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Thank
you, America! A legacy of friendship that
endures today between Germany and
America
Los Angeles -
"Thank You America" was the theme for two
big events. Number One: the Berlin Air
Lift, and two: allowing foreign auto
imports. Attending the LA Auto Show was a
special event for publisher of TVI, Josie
Cory.
Both events
featured not only roundtable discussions,
and film footage, explaining the purpose,
but also the importance of their
celebration.
The Berlin
Airlift Commemoration of the 60th
Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift,
took
place at the Goethe Institute in
conjunction with the the Consulate General
of the Federal Republic of Germany in Los
Angeles. MORE
BERLIN AIR-LIFT STORY -
Thank
you, America! A legacy of friendship that
endures today between Germany and
America
LA
AUTO SHOW - November 21 - 30, 2008
-
GOES
GREEN
Thank
You America for the LA Auto Show say those
attendees from Europe and
Asia
With
the economy
collapsing, the
ranks of the unemployed growing, and the
bailout hearings underway to determine the
fate of U.S. automakers, GM, Ford and
Chrysler, the last thing we seem to need
in a America is a autoshow displaying
exotic cars and the newest designs from
Germany, Japan, and Italy that came about
after World War II.
Wrong!
says
Kurt
Sigl of the Car-Cycle Sigl
Events.
Even while
automotive dealers and consumers around
the country followed the news of bailout
hearings and the fate of Detroit's 3, the
atmosphere at the LA Auto Show was
"electric," for those pin-pointing the
cars from Bavaria, and
Japan.
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Website - English: Information, Kurt
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Sigl
Santa
hopes for efficiency at Santa's Village by
2010
Santa
pledges to use the
Christmas-Around-the-World budget
efficiently, but it would also require a
YuleTide cultural sea of change, says
Little Miss Santa.
Like
every newly appointed person that's headed
"Santa's Village" during the past
centuries, Troy Cory, the newly elected
Santa, led by Little Miss Santa, and Miss
Lolly, the head matron of the busy-bee
worker group, are advocating change. Troy
calls Miss Lolly's workforce, "loyalists."
Troy spelled out his agenda as to how his
administration will monetize the time
spent by each helper, making sure each
will share in the YuleTide revenues to
create a better life for themselves, as
well as for other peace loving individuals
around the world.
But
as he pushes reforms in "Santa's Village"
he hopes it will spead to other
educational and economical programs
thoughout the world. He faces tremendous
obstacles, say contracting loyal
"specialists," including lawyers, advisers
and industry
officials.
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Updates.
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Lolly
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Village.
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WiTEL
Organizations Get Free RF- Spectrums.
In early November, the U.S.
FCC approved the
free Use of Airwaves to WiTEL
high-tech firms such as Google and
Microsoft. The empty TV spectrums that
will be coverted into RF spectrums for
WiTEL Internet use. Users will be
identified by phone numbers and/or IP
addresses.
The RF-187
give-aways are transmitted by existing
DVB-TV antennas, which are sometimes
referred to as: 'White spectrums" or
"Wi-Fi on steroids."
Google, who just
entered the new generation of WiTEL
organizations with their new G1 WiTEL on
Sept 26th, ( Click
more about Google's World ofWiTel) --
will use the
'white spaces' between channels to go
online with their new Wireless
Telephone®© devices.
The
high-tech firms say the so-called white
spaces of the airwaves that lie between
the broadcast TV channels have the
potential to provide revolutionary new
wireless services that people could use
for free -- unlike the spectrum leased by
the government to cellphone companies,
which then charge customers to access
it.
Google
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates personally lobbied
FCC commissioners to open up access to the
vacant channels, which range from about a
third of the TV airwaves in major cities
such as Los Angeles to three-quarters of
the airwaves in rural areas.
These
companies will have to build the
infrastructure to connect the airwaves to
the Internet, such as installing
transmitters on existing cellular towers.
Although they could charge users for those
connections -- in the same way that some
coffee shops charge for access to their
Wi-Fi hot spots -- Google and others are
expected to offer them for free, recouping
the cost through sales of
white-space-enabled devices and online
advertising.
"This
is a clear victory for Internet users and
anyone who wants good wireless
communications," Google co-founder Larry
Page said.
Broadcasters
fiercely fought it, warning that the new
devices could cause some viewers to lose
their TV signals because of
interference.
