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MARCH
1st to 31st 2009
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COVER
- MARCH - Silvio Berlusconi
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NEWS
- 10thWeek of 2009
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- 13thWeek of
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On
March 23rd and
24th,
OMMA
TVInews journalists, Josie Cory, Gary
Sunkin, Victor Caballero, and Troy Cory to
attend OMMA
•••
OMMA
Global-Hollywood Conference and EXPO
-- is a Big Top, Show of
Shows of many separate and interlocking
gatherings of top professionals within all
the online media disciplines. Meeting
together this third week of March will be
all our constituent assemblies: OMMA
Social, OMMA Mobile, OMMA Video, OMMA
Behavioral, OMMA Performance, OMMA
Publish, OMMA Gaming, OMMA Metrics and
Measurement.
•••
OMMA Global is a two-day intensive
tour de force of all our separate one-day
OMMA conferences rolled into one. The
biannual OMMA Global super-conference
covers the trends, issues and tools
&endash; in ALL SECTORS -- that are most
crucial to digital media, marketing, and
advertising professionals. CLICK
FOR OMMA DIRECT
 Forbes
list. 2009 Top Ten Winners: to make Forbes
list.
•••
No. 1: Microsoft's founder
Bill Gates lost $18 billion. His net
worth dived to $40 billion from $58
billion a year earlier. Despite decline he
reclaimed the title of worlds' richest
man, because two other billionaires lost
more, on paper, than Gates did.
•••
No. 2: Warren Buffett, last
year's No. 1, saw his fortune decline
$25 billion as shares of Berkshire
Hathaway fell nearly 50% in 12 months, but
he still managed to slip just one spot to
No. 2. His net worth plunged to $37
billion from $62 billion.
•••
No. 3: Carlos Slim Helú -
Mexican business magnate and telecom
titan also lost $25 billion and dropped
one spot to No. 3, with a wealth of $35
billion down from $60 billion.
No. 4: Lawrence Ellison, U.S. software
giant Oracle Corp., $22.5 billion
No. 5: Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish retailer
IKEA, $22 billion
No. 6: Karl Albrecht, German supermarket
giant Aldi, $21 billion
No. 7: Mukesh Ambani, Indian
petrochemicals, $19.5 billion.
No. 9: Theo Albrecht, German supermarket
giant Aldi and the Monrovia-based Trader
Joe's chain in the U.S., $18.8 billion
No. 10: Amancio Ortega, Spanish retailing
$18.3 billion.
•
In 2009 -- There were just 793 people
rich enough to make Forbes list.
•••
The richest
people in the world have endured a
financial disaster over the past years and
gotten poorer, just like the rest of us.
The meltdown of global financial markets
slashed the ranks of the world's
billionaires by 30% in 2008, Forbes
magazine reports in its annual list of the
planet's richest people. "The world has
become a wealth wasteland," Forbes states
in the billionaire report on its website.
" This year the world's billionaires have
an average net worth of $3 billion, down
23% in 12 months.
•••
The biggest loser
in the world this year, by dollars, was
last year's biggest gainer. India's Anil
Ambani lost $32 billion--76% of his
fortune--as shares of his Reliance
Communications, Reliance Power and
Reliance Capital all collapsed.
•••
Ambani is one of 24
Indian billionaires, all but one of whom
are poorer than a year ago. Another 29
Indians lost their billionaire status
entirely as India's stock market tumbled
44% in the past year and the Indian rupee
depreciated 18% against the dollar. It is
no longer the top spot in Asia for
billionaires, ceding that title to China,
which has 28.
•••
Overall, the number
of the world's billionaires fell to 793
from 1,125 a year ago. Their collective
net worth: $2.4 million, a drop of $2
trillion.
•••
However, there's
good news, of sorts, for the U.S.:
"Americans account for 44% of the money
and 45% of the list's slots," according to
Forbes.
