Former CEO Eric Schmidt will be in Washington promoting Google interests much more often now that he has become the company’s executive chairman, said several analysts. But a higher capital profile for Schmidt would be a bad idea, said a privacy advocate.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that on January 21, 2011, a London Court of International Arbitration tribunal found that Canada has breached its obligations under the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) and determined compensatory export measures to remedy the breach.
The Rural Telecommunications Group and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association will ask the FCC to change its E-911 location accuracy rules so they're less demanding for some small carriers. The groups plan to file a petition for rulemaking Thursday, RTG Counsel Carri Bennett told us.
Samsung Mobile Displays (SMD) will triple its OLED manufacturing capacity this year with the addition of a 5.5-generation line, as it battles to keep pace with demand, Marketing Team Leader Sean Lee told us. Volume production along the new line will start in Q3, ahead of earlier plans for adding it in 2012.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced on January 18, 2011 that the U.S. is requesting arbitration with Canada under the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) regarding the under-pricing of timber harvested from public lands in the Interior region of British Columbia.
On January 12, 2011, the National Marine Fisheries Service submitted its second biennial report to Congress which identifies six nations - Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Italy, and Portugal - whose fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing during 2009 or 2010.
On January 12, 2011, Treasury Department Secretary Timothy Geithner gave remarks on the path ahead for the U.S.-China economic relationship, in which he reviews concerns in the U.S. economic relationship with China ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the U.S.
An October 2010 periodic report on security incidents issued under the Department of Homeland Security contains several paragraphs discussing in general terms what is known about drug traffickers use of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program for the surface transportation of illicit cargo to the U.S.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a final rule which implements identification and certification procedures to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU1) fishing activities and bycatch of protected living marine resources (PLMRs) pursuant to the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act (Moratorium Protection Act).
A bill introduced last week aims to spur use of amateur radio for homeland security. Sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, HR-81 would require the Homeland Security Department to study the uses and capabilities of amateur radio in disaster relief and emergency communications and send a report to Congress 180 days after the bill’s enactment. DHS would have to identify and make recommendations to remove barriers to deployment of such amateur radio communications. The study also would examine section 207 of the 1996 Telecom Act and “make a recommendation whether that section should be modified to prevent unreasonable private land use restrictions that impair the ability of an amateur radio operator licensed” by the FCC “to conduct, or prepare to conduct, emergency communications by means of effective outdoor antennas and support structures at reasonable heights and dimensions for the purpose, in residential areas."