The
issue is of particular concern because
broadcasters must switch to all-digital
signals in February. With traditional
analog TV stations, interference causes
static or fuzziness. But broadcasters say
digital pictures can freeze or be lost
entirely if another signal is broadcast on
or near the same channel.
"The
commission chose a path that imperils
America's television reception in order to
satisfy the 'free' spectrum demands of
Google and Microsoft," said David Donovan,
president of the Assn. for Maximum Service
Television, an engineering trade group of
TV broadcasters.
Representatives
of sports leagues, musicians and large
churches have also complained about
potential interference from the new
Internet devices and lobbied against the
changes. They worry, for example, that one
of these devices in a concert-goer's
pocket would interfere with the
performer's wireless microphone.
The
FCC's field tests of early prototypes
provided by Microsoft and other companies
produced mixed results, with some of the
devices failing to sense and avoid
broadcast signals. Broadcasters said those
results showed that the technology wasn't
ready.
But
FCC officials said the tests showed that
it was possible for devices to use the
airwaves without interference.
The
devices will operate at low power and will
only be able to use channels 21 to 51,
where there are fewer TV stations.
The
FCC will give preference to devices that
use technology to determine a user's
location and then avoid TV channels
operating there based on a special
database, rather than devices that try to
sense and avoid TV signals. Devices that
use sensing technology will have to go
through more rigorous field testing before
being certified.
The
FCC also will create a safe zone around
large sporting and performance venues,
such as the Los Angeles Coliseum and New
York's Broadway theater district. The new
mobile devices in those areas won't have
access to channels used by wireless
microphones.
10a
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Payoff Game - on Wall
Street.
Short Selling, Insuarnce and
credit swaps Elements of Fraud
/Credit-default swaps, conceived by
bondholders, allow investors to buy
protection against a company defaulting.
As the market expanded, speculators
started using them to bet on a company's
creditworthiness. The contracts pay the
holder face value for the underlying
securities or the cash equivalent should a
company fail to repay its debt.
Though it grew a hundredfold in the last
seven years, total outstanding contracts
in credit-default swaps are dwarfed by
other derivative markets, including those
that bet on interest rates. Those markets
had contracts linked to about $465
trillion as of June 30, the International
Swaps and Derivatives Assn. said.
The joint probe announced Monday will also
examine allegations of insider trading,
market manipulation and other forms of
fraud, according to a second person.
Cuomo and US probe credit-default swaps
The probe seeks to "determine whether any
federal laws have ... an earlier inquiry
by Cuomo's office, US Atty. ... Cuomo has
been probing alleged manipulation of
credit Business | October 21st, 2008
FCC
OKs the Verizon-Alltel, Sprint-Clearwire
deals.
October 27-30
-
During the Hollywood Digital event,
the DigitalNews panels, attended by:
Josie
Cory, Gary Sunkin, Robert, Feist, Jamie
Feist, Victor Cab, and Troy Cory, were
intriguing. "The effects of the Verizon
consolidation, and
the
"Wi-Fi steroid" effects that will
be utilized by the NBS Wireless
Telephone®©, and Google is
mind-boggling, " said Gary Sunkin.
The
Santa Monica,
California
event discussed the events that were just
taking place concerning the grey areas
between NBS WiTEL, and several high-tech
copyright infringers.
The FCC approved three important deals:
The "Wi-Fi on steroids,"and the Verizon
Wireless's $28.1-billion purchase of
Alltel Corp. and the deal between Sprint
Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp.
The
commission voted 5 to 0 to give
conditional clearance to the Alltel
acquisition, requiring Verizon to sell
network operations in 105 markets where
its service overlaps with Alltel's. The
FCC also voted unanimously to support
Sprint's plan to merge a high-speed
wireless network with Clearwire.
Both
deals will improve wireless services for
consumers, FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin
said. The Alltel purchase, which would
vault Verizon Wireless past AT&T Inc.
as the biggest U.S. mobile-phone company,
will fill gaps in Verizon's coverage,
especially in rural areas. The Clearwire
agreement helps create a new source of
wireless Internet access, he said.
AAs
for the controversial FCC plan which will
allow WiTEL users to utilize the empty
airwaves between television channels to go
online. The plan approved by the
Federal regulators was the largest ever
expansion of wireless Internet access to
the General Public, at no cost.
Dubbed
"Wi-Fi on steroids" by its high-tech
industry supporters , the plan promises to
offer wireless Internet service across
America -- most likely for free -- and
spur new systems for transmitting video
and other data between devices in
homes.
