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YouTube TV Rising: Do Traditional Media
Companies Need a User-Generated
Strategy By Adrian
Penninton ••••
YouTube comprises
10% of all TV viewing in the US, according
to Nielsen in its latest monthly report on
streaming, so why do advertisers seem
reluctant to buy ads on YouTube streamed
to connected TVs?
••••
Because they still
think of Google's platform as a place for
cat videos.
••••
The statistic
unveiled by Nielsen is less remarkable
than the claim that YouTube's whopping
share of TV viewing time has gone under
the radar of media buyers and sellers.
••••
YouTube comprises
10% of all TV viewing in the US, according
to Nielsen in its latest monthly streaming
report. Cr: Nielsen
••••
It's the latest in
"the continued denialism in the media and
ad communities about YouTube's scale, and
prominence in the eyes of many users,"
says Mike Shields, writing on Substack.
"The Google-owned video platform is a CTV
juggernaut, like it or not."
••••
Shields, a
strategic consultant and the host of
industry podcast Next in Marketing, takes
aim at TV and brand marketers who don't
think of YouTube as "real TV," or the idea
that advertising only works well in highly
produced comedies and drama.
••••
Most of YouTube is
either pirated from traditional TV -- or
it's just dogs on skateboards -- the
perception goes.
••••
Yet this is long
out of date, says Shields. Ignore the
reality of what YouTube is at your peril,
he warns.
••••
Michael Beach, CEO of marketing and
analytics firm Cross Screen Media, says
YouTube inventory is underbought. "If you
look at its TV share, it should at least
be getting close to 10% of the TV market,
but at best it's maybe 4%."
••••
Beach criticized
media buyers for having siloed structures,
leading to conflicting definitions of what
even constitutes "video."
••••
A recent report by
Accenture called on the media industry to
radically reinvent itself in the wake of a
seismic shift in entertainment
preferences. The report found that nearly
60% of consumers regarded user-generated
content as equally entertaining as
traditional media.
••••
"Traditional media
companies must reinvent themselves from
the ground up," Accenture writes. "Legacy
media companies need new sources of
revenue; they need to take on new roles in
the entertainment value chain. They need
to rethink the customers they serve and
even the industries where they chose to
compete."
••••
"Instead of
knocking platforms like YouTube as havens
for UGC, do traditional media companies
need a user-generated strategy?" poses
Shields.
••••
Amazon recently
struck a deal to produce a show with
YouTube mega-star MrBeast. "You might
ask," as Shield does, "why didn't
CBS?"
••••
On YouTube, viewers
aren't the problem. It's the perception of
people who do not watch YouTube that
is. Basically, YouTube is 10% of all TV
viewing in the US.
••••
Note, that doesn't
include YouTube TV. This is just plain old
YouTube-watching on TV. And this isn't 10%
of streaming - it's all TV.
••••
That feels big - as
evidenced by the reaction of many media
industry observers:
••••
The media is still just barely covering
how much YouTube (classic, not YouTubeTV)
is viewed on TVs in the US, and how fast
it's gaining share. I'd wager YouTube
viewing on TVs is close to that of the top
3 broadcast networks combined.
"Last comparable numbers are from July,
2023.
Total day average viewership:
• YouTube 5.1 million
• ABC 2.0m
• CBS 1.9m
• NBC 1.6m
••••
To be sure, those
numbers are total day. So we're not saying
that more people are watching YouTube than
ABC during any given hour. Still, this
data and its trajectory are pretty
remarkable.
••••
Also remarkable -
the continued denialism in the media and
ad communities about YouTube's scale, and
prominence in the eyes of many users.
••••
Some call it the
YouTube Derangement Syndrome.
••••
You still get this
a lot -- YouTube isn't 'real TV.' Or the
idea that advertising only works well in
highly-produced comedies and drama. Most
of YouTube is either pirated from
traditional TV - or it's just dogs on
skateboards.
••••
Note, that doesn't
include YouTube TV. This is just plain old
YouTube-watching on TV. And this isn't 10%
of streaming - it's all TV.
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Paramount+ With
SHOWTIME®
Officially Launched
•••
The launch adds
Showtime's edgier programming to the
Paramount+ library. Paramount+ and
Showtime combined services into a unified
SVOD platform priced at $11.99 monthly
starting June 27.
••••The
standalone Showtime platform will windup
at the end of the year. Paramount's
ad-free service was priced at $9.99 per
month. The less expensive ad-supported
option increased $1 to $5.99 and does not
include Showtime.
••••Showtime
content joining Paramount+ includes "Your
Honor," "Yellowjackets," "The Chi,"
"George & Tammy" "Dexter," "Billions,"
"Fellow Travelers," "The Curse," "The
Woman in the Wall," and "A Gentleman in
Moscow," among others.
••••
"By adopting the
programming of Showtime onto the
Paramount+ the platform has fortified
itself as the ultimate total household
destination in streaming," Tom Ryan, CEO
of Streaming at Paramount, said in a
statement. "Together, these powerhouse
brands will showcase the breadth and depth
of our content offering from across
Paramount. At this price point, we'll put
the value of the Paramount+ with Showtime
plan up against any other."
••••
Paramount ended the
most recent fiscal period with 60 million
paid subscribers, which included Showtime,
Noggin and BET+.
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••••
June - 27, 2023.
Weeks after longtime Whell of Fortune host
Pat Sajak announced his retirement,
Seacrest revealed Tuesday that he will
takeover hosting duties. The producer
shared the news in a statement posted on
Instagram."
"I'm truly humbled
to be stepping into the footsteps of the
legendary Pat Sajak," he wrote. "I can
say, along with the rest of America, that
it's been a privilege and pure joy to
watch Pat and Vanna [White] on our
television screens for an unprecedented 40
years."
••••
He added: "Pat, I
love the way you've always celebrated the
contestants and made viewers at home feel
at ease. I look forward to learning
everything I can from you during this
transition.
••••
The "Wheel of
Fortune" change of guard comes after Sajak
said on Twitter that "his time has
come."
••••
"I've decided that
our 41st season, which begins in
September, will be my last," he wrote.
"It's been a wonderful ride.
•••
Seacrest, who said
he is "grateful" for the opportunity,"
mentioned about how the move feels "full
circle" for him, as he reflected on one of
his "first jobs" hosting the short-lived
game show "Click" from Merv Griffin from
1997 to 1999. Griffin is a TV legend,
having created of both "Jeopardy!" and
"Wheel of Fortune."
••••
"I can't wait to
continue the tradition of spinning the
wheel and working alongside the great
Vanna White," Seacrest said.
•••During
his tenure hosting "Wheel of Fortune"
alongside letter turner Vanna White, Sajak
has won the Daytime Emmy for outstanding
game show host three times, with 19 total
nominations. While Sajak will no longer be
the face of "Wheel," which he'd steered
since its 1981 debut, Sony Pictures
Television confirmed that he will continue
a partnership with the program as a
consultant.
••••
Seacrest has guided
"American Idol" from its inception,
hosting the singing competition show since
2002. Seacrest has proven a steadfast
force on the show as it transformed across
the decade and judges cycling in and out
and amid its move from Fox to ABC. ••••
He is also
well-versed in taking up the mantle from
another icon, after assuming hosting
duties for "American Top 40" from
legendary radio host Casey Kasem in 2004
and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."
Seacrest co-hosted and executive produced
the holiday special with Clark from 2006
until the renowned broadcaster's death in
2012.
••••
One of his first
jobs was hosting a little game show called
'Click' for Merv Griffin 25 years ago so
this is truly a full circle moment for me
and "I'm grateful to Sony for the
opportunity," Seacrest added to his post.
"I can't wait to continue the tradition of
spinning the wheel and working alongside
the great Vanna White."
••••
Seacrest's new gig
comes just months after he signed off as
co-host of "Live With Kelly and Ryan,"
where he worked for six years Kelly Ripa.
The duo experienced great success in the
ratings. As of his final shows, "Live"
celebrated 29 consecutive weeks as the No.
1 syndicated talk show across all key
Nielsen measures and in 2019, Ripa and
Seacrest won a Daytime Emmy for
outstanding entertainment talk show
hosts.
•••But,
departing "Live" reduced Seacrest's his
six-job schedule a year "Idol," "On Air
With Ryan Seacrest," "American Top 40,"
"New Year's Rockin' Eve" and his morning
show for L.A.'s KIIS-FM radio)
•••The
TV host also put his focus to his food
ventures. Seacrest formed an agricultural
company to study the process of producing
extra virgin olive oil and organic wine
and will be releasing his own label,
dubbed "Concento, " and launching new
broadcast media centers in pediatric
hospitals with the Ryan Seacrest
Foundation. •Click
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on the Use of Artificial
Intelligence and Digital Doubles
in Media and Entertainment LOS
ANGELES (Mar. 17, 2023) - SAG-AFTRA
proudly supports the Human Artistry
Campaign's core principles for Artificial
Intelligence Applications in support of
Human Creativity and Accomplishment and
today reaffirmed its position on digital
voice, likeness and performance
simulations. The terms and conditions
involving rights to digitally simulate a
performer to create new performances must
be bargained with the union. In addition,
any use or reuse of recorded performances
is limited by our collectively bargained
contract provisions, including those
requiring consent and negotiation of
compensation.
••••These
rights are mandatory subjects of
bargaining under the National Labor
Relations Act. Companies are required to
bargain with SAG-AFTRA before attempting
to acquire these rights in individual
performers' contracts. To attempt to
circumvent SAG-AFTRA and deal directly
with the performers on these issues is a
clear violation of the NLRA.
••••Additionally,
Global Rule One, a fundamental principle
of the union stating that SAG-AFTRA
members must always work under a union
contract anywhere they work, covers
entering into any agreement with an
employer to digitally simulate a member's
voice or likeness to create a new
performance. As such, members should not
assign these rights to any employer who
has not executed a basic minimum agreement
with the union.
••••Human
creators are the foundation of the
creative industries and we must ensure
that they are respected and paid for their
work. Governments should not create new
copyright or other IP exemptions that
allow AI developers to exploit creative
works, or professional voices and
likenesses, without permission or
compensation. Trustworthiness and
transparency are essential to the success
of AI.
••••SAG-AFTRA
will continue to prioritize the protection
of our member performers against the
unauthorized use of their voices,
likenesses and performances. We are in
frequent contact and actively collaborate
with other performers unions around the
world on these important issues. We follow
the newest developments in AI technology,
its uses in the entertainment and media
industries, and the evolving legal
landscape. We will continue to negotiate
and enforce provisions around these
technologies and their uses so employers
and performers can work
collaboratively.
••••Members
who believe that employers are asking them
to surrender AI rights should email their
agreement to aiquestions@sagaftra.org. The
union will investigate and take
appropriate steps to protect members based
on the specific circumstances. Please also
email us with any questions regarding
authorizations, riders or improper
uses.
• SAG-AFTRA
represents approximately 160,000 actors,
announcers, broadcast journalists,
dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors,
program hosts, puppeteers, recording
artists, singers, stunt performers,
voiceover artists, influencers and other
entertainment and media professionals.
SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices
that entertain and inform America and the
world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO,
SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los
Angeles and New York and local offices
nationwide representing members working
together to secure the strongest
protections for entertainment and media
artists in the 21st century and
beyond. •
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BuzzFeed News shutting down as company
cuts
staff -(Television Int'l
Magazine) NEW
YORK - April 20, 2023 --
BuzzFeed News,
which won a Pulitzer Prize for its
reporting in 2021, is shutting down, due
to economic challenges facing digital
media companies attempting to deliver
serious journalism.
••••
A memo from
BuzzFeed chief Jonah Peretti announced the
closure Thursday in a staff memo, which
also said the New York-based company is
cutting 15% of its staff.
••••
"While layoffs are
occurring across nearly every division,
we've determined that the company can no
longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News as a
standalone organization," Peretti
said.
••••
BuzzFeed News,
which once had as many as 250 employees,
has undergone significant staff reductions
in recent years, shrinking to a team of
about 50.
••••
It
used to be worth $1.6 billion; no it's
down to $100 million.
••••
BuzzFeed was
founded in 2006 and its news division
launched in 2012. It was among the early
successful online-only media sites,
continuing a model established by
Huffington Post, which BuzzFeed would
later acquire.
••••
BuzzFeed, similard
to other online news sites, has been hit
by a deceleration in the advertising
business amid greater economic challenges.
With drops in advertising revenue, such
companies have found themselves unable to
support big staffs. Mass layoffs seem to
have become so normal.
••••
Online news sites
have also suffered because major social
media companies, including Facebook,
changed their algorithms, giving less
focus to news publishers. Facebook's
thinking is that its users would prefer to
consume articles shared by friends. In
addition, Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter
has made that site less hospitable to news
publishers.
•••
NPR and PBS stopped
using Twitte after receiving ''government
funded' media label.
••••
Late
last week, Twitter labeled the radio
broadcaster as a "state-affiliated media"
organization akin to foreign propaganda
outlets such as Russia's RT and Sputnik.
The move was quickly rebuked by NPR, which
is publicly funded by listeners. NPR CEO
John Lansing called the label
"unacceptable." Twitter over the weekend
updated the label to "government-funded
media."
••••
BuzzFeed News
earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for an
investigative series exposing China's mass
detention of Muslims.
••••
The outlet also won
two prestigious George Polk Awards,
including for reporting how Facebook
facilitated, then failed to control,
disinformation spreading through its
users' accounts, leading to violence.
••••
The division was
also known for publishing an infamous
dossier containing unflattering
information about former President Trump
in 2017.
••••
BuzzFeed's content
was aimed at a younger demographic of
digital natives who embraced the company's
stories designed to get traction on social
media. •Click
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These Countries spend the most time
online ••••
Undoubtedly, we spend a significant
portion of our day online. But just how
much?
••••
According to data presented by
the
Atlas
VPN
team, the average
time spent browsing the internet in 2022
was 397 minutes (6 hours and 37 minutes)
per day. It equates to an astonishing
2,415 hours yearly, or nearly 30% of our
time.
••••
However, there is some good news as daily
online time actually decreased by 4.8% or
20 minutes compared to 2021 as we
gradually moved past the pandemic.
••••
These figures are derived from data
provided by Meltwater, and We Are Social.
The data looks at internet usage trends
worldwide among internet users aged 16 to
64.
••••
The time spent online varies significantly
from country to country. South Africans
are the most internet-addicted, with an
average of 578 minutes (9 hours and 38
minutes) spent online each day, three
hours more than the global average.
••••
Brazilians are just a little behind, with
572 minutes (9 hours and 32 minutes)
devoted to internet usage daily. The
Philippines ranked third with an average
of 554 minutes (9 hours and 14 minutes)
spent online per day, followed by
Argentinians and Colombians, both with 541
minutes (9 hours and 1 minute) of daily
internet usage.
••••
People in the United States also spend an
above-average amount of time online,
dedicating 419 minutes (6 hours and 59
minutes) daily to internet browsing
&emdash; the same as people living in
Singapore. Meanwhile, Canadians are
slightly less generous with their time,
spending an average of 395 minutes (6
hours and 35 minutes) online daily.
••••
In contrast, East Asian countries have one
of the lowest average daily internet
usage, with Chinese people spending 325
minutes (5 hours and 25 minutes) online,
followed by South Korea at 321 minutes (5
hours and 21 minutes), and Japan with only
225 minutes (3 hours and 45 minutes)
&emdash; the least out of all the
countries in the study. The only exception
is Taiwan, with an average daily internet
usage time of 434 minutes (7 hours and 14
minutes).
••••
Most European countries also spend
significantly less time online than the
global average. Austrians devote 322
minutes (5 hours and 22 minutes) daily to
internet usage, while Germans spend 312
minutes (5 hours and 12 minutes).