•
After Gates, Buffet, Slim, etc., here's
how the list of the 10 richest people
rounds out (name, source of wealth and
2008 net worth): CLICK FOR MORE FORBES
DIRECT
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NEWS
- 14thWeek of 2000
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March
21, 2009 -
NBS
CEO seeks revamp of U.S. wireless
quality-control system
--
•••NBS
WiTEL®™© CEO wants new RF
quality-control - phone number assignment
rules
•••NBS
WiTEL®™© Chief Executive
Troy Cory-Stubblefield is promising its
affiliates the WiTEL®™©
goods, products, and services they will
need to expand their mobile customer base
with USB plug-in devices, such as Magic
Jack.
•••
Despite the
downturn in the global mobile consumer
market, and the lack of cooperation
between each Telco in the business,
collections of revenue for the use of its
service marks royalties from its major
Telco users, has increased the
possibilities of a merger.
•••Troy
said Wednesday that the organization not
only will survive the slow down, but it
will thrive during the rest of the
downturn, offering its new
WiTEL®™©
Quality Control Authority, to stem out
infringers of its service marks system
during the last several decades.
(http://www.wtqca.com).
http://www.wtqca.com/
•••During
a recent press conference held in
Hollywood, January 28th, 2009, the CEO
said, "NBS WiTEL®™© is still
the one of the oldest wired-wired
organizations in the world of mobile
Smart90 VATS web-wireless commerce. He
says the family owned organization still
has the trust in the consumer orientated
market place, saying that, "he desires
that all existing Telco operations in the
U.S. -- should want to sell an honest
mobile product, that operates under the
guidance of the FCC, CPU, and a
WiTEL®™© Quality Control
Authority.
•••The
CEO of NBS WiTEL®™© Co.'s is
now urging lawmakers to revamp the
nation's wireless quality-control system.
Nathan B. Stubblefield the world's first
Wireless Telephone®™©,
mobile maker, whose goods, products, and
services include the transmission of RF
broadcasting, and mobile phone numbers,
were taking away in 1914, by U.S.
regulatory process, without payment.
CLICK
FOR MORE
STORY.http://www.smart90.com/nbs100/NBS100reportA.htm
•••In
violation of U.S. 5th Amendment, "nor
shall private property be taken, for
public use, without just compensation," a
stay in earning revenue from its legacy of
WiTEL®™© assets, occurred
for over 81 years.
•••It
was announced last year by Troy, the free
ride was over for the AT&T, Verizon,
T-Mobile, and Spring. During the last 6
month, it has lost more than$500-Million
dollars per month in the failure of the
Big Five Telcos to pay for the use of the
service marks still owned, and maintained
by NBS WiTEL®™©, from 1907
through 2009. CLICK
FOR MORE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
http://www.smart90.com/tvimagazine/2008/2308/109USCt5WiTelCannibals.htm
•••CEO
Troy C. Stubblefield wants wireless
quality-control placed under a new leader
in the FTC. He also calls for new
requirements that all Telco companies have
written NBS WiTEL®™© quality
control plans, that there be annual
federal inspections of RF high frequency
facilities that transmit high-risk
blocking signals and other RF quality
cross-over reforms.
•••Troy's
endorsement of major changes could boost
President Obama's efforts to overhaul the
system.
•••"We
believe the key is to focus on prevention
of infringing the the service marks not
only owed by the NBS
WiTEL®™© organization, but
by those companies that improved upon and
extended the original
WiTEL®™© marks. Many of
mobile improvements, are potential sources
that will prevent the pirated RF signals
that might block and cause contamination
of the airwaves. That's the reason for the
NBS WIQC Authority, to identified and
properly addressed those issues before
they become an wireless quality-control
hazard," Troy said in remarks that are
being prepared for Congressional hearings,
and WiTEL Trade Show panel discussions,
and pitches.
Featured
Stories FollowUps
•
Is
A Wireless Telephone Quality Control
Service Needed? Consumers say Yes to WTQC
and No to Violation of Cramming
laws
•••
AT& 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
 •
Nathan's
New Book Series - 81 years after Nathan B.
Stubblefield's death, (NBS) -- March 28,
1928,
. . .
Several hundred chapters, and sections of
unpublished NBS writings, photos, and
drawings will be published by TVI
Publication's, on
various
Ask
Priscilla
WebQuotes
•••The
new book is all about Nathan B.
Stubblefield, Murray, Kentucky, his
family, his business
associates,"Teléph-on-délgreen,"
and the Wireless
Telephone®™© Organization,
(now known as: NBS
WiTEL®™©).
