Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., introduced S-1685 Thursday “to direct the [FCC] to extend to private land use restrictions its rule relating to reasonable accommodation of amateur service communications,” its title said. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is the bill’s one co-sponsor, and it was referred to the Commerce Committee, where both are members. That title text is the same language used in the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR-1301), introduced in March by Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. The House bill has 83 co-sponsors -- 59 Republicans and 24 Democrats -- and is referred to the Communications Subcommittee. The Senate bill text wasn't online, and a Wicker spokesman didn’t immediately comment. Kinzinger introduced the bill last Congress; it never advanced.
Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., introduced S-1685 Thursday “to direct the [FCC] to extend to private land use restrictions its rule relating to reasonable accommodation of amateur service communications,” its title said. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is the bill’s one co-sponsor, and it was referred to the Commerce Committee, where both are members. That title text is the same language used in the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR-1301), introduced in March by Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. The House bill has 83 co-sponsors -- 59 Republicans and 24 Democrats -- and is referred to the Communications Subcommittee. The Senate bill text wasn't online, and a Wicker spokesman didn’t immediately comment. Kinzinger introduced the bill last Congress; it never advanced.
IEEE’s IoT initiative launched a Scenarios contributor program to help developers “get exposure for IoT projects, ideas, and services and to provide a venue for sharing best practices and lessons learned,” the standards group said in a Thursday announcement. The program’s submission process “provides a streamlined means to easily upload IoT contributions in PDF format” through a targeted landing page, it said.
Netflix stands by statements it will deliver high dynamic range content later this year when the first "certified" UHD Alliance and Dolby Vision sets come to market, spokesman Cliff Edwards emailed us Thursday in response to Amazon's announcement a day earlier that it had become the first video service to deliver HDR to its Amazon Prime customers (see 1506240038 or 1506240043). Amazon representatives haven't responded to our questions seeking specifics about its HDR offering, including which HDR technology it's using -- UHD Alliance or Dolby Vision -- and how much extra bandwidth its HDR layer will consume. Netflix is a founding member of the UHD Alliance; Amazon doesn't belong. The UHD Alliance's efforts to devise a product logo and certification program for HDR, among other Ultra HD attributes, should bear fruit this year, we were told at this month’s Display Week conference (see 1506030045). Sources familiar with UHD Alliance activities said it's possible the first Ultra HD TVs could begin landing HDR certifications by late summer.
Netflix stands by statements it will deliver high dynamic range content later this year when the first "certified" UHD Alliance and Dolby Vision sets come to market, spokesman Cliff Edwards emailed us Thursday in response to Amazon's announcement a day earlier that it had become the first video service to deliver HDR to its Amazon Prime customers (see 1506240038 or 1506240043). Amazon representatives haven't responded to our questions seeking specifics about its HDR offering, including which HDR technology it's using -- UHD Alliance or Dolby Vision -- and how much extra bandwidth its HDR layer will consume. Netflix is a founding member of the UHD Alliance; Amazon doesn't belong. The UHD Alliance's efforts to devise a product logo and certification program for HDR, among other Ultra HD attributes, should bear fruit this year, we were told at this month’s Display Week conference (see 1506030045). Sources familiar with UHD Alliance activities said it's possible the first Ultra HD TVs could begin landing HDR certifications by late summer.
IEEE’s IoT initiative launched a Scenarios contributor program to help developers “get exposure for IoT projects, ideas, and services and to provide a venue for sharing best practices and lessons learned,” the standards group said in a Thursday announcement. The program’s submission process “provides a streamlined means to easily upload IoT contributions in PDF format” through a targeted landing page, it said.
IEEE’s IoT initiative launched a Scenarios contributor program to help developers “get exposure for IoT projects, ideas, and services and to provide a venue for sharing best practices and lessons learned,” the standards group said in a Thursday announcement. The program’s submission process “provides a streamlined means to easily upload IoT contributions in PDF format” through a targeted landing page, it said.
The small-satellite world is getting bigger in part because technology is making such satellites -- and the costs of launching them -- smaller. "It's really an exciting time," said Andy Hock, Skybox at Google project manager, Thursday on a panel about the small satellite market put together by the Washington Space Business Roundtable.
Netflix stands by statements it will deliver high dynamic range content later this year when the first "certified" UHD Alliance and Dolby Vision sets come to market, spokesman Cliff Edwards emailed us Thursday in response to Amazon's announcement a day earlier that it had become the first video service to deliver HDR to its Amazon Prime customers (see 1506240038 or 1506240043). Amazon representatives haven't responded to our questions seeking specifics about its HDR offering, including which HDR technology it's using -- UHD Alliance or Dolby Vision -- and how much extra bandwidth its HDR layer will consume. Netflix is a founding member of the UHD Alliance; Amazon doesn't belong. The UHD Alliance's efforts to devise a product logo and certification program for HDR, among other Ultra HD attributes, should bear fruit this year, we were told at this month’s Display Week conference (see 1506030045). Sources familiar with UHD Alliance activities said it's possible the first Ultra HD TVs could begin landing HDR certifications by late summer.
From cheaper residential Internet delivered unthrottled, to bringing outsourced customer service jobs back to the U.S., Charter Communications has a litany of reasons why its proposed buys of Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable should get FCC OK, said the public interest statement posted Thursday in docket 15-149. The deals worth $89.1 billion are expected to close by year end, giving Charter 19.4 million broadband, 17.3 million video and 9.4 million voice customers in 41 states, the companies said in May when they announced the deal (see 1505260047).