••••
People in Denmark dedicate the least
amount of time to being online out of all
European countries in the study, with an
average of 298 minutes (4 hours and 58
minutes) spent on the internet each
day. •
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102-YouTube
CEO Susan Wojcicki announces plan to stepp
down MOUNTAINVIEW,
Feb. 16, 2023 -- CEO Susan Wojcicki said
that she's stepping down. Neal Mohan,
chief product officer, will take the lead
as the senior vice president and new head
of YouTube.
••••
"Today, after
nearly 25 years here, I've decided to step
back from my role as the head of YouTube
and start a new chapter focused on my
family, health, and personal projects I'm
passionate about," she said in a blog
post.
••••
Wojcicki, 54,
joined YouTube as CEO in 2014.
••••
She will continue
working with YouTube teams, coaching
members and meeting with creators, she
added.
••••
Wojcicki said she
agreed with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to,
in the longer term, take on an advisory
role across Google and Alphabet. "This
will allow me to call on my different
experiences over the years to offer
counsel and guidance across Google and the
portfolio of Alphabet companies," she
wrote.
••••
"The time is right
for me, and I feel able to do this because
we have an incredible leadership team in
place at YouTube," she noted. "When I
joined YouTube nine years ago, one of my
first priorities was bringing in an
incredible leadership team."
••••
Wojcicki has
long-held ties to Google founders Larry
Page and Sergey Brin, who she let work out
of her Menlo Park, California, home upon
founding Google. Page and Brin rented
the garage space for $1,700 a month
from her. At the time Wojcicki was working
in the marketing department at Intel.
••••
In 2006, she
advocated for the $1.65 billion
acquisition of YouTube.
••••
Wojcicki joined
Google in 1999 and oversaw the design and
build of Google's advertising and
analytics products for 14 years. In recent
years, YouTube has expanded its physical
footprint in areas like New York and near
its headquarters in San Bruno,
California.
••••
During her tenure,
she oversaw the company's rapid expansion
to become the largest video platform in
the world. YouTube now has more than 2.5
billion monthly active users and more than
500 hours of content
are uploaded to the
platform every minute, the company has
said.
••••
The rapid growth
became a challenge for the company to
contain. Google and YouTube had to pay
$170 million in 2019 to settle a case
where the video platform allegedly
violated children's privacy laws. Wojcicki
also came under fire during the 2020
elections and the Covid-19 pandemic as the
platform struggled to contain
misinformation and disinformation
campaigns.
••••
Wojcicki's blog
post said she spent nearly 15 years of her
career working with Mohan, the new head of
YouTube, "first when he came over to
Google with the DoubleClick acquisition in
2007 and as his role grew to become SVP of
Display and Video Ads."
••••
YouTube has faced
pressure in recent years amid a rise in
popularity of social media, namely TikTok,
which it has been trying to compete with
through its short-form video platform
Shorts. YouTube booked $7.96 billion in
advertising revenue during the fourth
quarter, which fell short of analyst
expectations and was down 8% from the year
prior. •
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••••
Security flaw may
allow hackers full control of devices,
company warns. Apple has released patches
for major iOS and macOS security breaches.
Major security vulnerabilities found in
iOS and macOS devices could allow
potential hackers complete control of a
user's device, Apple warned on
Wednesday
••••
The company said it
is "aware of a report that this issue may
have been actively exploited."
••••
Apple did not say
in the reports how, where or by whom the
vulnerabilities were discovered. In all
cases, it cited an anonymous
researcher.
••••
Apple released two
security reports about the issue
Wednesday, although they didn't receive
wide attention outside of tech
publications.
••••
Security experts
have advised users to update affected
devices -- the iPhones 6S and later
models; several models of the iPad,
including the 5th generation and later,
all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air 2;
and Mac computers running MacOS Monterey.
It also affects some iPod models.
••••
Apple's explanation
of the vulnerability means a hacker could
get "full admin access to the device" so
that they can "execute any code as if they
are you, the user," said Rachel Tobac,
chief executive of SocialProof
Security.
••••
Those who should be
particularly attentive to updating their
software are "people who are in the public
eye" such as activists or journalists who
might be the targets of sophisticated
nation-state spying, Tobac said.
••••
Commercial spyware
companies such as Israel's NSO Group are
known for identifying and taking advantage
of such flaws, exploiting them in malware
that surreptitiously infects targets'
smartphones, siphons their contents and
surveils the targets in real time.
••••
NSO Group has been
blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce
Department. Its spyware is known to have
been used in Europe, the Middle East,
Africa and Latin America against
journalists, dissidents and human rights
activists.
••••Security
researcher Will Strafach said he had seen
no technical analysis of the
vulnerabilities that Apple has just
patched. The company has previously
acknowledged similarly serious flaws and,
in what Strafach estimated to be perhaps a
dozen occasions, has noted that it was
aware of reports that such security holes
had been exploited. •
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Former US President Donald Trump has
announced plans to launch a new social
media network, called TrumpTRUTH
Social. ••••
He said the platform would "stand
up to the tyranny of big tech," accusing
them of silencing opposing voices in the
US. •
••••
Social media played a pivotal role in Mr
Trump's bid for the White House and was
his favorite means of communication as
president.
••••
But Mr Trump was banned from
Twitter and suspended from Facebook after
his supporters stormed the US Capitol.
••••
Since then he and his advisers have
hinted that they were planning to create a
rival social media site.
••••Earlier
this year, he launched "From the Desk of
Donald J Trump," which was often referred
to as a blog.
••••The
website was permanently shut down less
than a month after it launched after
attracting only a fraction of the audience
he would have expected through established
sites.
••••An
early version of his latest venture, TRUTH
Social, will be open to invited guests
next month, and will have a "nationwide
rollout" within the first three months of
2022, according to a statement by Trump
Media & Technology Group (TMTG)
••••"Everyone
asks me why doesn't someone stand up to
Big Tech? Well, we will be soon!" he
added.
••••There's
no indication that the new company has a
working platform yet. The new site is just
a registration page.
••••
He wants to create a platform that
rivals Twitter or Facebook, but by its
very nature the platform is overtly
politicised. It is not going to be a
talking shop of ideas like Twitter, or a
place the whole family is on like
Facebook.
••••
What it could be is a more
successful version of other 'free speech'
social media platforms like Parler or
Gab.
••••
Donald Trump clearly wants his
megaphone back. He thinks this might be
his ticket. But if he's really going to be
heard, he needs the Big Tech platforms to
let him back on.
•••••
TMTG, which he chairs, also intends to
launch a subscription video-on-demand
service. TMTG said its video-on-demand
service would "feature 'non-woke'
entertainment programming, news, podcasts,
and more". ///
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102- Hacked streaming accounts on the dark
webBy
Brent
Shelton ••••
NordVPN
in teamed with cybersecurity researchers
to discover stolen data records from 16
million computers worldwide, including
credentials from Netflix and Spotify
users.
••••
What
has been stolen? 174,800 streaming
credentials were stolen and are now being
sold online--61% were from Netflix users,
25% Spotify, 7% Amazon Prime and others
from Hulu, Vimeo, and Disney+.
••••
Who
got affected the most? Half a million
American internet users and more than a
third of a million Canadians managed to
download and install the malware that
stole their credentials.
••••
What
happens to stolen accounts? Hackers
commonly share streaming service
credentials on the dark web for free, and
eBay and other classifieds offer to get
access to a streaming service for half the
price.
••••
"Stolen
login credentials to streaming services
are just a fraction of what has been
leaked. Unencrypted files ended up on the
dark web too. Customers can prevent this
by using protection tools like NordLocker
that encrypt data and keep it safe in the
cloud," says Daniel Markuson, digital
privacy expert at NordVPN.
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175K leaked streaming service accounts.
Damages might total $38M.
••••
NordVPN in
cooperation with cybersecurity researchers
found stolen data records from 16 million
computers worldwide. The data ended up on
the dark web after the computers got
infected with Zeus, Pony Stealer, RedLine,
Raccoon, and dozens of other types of
malware built specifically for capturing
login credentials saved on computers. As a
result, 174,800 content streaming accounts
ended up on the market for a
resale.
What has been
stolen? "If you have ever saved your
credentials in a browser, including your
streaming service logins, your home
address, or, even worse, your credit card
data, malware like Zeus, Pony Stealer,
RedLine, or Raccoon would take it all.
More than that, bad actors also get
information about your usernames,
location, and hardware configurations and
might take control over your device.
Malware like that is not easy to get. It's
sold underground on a subscription basis,"
Daniel Markuson warns.
•••
Researchers
estimate that the damage inflicted on
users of streaming services alone could
round up to $38M*. Netflix users suffered
the most: 61% of all stolen streaming
credentials are associated with one of the
most popular streaming platforms online.
It is followed by Spotify (25%) and Amazon
Prime (7%). Combined with Hulu, Vimeo, and
Disney+, 174,800 thousand accounts have
been stolen and are now being sold
online.
Who got affected the
most? According to NordVPN researchers, half
a million American internet users and more
than a third of a million Canadians
managed to download and install the
malware that stole their
credentials.
•••"One
day, these people will find themselves
locked out of their accounts, unable to
access it because the account got sold,
its password changed, and the initial
email associated with it replaced," says
Daniel Markuson, digital privacy expert at
NordVPN.
•••Yet,
users from the US and Canada are not the
ones who were affected the most. As many
as 1.8M Indonesians got their data stolen
and leaked, and the country alone
represents 11.4% of all infected devices
in the world. India, Brazil, and Argentina
come next, with 1.2M computers affected
each.
•••Malware
that extracted information from 16M
internet users worldwide is built to
harvest information from
browsers.
INSERT GRAPH
List of the top 20 countries by the number
of computer users affected by the data
leak the cybersecurity researchers
discovered
What happens to
stolen Netflix accounts? Streaming service accounts are a very
common exchange unit on the dark web.
Daniel Markuson, digital privacy expert at
NordVPN, says he has observed hackers
simply sharing it for free, as it takes
almost no effort to obtain them. On the
other hand, eBay and other classifieds are
full of offers to get access to a
streaming service for half the
price.
•••One
listing on eBay reads: "Netflix Account
Premium 4K ultra HD 4 Screens 12
Months. Instant delivery within 1min
to 12hours Worldwide. You can Change your
password, your email and your phone
number. Work on your TV, computer,
smartphone and tablet." The price for the
stolen annual subscription is US $19.99,
when the official one cost $215.88.
•••"There
is no doubt such accounts came from leaked
computer data or acquired through other
illegal activities. People who think it's
a good idea to spend your money on that
are contributing to theft," says
Daniel Markuson.
How to protect your
data from being stolen and streaming
service accounts from being taken
over? Netflix and other streaming services
accounts found by the cybersecurity
researchers got leaked after users
injected their computers with malware by
clicking on a link or file distributed via
email or private messaging apps.
•••Such
attacks often succeed for two reasons: lax
cybersecurity protections and human error.
Criminals prey on urgency and deceit.
People think they are clicking on a link
or opening an attachment from a trusted
source provided in an email. Once they do,
malware code gets executed on their device
and secretly starts draining data from the
victim's computer. "Before opening any
link or any attachment whatsoever, one
must be 100% sure it's legitimate," Daniel
Markuson warns.
•••According
to the cybersecurity expert, "Another
issue is that people barely use
cybersecurity protections like VPN and
antivirus. And, if they do, they fail to
keep them up to date. The combination of
the two could block the way to malware
installation."
•••"What
people must understand is that the stolen
login credentials to streaming services
are just a fraction of what has been
leaked. Unencrypted files ended up on the
dark web too. The best way to prevent this
from happening to you is to start using
protection tools like NordLocker that
encrypt data and keep it safe in the
cloud. Without a decryption key this
information is useless," the privacy
expert adds.
•••Methodology:
The insights were compiled in partnership
with a third-party company specializing in
data breach research. They evaluated a
database that contained information leaked
from 16 million computers in total.
* Damages calculated based on the most
popular streaming service premium plan
price for 12 months.
ABOUT NORDVPN
NordVPN is the world's most advanced VPN
service provider that is more
security-oriented than most VPN services.
It offers double VPN encryption, malware
blocking, and Onion Over VPN. The product
is very user-friendly, offers one of the
best prices on the market, has over 5,000
servers worldwide, and is P2P-friendly.
One of the key features of NordVPN is the
zero-log policy. For more information:
nordvpn.com. ///
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Virtual summit to rethink the
future REUTERS NEXT
kicks off 2021 by gathering global leaders
and forward thinkers to reimagine
solutions to the challenges the new year
brings.
••••
After the
extraordinary upheavals of 2020,
conference participants will take look
ahead at opportunities for change and
growth, as well as how to deal with the
rifts and problems that our world an our
societies face.
••••
No country, company
or community can?tackle the future alone.
To build a better world, thinkers and
doers must come together to share ideas,
collaborate and act.
••••
REUTERS
NEXT draws on Reuters global reach to
host diverse voices from around the world
who will examine topics from different
perspectives, bringing their passion,
experience and expertise to find new ways
forward.
Virtual Forum will take place on January
11-14. 2021.
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•
30th
Anniversary of the World Wide
Web ••••
In 1989 the world's largest physics
laboratory, CERN was a hive of ideas and
information stored on multiple
incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee
envisioned a unifying structure for
linking information across different
computers and wrote an proposal in 1989
called "Information Management: A
Proposal." By 1991 this vision of
universal connectivity had become the Word
Wide Web.
"Suppose
all information stored on computers
everywhere were linked . Suppose I could
program my computer to create a space in
which everything could be linked to
everything."
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the
World Wide Web
••••
Tim Berners-Lee
wrote the first web browser in 1990 while
employed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
The browser was released to the general
public in August 1991. The World Wide Web
has been central to the development of the
Information Age and is the primary tool
billions of people use to interact on the
Internet.
••••
"Vague but exciting." This was how Sir Tim
Berners-Lee's boss responded to his
proposal titled "Information Management: A
Proposal," submitted on March 12 in 1989,
when the inventor of the World Wide Web
was a 33-year-old software engineer.
Initially, Berners-Lee envisioned "a large
hypertext database with typed links,"named
"Mesh," to help his colleagues at
CERN (a large nuclear physics laboratory
in Switzerland) share information amongst
multiple computers.
••••
Berners-Lee's boss
allowed him time to develop the humble
flowchart into a working model, writing
the HTML language, the HTTP application,
and WorldWideWeb.app-- the first Web
browser and page editor. By 1991, the
external Web servers were up and
running.
••••The
Web would soon revolutionize life as we
know it, ushering in the information age.
Today, there are nearly 2 billion websites
online. Whether you use it for email,
homework, gaming, or checking out videos
of cute puppies, chances are you can't
imagine life without the Web.
••••Not
to be confused with the internet, which
had been evolving since the 1960s, the
World Wide Web is an online application
built upon innovations like HTML language,
URL "addresses," and hypertext transfer
protocol, or HTTP. The Web has also become
a decentralized community, founded on
principles of universality, consensus, and
bottom-up design.
••••"There
are very few innovations that have truly
changed everything," said Jeff Jaffe, CEO
of the World Wide Web Consortium. "The Web
is the most impactful innovation of our
time."
••••
Happy 30th
Anniversary to the World Wide Web! -
Google •
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102-France
To Sanction Google
for online snippets of press articles on
Google
News. France has
accused American Internet giant Google of
ignoring "the spirit and the letter" of a
Europe-wide copyright law aimed at giving
publishers a bigger cut of the economic
benefit from online news.
••••
French President Emmanuel Macron and the
country's lawmakers say they are now
looking to sanction Google for adopting
what they consider strongarm tactics to
avoid paying to publish excerpts from
European publications on Google News.
••••
France is the first European country to
put the European Union's Directive on
Copyright in the Digital Single Market on
its statute books, taking effect at the
end of October. The European Parliament
adopted the directive in March, giving
member states two years to pass
legislation upholding its
requirements.France's law requires Google
to pay what has been called a "link tax"
-- effectively a license to display
snippets of press articles on Google
News.