•••"Teléph-on-délgreen,"
the college Nathan founded in 1907, is now
the campus of Murray State University,
located 25 miles from the Mississippi
River, and 192 miles from the birthplace
of Abraham Lincoln, 1809. Just 348 miles
north, is Hannibal, the town where the Tom
Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn characters
were created by Mark Twain, (b: 1835 d:
1920), when Nathan was just a boy.
CLICK
FOR MORE nbsLegal.net.
 •
Charles
H. Portz
When
does a great THOUGHT become a
patentable invention? Should a Patent be
tangible or a
formula?
•••
That was a question
easier to answer when Thomas Edison came
up with the lightbulb and Nathan B.
Stubblefield handed the world the mobile
Wireless Telephone®™©. Those
two hard-end products clearly fit with old
ideas of what it meant to invent something
physical under the USPTO laws between the
years of 1878, and 1905. In those years
copyrights, trademarks came first, then
patents. When once Registered, they were
filed with the international bureau in
Berne Switzerland. - CLICK
FOR MORE. Q. Can pharmaceutical
formulas
 •
2009
81st ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS -
TVInews
to share its news with ABC NEWS Results
Coming - February 22,
2008
•••
TVInews headed
by Josie Cory, Pete Allman and Gary
Sunkin, along with ABC News Radio will
provide extensive coverage of the 81st
Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, February
22nd. ABC News Radio's
comprehensive coverage of the Annual
Academy Awards will include a two-hour
Oscar Special, "Red Hot Red Carpet
Live." The live broadcast
will include celebrity arrivals and
interviews along the red carpet at
the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The
program will be hosted by ABC News Radio
Entertainment Correspondent and Movie
Critic David Blaustein, ABC News
Correspondent Radio Alex Stone and
Entertainment Reporter Steve Mason.
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
•
•
Clearance
& Copyright Law. Michael C. Donaldson
is an entertainment
attorney
who has been fighting for
independent filmmakers for over thirty
years. In addition to representing
writers, producers and directors, he
serves as General Counsel to Film
Independent (home of the Independent
Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film
Festival) and the Writers Guild
Foundation.
•••
Michael
is now
Serving on the Advisory Committee
for the Documentary Filmmakers Statement
of Best Practices in Fair Use and being
the only attorney in private practice to
serve on the drafting committee for the
recently released Statement
of Best Practices for On-line Video.
MORE
STORY.
 •
Kevin
Martin Expresses a few Regrets at CES 2009
- Las Vegas
•••
FCC Chairman
Kevin Martin during the recent Consumer
Electronics Show, expressed concern about
a proposed change to the DTV transition
date, but also to explore on topics
ranging from Net neutrality and white
spaces to his issues with the cable and
regrets about his tenure as FCC
chairman.
•••
As Martin prepares to leave his
role as chairman, he said that he regrets
several things, including the failure of
the d-block during the 700-MHz auction,
his inability to get cable rates under
control, and the delay on universal
service reform.
•••
Earlier this year, the FCC
auctioned off spectrum in the 700-MHz
band, a venture that attracted $19.6
billion in bids but failed to attract any
takers on the d-block, which would have
been available to public safety officials.
It had a $1.3 billion reserve price and a
variety of conditions, so it failed to
attract any interest beyond an opening bid
of $472 million.
CLICK
FOR MORE KEVIN CES
STORY
 Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Kevin
J. Martin, a Republican, departed the FCC,
January 20th, when President-elect Barack
Obama's administration assumed
power.
••
Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin, a
Republican, plans to depart Tuesday,
January 20th, when President-elect Barack
Obama's administration assumes
power.
•••
Martin, 42, said he would go to
the Aspen Institute, a policy analysis
group in Washington after nearly four
years as head of the independent agency
that regulates telephone, broadcast and
cable companies.
•••
Obama has c hosen Julius
Genachowski, 46, former FCC chief counsel,
to head the agaency, a Democartic official
said this week. Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born
December 14, 1966) is the Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
CLICK
FOR MORE KEVIN DEPARTs
STORY
Eddie
Fritz of Kentucky Roast FCC Chairman
Martin, Then Jabs At Cable
Companies
/
CLICK FOR MORE FRITZ
STORY
Kevin
J. Martin at CTIA Wireless 2008•
And, as of May 2007, approximately 82
percent of the U.S. population lived in an
area of the country covered by at least
one of these mobile broadband
networks.