It
overcame staunch opposition from the
entertainment industry, which is worried
that the Web-surfing devices will
interfere with TV broadcasts and wireless
microphones.
Although
expected to be slower and possibly less
secure than commercial broadband services
from cable and phone companies, the new
Internet connections will ride on the
highest-quality broadcast airwaves, which
are able to carry signals long distances
and easily penetrate trees and walls.
For
decades, those government-owned airwaves
have been reserved for TV stations. But
the Federal Communications Commission, in
a 5-0 vote intended to increase the reach
of high-speed Internet access, approved a
plan advocated by public interest groups
and technology companies, including Google
Inc. and Microsoft Corp., to allow the use
of the spectrum by new laptops, mobile
phones and other gadgets with built-in
equipment that are expected to hit the
market in about two years.
"Consumers
across the country will have access to
devices and services they may have only
dreamed about before," FCC Chairman Kevin
J. Martin said.
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STORY.
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2007
The Crash of
2008
10a
- One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game -
Q&A
How much foreclosure relief will Borrowers
get from bailout plan?
It
all depends on the "IF" answere: WAS AN
INSURANCE COMPANY INVOLVED. Was insurance
$$ part of the Payoff. - CLICK FOR
MORE BAIL-OUT
GAMES.
10b
FICO The Credit Rating Agencies -
Fraudulent FICO
SCORES
In
D.C., a few
congressmen blame Benchmark firms for
financial crisis
Congress had a big hand in oversight
failures and deregulation, in part through
a philosophy of reducing government's
role. Rep. Waxman begins hearings today
- MORE FICO STORY.
10c
- Fipping Real Estate Is Illegal.
ScamMers
of Deeds of Trusts in California were
involved high-end house flips on Wall
Sreet usesing Deeds of Trust.
Lehman
Bros. Bank, which last month spiraled into
bankruptcy amid the nation's deepening
financial crisis, and another lender, RBC
Mortgage Co., lost about $42 million on
the loans. - MORE FLIPPING
STORY.
10d
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BackDatingFraud.
Former McAfee, Inc.
lawyer is
acquitted in stock options backdating
trial
Kent
Roberts, who served as the software
maker's general counsel until he was fired
in 2006, was accused of tampering with
grants to increase his shares' value by
$200,000. CLICK FOR MORE BACKDATING
STORY.
2007b
BofA settles privacy lawsuit. Who's
next -- American Express? CLICK FOR
MORE STORY
10e
-Why Do You
Believe
A
new study out of Northwestern University,
perhaps without really meaning to, gets at
something much more interesting. It starts
to provide data and insight that add to
our ability to understand what Marx was
getting at -- not if there is a God and
not whether it makes sense that humans
should believe, but simply why humans
believe.
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MORE 4308 STORY
Google's
World ofWiTel - The
WiTels®©) device, which
will run on Google's new Android operating
system, will go on sale for $179. A
mass-market device with a sharp touch
screen and slide-out keyboard that brings
the experience of mobile Web surfing
closer to that of a personal
computer. MORE
STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
10fGoogle
Yahoo Deal on Hold. The partnership is
under scrutiny by the Justice
Department.
On October 4,
2008, Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. agreed to
delay an Internet- advertising partnership
while U.S. regulators investigate whether
the deal would hamper competition.
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MORE 4308 STORY
The
10th Anniversary of Google. October marks
the Beginnings of the Browser War &
Chrome's Shiny
Features
The Los
Angeles Times
reported,
"if
Explorer and Firefox are the Toyotas of
browsers, Chrome is the sporty Mini
Cooper."
Chrome's
developers promoted it as a speedier,
safer and more reliable way to navigate
the Web that will give consumers more and
better options. Chrome, in the works for
about two years, was first tested on
thousands of finicky Google employees --
including co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin. CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%.
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MORE STORY
GoogleYahooAdDeal
Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt will pursue
Chrome
and the Yahoo AdDea
Apple
Settles "backdated option awards"
Apple
Inc. settled a lawsuit claiming that
company directors and managers, including
Chief Executive Steve Jobs, lied to
shareholders about how they backdated
option awards to maximize personal
profit.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy
Fogel in San Jose tentatively approved the
settlement of the so-called derivative
lawsuit brought by Apple investors on
behalf of the company against directors
and officers for breach of corporate
duties, said Fogel's clerk, Christian
Delaney.
