Duane D. Freese: February 2004 Archives
VoIP's Giant Hurdles
The Federal Communications Commission on Feb. 12 let Voice over Internet Protocol take one small step forward. But the giant leap for Internet telephony awaits more additional information gathering and rulemaking by the agency. And two big hurdles stand...
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Convergence, Consolidation and Competition
A lot of talk has gone into the idea of convergence in communications technologies, and how it would bring about inter-platform competition to serve consumers. Well, there's a convergence going on all right. Cingular wireless' $41 billion bid at...
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Why Didn't He Know?
"What did the president know and when did he know it?" That was the question that Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., asked the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973 regarding President Richard M. Nixon's knowledge of the infamous break in. Today,...
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Sec. Thompson: "What's the Incentive...?"
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson gave a spirited defense on Thursday to the Bush administration's approach to funding international AIDS programs and its protections of intellectual property. Thompson's remarks came at the conclusion of a forum o
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The Enemy Within
According to ABC News, "A shortage of Arabic translators in Iraq has made it harder for U.S. soldiers to protect themselves, jeopardized interrogations of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in U.S. custody in Cuba and left almost no one to...
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Paradigm Shift or Ancien Regime?
"It's probably the most significant paradigm shift in the entire history of modern communications, since the invention of the telephone," Federal Communications Chairman Michael Powell said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Powell was talking about
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