CLICK
FOR MORE KEVIN STORY
 •
SPECIAL
WINTER EVENT EDITION - "The tviNews Photo
Collection"
•
First
on YouTube = Prayer Kicks off Inaugural
Events
•
Barack
Obama To Be Sworn as U.S. President -
January 20th
•
2
Million Wireless WiTEL®™©
Users at
Inaugural
•
Troy
Cory-Stubblefield Examines Best of
nbsWiTEL's look-a-likes, at
CES.
•
The
Movie - NBS WiTEL®™© - "the
Wireless
Telephone®™©
- 1909
• HughesNet
High Speed
Internet
•
CES
2009 WIFI 187 DEMOS TROY
Live
On The Sunset Strip - James Brown - Pete
Allman
•
Roses
Parade - Grand Marshal Cloris
Leachman
•
CES
- 2009 International - Las Vegas - Jan
8-11
•
Court deals a potentially fatal blow to
the Bratz Doll, Barbie
Wins!
•
FCC
AUCTION RF300 Sales Chart -
2008
• GoToSantaTales
Thank
you, America! - The Berlin
Airlift
Coming:
the Special Photo Edition -
"The
tviNews Photo
Collection"
•
FCC
approves free Use of
Airwaves
•
FCC
AUCTION RF300 Sales Chart -
2008
• FCC
AUCTION RF300 Sales Chart - 2008 /
UpDates
• FCC
OKs Verizon-Alltel, Sprint-Clearwire deals
- H Digital
•
10b
- Short Selling, $speed to Wall
Street
•
Google's
World ofWiTel
•
FCC
Approves Free Use of Airwaves
• FCC
OKs Verizon-Alltel, Sprint-Clearwire
deals.
•
10b
- Short Selling, The Payoff Game - on Wall
Street
• The
Crash of 2008
•
Digital
Hollywood-Oct-Nov
•
Google's
World of
WiTEL
• 10f
- Google Yahoo Deal on
Hold.
• 10e
-Why Do You Believe
•
Google
- 10 years Later -
gPHONE
•
Africa plans to purchase NBS
WITEL™©®
effects
•
Apple
Settles "backdated option
awards"
• Google
g1Phone Unveiled on Sept.
23rd.
• Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is It?
• FCC
AUCTION RF300 Sales Chart - 2008 / UpDates
•
Virgin
Media's
pictures Sir Richard Branson
holding a Motorola 800 in 1985.
 •
"At
Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile we want to
say well done Nathan and happy 100th
anniversary!"
•••"The
most appealing element of
the NBS WITEL®™©
organization founded in 1892," says P.C.
Stubblefield," are Kids." The opportunity
to tap into the demographics of kids
around the world in their middle and high
school years is exciting. "They have never
heard of NBS nor have they had a
chance to
become addicted to "Teléph-on-délgreen"
- and the jobs it has created in the
mobile WITEL®™© industry
since the first "GREEN" school/college
(Teléph-on-délgreen) was
founded." CLICK
FOR MORE NBS WiTEL VIRGIN
PHOTOS
 •
ASK
PRISCILLA anything you want about
WiTEL®™© RF187 and
Wi-MAX.
•••
You may already know
Priscilla Cory-Stubblefield from her
TV-shows, movies, and recordings. With the
making of the movie, "NBS
WiTEL®™©" coming up in the
near future, you'll get to know more about
her talent in "Ask Priscilla."
•••
Priscilla debuts in web-print as a story
teller of the Wireless
Telephone®™©, answering
questions about who are the SMART DAAF
boys, and who were the bad boys.
•••
Wireless Telephone®™© and
the effects of RF questions are hard
enough to answer without having to deal
with the historical problems created by
the U.S. government that allowed land-line
copper wire firms, i.e, AT&T -- to
suppress the NBS Wireless
Telephone®™© organization
from selling its RF WiTEL®™©
telephone number effects. MORE
ASK PRISCILLA-02 /
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Nathan
Stubblefield's FireWire and WiFi "Hot
Spots:
• Why
FireWire and Watermelon Patches?