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple
said last year that it backdated 6,428
stock-option grants issued from 1997 to
2002. Apple investigated the backdating,
found no misconduct by Jobs, and recorded
$84 million in charges to correct its
accounting. The Justice Department in July
closed its criminal probe of Apple and its
executives over backdating. MORE
STORY
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Copyrights
Featured
Stories
FollowUps
Is
A Wireless Telephone Quality Control
Service Needed? Consumers say Yes to WTQC
and No to Violation of Cramming
laws
AT & T buries customer rights
are spelled out in their copyrighted
2,500-page 'guidebook'
Judging
from the phone company's voluminous new
online customer manual, if you have a
problem with your bill, too bad, said
WTQCA spokeswoman.
(Cramming)-
...Witteman said the online
guidebook and ambiguous notification
policy appear to violate a California
statute requiring that consumers "be given
sufficient information to make informed
choices."
AT&T's
service agreement is written in dense
legalese and essentially gives the company
as much latitude as possible -- while
limiting customers' ability to seek
redress.
"If
you do not agree with the provisions of
this agreement, your sole option is to
cancel your services . . . within 30 days
after receipt of this agreement," it
says.
An
analysis of the agreement prepared for PUC
staffers found fault with a variety of
AT&T's provisions, including this one:
"You also agree to pay for all charges for
services provided under this agreement
even if such calls were not authorized by
you."
The
analysis said this "is in direct violation
to cramming laws," which protect consumers
from having unauthorized charges placed on
their bills.
Witteman
said the online guidebook and ambiguous
notification policy appear to violate a
California statute requiring that
consumers "be given sufficient information
to make informed choices."
AT&T's
service agreement is written in dense
legalese and essentially gives the company
as much latitude as possible -- while
limiting customers' ability to seek
redress.
"If
you do not agree with the provisions of
this agreement, your sole option is to
cancel your services . . . within 30 days
after receipt of this agreement," it
says.
An
analysis of the agreement prepared for PUC
staffers found fault with a variety of
AT&T's provisions, including this one:
"You also agree to pay for all charges for
services provided under this agreement
even if such calls were not authorized by
you."
The
analysis said this "is in direct violation
to cramming laws," which protect consumers
from having unauthorized charges placed on
their bills. (See
Article 109AT&Tfraud.htm )
MORE
STORY
MCI Founder of
AT&T vs MCI fame dies.
V.
Orville Wright Played Key Role in Breaking
up AT & T, and was president and
chief executive of MCI Communications
during its transformation from a start-up
into the leading challenger of AT&T in
the 1970s and 1980s. He was 87.
V. Orville Wright wasa pivotal backstage
figure in disrupting AT&T's virtual
monopoly on long-distance phone service
and communications technology.
As the company sought to break
into AT&T's long-distance terrain, MCI
chief executive, McGowan successfully
pushed for the Justice Department to file
an antitrust suit seeking to break up
AT&T's Bell telephone companies. The
10-year battle resulted in one of the
largest corporate reorganizations in
history, the creation of seven regional
operating companies, the "Baby Bells," in
1984.
(See
Article 114Orville
WrightMCIvsAT&T) MORE
STORY
Google
gPhone Unveiled on Sept.
23rd.
For
those who have been anticipating the
so-called Google Phone as if it were the
next iPhone, the wait is almost over.
T-Mobile
USA said Tuesday that it would unveil the
much-anticipated mobile phone loaded with
Google Inc.'s Android software next
Tuesday at a news conference in New York.
The G1 phone, which is being manufactured
by HTC, won't be for sale until October.
But expect T-Mobile to finally divulge
some key details such as pricing.
T-Mobile
is just the first carrier to market the
phone. Other cellphone manufacturers and
carriers are expected to dial for dollars
using the Google brand as bait, but they
apparently have hit some snags. The
Android phone is being positioned as a
rival to Apple's iPhone and Research in
Motion's BlackBerry.
For
Google, this seems like a no-lose
proposition. The Internet search giant
wants to make sure that all of its
services, including its lucrative
advertising, are available on all
cellphones. So it created software for
mobile phones that does that.
Pundits
have been saying for years that the mobile
Web will dwarf the nonmobile Web once
enough people have access to so-called
smart phones and all of the bells and
whistles that come with them. Already
Google is readying a store for
downloadable mobile software similar to
the one that has proved so successful for
the iPhone.