••••
Google responded to the law's passage by
announcing it would stop displaying
previews of news articles and use only a
headline and link. The company said French
publishers could still ask for snippets to
be published, but it would not pay for the
right. Google says it sends 8 billion
visitors a month to publishers' sites in
Europe alone.
••••
"Publishers have always been able to
decide whether their content is available
to be found in Google Search or Google
News," Google wrote in a blog post. "The
Internet has created more choice and
diversity in news than ever before. With
so many options, it can be hard for
consumers to find the news they are
interested in. And for all types of
publishers ... it's important to make sure
readers can find their content."
••••
Google's announcement brought an angry
riposte from Macron, who told journalists
on Wednesday he would be asking Europe's
competition authorities to examine the
move and to "engage in any possible action
as soon as possible".
••••
"Certain companies like Google now want to
get around the rules. We will not let them
do this," Macron said. His comments came
after he and German Chancellor Angela
Merkel issued a joint statement to the
same effect following a meeting of French
and German ministers on Wednesday.
••••
The French competition authority announced
at the end of September it would be
looking into Google's actions, but said it
was only an "exploratory" inquiry at this
stage. It could not say if or when legal
action might be taken against the American
internet giant.
••••
France's culture minister, Franck Riester,
has described the EU directive as
"absolutely essential for our democracy
and the survival of an independent and
free press." He said Paris and Berlin were
ratcheting up their response after he met
Google executives Patrick Jabal, vice
president in charge of partnerships, and
Cécile Frot-Coutaz, director of
YouTube for Europe and Africa, in New York
last Saturday.
••••
"It enabled me to restate France's
position and to understand that they still
have difficulty sharing the benefits as
the law outlines. That's why we need to be
even more determined," Riester said
afterward.
••••
Riester had already declared Google's move
"unacceptable," saying the object of the
law was to "allow a fairer sharing of the
profits the platforms make using press
content."
••••
"Unilateral declarations of the rules is
contrary to both the spirit and the letter
of the directive," Riester said, calling
for a "proper global negotiation between
Google and publishers."
••••
David Assouline, a French senator who
helped draft the French law, tweeted that
Google should "have more respect for
France by applying the law instead of
trying to get around it."
••••
Prior to its adoption in March, Google and
other key internet players lobbied heavily
against the EU directive. The most
controversial articles in the final
directive are article 15, which forces
search engines and aggregated news
platforms to pay for the snippets they use
from other publications, and article 17,
which makes internet giants including
Google and YouTube responsible for
material they publish without copyright
permission and slaps penalties on them if
they fail to block content that infringes
copyright.
••••••
In a letter to the president of the
European parliament last year, Tim
Berners-Lee, the inventor of the worldwide
web, and 70 other web pioneersdescribed
the EU's directive on copyright as a
"threat to the future of this global
network."
••••
"As creators ourselves, we share the
concern that there should be a fair
distribution of revenues from the online
use of copyright works, that benefits
creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to
achieve this." The signatories called the
automatic content filtering requirement
"an unprecedented step towards the
transformation of the Internet from an
open platform for sharing and innovation,
into a tool for the automated surveillance
and control of its users."
ByBy
Kim
Willsher •
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102-More
EU rules for Facebook on hateful posts
Facebook must remove hateful
posts worldwide, top EU court
rules
By BLOOMBERG
••••
Facebook Inc. can
be forced to remove posts anywhere in the
world to protect European Union users from
hateful content, the bloc's highest court
ruled in a case that widens a chasm with
the U.S. on freedom of speech and
privacy.
••••
European courts can
force platforms such as the social-network
giant to seek and destroy such content
once they've been alerted, the EU judges
said in a binding decision on Thursday.
Courts can also order a worldwide removal
as long as they take international law
into account when they issue the edicts,
the judges said.
••••
"Today's ruling
essentially allows one country or region
to decide what internet users around the
world can say and what information they
can access," said Victoria de Posson,
senior manager in Europe at the Computer
& Communications Industry Assn., an
industry group that includes Alphabet
Inc.'s Google and Facebook as members.
••••
The EU has taken a
tougher stance on citizens' online rights
than elsewhere in the world. In 2014, the
EU's top court gave people a so-called
right to be forgotten, allowing them to
ask Google to remove European links to
websites that contain out-of-date or false
information that could unfairly harm a
person's reputation. Still, in contrast to
Thursday's judgment, the same court
decided last month against requiring
search engines to scrub links
globally.
••••
"What might be
considered defamatory comments about a
politician in one country will likely be
considered constitutional free speech in
another. Few hosting platforms, especially
startups, will have the resources to
implement elaborate monitoring systems,"
de Posson said.
••••
Platforms from
Facebook to Google's YouTube won a nod of
approval from the EU earlier this year for
tackling hate speech posted online as part
of a code of conduct signed with the
commission in 2016. The companies vowed to
tackle online hate speech within 24 hours,
once made aware of it.
••••
Facebook said the
ruling goes beyond a process it already
follows to "restrict content if and when
it violates local laws."
••••
The judgment
"undermines the long-standing principle
that one country does not have the right
to impose its laws on speech on another
country," Facebook said in an emailed
statement. "It also opens the door to
obligations being imposed on internet
companies to proactively monitor content
and then interpret if it is 'equivalent'
to content that has been found to be
illegal."
••••The
EU court decided that in some cases
platforms can be ordered not just to
remove identical content, but also posts
that are equivalent to such hateful and
illegal ones. According to Facebook and
human rights group Article 19, this risks
trampling on people's fundamental
rights.
••••
"Compelling social
media platforms like Facebook to
automatically remove posts regardless of
their context will infringe our right to
free speech and restrict the information
we see online," said Thomas Hughes of
Article 19. "The judgment does not take
into account the limitations of technology
when it comes to automated filters."
••••
In contrast to the
U.S. where freedom of speech is a
constitutional right, Europe has
traditionally placed more limits on what
people publish, forbidding Holocaust
denial in Germany, for instance. That
chasm is widening as Europe is becoming
more aggressive in combating hate speech
online to prevent violent attacks against
groups, like the terrorist shootings at
mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in
March.
••••
Despite the
platforms' efforts, EU officials have been
mulling new bloc-wide rules, building on
existing legislation in Germany, that
could hit big tech firms with possible
fines if they fail to remove illegal hate
speech quickly enough. The discussions fit
into broader plans by the EU to overhaul
liability rules for platforms.
••••
Austria's Supreme
Court last year sought the EU judges'
guidance in a dispute between Facebook and
Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, a former Green
member of the European Parliament, who was
the subject of a number of offensive posts
on a Facebook user's account. She asked
for an order against the company to block
any further publications of pictures of
her if the text alongside them included
similarly offensive content.
••••
The Austrian court
also asked whether under EU law companies
could be forced to remove any content from
its platform "with an equivalent meaning"
to illegal information it has been made
aware of. Lawyers said this is an issue
also faced by copyright owners on
platforms such as YouTube, or Instagram,
where uploads of previously taken-down
copies keep popping up online.
••••
"We hope the courts
take a proportionate and measured
approach, to avoid having a chilling
effect on freedom of expression," said
Facebook in its statement.
///
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Aircraft Interiors Expo
Aircraft Interiors Expo
Los Angeles is where the innovators meet
the decision-makers, with everything
designed to give you a first class
experience. The fall's global meeting
place for the passenger experience
industrywill take place
at the Los Angeles convention Center,
September 10 -
12. ••••
The Aircraft Interiors Expo Los Angeles is
the fall event for airlines and the supply
chain to network and source the latest
innovations and it provide the perfect
environment to target exactly who you need
to meet through tailored matchmaking
services and networking events.
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Facebook to license content from major
news pblishers in exhange for
fees ••••
Facebook will use journalists to curate
news, as Zuckerberg has given the
green-light for development of a new
feature that will deliver news stories
handpicked by editors employed full time
by Facebook. The News tab, which is slated
for a public debut sometime this year,
will highlight five to 10 stories a day,
chosen by those editors to reflect that
day's most important events. It also
represents an opening for more bias.
••••
For Facebook to take ownership of news
curation in this way is sure to uproar
critics, including President Trump, who
believe the company suppresses
conservative viewpoints. But it may help
placate those in the news industry and
beyond who accuse the social media giant
of decimating America's information
ecosystem and replacing professional news
with Churnalism.
••••
Facebook still remaining Facebook, will
also host a much larger volume of
algorithmically selected news,
personalized through signals such as what
pages a user follows on the social network
and what content he or she has engaged
with. Facebook is in talks with a number
of major news publishers, about licensing
their content in exchange for fees of as
much as $3 million a year.
••••
Hiring journalists isn't in itself a
departure for Facebook, or for Silicon
Valley. Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of
news partnerships, and a former CNN
anchor, has been building her team over
the last two years largely through hires
of people who have backgrounds in
journalism. Apple and LinkedIn both have
sizable teams of professional reporters
and editors overseeing their news
operations.
••••
But relying on those journalists' news
judgment to select the headlines that
hundreds of millions of users will see is
very much a new development for Facebook.
Zuckerberg has long been reluctant to have
the company take responsibility for making
editorial content decisions, for reasons
both practical -- algorithms don't need
vacations or health insurance -- and
political. In 2016, the company fired a
small team of editors responsible for
tweaking the content of a "Trending"
module that surfaced stories in the
process of going viral, after leaks
sparked accusations of bias against
conservative news outlets.
••••
However, firing those editors, who were
contractors rather than full-time
employees, did little to dispel
accusations of bias -- including from
Trump, whose White House is reportedly
drafting an executive order that seeks to
defend conservative viewpoints on social
media.
••••
One can count on that the bias allegations
will escalate as soon as Facebook launches
a daily slate of stories handpicked by its
own employees. Those in-house editors will
also have to reckon with the likelihood
that the biggest stories of the day will
sometimes be about Facebook itself, which
has been shaken by a series of privacy
scandals and antitrust investigation.
••••
But Zuckerberg, keen on reestablishing
Facebook as a source of trustworthy
information after being used to
disseminate Russian-sponsored "fake news"
during the 2016 presidential election, is
said to have accepted the importance of
granting the News tab team editorial
independence.
••••
In additional to national importance, the
editors will select stories based on --
originality. In discussions with Facebook,
publishers have expressed concerns about
how its News Feed -- the central feature
in the Facebook app -- often drives the
biggest surges of traffic to stories that
are rewritten using other outlets'
reporting. "One of the things we want to
reward is provenance," Brown said.
••••
Another problem with Facebook's role in
the news ecosystem is News Feed's
susceptibility to websites that look like
news outlets but aren't. During the last
presidential election cycle, phony news
stories published for profit or as
propaganda outperformed the biggest news
publishers, according to a Buzzfeed
analysis. To prevent fake news from
infiltrating the news tab, Facebook is
considering imposing eligibility
requirements, only featuring websites that
are registered in the company's news index
and barring those with a history of being
flagged as misinformation
providers. •
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Apple replaces iTunes on Mac with three
separate
apps. At Apple's
annual Worldwide Developers Conference in
San Jose among the slate of expected
announcements the world learned hat Apple
will divide iTunes' offerings into three
newly developed applications for music, TV
and podcasts, according
••••
It will mark the
end of a more than a decade-run that
kick-started the digital commerce
revolution. For better or worse, without
Apple's experiment, the ways in which
culture consumes entertainment wouldn't be
the same.
••••Apple's
Steve Jobs set his sights on music before
moving into movies and podcasts. In 2003,
he said that Apple hoped to help the music
business navigate out of the
Napster-driven file-sharing free-for-all
that devastated companies' bottom
lines.
••••When
the iTunes Music store debuted 16 years
ago, digital music meant buying a CD and
uploading it to a computer or illegally
downloading a song from a file-sharing
service. Apple changed all that by
charging customers 99 cents for a song
they could take with them wherever they
went.
••••
Over time, iTunes expanded into movies and
podcasts, storing all forms of media in a
single desktop application.
••••But
that's not what today's customers want,
and on Monday, Apple replaced its
pioneering store on the Mac and integrated
its library and store into three distinct
apps -- music, podcasts and TV. The push
comes as the tech giant races to catch up
in the arena of subscription streaming
services, which already has household
names such as Spotify and Netflix.
••••During
the annual Worldwide Developers Conference
Apple also announced a new Mac Pro desktop
computer that will sell starting at
$5,999. The company also said its upcoming
mobile operating system update, iOS13,
will have a dark mode available to
third-party apps and let users sign in to
apps with their Apple ID. If Apple
customers don't want to give an app their
email address, iOS13 has a feature that
lets customers share a unique random email
and receive messages to that address in
their personal email account. •
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Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History
Overheard By
Harvey
Geller ••••
In Life's current Bicentennial
issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot
"100 Events That Shaped America," 19
buttons behind Bell's telephone.
Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's
dots and dashes as the first wireless
broadcast, a fable echoed by the World
Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's
a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence
offered on the following pages has not,
until now, appeared in any national
publication.
••••
The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre
soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of
mystery, machination, ephemeral
enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and
disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six
miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a
two-room shanty constructed of pine and
cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated
architect is discovered 48 hours after his
death, his records scattered, his
equipment destroyed, his brain partly
eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to
mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield, the man history over-heard
and then overlooked.
"They all laughed at Christopher
Columbus
When he said the world
was round:
They all laughed when
Edison recorded sound . . .
Ha, Ha, Ha -- who's got the
last laugh now?"
--Ira Gershwin, 1937
When
an inordinately eccentric young farmer
suggested that he had invented a portable
wireless telephone that could broadcast
voice and music up over hight buildings
and down through stone walls, most of
Calloway County, Kentucky, chuckled. When
he revealed his "crazy box, and odd
assortment of batteries, rods, coils and
kegs, they howled.
•••85
years after, their heirs are writing songs
of love, christening radio stations,
consecrating libraries and constructing
memorial monuments in his infinite honor.
The veneration is hardly widespread.
17,000 Murray, Kentucky, tobacco farmers
may agree that Nathan B Stubblefield was
the first man on earth to transmit and
receive the human voice without wires. But
most of our world is unacquainted with his
improbable name and even his proponents
are unaware of the precise date of his
private discovery. Evidence points to a
period between 1890 and 1892, at least
seven years before Marconi sent the first
wireless telegraph message across the
English Channel.
•••
Stubblefield's
supporters maintain that telegraphy is far
different from telephony; that they are, I
fact, diverse discoveries. Wireless
telephone is hip-to-shore radio, the
walkie-talkie, the citizen band and
portable radio, the mobile phone, the
audio arm of television, rheostats,
rectifying tubes, filaments, dials,
microphones, AM and FM radio and every
broadcasting booth on earth--not Marconi's
Code signals.
•••Marconi's
name is linked with Stubblefield's by
Trumbull White in a book called The
World's Progress, published in 1902. "Of
very recent success are the experiments of
Marconi with wireless telegraphy, an
astounding and important advance over the
ordinary system of telegraphy through
wires. Now comes the announcement that an
American inventor, unheralded and modest,
has carried out successful experiments of
telephoning and is able to transmit speech
for great distances without wires . . the
inventor is Nathan B. Stubblefield." •••
"This Fellow Is Fooling me." •••"Hello,
Rainey," according to Dr. Rainey T. Wells,
founder of Murray State College, was the
world's first radio message. Testifying
before an FCC commission in 1947, Rainey
explained that he had personally heard
Stubblefield demonstrate his wireless
telephone as early as 1892.
•••"He
had a shack about four feet square near
his house from which he took an ordinary
telephone receiver, but entirely without
wires. Handing me these, he asked me to
walk some distance away and listen. I had
hardly reached my post, which happened to
be an apple orchard, when I heard 'Hello,
Rainey' come booming out of the receiver.
I jumped a foot and said to myself, 'This
fellow is fooling me. He as wires
somewhere.' So I moved to the side some 20
feet but all the while he kept talking to
me. I talked back and he answered me as
plainly as you please. I asked him to
patent the thing but he refused, saying he
wanted to continue his research and
perfect it."
