Latest Federal Communications Commission Stories

Documents obtained by Reuters and the Los Angeles Times have brought to light new details regarding Google Street View and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) investigation into the service. According to Times reporter Jessica Guynn, an unredacted version of the government report into allegations regarding the collection of personal information by Street View personnel revealed that the engineer who created the software code responsible for the collection of said data did not...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com When two people fight, the initial altercation usually isn’t the worst part; It’s the following weeks, months or even years of terse words, stared daggers and awkward moments-in-passing. Now that the FCC and Google have had their run-ins in court, the most gruesome and gossip-worthy moments in FCC v Google may be just ahead as each side lob verbal bombs and meager fines at one another. Like many of Google’s products, regardless if they currently...

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After the FCC's April Open Meeting, CTIA-The Wireless Association's President and CEO Steve Largent released the following statement on the Innovation in the Television Bands Report and Order: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100629/DC28223LOGO-a ) "Today's adoption of the Innovation in the Television Bands Report and Order by the FCC marks another important step to freeing up valuable spectrum so the U.S. wireless...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com Americans are hungry. We’ve been given a taste of the good life, the sweeter things, and we must have more. With cellular carriers as our Moses, we’ve been led out of the captivity of primitive and faulty cellular technology and have entered the promise land, a land where music streaming and video chats flow like milk and honey. For years we survived and made due with landline telephones and actual conversations instead of frequent Facebook updates as...

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Today the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program released a new report of the International Digital Economy Accords (IDEA) Project titled, Toward a Single Global Digital Economy: The First Report of the Aspen Institute IDEA Project. The report addresses the challenges and critical steps forward for establishing a fair, effective, and empowering multistakeholder system for governing the flow and use of data in a single...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications Commission certified Adaptrum's ACRS 1.0 TV white space system as fixed TV band devices operating together with the Telcordia TV white space database on April 19, 2012. The operation was approved for the entire UHF TV band (Channel 14 to 51, from 470 MHz to 698 MHz) and authorized for a radiated output power close to 4 W EIRP (with more than 0.5 W conducted output power and up to 10 dBi antenna gain.) The...

On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a new website designed to help wireless customers keep track of how close they are to their monthly usage limits. According to Maggie Shader of Consumer Reports, the website "tracks how the major U.S. wireless carriers alert you when you're at risk of going over your usage limits for voice, data, and text." Shader reports that an FCC survey says that 30 million Americans -- or one out of every six wireless users -- has...

Featured speakers include Julius Genachowski, Daniel Weitzner and Reed Hundt WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program will release a report of the International Digital Economy Accords (IDEA) Project entitled, Toward a Single, Global Digital Economy: The First Report of the Aspen Institute IDEA Project. The Aspen Institute IDEA Project is an internationally inclusive project designed to explore the free flow of...

On its surface, the idea of Google Street View seemed like a good one. Users could see their directions rather than read them from a list. However, the methods used to capture this data are inciting questions once more from privacy watchdogs and federal agencies, questions Google isn’t too keen on answering. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has censured Google for obstructing an inquiry into the Street View project. As the specially equipped and Google-branded cars drove...

Closed Caption and Subtitle Software Developer Offers a Cost-Effective and Easy to Use Solution for Creating Captions for Online Media Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) April 15, 2012 CPC, an award winning closed captioning software company, offers an array of captioning tools to make captioning for online media formats easier and more cost-effective. New regulations announced by the FCC in early 2012 and taking effect over the next few months require programs that were broadcast with closed captions...