Google
showed off the handset at a developer
conference in London on Tuesday.
Next
week, Google and T-Mobile should start to
reveal whether Android will live up to the
hype. MORE gWiTEL
STORY
Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is
It?
Today,
title-card claims are no longer required.
But when courts rule on historical
copyright issues, they follow the laws in
place at the time -- in this case, says
Hedenkamp, the 1909 law requiring that the
word copyright or its symbol be
"accompanied by the name of the copyright
proprietor" -- a rule scholars said means
in the immediate proximity.
Disney legal advisors were
not amused. General Counsel Louis
Meisinger wrote back that it would be
"inconceivable that any modern court would
find any confusion about the identity of
the proprietor of Mickey Mouse
cartoons."
He even threatened Hedenkamp with
legal action if the young scholar openly
advanced such
claims.
"With respect to your plans
to otherwise promote these as being in the
public domain," Meisinger added, "please
be advised that slander of title remains
actionable under California law for both
compensatory and punitive
damages."
Nonetheless, Hedenkamp let
the genie out of the bottle, spelling out
his arguments in the Virginia Sports and
Entertainment Law Journal, a publication
of the University of Virginia's law
school. It attracted little attention
off-campus.MORE
STORY((See Article
109CopyrightMickyMouse)
A
South African Dynasty bids for rights to
purchase and sell the NBS WiTEL WiFi
and WiMax Wireless
Telephone©® effects
throughout
Africa.
The Kuumba Royal Dynasty group,
which is bidding to purchase the 1908
RF300 WiTEL effects owned by NBS Wireless
Telephone©®, U.S. -- said
Friday that they were on their first leg
to look for suitors throughout
Africa.
Daniel Amaonwu, spokesman for the
NBS WiTEL organization, Africa, says,
"thus far, the NBS Wireless
Telephone©® U.S. registered
trademarks, copyrights and patent have
been fully accepted, and will be honored
throughout
Africa."
African TeleCom executives are
dismissing any ideas from both the U.S.
and European bankers who say, "Africans
are unqualified to run a Billion Dollar
digital TeleCom
business."
The African group has put forth "no
substantive plan" for how the members of
their Quality TeleCom Administration, or
FCC equivalents will utilize the new WiFi,
WiMAX effects of the Wireless
Telephone throughout Africa.
Amaonwu, said, "if they do it themselves,
they'll do it with their own University
Hi-Tech grads."
Daniel said in a
email to the NBS WiTEL organization, "each
African nation signing on, will do it, as
if they were working within the U.S.,
following the guidelines established by
the FCC, and the laws established by the
1905, U.S. Patent Office."
Is
the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Bill of
Rights a dead law?
If
it is still alive and valid --
then
the property seizure of the effects of NBS
WiTel®©
-- by various world governments -- should
now be paid for.
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STORY.
But maybe a feature film like
NBS FireWire or SecretKeeper is the wrong
way to approach and educate the world on
who really invented the Wireless
Telephone®© and how to pay
him the $Billions of dollars for the
patent, trademark, copyrights and its
effects, "says says Melody Jensen,
spokesperson for VRA TelePlay
Pictures.
"The 100th anniversary of the
WiTEL®© invention could be
described as an unscripted reality show
with a new set of 'Key Words," and new
players, like China, Nigeria, South
Africa, Korea, etc. -- and not a movie,"
says Jensen.
"A TV reality show is still
what I think would be closer to the mark
for telling the Wireless
Telephone®© story and its
enormous value in today's world of cell
phones, and world leaders that want to get
involved."
The proliferation and
educational value of this form of
entertainment having so whetted the
American public's taste for truth telling,
and to those officials that follow the
FCC's annual auction sales that brings in
$Billion of dollars from the RF-300 WiTEL
spectrums. Look at what they're doing to
the once "free analog waves." The 'not so
free converter boxes' are replacing the
analog antenna and FREE TV in February
2009."
Personally, I had my eureka
moment when I read the Bill of Rights and
original version of the WiTEL article
several months ago, which states.
Feature
Story / Settling
the USC@5 $Billion WiTEL Controversy. The
NBS100 Wireless Telephone®
organization, like Google, Inc. -- let's
people use the effects of it's goods,
products, and services FREE. For decades,
the WiTEL organization, like Google, pays
itself back for the Freebies it gives out,
by sharing the income derived from its
name branded goods, and services within
radio, movie and web
content.
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