•••Dr.
William Mason, Stubblefield's family
physician, described a day during that
same year when Stubblefield "handed me a
device in what appeared to be a keg with a
handle on it. I started walking down the
lane . . . from it I could distinctly hear
his voice and a harmonica which he was
broadcasting to me several years before
Marconi made his announcement about
wireless telegraphy."
••••••
Stubblefield was
born in Murray, Kentucky, 1860 the son of
Attorney and Mrs. William Jefferson
Stubblefield (Capt. Billy). In his teens
he was reportedly an omnivorous student
and researched everything available on the
new science of electricity. When Alexander
Bel phoned Tom Watson on March 10, 1876,
to say "Come here, Watson; I want you,"
Stubblefield was already experimenting
with vibrating communication devices. In
1888 (Patent #378,183) he invented a
vibrating telephone. The Murray News
Weekly carried this item: "Charlie Hamlin
has his telephone I fine working order
from his store to his home. It is the
Nathan Stubblefield patent and is the best
I have ever talked through."
•••Stubblefield
manufactured and patented batteries which
he later described as "the bedrock of all
my scientific research in raidio" (his
spelling).
••••••
"I have been
working on this, the wireless telephone,
for 10 or 12 years," he told a St. Louis
Post-Dispatch correspondent in January,
1902. "This solution is not the result of
an inspiration or the work of a minute. It
is the climax of years. The system can be
developed until messages by voice can be
sent and heard all over the country, even
to Europe. The world is it limits."
"Diamonds
as Large a Your Thumb."
•••With
the new industrial and scientific epoch at
hand and the first Roosevelt in the White
House, Stubblefield built his broadcasting
station, a tiny workshop on the front
porch of his modest farmhouse. It was
barely wide enough to hold the transmitter
and one char. The transmitting mechanism
was concealed in a box four feet hight,tow
and a half feet wide, one and a half feet
deep. "In that box," said Stubblefield,
"lies the secret of my success." Five
hundred yards away was the experimental
receiving station, a dry-good box fastened
to the foot of a tree stump.
•••The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter noted
that Stubblefield's 14-year-old son,
Bernard, was left on the porch wile h and
the inventor walked to the stump. The
writer picked up a receiver and heard
spasmodic buzzings and then: "Hello. Can
you hear me? Now I will count ten.
One-to-three-four-=five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten.
Did you hear that? Now I will whisper."
Later Bernard whistled and played the
mouth organ.
•••"I
heard as clearly as if the speaker were
only across a 12-foot room" wrote the
newsman.
•••When
the article appeared on January 10, 1902,
Stubblefield was besieged by capitalists,
financiers, stock-jugglers, hucksters and
hawkers. Dr. Mason recalled seeing a
$40,000 check for a part interest in the
invention, as titans of industry "wearing
diamonds as large as your thumb" scuttled
up industry dirt roads to Stubblefield's
flinty farm.
•••"You
and I will yet add luster to the
Stubblefield name," wrote Nathan to his
cousin, Vernon.
•••He
refused all propositions, including one
for half a million dollars. "It is north
twice that," he insisted, entrusting only
his son, Bernard, with the secret of his
mysterious keg. On occasion he repelled
over-inquisitive visitors with a
shotgun.
•••Invited
by leading scientist, he traveled with his
trunk of mystery to Washington, D.C.,
where he demonstrated the practicability
of his contrivance from the steamship
Bartholdy on the Potomac to crowds along
the river bank. On Decoration Day, 1902,
he broadcast words and music form the
Belmont Mansion and Fairmont Park in
Philadelphia to hundreds of statesmen,
investors and newsmen. He obtained patents
in England, the U.S. and Canada.
••••
In the Canadian patent is a drawing of a
"horseless carriage" with a broadcasting
set, presaging the auto radio by 30 years.
But perhaps even more remarkable are
notations that by reversing a switch one
could change a broadcasting station into a
receiving apparatus.
••••
Articles appeared in major newspapers
throughout the world acclaiming him as the
distinguished inventor of the wireless
telephone and a celebrated scientific
genius. At lease one extravagant reporter
suggested that Stubblefield ad crated "the
world's greatest invention."
Decline
and Fall.
••••
There are three conflicting theories on
how this farmer-inventor sowed the wind of
immortality and reaped the whirlwind of
oblivion. His cousin, Vernon, claimed the
invention was stolen
"Will I ever see my
trunk again?" Stubblefield scribbled on
the back of an old map after he returned
from Washington.
••••
"All his valuables were in that trunk,"
said his cousin.
••••
Perry Meloan, newspaper editor of
Edmonton, Kentucky, an ear-witness to the
first public demonstration in Murray,
declared that Stubblefield was inveigled
into a partnership in the Wireless
Telephone Company of America, located at
Broadway 11, New York. Learning that the
firm was not interested in perfecting his
creation but merely in selling stock
unscrupulously, Stubblefield returned
home. "Damn rascals," was his bitter
comment to friends, and he advised them to
withdraw their investment in his project.
Soon after, he renounced his wife, nine (5
surviving) children and all relatives and
built his hermitage gut in Almo, six miles
from his family farmhouse. That farmhouse
later mysteriously burned to the
ground.
••••
His son, Bernard, joined the Westinghouse
Electrical Corp., the firm that introduced
the commercial radio. Did Bernard utilize
his father's secrets to produce those
early sets?
••••
Wireless lights appeared in the trees and
along the fences guarding Stubblefield's
crudely constructed shanty and, according
to neighbors, voices, apparently coming
from the air, were heard by trespassers.
"Get your mule out of my cornfield,"
Stubblefield's wireless voice was hard to
say in the night.
••••
He curtly refused the aid of friends. "He
was never insane," they insisted, "only
queer."
••••
Robert McDermott found the body of Nathan
Stubblefield on March 30, 1928. "Death due
to starvation," was Dr. Mason's
conclusion. In a unmarked grave in
Bowman's cemetery, one and a half miles
form Murray, Stubblefield lies alone.
••••
In 1930 a memorial to "the first man to
transmit and receive the human voice
without wires" was dedicated at Murray
State Teachers College campus, less than
100 feet from the charred ruins of the
world's first broadcasting station.
••••
In 1962 his tragic life was dramatized in
an epicedial folk opera, The Stubblefield
Story, composed by Murray State professor
Paul Shahan and Mrs. Lillian Lowry and
performed in the campus auditorium.
••••
Murray's only radio station, 1 1000-watt
outlet, broadcasts "middle of the road and
some rock music as well," according to
owner Fransuelle Cole. Book-ended between
Bruce Springsteen's "Borne to Rune" a a
live commercial for Kroger's grocery, on
hears. "You are tune to WNBS, 1340 on your
radio dial in Murray, Kentucky: the
birthplace of radio."
••••
The stations call-letters, not
accidentally, are Stubblefield's
initials. •
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102-
Are Classic SIM cards
out? New iPhone could deal blow
to phone carriers as classic SIM cards
face extinction ••••
Each new iPhone is
usually good news for mobile network
operators. In anticipation the latest
Apple Inc. device always comes with
upgrades that make it easier to play
games, watch films and download reams of
data. More data means bigger phone
bills.
••••However,
the new iPhones might not be so welcome.
That's because there's a possibility that
Apple could introduce so-called electronic
sims, or eSIMs, a shift to become
inevitable to the new technology.
••••The
SIMs issue (under investigation by the
DOJ) has been rife since Apple complained
to the Justice Department that Verizon
Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. were
colluding to prevent their introduction.
••••The
classic SIM card is a small chip that is
inserted into the phone manually -- making
it more awkward to change the mobile
network provider. You have to go to a shop
to get a new sim or have one delivered
physically. The eSIM is virtual, meaning
that just changing your phone's settings
would theoretically allow you to switch
carriers.
••••
With certainty this
would accelerate price competition.
Whenever it's made easier to jump from one
operator to another, consumers take
advantage and seek better deals. "Churn,"
the industry term for customer losses,
spikes. That's what ocurred for example,
when EU country brought in rules to cut
the time it took to change network
operators to less than 24 hours.
••••European
chipmaker STMicroelectronics NV dropped a
heavy hint about eSIMs saying it expected
to deploy its own device in a major
mass-market smartphone by year's end.
Whether this is the case with year's new
iPhone will become known soon, but it's
hard to see how the mobile phone operators
can resist this technology for long given
its usefulness for consumers. Apple will
certainly argue it that way. It's already
used in some iPads, and STMicro supplies
an eSIM for the Apple Watch.
••••Apple
can't totally dismiss the concerns of the
big phone carriers, since they spend huge
sums on marketing the iPhone and sell it
in their stores. But the California giant
is willing to throw its weight around, as
shown by the Justice Department
complaint.
••••Although
the eSIM might reduce some logistical
costs for carriers such as Verizon and
AT&T, in the longer term it will
become harder to differentiate between
network providers. "From a user
perspective, if you ask what service
they're using, they'll say they're an
iPhone or Samsung user, not the
operator."
••••It
might make sense for Apple and other
phone-makers to keep the classic SIM port
alongside an eSIM in the near term. That
would give operators time to adapt, while
making it harder for them to object.
••••But
the danger for carriers is that the shift
to eSIMs moves them further down the path
to becoming little more than
utilities.
••••There
are very few people who don't have a
smartphone already, meaning it's
increasingly a battle for market share
rather than new users. •
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115-China
will be MIPCOM's 2018 Country of
Honor The world's
entertainment content market, MIPCOM takes
place in Cannes, France, from 15-18
October. ••••
"China has now emerged as a major producer
and consumer of film and television and
will play a leading role at MIPCOM, to
present to the world great Chinese stories
and work with colleagues around the globe
to usher in a better future," said Mrs. Ma
Li, Director General of the International
Cooperation Department of the National
Radio and Television Administration,
People's Republic of China.
••••
"The Chinese television and entertainment
sector has a special place within the
MIPCOM and MIPTV community going back to
2004 when MIPTV welcomed the largest-ever
delegation of Chinese TV executives at an
international television market. As MIPCOM
2018 Country of Honour, China will be
showcasing its wide range of programme
genre destined for international
television channels," commented Laurine
Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM's
Television Division. •
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102-Snapchat
IPO
Pops "Snap's
IPO is a historic multiplier for our
city's tech sector," Los Angeles Mayor
Eric Garcetti said. "It has great
potential to power new dreams, create more
opportunity and drive innovation in what
is already one of the world's largest tech
hubs."
••••
Snapchat
allows users' messages and photos to
disappear seconds after they're displayed.
Most of the 158 millions of people who use
Snapchat each day are younger than 35.
••••
Snap
Inc shares closed at $24.48 in their first
day of trading, a 44% jump. Shares were
priced at $17, they opened up on the New
York stock exchange at 24.00, the price at
which new shareholders could opt to sell
and prospective shareholders cold choose
to buy.
•
Employees
at Snap are celebrating Snap Inc.'s employees helped turn the
Venice start-up into a $37-billion public
company. Now, the question is, will they
do the same on their own.
••••
The
region's tech community is hoping the
wealth bestowed to hundreds of Snap Inc.
employees by the third-largest initial
public offering in California history
spurs them to become entrepreneurs and
investors in their own right. Snap
employees already are having conversations
with venture capitalists to help line up
possible future funding.
••••
Workers
peeling off after an IPO or an acquisition
is a common phenomenon. Some people prefer
returning to a smallere operation where
bureaucracy doesn't stifle their bold
ideas. Others view their new fortune both
as a calling card that boosts up their
reputation and a safety net that hedges
against the financial risks of
entrepreneurship.
••••
Employees
at Snap are now sitting on billions of
dollars' worth of shares. But more than
half of the company's employees joined in
the last 18 months, and most of the stock
in their pay package doesn't arrive until
their third and fourth years of
employment. That's a very powerful
incentive to stick around. In addition,
Snap went public at an early stage, and
its co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby
Murphy, hold an outsized vision for the
company's potential. Those factors could
lead people to believe the fortune waiting
ahead of them at Snap is hard to beat.
••••
Also,
there are other reasons to stay longer.
Snap's employees are valuable because
they've seen what it takes to take a
company public. Learning the basics of
operating in a public company will make
them even more valuable.
••••
For
many there is going to be desire to stay
with that mothership for a little while,
but over time, maybe three years out, a
lot more will go out on their own."
••••
Leaving
however comes with risks, though.
Companies generally don't welcome back
people who want to return down the road.
And most start-ups don't turn into
billion-dollar businesses. •
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FCC's latest spectrum auction nets $7
billion for US
Treasury The second
major forward phase of the broadcast
incentive spectrum auction by US telecoms
and broadcast regulator the FCC has come
to a close.
••••The
FCC is carrying out an incentive auction
of unused analogue TV spectrum, left over
from the digital TV transition. The hope
is to free up more spectrum for 4G/5G and
advanced wireless services, like mobile
video. ••••The
two-sided auction for the spectrum was
meant to pay broadcasters a fair value for
their assets before selling them to the
highest-bidding mobile carriers. ••••After
months of action, bids from spectrum
hunters have totalled $19.63 billion for
70 MHz of spectrum sold by broadcasters in
an earlier, reverse auction phase. ••••Now
follows a smaller assignment phase that
could bring some extra funds as bidders
aim for more specific frequencies in
markets. But with the auction largely
complete, the US Treasury will get about
$7 billion for deficit reduction. ••••Once
the assignment phase ends (in two to three
weeks), the FCC will reveal complete bid
winners from the auction. Broadcasters
from the reverse auction are free to talk
about the winnings publicly, while forward
participants must remain silent for
now. ••••Those
broadcasters that chose not to participate
will have their spectrum 'repacked' into
other bands to protect their signals from
neighbouring interference and ensure
uninterrupted TV service. The FCC has
proposed setting aside up to two UHF
channels in every US TV market for Wi-Fi
and other unlicensed wireless services as
well, but this so-called 'vacant channel'
effort has been controversial, as it
takes valuable real estate away from
low-power TV stations (LPTVs) looking to
find new homes after the agency's
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Who Invented the Wireless
Telephone? •
102-WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of Arts &
Sciences -
1902
•
Excerpts
from: Smart Daaf Boys,
Stubblefield's 1993 "All-in-One
Radio/Television & Desk Top Almanac
Encyclopedia-Dictionary.
(456 Pages ) •ISBN No.
10883644-04-6Library of Congress Catalog
Number 93-060451 Volume IV, A Source
Book for Comminications Executives &
Researchers
Copyright 1993: By Telvision International
Publishing (TVI Publishing)
102WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of Arts &
Sciences - 1902 -
In January 1902, Stubblefield agreed to
participate in the commercial exploitation
of his device by Fennell's Philadelphia
Group that purportedly included
Westinghouse. Incorporation papers for the
Wireless Telephone Company of America were
filed in Prescott, Arizona, on May 22,
1902. Stubblefield was a director, but
held no office. The Washington and
Philadelphia demonstrations maintained the
momentum needed to sell stock in the new
company. A four page prospectus, extolling
the investment opportunity in Wireless
Telephone Company of America compared the
Stubblefield device with Marconi's
wireless telegraphy system by stating that
both systems utilized "...
for
transmission what are termed Hertzian
electrical wave currents ..." The
technical details were not disclosed since
the prospectus was designed to sell stock,
and perhaps deliberately avoided specific
evidence on the points of comparison or
contrast. The use of steel rods thrust
into the ground, the large circular coils
and the copper antenna wires attached to
the masts on the steamer Bartholdi and on
rooftops indicate that Stubblefield's
1892, 1893 and 1902 systems were based
upon Stubblefield's earth grounded
induction-antenna principle, in which we
now call, AM radio. Stubblefield insisted
that a more "powerful" apparatus would
"transmit" unlimited distances. The U.S.
Navies ELF project in Clam Flats,
Wisconsin is based on Stubblefield's basic
induction-antenna device.