Because it was the green "hot spot"
patches where Nathan placed his aerial
rods around his 86 acres to create the
WiFi and WiMAX 187
Teléph-on-délgreen
phenominum.
•
MORE
STORY & PhotoS: Nikola Tesla &
Nathan -
1902.
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Why
NBS FireWire and Watermelon Patches?
Because it was the green
patches where Nathan placed his aerial
rods around his 86 acres to create the
WiFi and WiMAX 187
Teléph-on-délgreen
Aerial - Antenna phenominum.
•
Photo: Nikola Tesla & Nathan -
1902.
•
GoogleWiTEL
Map locators - Do you know
where your kid is? Check Google's maps
...February,
2009 / With an upgrade to its mobile
maps, Google Inc. hopes to prove it can
track people on the go as effectively as
it searches for information on
the Internet
...The new
software released Wednesday will enable
people with mobile phones and other
wireless devices to automatically share
their whereabouts with family
and friends.
... The
feature, dubbed "Latitude," expands upon a
tool introduced in 2007 to allow mobile
phone users to check their own location on
a Google map with the press of
a button
..."This adds
a social flavor to Google maps and makes
it more fun," said Steve Lee, a Google
product manager
...It could
also raise privacy concerns, but Google is
doing its best to avoid a backlash by
requiring each user to manually turn on
the tracking software and making it easy
to turn off or limit access to
the service
. ..Google
also is promising not to retain any
information about its users' movements.
Only the last location picked up by the
tracking service will be stored on
Google's computers, Lee said
...The
software plots a user's location -- marked
by a personal picture on Google's map
&endash; by relying on cell phone towers,
global positioning systems or a Wi-Fi
connection to deduce their location. The
system can follow people's travels in the
United States and 26
other countries
...It's left
up to each user to decide who can monitor
their location
...The social
mapping approach is similar to a service
already offered by Loopt Inc., a
3-year-old company located near Google's
Mountain View headquarters
...Loopt's
service is compatible with more than 100
types of mobile phones
...To start
out, Google Latitude will work on Research
In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and devices
running on Symbian software or Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows Mobile. It will also
operate on some T-Mobile phones running on
Google's Android software and eventually
will work on Apple Inc.'s iPhone
and iTouch
...To widen
the software's appeal, Google is offering
a version that can be installed on
personal computers as well
...The PC
access is designed for people who don't
have a mobile phone but still may want to
keep tabs on their children or someone
else special, Lee said. People using the
PC version can also be watched if they are
connected to the Internet
through Wi-Fi
...Google can
plot a person's location within a few
yards if it's using GPS, or might be off
by several miles if it's relying on
transmission from cell phone towers.
People who don't want to be precise about
their whereabouts can choose to display
just the city instead of a
specific neighborhood
...There are
no current plans to sell any advertising
alongside Google's tracking service,
although analysts believe knowing a
person's location eventually will unleash
new marketing opportunities. Google has
been investing heavily in the mobile
market during the past two years in an
attempt to make its services more useful
to people when they're away from their
office or home computers.
 President
Barack Obama Sworn In. OVER 2 million
WiTEL®™© phone users
expected at Inaugural -
Jan.
20
•••A
Wave of WiTEL®™©
calls, texts, photos and videos could
clog the networks Jan. 20, the first
presidential swearing-in that's affected
by the
mobile revolution.
••••
Since the 2005 inauguration,
the number of
WiTEL®™© users
in the nation has increased by 26%, to
262.7 million. And those users are not
just talking: They are posting video to
social networking sites such as Facebook,
sending text messages, and snapping and
sending photos.
•••Wireless
Services from AT&T - is the largest
wireless company in the United States,
with more than 72.9 million subscribers
and the nation's fastest 3G
'WiTEL®™©' network.
AT&T says: "they are dedicated to
providing customers with
'WiTEL®™©' technology
designed to enrich their lives," but stops
short of saying whose technology.
