| Hagel's Internet Movement: A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:02:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a front page article about Republican Senator Chuck Hagel's presidential prospects, the Washington Post reports that Hagel's opposition to escalating the Iraq war has made him very popular, even on the left. How popular? Here's the proof: An Internet "draft Hagel" movement has formed, and even die-hard liberals admit they find him appealing.But the article's only evidence for this Internet "movement" is a pro-Hagel column by esteemed liberal journalist Robert Scheer, posted at the web magazine Truthdig.com. .... | |
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| | | China, The Internet Monster Lurches Out of Control by James Dunnigan January 16, 2007 | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:07:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | December 27, 2006: A major (7.1 magnitude) earthquake south of Taiwan, severed fiber optic cables that carried most of the Internet traffic from North America to East Asia. Because the United States is, in effect, the center of the Internet, this meant that East Asia lost most of its access to the Internet outside the region. This provided a live example of what could happen in wartime, when nations are expected to cut each other off from international Internet access. However, the Internet is designed to survive such damage, and the Internet software, and operators, began reconfiguring the connections, to restore access. But the damaged cables carried such a large quantity of data, that satellite links, and other long lines, were only able to replace part of the service, and then it took nearly a week to show some progress.... | |
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| | | Al Jazeera takes on global news market | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:02:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Arabic television network Al Jazeera will step into the global market on Wednesday when it launches English-language program that is expected to reach into 80 million homes worldwide. But North Americans won't get to see what the fuss is about: Al Jazeera International was not able to secure carriage through any cable or satellite provider, so viewers will have to watch over the internet. The Qatar-based network has secured some big names of world journalism, particularly with the hiring of veteran British journalist David Frost. Sir David is the only person to have interviewed the last seven U.S. presidents and the last six British prime ministers, and he isn't letting that reputation slip: his new show will kick off this Friday with an exclusive interview with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.... | |
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| | | A Million-Attendee Event | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:21:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | This week, the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission hosted a webcast from Jamestown, Virginia. They worked with The History Channel to create a webcast aimed at school children to teach about the first permanent English settlement in America. The event was broadcast by satellite on television, but was also available over the Internet. According to news accounts, the audience was estimated at more than one million viewers. I thought I would track down which technology provider handled the webcast. That was trickier than I thought. Whoever it was completely buried their own branding in favor of their client. I finally found a technical support page that mentioned a vdat.com domain. That led me to the company that Visual Data merged with two years ago (and the one whose name survived)...... | |
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| | | Music Keeps Satellite Radio in Orbit, Survey Finds | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:16:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study of satellite radio subscribers and potential subscribers shows that music -- not big name celebrities, sports or talk radio -- is what attracts listeners to those services and keeps them subscribing. The independent survey, conducted by Dr. Yoram "Jerry" Wind, professor of marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of 23 books on marketing, establishes the enormous value of music to the satellite radio services. The survey was conducted for SoundExchange, Inc., a non-profit corporation responsible for collecting and distributing digital music royalties (e.g., satellite and Internet radio) on behalf of artists and record labels, and was included in SoundExchange's recent filing before the federal Copyright Royalty Board (CRB).... | |
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| | | ATK Composite and Propulsion Technologies Help Launch Defense Weather Satellite | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:04:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) supported Saturday's successful launch of a Boeing Delta IV rocket carrying a Department of Defense (DoD) weather satellite that is part of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program run by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems center. This satellite will join two others already in orbit tracking global weather conditions and providing data for distribution to the DoD and civilian government agencies. ATK designed and produced the nozzle for the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne- built RS-68 engine as well as the nozzle's thermal protection material, which is capable of shielding it from the extreme heat of launch when external temperatures can exceed 4,000 degrees F. The Delta IV's RS-68 is the largest hydrogen-fueled engine in the world, utilizing an ATK nozzle that is the first of its kind in a liquid booster engine.... | |
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| | | Nonprofit Group Questioning Accuracy Of Zillow's Valuations | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:08:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | Have you ever checked out the satellite photos and market value estimates of homes in your neighborhood on Zillow.com - the Internet real estate site that offers "free, instant valuations and data for 67 million-plus homes"? Zillow was launched with major media fanfare last February, backed with a reported $57 million in venture capital. It is one of the most popular real estate sites on the Web - visited millions of times a month by sellers, buyers, agents, lenders and homeowners. .... | |
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| | | Troops Pay For Their Own Internet Connection | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:59:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | November 2, 2006: Commercial providers of satellite Internet access are pitching their services directly to American and NATO troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rates are competitive, and the Internet access includes VOIP (telephone service via the Internet). Not all bases have Internet access, and the providers have found a market of well paid troops who are willing, and able, to pay for access. The access equipment is shipped to the base, and is simple to set up. While the brass are increasingly concerned with such Internet access in a combat zone, they have to move carefully to control it (for security purposes), because such access is very popular with the troops. Return to FrontPage For More News Comment .... | |
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| | | Comcast Says Competition From Satellite Operators Helps | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 3:10:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Competition from satellite operators forced cable companies to invest in infrastructure that added Internet and phone service to their basic TV offerings -- features the satellite companies have not been able to provide effectively, Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts said Thursday as the company reported better-than-expected results in the third quarter. Comcast said that revenue from broadband Internet services increased 22 percent to $1.4 billion during the quarter, while phone service rose a whopping 51 percent to $252 million. 27/10/2006 .... | |
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| | | What to Watch in Telecom -- Part II | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 1:12:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | There are two unassailable truths. No. 1, whatever the odds are of a merger between the two DBS companies, they are a lot better than they were last time the subject came up. And No. 2, there will be a high level of uncertainty whether the deal could get through; the facts in the market may well have changed by the time any deal gets reviewed. Wall Street is more focused on a merger of the two satellite companies. But, were AT&T to be interested in buying EchoStar, for example, the ... .... | |
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