•
Wireless
Telephone: 1898:Patent For
Electrolyte Battery and Detector for Radio
Signal (wireless telephone) Issued
600,457.
{19/Gx}
•
wireless
- (1) A British term for radio.
(2) Used in the United
States, in the sense of (#1) above, when
the word "radio" might be misinterpreted
(as an example -- a "wireless record
player"). {73/RS}
•
Section
19.
Wireless
Telephony
- The early radiotelephones were powered
by wet-cell, non-rechargeable batteries.
The telephone at first also used
electricity. Today's radio and television
stations receive their current from power
lines fed by huge dynamos, some powered by
atomic fission. The increasing
sophistication of power sources, (solar,
cell) parallels the continued movement
toward greater sophistication in
electrical communication methods.
{01/Gi}
•
Wireless
Telephony and Stubblefield
-
Nathan B. Stubblefield's "Wireless
Telephony" - ("Radio"): In addition to the
following listings under "Wireless
Telephony," as well as those listed above
under "Wireless Signals," also see the
section in this book, under:
"Stubblefield, Nathan B" with the various
terms, definitions, patents issued,
demonstrations, historical facts, etc., on
Nathan B. Stubblefield (The "Inventor" Of
The "Wireless Telephony" -- The
"Radio").
••• •
Please See Section 15. Stubblefield and
"Wireless Telephony" ("Radio").
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Broadcast&endash;Industry Trade
Resource/Reference Books" with a section
on Nathan B. Stubblefield.
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Hard&endash;Cover Books" with a section
on Nathan B. Stubblefield.
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications "Magazines"
with a section on Nathan B. Stubblefield.
{03/Di}
•
WIRELESS
TELEPHONY and
TELEGRAPH
••• (1)
RADIO
FREQUENCY(ra-di--o-fre-quen-cy),
n.
(a). the frequency of the transmitting
waves of a given radio message or
broadcast. (b). a frequency within the
range of radio transmission, i.e. from
about 15,000 MC to 10 MC (MegaCycles) per
second. [Note: A MegaCycle means, "one
million cycles" -- so 15,000 MC is equal
to 15,000 x 1,000,000, which is
15,000,000,000 cycles per second (15
billion cycles per second); and 10 MC is
equal to 10 x 1,000,000, which is
10,000,000 cycles per second (10 million
cycles per second).]
••• (2)
RADIO(ra-di-o),
n. (a). wireless telegraphy: sparks or
dot&endash;dashes broadcasted by radio.
(b). telephony: speeches or music
broadcasted by radio. (c). an apparatus
for receiving radio broadcasts. (d). a
message transmitted by radio.
••• (3)
BROADCAST(broad-cast),
v.
To send (messages, speeches, music,
sounds) by radio. {19/Gx} •
Wireless
Telephony: 1860:Murray, Kentucky:
Nathan B. Stubblefield
-
Nathan B. Stubblefield, "The Inventor Of
Radio" (Wireless Telephony) was born in
Murray, Kentucky in 1860. Stubblefield
died in Murray in 1928, where he is
buried. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1885:First World's
Private Wireless (Voice) Transmission-
Demonstration.
In
1885, Nathan B. Stubblefield, "The
Inventor of Wireless Telephony" held his
First Demonstration, [which was the
World's First Private Demonstration of
wireless (voice) transmission on
land]. Stubblefield, from Murray,
Kentucky: Patented his invention in 1898
and also in 1908.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:
1885:
Stubblefield
demonstration to his friend, Duncan Holt,
the transmission of voice without wires.
Holt stated, "One Sunday that year
[1885] Stubblefield invited Holt
and his wife out to his home, where the
west boundary of Murray State College now
is. That afternoon he said to Holt,
"Duncan, I've done it. I've been able to
talk without wires -- all of 200 yards --
and it'll work everywhere!" Stubblefield
had a little "experimental station" he
called it, 200 yards away from the house,
and he said he could talk from there and
it could be heard at the house, or
vise&endash;versa -- and without wires! At
that time, Holt said, "the Scientific
American had never mentioned the possi
bility in suggestion or otherwise that
speech or intelligent communication could
be transmitted with out wires.
Stubblefield was the first to entertain
the idea. "{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1892:First World's
Public Radio
Demonstration
-
In 1892, the World's First Public Radio
Demonstration -- [World's First Public
Demonstration of wireless (voice)
transmission on land] was held in
Murray, Kentucky.
••• In
the winter of 1892, Nathan B. Stubblefield
made a tremendous ad vance in his
"wireless telephone" demonstrations, which
would make wireless practi cal over
distances far greater than those from his
experimental home to the garden, dis
tances which would first encompass the
earth and then reach far out into the
universe and to uni verses beyond. It was
Stubblefield's great invention of the
"wireless telephone" that helped him
discover the basic principals and laws of
Amplitude Modulation, (AM Radio).
••• To
advance his low&endash;frequency induction
system to a space system, he built an
aerial -- an antenna which he connected to
one side of the carbon mouth piece of a
telephone: (to send a spark wave; Hertz
had merely used a horizontal rod ending in
a plate.) The aerial was copper wire
wrapped around a cylinder, or in some
cases made into a loop, that was attached
to the top of a pole (later he used longer
aerials strung along the top of his family
home). He con nected the other side of the
carbon coil located inside of the
mouthpiece to his electrolyte water
batteries and crystal, stacked and
positioned inside his secret "black box."
Ground wires from the "black box," then
lead to the metal stakes driven into the
earth. The re ceiver also got an aerial
and ground. {19/Gx}
•
WIRELESS TELEPHONY: 1892: Nathan B.
Stubblefield
-
In
January, 1892, Nathan B. Stubblefield
demonstrated this "WIRELESS TELEPHONY"
system in Murray, Kentucky before several
hundred on lookers. A total of $758.00 was
borrowed from friends and relative to
perform this demonstration. During the
same year, Stubblefield, again privately,
demonstrated to Rainey T. Wells the
ability of his apparatus to send and
receive the human voice by wireless. After
he had set up his props, the inventor
talked into one box in rather low tones,
and his words "Can you hear me?" Came out
the other box "quite distinctly and
clearly" as attested to by witnesses.
••• Dr.
W. H. Mason, a Murray sur geon who claimed
to be a per sonal friend and family
physician for Nathan B. Stubblefield,
declared that in the same year he wit
nessed a private demonstration of the
wireless tele phone. Dr. Mason recalled
that on one occa sion, Nathan B.
Stubblefield handed him a device "housed
in what appeared to be a keg with a handle
on it." The doctor then followed
instructions to walk down the lane
carrying the keg. He testified that from
it he could hear distinctly "Nathan's
voice and a French harp (harmonica)" which
Nathan was sending. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1895:Dit Dahs "dots
& dashes"- Guglielmo Marconi
-
In the spring of 1895, what
Nathan
B. Stubblefield did with wireless voice
transmission in 1885, Guglielmo Marconi
did with dots and dashes. He discovered
that he could send signals over distances
far greater than those from his villa to
the garden -- dis tances which would
travel more than a mile It was Marconi's
great basic in vention of signal induction
-- if, indeed, it was his. Like
Stubblefield, he built an aerial -- an
antenna which he connected to one side of
the spark gap. (Hertz had merely used a
horizontal rod ending in a plate.) The
aerial was a metal cylinder atop a pole.
He con nected the other side of the spark
gap to a ground -- at first, a copper
plate ly ing in the ground. The re ceiver
also got an aerial and ground.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:1998: electrolyte water
battery "Stubblefield, Nathan B" -
1898
The
patent on the Stubblefield electrolyte
water battery, number 600,457, was the
device that provided the energy to produce
the continual subcarrier hum during
Stubblefield's voice transmission when it
was connected to his "black box" that
contained the electrolytic crystals that
acted as detectors and modulators. The
portable receiver contained the necessary
detector to receive the voice broadcast.
Stubblefield advertised that by slightly
modifying the telephone coil, one could
transmit through the ground for many miles
-- the battery acting as a relay.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1898:ground cell
(Stubblefield, Nathan B.)-
1898:
Stubblefield's
Electrolyte
Water Battery. The patent on the
Stubblefield bat tery, number 600,457,
declares in the specification forming part
of the letters of patent that the
electrical battery has for its object: to
provide a novel and practical battery for
generating electrical currents of suf
ficient forms for practical uses, and also
pro viding means for generating not only a
constant pri mary current but also an
induced momentary sec ondary current.
••• This
electrical battery is the "ground cell" or
"earth cell" frequently referred to by
Stubblefield in many of his writings and
interviews. Stubblefield so named the de
vice because when he first began his
experimentation with it, he would place
the device that he had constructed in the
moist earth of his farm. Then, when
electrical cur rents began to flow from
the device, he assumed that the engine he
had constructed was tapping the "natural
elec tricity" of the earth. Note, for
example, how he describes the action of
his electrical battery: This cell de rived
sufficient electrical energy from the
ground in the vicinity of the spot where
it was buried to run a small motor
continuously for two months and six days
without any attention whatever. Indeed,
the electrical cur rent was powerful
enough to run a clock and several small
pieces of machinery and to ring a large
gong. By adding a modified carbon
microphone to the batteries, it creation
wireless voice transmission. {19/Gx} •
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102-Sean
Parker takes on Hollwood with new home
video service
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• Screening
Room Former co-founder of Napsters
is pitching Hollywood on an unorthodox
home-video service called Screening Room
that would give users access to films the
day that they're released in theaters for
$50 each. If Parker succeeds, it could
open a vast new revenue stream for him and
change how entertainment is consumed in
the home.
••••The
system is scheduled to be shown to
industry professionals in private meetings
held in Las Vegas during the annual
CinemaCon convention next week.
••••The
Screening Room service would offer 48-hour
rentals of films via a set-top box that
would cost about $150. Revenue would be
split among Screening Room, studios and
exhibitors. Also, each rental would come
with a pair of tickets to see the film in
movie theaters.
••••Netflix
and other popular streaming video
platforms have allowed consumers to watch
on-demand content from the comfort of
their increasingly high-tech living rooms.
Trends in media consumption suggest that
eventually people will be able to watch
movies at home starting the day they are
released in cinemas.
••••But
there is skepticism that Parker is the
person to crack the code. Doubters have
cited Napster as evidence that Parker may
not be the right person to take on
Hollywood.
••••Screening
Room would not be the first to rent movies
to consumers at home on the same day that
they are released in cinemas. Prima Cinema
Inc. offers a service that allows users
who shell out $35,000 for an in-home
device the ability to screen first-run
films for $500 a pop. Prima, caters to a
high-end crowd.
••••"Our
goal was never to try to disrupt a
business," Prima Chief Executive Shawn
Yeager said. "At $50, it is hard to
imagine how Screening Room doesn't
disrupt." • About Parker ••••Parker
grew up in Herndon, Va., not far from
Washington, D.C. He was turned on to
programming at an early age when his
oceanographer father gave him a computer
and taught him how to use it. By his
teenage years, Parker was hacking into the
computer systems of corporations and
governments. That led to his arrest at the
age of 16 by the FBI. He was given
community service for his offenses.
••••
In 1999, Parker -- who did not go to
college -- moved to California to join up
with Shawn Fanning, whom he had met online
and who was then creating Napster.
••••Together,
Fanning and Parker, then just 18 and 19,
roiled the music industry by releasing
Napster in 1999. Tens of millions of
people were soon using the service to
download MP3 music files, but a wave of
lawsuits shut it down in July 2001.
••••In
addition to Napster, Parker backed
Facebook and Spotify early on. His wealth
soared when Facebook went public in
2012.
••••Parker
joined Facebook in 2004, and as the
company's first president, he has been
credited with helping transform it from a
fledgling website started in Mark
Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room into a
serious business. He has been described as
a mentor to Zuckerberg and an advocate for
the Menlo Park, Calif., company and its
founder during its rocky early days.
••••But
Parker was long gone from Facebook by the
time of its initial public offering of
stock: He left his post in 2005 after the
cocaine-related arrest (he was not
formally charged with a crime).
••••In
2013, Parker married singer-songwriter
Alexandra Lenas in a fairy-tale themed
gathering that required construction of
"artificially created 'ruins' of cottage
and castle walls," at a coastal redwood
forest in Big Sur.
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Home Video Service Screening
Room
•102-
"Kiss &
Tell" ••••
Tell me your
problems and I'll tell you mine, is the
old approach to get some people to open up
and extract information.
••••
Facebook is the world's most popular
social network. It is the company's 'kiss
& tell' mission to be the ultimate
placer for everybody to share just about
everything. Most people populate their
their feeds with only the most flattering
posts, like vacation and family photos,
promotional work and other not so humble
brags.
••••
As in a recent very personal post by the
Zuckerbergs, the social network encourages
others to share their struggles, to better
reflect reality, saying "in today's open
and connected world discussing these
issues doesn't distance us: it bring us
together. It creates understanding and
tolerance;" and also more motivated 'kiss
& tell' users.
••••
Sharing the most personal Facebook urges
users to share just about everything about
heir lives. There are however people that
do not hew that philosophy and the
tendency to expose their personal
challenges. That leaves open the question
still what is and is not appropriate to
share on social medias.
• 102- Insider Trading Hackers
Arrested -
• Downloaded more than 150,000 press
releases. ••••
As some people wish
to connect on the Internet for positive
purposes there are those who embrace "Kiss
& Tell" criminality online.
••••
An international
hacking ring armed with tens of
thousands of corporate secrets pocketed
more than $100 million from
illicit trades, targeting a core
vulnerability of the financial system
in one of the digital age's most
sprawling insider-trading schemes
according to federal
investigators.•••
••••
The indictment
filed in US District Court accused foreign
based hacking network of downloading more
than 150,000 press releases for traders in
the U.S. and elsewhere. The traders paid
the hackers a flat rate or percentage of
the profit.
••••
Since 2010, more
than 30 hackers and traders across
the U.S., Ukraine, Russia and other
countries coordinated to steal and
profit from press releases, which
were scheduled to be delivered
toinvestors from corporate wire
services Business Wire, PR Newswire and
Marketwired, all of which are major public
relations news wire services that public
companies hire to disseminate
market-moving information at set time and
in orderly manner.
••••
The scheme involved
the alleged hacking of businesses news
wire services to pull inside information
from pending but still private press
releases and other documents, so that
rogue traders could get a jump on buying
or selling shares before breaking news
moved the stock prices.
•••••••
With advance
details on financial performance
and corporate mergers from dozens
of companies -- including Bank of
America, Boeing, Ford Motor, Home Depot,
defense contractor Northrop Grumman
and Smith & Wesson -- the
team made rapid and lucrative trades
from shared brokerage accounts,
funneling the money through shell
companies and offshore bank accounts
in Estonia and Macau.
••••Unlike
the recent high-profile hacks of health
insurers, the sophisticated hacks targeted
not just people's identities, but
corporate intelligence, and
some hackers and traders were even
aided by former broker-dealers registered
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
••••
A companion civil case filed by the SEC
included a wider network of defendants
including hackers, traders and small
securities firms in places such as Moscow,
Paris, Cyprus and Malta.
••••The
hackers, who called the
early-accessed filings 'Kiss & Tell'
"fresh stuff," masked their movements
through proxy servers. In a series of
emails hackers shared instruction on how
to access the servers and even made video
tutorials. In turn Traders sent hackers
"shopping lists' or wish lists" of
upcoming press releases they wanted from
select public companies, many of whom were
large Fortune 500 conglomerates with heavy
interest in market trading.
••••The
defendants simply shared the stolen 'Kiss
& Tell' releases and created servers
on which other defendants, known as
"trader defendant" could quickly access
the releases and trade on them before they
were officially made public. •
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Twitter CEO's steps
down
••••Come
July 1, co-founder and Square CEO Jack
Dorsey will take the helm on an interim
basis. When Twitter Chief Executive Dick
Costolo announced that he was stepping
down, it was speculated whether the
micro-blogging service could be an
acquisition target for a deep-pocketed
company like Google, and the lack of a CEO
successor signals the potential for
acquisition." Investors, too, are calling
for a buyout.
