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.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued notices announcing the availability of a revised compliance policy guide on prior notice (PN) of imported food as well as the second edition of a questions-and-answers (Q&A) document regarding the final rule on establishment and maintenance of records under the Bioterrorism Act.
The FCC seeks comment on an Assn. of American Railroads (AAR) petition to consolidate member lines’ licenses into a nationwide geographic area license. AAR members hold site-specific licenses for 160.215-161.565 MHz and 452/457.900-452/457.96875 MHz frequencies. Consent from the railroad frequency coordinator is required before another private land mobile radio frequency coordinator recommends use of those frequencies. If AAR gets its way, the group would track individual railroad radio station operations via computerized database to be accessible via Internet to the FCC and all FCC-recognized frequency coordinators. Comments due Dec. 27, replies Jan. 11.