Utah Attorney Gen. Mark Shurtleff (R) slammed a Free Speech Coalition (FSC) lawsuit last week that he said aims to dismantle a new state registry that protects children online. Shurtleff filed a motion to dismiss a complaint filed Nov. 16 in federal court by the adult entertainment industry trade group challenging the constitutionality of Utah’s Child Protection Registry law. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. Dist. Court-Salt Lake, “shows the pornographers’ true colors,” Shurtleff said. “They claim a ‘right’ to market porn to adults, but by challenging our Child Protection Registry, they have proven their real intent to force smut on our children in our homes and schools,” he said, pledging to “vigorously defend” the registry. The law prohibits emailing to registered addresses “a product or service that a minor is prohibited by law from purchasing or… contains or advertises material that is harmful to minors.” In its 39-page complaint, FSC said the underlying state law is flawed in several respects, most significantly by conflicting with the national CAN- SPAM Act. The law also violates the U.S. and Utah Constitutions by treating some e-mail marketers differently from others, the group said. FSC’s claims that the cost of regularly “scrubbing” e-mail lists against Utah’s registry database could be prohibitive and have a “chilling effect” aren’t legitimate, said Matthew Prince, whose company Unspam works with the state on the registry. It costs adult industry marketers only a fraction of a penny per e-mail address to ensure their messages aren’t landing in registered inboxes, he said.
USDTV -- the subscription-based over-the-air terrestrial DTV service -- will ship a 2nd-generation set- top box in first half 2006, along with optional MPEG-4-to- MPEG-2 transcoders and 250 GB hard drives as it sets a goal of landing 2 million subscribers within 5 years, CEO Steve Lindsley told the UBS Global Media Conference in N.Y. Thurs.
Despite agency and business caution in moving to an Internet platform they don’t fully understand, time is running out for such enterprises to start initial plans for IPv6 transition, agency officials and experts said Thurs. Speaking at a luncheon at the U.S. IPv6 Summit organized by Juniper Networks, which released a draft “world report” on IPv6 best practices, speakers also warned the U.S. was in danger of falling behind Europe and Asia in deployment and activation of IPv6. “Any federal agency needs to have very aggressive pre-planning now” to meet OMB’s stated 2008 deadline, said Tim Quinn, Interior Dept. chief-enterprise infrastructure division for the agency CIO.
USDTV -- the subscription-based over-the-air terrestrial DTV service -- will ship a 2nd-generation set- top box in first half 2006, along with optional MPEG-4-to- MPEG-2 transcoders and 250 GB hard drives as it sets a goal of landing 2 million subscribers within 5 years, CEO Steve Lindsley told the UBS Global Media Conference in N.Y. Thurs.
AOL said its video search engine now features RSS feeds of MTV Networks programming, including the websites of CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, The N, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, Noggin, TV Land, Spike and VH1.
AOL said its video search engine now features RSS feeds of MTV Networks programming, including the websites of CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, The N, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, Noggin, TV Land, Spike and VH1.
A confidential Request for Information (RFI) issued in June by DirecTV and EchoStar and obtained by Communications Daily posits 2006 creation of a national wireless broadband network. DirecTV, when queried, called the document “indicative of one of the many areas we've been exploring in the broadband arena.” But the firm has made no commitments “to EchoStar or to anyone else, regarding the contents of the RFI or other broadband plans,” DirecTV said. EchoStar didn’t comment by our deadline. No information was immediately available on who responded to the RFI, or what information was provided.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has recently issued a press release announcing the release of a report examining the export opportunities and barriers in sub-Saharan African countries eligible for trade preferences under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
The Defense secy. should make sure the Defense Dept. (DoD) puts in writing its plans to do a better job of informing communities about interference to garage-door openers from new DoD land mobile radios, GAO said. Being deployed to military installations, the units run in the 380-399.9 MHz frequencies that many unlicensed low-power garage door openers use. Under FCC rules, such systems must accept interference from DoD and other authorized spectrum users. With many complaints about garage-door woes, the DoD said, it would do a better job of outreach, according to GAO. DoD and major garage-door makers plan to notify communities at least a month ahead of the radios’ arrival at bases, with notices to the media and local congressional district offices, GAO said.
The Department of Transportation's (DOT's) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has issued a list of the top 10 U.S. international freight gateways, ranked by value of shipments, for 2004.