••••
In the past, Twitter turned down offers
from Google and Facebook, choosing instead
to compete with them for ad dollars and
users. But advertising never became as
lucrative as investors hope for and user
growth has slowed; for months now, the San
Francisco company has been under intense
pressure to prove its relevance.
••••
Google for example doesn't have strong
social and Twitter is highly mobile, and
everything is on mobile now. It's also
moving towards video, and having video
postings and video ads. These are the big
trends on the Internet ... and Twitter has
all those things."
••••
Last week, major Twitter investor Chris
Sacca posted a nearly 8,500-word essay on
how to improve Twitter. He then took to
CNBC to proclaim that Google and Twitter
would be an "instant fit."
••••
As it stands, Twitter hasn't evolved much
since its launch nine years ago, and it
has a steep learning curve for newcomers
unfamiliar with its at times clunky user
experience. Twitter needs to develop or
acquire complementary products to
expand.
••••
There is precedent for the two companies
working together. In April, Google agreed
to help Twitter sell and measure promoted
tweets paid for by advertisers. A month
later, Google began showing tweets in its
search results. That was a win for
Twitter, which now has its content seen by
many more people -- including non-Twitter
users -- as a result of the deal.
••••
According to Costolo Twitter's board will
"carefully evaluate" any offer while
Dorsey indicated that the company has no
plans to change direction.
••••
Regardless of whether a takeover is on the
table, analysts agree Twitter has a slew
of problems it needs to quickly address --
and not just its flat ad revenue but also
a user experience that struggles to
attract a mainstream following.
••••
"A good analogy is Facebook's purchase of
Instagram," said Steve Sarracino, founder
of Activant Capital. "Twitter needs to
find another delivery model beyond tweets
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102-
ICAAN
Hacked
••••
Decc
19, 2014 -- Hackers
breached the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the
organization that coordinates unique web
addresses all across the world, but
luckily didn't hit the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority, an important leg that
keeps the Internet running smoothly.
••••
Attackers used
"spear fishing" to break into the system
in late November, according to a post on
ICANN's website this week. Staffers
received email messages that appeared to
be coming from ICANN's own domain; several
ICANN staffers' emails were
compromised. •••"Based
on our investigation to date, we are not
aware of any other systems that have been
compromised," ICANN's post read. It
credits the relative insignificance of the
attack to the organization's beefed-up
security measures.
••••
Attackers gained
administrative privileges in a leg of
ICANN called the Centralized Zone Data
Service (CZDS), which they used to gather
a slew of information entered by users:
names, postal addresses, emails and phone
numbers. Passwords were encrypted, but
ICANN has still deactivated all CZDS
passwords as a precaution. ••••
"We believe these
enhancements helped limit the unauthorized
access obtained in the attack," ICANN
said. "Since discovering the attack, we
have implemented additional security
measures."
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•
102-
Ultra-Cheap TVs, with Roku Streamers built
right
in ••••
Roku, a maker of streaming devices
that send Internet video to TV screens, is
now building its service into the TV sets
themselves. Roku, Inc. partnered with
Hisense and TCL to build the company's
superb Smart TV platform built-in -- no
box required. The Saratoga, Calif.,
company announced that pre-orders are
being taken for Roku-equipped televisions
built by Chinese company TCL, and soon
Roku TV sets by Hisense will also go on
sale.
••••
The company's aim is to knock cable
and satellite aside and place itself
&endash; and Internet streaming &endash;
as the primary gateway for TV viewers. The
co-branded TVs will display the same Roku
menu seen by users of the company's Roku 3
and Roku Streaming Stick devices. That
menu includes programming from Netflix,
Amazon and hundreds of other channels. The
sets will also pull in digital broadcast
signals and accommodate game consoles and
cable/satellite boxes as well.
••••
Like Roku boxes and USB sticks,
each TV comes with a dead-simple remote
that was developed in collaboration with
Roku. It's not a motion controller like
the one included with the highest-end Roku
3 box, but the remotes for the TCL and
Hisense sets are much simpler compared to
your average TV remote. Buttons are kept
to a minimum, although there are dedicated
ones to quickly access Netflix, Amazon
Video, Rdio, and Vudu.
••••
The TCL sets, that start at $229
and range from 32-inch to 55-inch models,
will begin shipping soon. The Hisense
versions are expected to be available by
late September. There's no word on whether
major TV manufacturers like Samsung and
Sony will offer Roku-equipped TVs.
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in
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102-
Internet No longer
free? On
July 15, 2014, the House approved a
permanent extension of the moratorium of
the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act ••••
From the
inception of the Internet until the late
1990s, the Internet was free of government
regulation in the United States at all
levels, and also free of any specially
targeted tax levies. By 1996, however, as
the Internet was becoming so fundamental
to communications and the economy, that
began to change, as several U.S. states
and municipalities began to see Internet
services as a potential source of tax
revenue. •
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, signed by
President Bill Clinton, halted the
expansion of direct taxation of the
Internet, grandfathering existing taxes in
certain states by temporarily banning any
additional jurisdictions from taxing
Internet access services, on the grounds
that such costs would deter Americans from
getting connected. In the United States
alone, thousands+ taxing jurisdictions
could otherwise have laid claim to taxes
on a piece of the Internet. The law,
however, did not affect sales taxes
applied to online purchases. These
continue to be taxed at varying rates
depending on the jurisdiction, in the same
way that phone and mail orders are
taxed.
••••
Also the idea of
taxing email is no more popular today than
when President Bill Clinton signed the
Internet Tax Freedom Act into law. But a
dedicated congressional minority now wants
to allow states and localities to tax
email-- unless these governments are given
new powers to collect sales taxes on
e-commerce.
•
This is the third time in 16 years Congress
has temporarily extended the Permanent
Internet Tax Freedom Act since its
original enactment. The most recent
extension was titled the Internet Tax
Freedom Act Amendment Act of 2007, signed
into law on November 1, 2007, by George W.
Bush and extended the moratorium until
November 1, 2014
••••On
July 15, 2014, the House approved a
permanent extension of the moratorium of
the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, a
bill that would amend the Internet Tax
Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on
state and local taxation of Internet
access and on multiple or discriminatory
taxes on electronic commerce.
•••••
Senate Democratic leaders, however,
want to tie the no-new-Internet-taxes bill
to a measure that would let states require
online retailers in other states to
collect sales taxes for them. Such
proposal wouldn't impose any new taxes on
the Internet; shoppers there already owe
"use" taxes on purchases from out-of-state
retailers. However, they typically don't
pay them. Despite the many differences in
local rates and rules technological
advances have made it easy for websites to
collect sales tax from any shopper. As
long as lawmakers streamline the
submission and auditing of tax payments,
it's reasonable to require online
retailers to collect sales taxes from
out-of-state buyers. The change would also
eliminate an unfair advantage that
e-tailers enjoy over their
brick-and-mortar competitors.
••••If
the Senate does not approve this bill,
states would be responsible for setting
the tax rate.
••••If
the ban on taxes is overturned, it would
not impact the local governments, it would
affect businesses. If the ban is approved,
then it would prevent state and local
governments from placing taxes on those
using the Internet.
••••
The problem
would be determining who would actually
set the tax, since there has been no real
proposal on how the rate would be
based.
••••Some
retailers for instance use the Internet
for business every single day, and they
couldn't imagine being taxed to use the
Internet, even if it is the difference
between dollars and cents, and it could
change the way online retailers do
business. They may not be able to
have
an
e-business site or sell things online.
•
The legislation is now in the hands of
the Senate,
which has to approve the bill before it
become a law . On November 1 -- and
remember, Election Day is November 4 --
the moratorium on Internet-only taxes
ends. Meaning you and I will pay the
government even more coin to surf the
World Wide Web.
••••
That bill, which
passed the House by a large margin, would
permanently entrench a temporary
moratorium on ISP taxes. The measure is
politically popular because it means
consumers won't see "service fees," akin
to those that appear on cell phone
statements, on their broadband bills.
••••
When you next
fume at your Internet or cell phone bill
-- check the litany of taxes tacked on --
not to forget the built-in government
costs you pay but never see. That
way you'll know at whom to actually be
angry.
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•
102-
Who's to control the
Internet? Will
giving up Internet control mean the
biggest tax increase in world history Is the Obama administration's
plans to remove Washington's oversight of
the Internet unavoidable?
••••
The Internet acts as a unified
system, and is a global collection of
disparate computer and communications
networks - thanks in part to the use of a
common address book administered by a
nonprofit organization created and
overseen by the U.S. government.
••••
Now, the Obama administration says
the time has come to remove Washington's
oversight, leaving the U.S. government
with no greater influence over how the
Internet operates than any other country
has. That's a seemingly unavoidable but
risky step. And if the transition is
handled the right way, it may actually
reduce the risk that governments will
impose rules that splinter the Net.
••••
The federal involvement in the
Web's address book, formally known as the
Domain Name System, stems from days when
the Internet was just a federal research
project.
••••Independent
engineering groups came up with the
standards that enable networks to
interconnect and data to be shared, but
federal contractors were in charge of
maintaining the list of the .com names and
corresponding Internet Protocol addresses
of all the computers that connected
online. That system is shared by users
around the world and functions as guides
email, Web browsers and other Internet
traffic to the right destination.
••••
In 1998, however, the federal
government started shifting oversight of
the Domain Name System to the private
sector, contracting with the newly created
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers to manage domains and IP
addresses. ICANN isn't controlled by
Washington or any other single entity;
instead, it has a board of directors
chosen by its constituents, which include
telecommunications companies, engineering
groups and governments. Yet the fact that
ICANN is a U.S. government contractor has
led many observers to assume that
Washington has, if not veto power, at
least an unusual degree of influence over
the organization. It's a given that
the Internet is an integral part of the
global economy- ••••
and some foreign governments want a
very different Internet from the free,
open and global one we have today. Some,
such as China, wish to and do censor the
traffic coming in and out of their
countries. And some nations around the
globe want to force websites to store all
the data they collect within their
borders, effectively creating local
duplicates of the World Wide Web. In whose control
the World Wide Web is to be kept anyway is
in question.
••••
When the administration recently
announced that it planned to finish
privatizing the management of Internet
names and addresses, some proponents of
Internet freedom were outraged at what
looked like the the administration was
"giving up its traditional 'bodyguard'
role of Internet governance." Former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich warned that the move
"risks foreign dictatorships defining the
Internet."
••••
Those concerns would be more
realistic if the U.S. could dictate
ICANN's every move, but it can't. Still,
the federal government's involvement has
protected ICANN from being subjected to
some other government or governments'
rule. Is the UN eying
Internet governance Since a United Nations agency
recently tried to impose its own version
of governance on the Internet, it's not
out of line to think that opponents of a
unified, free and open Internet will see
the administration's proposed retreat as
an opportunity to advance.
••••
To the administration's credit it
placed some important conditions on its
withdrawal. It plans to cede the authority
it exerts now to "the global
multistakeholder community" -- in other
words, the academics, engineers,
businesses, consumers and governments that
have a stake in the Internet -- when its
current deal with ICANN expires in
September 2015. And while it handed ICANN
the job of coming up with a replacement
for the current system, it said it will
not accept "a government-led or an
inter-governmental organization
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Global Internet panel
formed Internet
governance to become one of the most
pressing global policies. ••••DAVOS,
Switzerland -
A global
commission has been created to investigate
how to ensure Internet freedom and
security at a time of growing concerns
over privacy breaches.
••••
The creation of the Global
Commission on Internet Govenmancy was
announced at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland.
••••
The commission was set up by
Canada's Centre for International
Governance Innovation and Britain's Royal
Institute of International Affairs.
•••
The two-year
inquiry,, will be wide-ranging but focus
primarily on state censorship of the
internet as well as the issues of privacy
and surveillance raised by the Snowden
leaks about America's NSA and Britain's
GCHQ spy agencies.
••••
Sweden's foreign minister, Carl
Bildt, will head a group of some 25
experts from various backgrounds,
including academia, government and civil
society. They will work together over the
coming two years to create "a strategic
vision for the future of Internet
governance."
••••Bildt,
the former Swedish prime minister, said:
"The rapid evolution of the net has been
made possible by the open and flexible
model by which it has evolved and been
governed. But increasingly this is coming
under attack.
••••"And
this is happening as issues of net
freedom, net security and net surveillance
are increasingly debated. Net freedom is
as fundamental as freedom of information
and freedom of speech in our
societies."
••••The
Obama administration announced the initial
findings of a White House-organised review
of the NSA. There are also inquiries by
the US Congress and by the European
parliament, but this is the first major
independent one.
••••The
inquiry has been set up by Britain's
foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House
and by the Center for International
Governance and Innovation (CIGI), which is
partly funded by the Canadian
government.
••••In
a joint statement, Chatham House and the
CIGI said the current internet regime was
under threat. "This threat to a free, open
and universal internet comes from two
principal sources. First, a number of
authoritarian states are waging a campaign
to exert greater state control over
critical internet resources."
••••The
statement does not name the countries but
it is aimed mainly at China and Iran, both
of whom are censoring the
internet.
••••The
other big issue, according to Chatham
House and the CIGI, is the revelations
from Snowden.
••••"Second,
revelations about the nature and extent of
online surveillance have led to a loss of
trust." The
issue of internet governance is set to
become one of the most pressing global
policy issues of our time, saidRobin Niblett, director of Chatham
House, said: "The issue of internet
governance is set to become one of the
most pressing global policy issues of our
time."
••••••Among
those on the panel are: Joseph Nye, former
dean of the Kennedy school of governance
at Harvard; Sir David Omand, former head
of GCHQ; Michael Chertoff, former
secretary of the US homeland security
department and co-author of the Patriot
Act that expanded NSA surveillance powers;
the MEP Marietje Schaake, who has been a
leading advocate of internet freedom;
Latha Reddy, former deputy national
security adviser of India; and Patricia
Lewis, research director in the
international security department at
Chatham House, who said: "Internet
governance is too important to be left
just to governments."
••••Gordon
Smith, who is to be deputy chair of the
commission, said: "For many people,
Internet governance sounds technical and
esoteric but the reality is that the
issues are 'high politics' and of
consequence to all users of the internet,
present and future." •
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reported that Yahoo Inc in talks to buy
YouTube-like video site "Dailymotion" --
is in talks with France Telecom to buy a
majority stake in Dailymotion, an online
video site popular in Europe that has been
scouting for a U.S. partner to take on
Google Inc.'s YouTube.
•
Google
reports that the YouTube deal represents a
major growth opportunity for the Internet
gian•••
Google has said YouTube represents a major
growth opportunity for the Internet
giant.
•••
Executive Marissa Maye reported that if
the deal is excepted, it would be first
major acquisition since taking over Yahoo
last summer.
•••
Under the ownership structure being
discussed, Yahoo could buy as much as 75%
of Dailymotion with the possibility of
buying the rest of the site at a later
date, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The deal would value Dailymotion at around
$300 million.
•••
Spokespeople for Yahoo and France Telecom
declined to comment. •
Dailymotion
is hoping that by selling -- a majority stake to a U.S. partner
will help boost distribution, content and
marketing deals. The addition of the
largest streaming video site after YouTube
would give Yahoo a major presence in Web
video outside the U.S.
•••
France Telecom bought Dailymotion in a
two-part agreement over the course of two
years for $168 million. Dailymotion
editorial and executive management operate
independently of France Telecom.
Dailymotion had 112 million unique visits
and 2.5 billion page views in January,
according to research firm ComScore.
•••
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said video "is going to be very important
to our strategy." Last July, Yahoo struck
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WUG4 group reported that Verizon Profit
doubled on Increase in SmartPhone
Sales
•••Verizon
Wireless third-quarter earnings
rose to $1.38 billion, from $659 million,
or 23 cents, a year earlier.
