and Rita catastrophes is that we all know, tragically and inescapably, that America needs a new, up-to- date communications network. If a law will give us that, then Congress should pass that law. In a hurry. We can start by identifying some things not to do. For example, Louisiana and Florida adopted legislation in recent years intended to slow the deployment of municipal wireless broadband communications networks. These states are not alone; a dozen other legislatures have tried to slow the deployment of municipal broadband. In theory, the legislation has helped traditional suppliers of fixed telecommunications services serve existing and potential customers without competition from local governments. But this public-policy choice has hurt and will continue to impede first-responder access to communications by making it difficult or impossible for cities to deploy on-the-spot wireless broadband communication systems. In the wake of Katrina and Rita, ``new'' telecommunications options, such as wireless broadband, were among the fastest to reconnect first responders and citizens in the affected regions. These new competitors are using the latest technologies, such as voice over Internet protocol phones, mesh networking, and WiFi and WiMax technologies that operate on unlicensed spectrum. In fact, WiFi mesh technology has demonstrated yet again that it is one of the most robust communications systems -- one that will stay up the longest when a catastrophic event occurs and can be back up first to aid in the rescue effort.
4) FCC temporary modifications to Universal Service Fund Rules in response to Hurricane Katrina. The Order itself may be viewed at http://www.neca.org/wawatch/wwpdf/101705_1.pdf
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