•••Sales
climbed 5.4 % to $27.9 billion, matching
the average analyst projection. The
third-quarter three-month period ended
Sept. 31., Verizon
said. Verizon
shares closed up 0,9% to $37.42.
•••
Contributing to Verizon's increased
performance was a jump in smartphone
sales- users and on its network with
882,000 new wireless-contract
customers.
•••The
significant boost in profit comes despite
a two-week labor strike and spending $250
million on "storm-related repair costs" --
and cost of its PSI billing process in the
amount of $5.00 per month per wireless
phone number assigned to each wireless
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quarter-million people were anticipated to
attend the dedication, which was
originally scheduled for Sunday, according
to ABC News. With the capital in the path
of Hurricane Irene, organizers decided to
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more new Apple Stores were opened in
China. Chinese authorities say they are
"Real" -- and are selling Apple products
to Apple customers, so Apple should be
happy." -- Locals from the city of Kunming
-- agree with the
authorities."
•-
China's Administration for Industry and
Commerce has suspended previously exposed
stores from doing business, but the new 22
are instead being ordered to stop using
Apple's logo and trademarks, according to
a report from Reuters.
•-
State
media reports said Apple China has
filed a complaint with the government and
accused such fake stores of unfair
competition and trademark violation,
according to
Reuters.
•-
Reuters
reported that: "The market watchdog agency
said it would set up a complaint hotline
and boost monitoring, the official Xinhua
news agency reported," Reuters said. "It
did not say if the shops were selling
knock-off Apple products or genuine but
smuggled
models.
•-
"Countless
unauthorized resellers of Apple and other
brands' electronic products throughout
China sell the real thing but buy their
goods overseas and smuggle them into the
country to escape taxes," the
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102WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of Arts &
Sciences -
1902
•
Excerpts
from: Smart Daaf Boys,
Stubblefield's 1993 "All-in-One
Radio/Television & Desk Top Almanac
Encyclopedia-Dictionary.
(456 Pages ) •ISBN No.
10883644-04-6Library of Congress Catalog
Number 93-060451Volume IV, A Source
Book for Comminications Executives &
Researchers
Copyright 1993: By Telvision International
Publishing (TVI Publishing)
102WIRELESS
TELEPHONE Industrial School of Arts &
Sciences - 1902 :-
In January 1902, Stubblefield agreed to
participate in the commercial exploitation
of his device by Fennell's Philadelphia
Group that purportedly included
Westinghouse. Incorporation papers for the
Wireless Telephone Company of America were
filed in Prescott, Arizona, on May 22,
1902. Stubblefield was a director, but
held no office. The Washington and
Philadelphia demonstrations maintained the
momentum needed to sell stock in the new
company. A four page prospectus, extolling
the investment opportunity in Wireless
Telephone Company of America compared the
Stubblefield device with Marconi's
wireless telegraphy system by stating that
both systems utilized "...
for
transmission what are termed Hertzian
electrical wave currents ..." The
technical details were not disclosed since
the prospectus was designed to sell stock,
and perhaps deliberately avoided specific
evidence on the points of comparison or
contrast. The use of steel rods thrust
into the ground, the large circular coils
and the copper antenna wires attached to
the masts on the steamer Bartholdi and on
rooftops indicate that Stubblefield's
1892, 1893 and 1902 systems were based
upon Stubblefield's earth grounded
induction-antenna principle, in which we
now call, AM radio. Stubblefield insisted
that a more "powerful" apparatus would
"transmit" unlimited distances. The U.S.
Navies ELF project in Clam Flats,
Wisconsin is based on Stubblefield's basic
induction-antenna device.
•
Wireless
Telephone: 1898:Patent For
Electrolyte Battery and Detector for Radio
Signal (wireless telephone) Issued
600,457.
{19/Gx}
•
wireless
- (1) A British term for radio.
(2) Used in the United
States, in the sense of (#1) above, when
the word "radio" might be misinterpreted
(as an example -- a "wireless record
player"). {73/RS}
•
Section
19.
Wireless
Telephony
- The early radiotelephones were powered
by wet-cell, non-rechargeable batteries.
The telephone at first also used
electricity. Today's radio and television
stations receive their current from power
lines fed by huge dynamos, some powered by
atomic fission. The increasing
sophistication of power sources, (solar,
cell) parallels the continued movement
toward greater sophistication in
electrical communication methods.
{01/Gi}
•
Wireless
Telephony and Stubblefield
-
Nathan B. Stubblefield's "Wireless
Telephony" - ("Radio"): In addition to the
following listings under "Wireless
Telephony," as well as those listed above
under "Wireless Signals," also see the
section in this book, under:
"Stubblefield, Nathan B" with the various
terms, definitions, patents issued,
demonstrations, historical facts, etc., on
Nathan B. Stubblefield (The "Inventor" Of
The "Wireless Telephony" -- The
"Radio").
••• •
Please See Section 15. Stubblefield and
"Wireless Telephony" ("Radio").
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Broadcast&endash;Industry Trade
Resource/Reference Books" with a section
on Nathan B. Stubblefield.
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications
"Hard&endash;Cover Books" with a section
on Nathan B. Stubblefield.
••• •
Also See Radio: Publications "Magazines"
with a section on Nathan B. Stubblefield.
{03/Di}
•
WIRELESS
TELEPHONY and
TELEGRAPH
••• (1)
RADIO
FREQUENCY(ra-di--o-fre-quen-cy),
n.
(a). the frequency of the transmitting
waves of a given radio message or
broadcast. (b). a frequency within the
range of radio transmission, i.e. from
about 15,000 MC to 10 MC (MegaCycles) per
second. [Note: A MegaCycle means, "one
million cycles" -- so 15,000 MC is equal
to 15,000 x 1,000,000, which is
15,000,000,000 cycles per second (15
billion cycles per second); and 10 MC is
equal to 10 x 1,000,000, which is
10,000,000 cycles per second (10 million
cycles per second).]
••• (2)
RADIO(ra-di-o),
n. (a). wireless telegraphy: sparks or
dot&endash;dashes broadcasted by radio.
(b). telephony: speeches or music
broadcasted by radio. (c). an apparatus
for receiving radio broadcasts. (d). a
message transmitted by radio.
••• (3)
BROADCAST(broad-cast),
v.
To send (messages, speeches, music,
sounds) by radio. {19/Gx} •
Wireless
Telephony: 1860:Murray, Kentucky:
Nathan B. Stubblefield
-
Nathan B. Stubblefield, "The Inventor Of
Radio" (Wireless Telephony) was born in
Murray, Kentucky in 1860. Stubblefield
died in Murray in 1928, where he is
buried. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1885:First World's
Private Wireless (Voice) Transmission-
Demonstration.
In
1885, Nathan B. Stubblefield, "The
Inventor of Wireless Telephony" held his
First Demonstration, [which was the
World's First Private Demonstration of
wireless (voice) transmission on
land]. Stubblefield, from Murray,
Kentucky: Patented his invention in 1898
and also in 1908.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:
1885:
Stubblefield
demonstration to his friend, Duncan Holt,
the transmission of voice without wires.
Holt stated, "One Sunday that year
[1885] Stubblefield invited Holt
and his wife out to his home, where the
west boundary of Murray State College now
is. That afternoon he said to Holt,
"Duncan, I've done it. I've been able to
talk without wires -- all of 200 yards --
and it'll work everywhere!" Stubblefield
had a little "experimental station" he
called it, 200 yards away from the house,
and he said he could talk from there and
it could be heard at the house, or
vise&endash;versa -- and without wires! At
that time, Holt said, "the Scientific
American had never mentioned the possi
bility in suggestion or otherwise that
speech or intelligent communication could
be transmitted with out wires.
Stubblefield was the first to entertain
the idea. "{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1892:First World's
Public Radio
Demonstration
-
In 1892, the World's First Public Radio
Demonstration -- [World's First Public
Demonstration of wireless (voice)
transmission on land] was held in
Murray, Kentucky.
••• In
the winter of 1892, Nathan B. Stubblefield
made a tremendous ad vance in his
"wireless telephone" demonstrations, which
would make wireless practi cal over
distances far greater than those from his
experimental home to the garden, dis
tances which would first encompass the
earth and then reach far out into the
universe and to uni verses beyond. It was
Stubblefield's great invention of the
"wireless telephone" that helped him
discover the basic principals and laws of
Amplitude Modulation, (AM Radio).
••• To
advance his low&endash;frequency induction
system to a space system, he built an
aerial -- an antenna which he connected to
one side of the carbon mouth piece of a
telephone: (to send a spark wave; Hertz
had merely used a horizontal rod ending in
a plate.) The aerial was copper wire
wrapped around a cylinder, or in some
cases made into a loop, that was attached
to the top of a pole (later he used longer
aerials strung along the top of his family
home). He con nected the other side of the
carbon coil located inside of the
mouthpiece to his electrolyte water
batteries and crystal, stacked and
positioned inside his secret "black box."
Ground wires from the "black box," then
lead to the metal stakes driven into the
earth. The re ceiver also got an aerial
and ground. {19/Gx}
•
WIRELESS TELEPHONY: 1892: Nathan B.
Stubblefield
-
In
January, 1892, Nathan B. Stubblefield
demonstrated this "WIRELESS TELEPHONY"
system in Murray, Kentucky before several
hundred on lookers. A total of $758.00 was
borrowed from friends and relative to
perform this demonstration. During the
same year, Stubblefield, again privately,
demonstrated to Rainey T. Wells the
ability of his apparatus to send and
receive the human voice by wireless. After
he had set up his props, the inventor
talked into one box in rather low tones,
and his words "Can you hear me?" Came out
the other box "quite distinctly and
clearly" as attested to by witnesses.
••• Dr.
W. H. Mason, a Murray sur geon who claimed
to be a per sonal friend and family
physician for Nathan B. Stubblefield,
declared that in the same year he wit
nessed a private demonstration of the
wireless tele phone. Dr. Mason recalled
that on one occa sion, Nathan B.
Stubblefield handed him a device "housed
in what appeared to be a keg with a handle
on it." The doctor then followed
instructions to walk down the lane
carrying the keg. He testified that from
it he could hear distinctly "Nathan's
voice and a French harp (harmonica)" which
Nathan was sending. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1895:Dit Dahs "dots
& dashes"- Guglielmo Marconi
-
In the spring of 1895, what
Nathan
B. Stubblefield did with wireless voice
transmission in 1885, Guglielmo Marconi
did with dots and dashes. He discovered
that he could send signals over distances
far greater than those from his villa to
the garden -- dis tances which would
travel more than a mile It was Marconi's
great basic in vention of signal induction
-- if, indeed, it was his. Like
Stubblefield, he built an aerial -- an
antenna which he connected to one side of
the spark gap. (Hertz had merely used a
horizontal rod ending in a plate.) The
aerial was a metal cylinder atop a pole.
He con nected the other side of the spark
gap to a ground -- at first, a copper
plate ly ing in the ground. The re ceiver
also got an aerial and ground.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:1998: electrolyte water
battery "Stubblefield, Nathan B" -
1898
The
patent on the Stubblefield electrolyte
water battery, number 600,457, was the
device that provided the energy to produce
the continual subcarrier hum during
Stubblefield's voice transmission when it
was connected to his "black box" that
contained the electrolytic crystals that
acted as detectors and modulators. The
portable receiver contained the necessary
detector to receive the voice broadcast.
Stubblefield advertised that by slightly
modifying the telephone coil, one could
transmit through the ground for many miles
-- the battery acting as a relay.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1898:ground cell
(Stubblefield, Nathan B.)-
1898:
Stubblefield's
Electrolyte
Water Battery. The patent on the
Stubblefield bat tery, number 600,457,
declares in the specification forming part
of the letters of patent that the
electrical battery has for its object: to
provide a novel and practical battery for
generating electrical currents of suf
ficient forms for practical uses, and also
pro viding means for generating not only a
constant pri mary current but also an
induced momentary sec ondary current.
••• This
electrical battery is the "ground cell" or
"earth cell" frequently referred to by
Stubblefield in many of his writings and
interviews. Stubblefield so named the de
vice because when he first began his
experimentation with it, he would place
the device that he had constructed in the
moist earth of his farm. Then, when
electrical cur rents began to flow from
the device, he assumed that the engine he
had constructed was tapping the "natural
elec tricity" of the earth. Note, for
example, how he describes the action of
his electrical battery: This cell de rived
sufficient electrical energy from the
ground in the vicinity of the spot where
it was buried to run a small motor
continuously for two months and six days
without any attention whatever. Indeed,
the electrical cur rent was powerful
enough to run a clock and several small
pieces of machinery and to ring a large
gong. By adding a modified carbon
microphone to the batteries, it creation
wireless voice transmission. {19/Gx}
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Demonstration-Washington,
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First World's Ship to Shore Radio
Wireless (Voice) Broadcast -
January,
1902:
In
1902, the "Worlds First Ship to Shore
Radio Wireless (Voice) Broadcast" took
place. On March 20, 1902, Stubblefield set
up a demonstration on the Potomac River in
Washington, D.C.
•••
Among
the Stubblefield papers is a record on the
printed receipt of John Cumberland and
Sons, Boat Builders, for the hire of the
steamer Bartholdi, for a four hour test,
costing $25. On this re ceipt Nathan
Stubblefield has written: "First Marine
Wireless Telephone Demonstration in the
world before the public by Nathan B.
Stubblefield, March 20, 1902."
••• One
set of telephone equipment was carried on
board the steamer, and a sister unit kept
on the shore. The Bartholdi was lo cated
midstream just below Georgetown
University. In a picture made of the
steamer showing persons aboard, the
university buildings are plainly seen in
the background. The wires from the
telephone were dropped into the water at
the stern of the boat. The sounds of a
harmonica played on shore were distinctly
heard on the three receivers at tached to
the apparatus on the steamer, and singing,
the sound of the human voice counting
numerals, and ordi nary conversation were
audible. {19/Gx}
•
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Demonstration (Nathan B. Stubblefield) -
1902: Wireless
Telephony: 1902: Belmont Mansion.
Philadelphia
Demonstration. On May 30, 1902, just a
little over two months af ter this
Washington demonstration, Stubblefield
gave demonstrations of his wireless
telephone in Philadelphia at the Belmont
mansion. Again the witnesses were
newspapermen and "a few invited guests,
that included Tesla, Westinghouse and
Collins."
••• The
paper re ported that all who placed the
receiver to their ears went away con
vinced of the efficacy of the wireless
phone. A pic ture in the Stubblefield
papers shows the Decoration Day gathering
assembled one mile distant from the instal
lation in the second story of the Belmont
man sion. The ground wire attached to the
receiver is shown in the fore ground of
the picture. (Bartholdi) Several of the
celebrities present are named. Professor
Edwin J. Houston, author of many technical
works, of Franklin Institute attended the
Philadelphia demonstrations. His picture
was taken at this park demonstration.
{19/Gx}
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Wireless
Telephony: 1902: Courthouse Square, Radio
Demonstration (Nathan B. Stubblefield) -
1902:
January
1. On this day, Stubblefield again
demonstrated his radio as he did in 1892,
but this time, with 5 listening stations
and before a crowd of about a thousand
persons in the courthouse square at
Murray. Newspaper reported that he
established five "listening" stations in
various parts of town, the furthest
[sic] six blocks distant from the
transmitter. Then Mr. Stubblefield's son
took his place at the transmitter and
talked in a tone of voice such as is
ordinarily used in telephoning. Bernard
whispered, whistled, and played a large
harmonica. Simultaneously everyone on the
re ceivers heard him with remarkable
distinctness. And at that moment,
Stubblefield became a prophet with honor
in his own country. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1906:continuous radio
wave -
1906:
Reginald
Fessenden. Immediately after
Stubblefield's 1902 demonstrations in
Washington, Reginald Fessenden hit upon
the idea that a voice carried on a
low-frequency wave could be modulated to
be carried upon a high frequency
continuous radio wave. On Christmas Eve
1906, startled wireless operators heard
Fessenden's voice as far away as the East
Indies, using his noisy 100,000 volt
alternating generator to carry voice.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:
1906:
Voice
added to Continuous Radio wave: Fessenden
- Sometime between 1901 and 1906, Reginald
Fessenden hit upon the idea that a voice
could be modulated to be carried upon a
continuous radio wave. On Christmas Eve
1906, startled wireless operators heard
Fessenden's voice as far away as the East
Indies, using his noisy alternating
generator to carry voice. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephone: 1907:Nathan B.
Stubblefield files appliction for the U.S.
"Wireless Telephone" patent, in
Washington, DC. •
Wireless
Telephone: 1908:Radio Patent
#887,357 -
1908:
Stubblefield's
radio, "Wireless Telephony, received a
patent, number 887,357. His patent
describes his radio system as devices that
would transmit and receive broadcast in
any moving vehicle, either from ship to
shore, horseless carriages, and
locomotive. Today of course, any moving
vehicle would include, airplanes, rockets,
cellular telephones, automobiles and even
satellites. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1911:De Forest, Lee
"radio transmission,
voiceless"
- Lee De Forest's invention of the vacuum
tube provided the basis for modern radio
transmission in 1911. The original De
Forest "triode tube" or audion did not
transmit voice. {19/Gx}
•
The
Kingsbury Commitment
1913
/The Kingsbury
Commitment of 1913 formalized AT&T's
monopoly. The Bell System and Independent
telephone companies reduced competition
out of concern for government
intervention. The government had been
increasingly worried that AT&T and the
other Bell Companies were monopolizing the
industry.
••• Under
Theodore N. Vail from 1907 AT&T had
bought Bell-associated companies and
organized them into new hierarchies.
AT&T had also acquired many of the
independents, and bought control of
Western Union, giving it a monopolistic
position in both telephone and telegraph
communication. A key strategy was to
refuse to connect its long distance
network -- technologically, by far the
finest and most extensive in the land --
with local independent carriers. Without
the prospect of long distance services,
the market position of many independents
became untenable. Vail stated that there
should be "one policy, one system
[AT&T's] and universal
service, no collection of separate
companies could give the public the
service that [the] Bell... system
could
give."
••• AT&T's
strategies prompted complaints and
attracted the attention of the Justice
Department. Faced with a government
investigation for antitrust violations,
AT&T entered into
negotiations.
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Wireless
Telephony: 1913: amplifier -
1913:
Lee
De Forest perfected his Audion as an
amplifier, and in 1913 sold rights to it
as a tele phonic relay to a lawyer named
Meyers for $50,000. Meyers turned out to
be a front for none other than the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
AT&T had been prepared to pay half a
million if it had to. It wasn't until the
end of 1913 that De Forest discov ered
that the Audion could be used for voice
transmis sion. Now the Audion bulb -- the
vacuum tube -- was a detector, an am
plifier, and a means of transmission. But
the outbreak of World War I caused all
further re search to be hidden by military
se crecy. {19/Gx}
•
Wireless:
1913:Alexandersen
Radio Receiver -
1913.
Radio
receiver (tuner), Alexandersen.{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1918:Alexanderson's
alternator: Congress Bill Legislation
-
In
1918, two bills were introduced in
Congress that were indirectly designed to
bring wireless under control and to retain
American control over Alexanderson's
alternator.
••• Please
See Congress Bills on Wireless Telephony.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony:
1918:The
name Radio is first used"RCA" (Radio
Corporation of
America)
-
In 1918, soon after the war, AT&T,
Westinghouse, and General Electric pooled
their patent rights and formed RCA (Radio
Corporation of America): which then bought
out the American Marconi Company.
Broadcasting started from Westinghouse's
experimental station, KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless:
1918:Alexanderson Alternator:
Congress Bill Legislation on Wireless
Telephony
-
In
1918, two bills were introduced in
Congress that were indirectly designed to
bring wireless under control and to retain
American control over Alexanderson's
alternator.
••• Please
See Congress Bills on Wireless Telephony.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless:
1920: broadcast transmitter:
Fessenden/Poulson
-1903:
HF (sound) broadcast transmitter,
Fessenden/Poulson.Patent Expires June
1920. {19/Gx
•
Wireless:
1929: Armstrong - FM broadcast
transmission path
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1929:
Armstrong, FM broadcast transmission path.
{19/Gx}
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1928: Patentholder of the
"Wireless Telephone," Nathan B.
Stubblefield, of Murray Kentucky,
dies.
•
Wireless
Telephony: 1930-42:World War II:
Radio/Television broadcasts
-
During this period, television
experimentation continued, and by 1930, a
handful of experimental stations were on
the air. Both the BBC and RCA began
broadcasting on a regular schedule in
1936, but World War II interrupted
progress. Radio was the undisputed
entertainment king until after the war,
when television came into its own,
broadcasting a mix of live drama, variety,
and news programing. {19/Gx}
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•
102-106 The Kingsbury Commitment
1913 / ••••••• The Kingsbury
Commitment of 1913 formalized AT&T's
monopoly. The Bell System and Independent
telephone companies reduced competition
out of concern for government
intervention. The government had been
increasingly worried that AT&T and the
other Bell Companies were monopolizing the
industry.
••• Under
Theodore N. Vail from 1907 AT&T had
bought Bell-associated companies and
organized them into new hierarchies.
AT&T had also acquired many of the
independents, and bought control of
Western Union, giving it a monopolistic
position in both telephone and telegraph
communication. A key strategy was to
refuse to connect its long distance
network -- technologically, by far the
finest and most extensive in the land --
with local independent carriers. Without
the prospect of long distance services,
the market position of many independents
became untenable. Vail stated that there
should be "one policy, one system
[AT&T's] and universal
service, no collection of separate
companies could give the public the
service that [the] Bell... system
could
give."
••• AT&T's
strategies prompted complaints and
attracted the attention of the Justice
Department. Faced with a government
investigation for antitrust violations,
AT&T entered into
negotiations.
••• In
the Kingsbury Commitment, actually a
letter from AT&T Vice President Nathan
Kingsbury of December 19, AT&T agreed
with the Attorney General to divest itself
of Western Union, to provide long distance
services to independent exchanges under
certain conditions and to refrain from
acquisitions if the Interstate Commerce
Commission
objected.
••• The
Commitment did not settle all the
differences between independents and Bell
companies and averted the federal takeover
many had expected. However the Commitment
played into AT&T's hands - the company
was allowed to buy market-share, as long
as it sold an equal number of phones.
Critically, while with the Kingsbury
Commitment, AT&T agreed to connect its
long distance service to independent local
carriers, it did not agree to interconnect
its local services with other local
providers. Nor did AT&T agree to any
interconnection with independent long
distance
carriers.
••• Consequently,
AT&T was able to consolidate its
control over both the most profitable
urban markets and long distance traffic.
Between 1921 and 1934, the ICC approved
271 of the 274 purchase requests of
AT&T.
••• WikiPedia
notes, that the entire network was
nationalized during World War I from June
1918 to July 1919. Following
re-privatization, AT&T resumed its
near-monopoly position. In 1934, the
government acted to set AT&T up as a
regulated monopoly under the jurisdiction
of the Federal Communications Commission.
This was maintained until AT&T's
divestiture in 1984.
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102AT&T-1992:
Wireless-Data Alliances unveiled by
AT&T
-
•••
On
Monday, November 16, 1992, American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. announced
alliances in the U.S. and Japan,
leapfrogging computer makers in the race
to deliver wireless data services and
equipment to millions of customers.
According to analysts and individuals
familiar with AT&Ts plans; the moves
-- including an agreement by three of
Japan's leading consumer electronics
manufactures, to back its technology --
should hasten development of the market.
These three Japanese titans include,
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., NEC
Corp., and Toshiba Corp. The new
communicators will help create an industry
that is expected to outpace the
fast&endash;growing cellular phone market
and even rival the personal computer
business some day.
••• The
tiny communicators will use a pen instead
of a keyboard and allow consumers to
scribble and send each other messages,
fetch files, check a Rolodex and even make
a telephone call, if their unit includes a
phone.
••• AT&T
has bet billions on this wireless future,
including tens of millions of dollars
developing an electronic chip, called
Hobbit, that will work with the new
equipment. It has also provided millions
of dollars in seed money for several
companies that are supplying the new
market. And to help capture traffic from
such machines, AT&T recently announced
a $3.73 billion investment in McCaw
Cellular Communications Inc., a national
provider of phone service.
••• AT&T
is trying to control wireless from soup to
nuts - as they have hooked up with the
largest U.S. cellular carrier, McCaw, and
they even want to control the brains in
these communications sets. {03/Di}
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• 102-
Google TV project at I/O 2010.
The Open Platform will Bring the
Internet to the big TV
Screen.
•••
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20,
2010) &emdash; Today at the
Google I/O developer conference
in San Francisco, leading
industry players announced the
development of Google
TV&emdash;an open platform that
adds the power of the web to the
television viewing experience,
ushering in a new category of
devices for the living room.
Intel, Sony, and Logitech,
together with Best Buy, DISH
Network and Adobe, joined Google
(NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to
announce their support for Google
TV.
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• 102ivg
- Regulatory
WiTELSeizure •
102ivs - Regulatory
WiTELSeizure
• 102iv-
Regulatory Missteps and WiTEL Property
Seizure.
• •
The
NBS100 TELECOM STUDY - discovered one big
fact: fairness can be achieved, if guided
by fundamental American
principles.
• •
Among the
most basic of these principles is the
protection of private property rights.
• •
But violation
of this principle is the defining feature
of the current telecom policy guided by
the officials selected to regulate the FCC
and the Telecom land-line, wireless
industry, which includes the Internet.
• •
Government
regulation of telegraphy and telephony,
commenced at the turn of the 20th century
by local governments and their
self-policing policies. It was local
judges that set the precedents for the
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, and the 1913
"Kingsbury Commitment. These two events
ended telecom competition by "natural"
reasons, and were the cause for regulatory
property seizures of existing telecom
patent assets, and its by-products --
frequencies and spectrums.
• •
The Act
cemented AT&T's control of America's
telephone land-line network and was the
door opener for a new "wireless" industry.
The monopoly put regulatory emphasis on
the who's - who, and who was going tod
what to control the interconnections that
were being tied into the future of
America's telecom system.
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•102s
- Virgin
Mobile. - Recognizes the Mobil
Inventor •••••
Virgin Mobile shares were up 25% on
Tuesday, jumping $1.07 to close at $5.28.
The company went public in October 2007 at
$15 a share. Sprint climbed 4 cents to
close at $4.59.
•••••
Virgin Mobile as the sixth-largest
provider of prepaid cellphone services,
with 5.2 million customers, it lags far
behind industry leader Tracfone Wireless
Inc., which has 12.5 million subscribers,
and it has been locked in a price war this
year while losing customers. Prepaid Calling Plans •••••
Prepaid plans were pioneered largely by
Virgin Mobile and other mobile virtual
network operators, which used
pay-as-you-go and inexpensive monthly
plans as the hallmark of their competitive
strategy.
•••••
But such operators have had a particularly
difficult time in the U.S. making a
business by leasing wireless spectrum from
the four major providers and then
competing with them. Such labels as
Disney, ESPN and Amp'd Mobile have fallen
as the network owners ramped up their own
prepaid efforts.
•••••
The virtual network model has been more
successful in Europe, where regulations
encourage competition.
•••••
"Virgin has been having difficulty getting
traction in an increasingly competitive
prepaid environment in recent quarters,"
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Christopher King
wrote in a report Tuesday.
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STORY. • Part of the problem has been its
partner, Sprint, --which unveiled a $50-a-month plan
for its prepaid Boost service in January,
undercutting Virgin Mobile's $80-a-month
offering. King noted that Virgin Mobile
launched a $49.99 monthly plan in April,
but Tracfone recently unveiled a
$45-a-month plan of its own.
•••••
The number of prepaid cellphone providers
has been shrinking as bigger players buy
up smaller rivals. A year ago, for
instance, Virgin Mobile bought Helio, a
small Westwood joint venture between
EarthLink Inc. and South Korean cellphone
carrier SK Telecom.
•••••
Helio brought to market an upscale device
that brought the advanced features of
South Korean cellphones to the U.S.
market. •
Virgin Mobile felt compelled to sell
because its
customer base was declining, the prepaid
space is getting much more competitive,
and it faced a $100-million debt maturity
at the end of next year that "we do not
believe it had enough free cash flow to
pay off," analyst Walter Piecyk of Pali
Research wrote in a report.
•••••
Dan Schulman, chief executive of Virgin
Mobile USA, is slated to run the combined
companies' prepaid services
operations. •
The deal is subject to regulatory
approval
-- and the approval of Virgin Mobile's
shareholders. Sprint
said the deal, which it expects to
complete late this year or in early 2010,
should enable it to make further inroads
into the fast-growing market for prepaid
cellphone service.
•••••
"Prepaid is growing at an unprecedented
rate with consumers keenly focused on
value," Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse
said. "Virgin Mobile is an iconic brand in
the marketplace that will complement our
Boost Mobile brand."
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102
- Internet-WiTEL:Hello,
we told you in 1994 what the Internet was
all about. After the Clinton
Administration steered through Congress
laws that were designed to give consumers
more choices for telephone service at
lower prices, the http://www revolution
commenced.
•••
The
Telecommunications Act of 1996,
deregulated phone companies' copper wire
monopoly, and released wireless telephone
frequencies to the general public.
•••
WebSmart
Washington innovators who were in the "in
crowd" established the name game sales
team, and the "wired wireless" rush was
on. Luckily, Net Solutions just happened
to be there, ready to sell and register
trademarks and favorite namesakes to the
Dot Com world of http://www
yourname.com. ----
The Internet is
here to stay. Good for the consumer!
Today's
Puzzle:Is MySpace, Facebook, Twitter here to
stay? What's Piracy? Who Really Pays the
Performers? Hollywood critics say that old
worldwide movies and TV shows exceed over
one million units -- and recycled movies
and TV shows are said to glut the world's
vaults with over two million units.
Hollywood mischaracterizes legal behavior,
as one who interferes with the mechanics
of Supply and Demand.
•
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- Google KnowledgeRush tvinews+
102-s90 Section C-102- WiTEL •
TVINews • Index • Daily •
Weekly
•••
Before
any tvNews story is released and
distributed to Smart90 partners including:
Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Teoma, MSN,
AltaVista, DogPile, and hundreds of other
Internet providers, several news reports
from major news sources are scientifically
scrutinized to stamp the date, reason and
purpose of the news release and to the
monetary / political issues surrounding
the event.
•••
TVInews is the
journalistic component of Television
International Magazine, founded in 1956 by
Sam Donaldson, and Al Preiss.
•••
TVI Publications
not only allows its global Web users to
blog and share their own news with
tviNews, but also the tviNews events
listed above in Sections 101 to 121.
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STORIES.
•
"I'm truly humbled
to be stepping into the footsteps of the
legendary Pat Sajak," he wrote. "I can
say, along with the rest of America, that
it's been a privilege and pure joy to
watch Pat and Vanna [White] on our
television screens for an unprecedented 40
years."
••••
He is also
well-versed in taking up the mantle from
another icon, after assuming hosting
duties for "American Top 40" from
legendary radio host Casey Kasem in 2004
and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."
Seacrest co-hosted and executive produced
the holiday special with Clark from 2006
until the renowned broadcaster's death in
2012.
Apple disclosed
serious security vulnerabilities for
iPhones, iPads and Macs that could
potentially allow attackers to take
complete control of these devices.
•••
NBS WITEL®™©'s
financial resources are certainly
akin to those of many mobile
phone start-ups, and/or land-line
Telcos now converting to utilize
the effects and elements of the
Wireless
Telephone®™©.
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