•••When
President Obama takes the stage to deliver
his inauguration address Jan. 20, no doubt
many of the estimated 2 million people in
the audience will hold their cellphones
aloft to snap and send photos, call
friends and family and send text messages
like "omg, yes we did!" CLICK
FOR MORE PEOPLE STORY
 •
Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Kevin
J. Martin, a Republican, plans to depart
Tuesday, January 20th, when
President-elect Barack Obama's
administration assumes
power.
•••
Martin, 42, said he would go to
the Aspen Institute, a policy analysis
group in Washington after nearly four
years as head of the independent agency
that regulates telephone, broadcast and
cable companies.
•••
Obama has c hosen Julius
Genachowski, 46, former FCC chief counsel,
to head the agaency, a Democartic official
said this week. Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born
December 14, 1966) is the Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
• •
Martin was nominated by President
George W. Bush to a Republican seat on the
Commission on April 30, 2001. He was
confirmed on May 25, 2001 and sworn in on
July 3, 2001, to replace Michael K.
Powell. President Bush renominated Martin
to a new five year term on the Commission
on April 25, 2006, and he was reconfirmed
by the U.S. Senate on November 17,
2006.
•
• Before
joining the FCC, Martin was a Special
Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy. He served on the Bush-Cheney
Transition Team and was Deputy General
Counsel for the Bush campaign.
•
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY • Sept 2008: Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
/ The Results of the
2008 FCC $19-Billion RF300 Auction
Story
•
Kevin
Martin Expresses Regrets at CES 2009 - Las
Vegas
•••
FCC Chairman
Kevin Martin during the recent Consumer
Electronics Show, expressed concern about
a proposed change to the DTV transition
date, but also to explore on topics
ranging from Net neutrality and white
spaces to his issues with the cable and
regrets about his tenure as FCC
chairman.
•••
As Martin prepares to leave his
role as chairman, he said that he regrets
several things, including the failure of
the d-block during the 700-MHz auction,
his inability to get cable rates under
control, and the delay on universal
service reform.
•••
Earlier this year, the FCC
auctioned off spectrum in the 700-MHz
band, a venture that attracted $19.6
billion in bids but failed to attract any
takers on the d-block, which would have
been available to public safety officials.
It had a $1.3 billion reserve price and a
variety of conditions, so it failed to
attract any interest beyond an opening bid
of $472 million.
•••
One of the major topics that has
shaped Martin's tenure includes white
spaces and Net neutrality. CLICK
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Spaces and Net Neutrality Airwaves Up For
Sale
 •
People
/ Whose Kenvin Martin? On March 18, 2005,
President Bush designated Kevin J. Martin
as FCC chairman, to replace Michael K.
Powell. President Bush renominated Martin
to a new five year term on the Commission
on April 25, 2006, and he was reconfirmed
by the U.S. Senate on November 17, 2006.
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FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, as it Buys Into
The World of the Wireless
Telephone®™ - The Clearwire
Merger -
What
make WiMax and WiFi so important in the
world of the Wireless Telephone®™
-- and how will Sprint MONETIZE their
entry in the the WiMax 187 world of
antennas?
• WiMax is similar to Wi-Fi service
found in coffee shops, airports and many
homes, but it is more powerful and able to
cover whole cities, in some
cases.
CLICK FOR MORE SPRING
WiMax187
 •
Mattel
vs Bratz A Copyright Infringement in
Action.
January
2008 /
Barbie
Doll wins over Bratz Doll. "The Bratz
company lost $-Millions because its owner
used deceptive techniques to skirt around
Mattel's Copyright," says attorney for NBS
Wireless
Telephone®™©.
•••
A federal
judge in Riverside, CA has delivered
several potentially fatal blows to the
popular Bratz dolls and their
manufacturer, MGA Entertainment Inc. The
first ruling came in mid-December and the
other on the last day of December. MGA's
archrival Mattel Inc. was ruled as the
legal owner of the Barbie toy line and has
the right to recall all unsold Bratz
dolls, giving notice to any/and all other
edgy dolls look-a-like, with or without
her shoes, glasses or garments on.
•
What
are ®™© Copyrights
Worth?
••
"PLENTY" --
says Attorney Charley Portz, of Houston,
Texas.
The Barbie ruling, helps the NBS Wireless
Telephone®™© in their claims
against AT&T, Sprint and other
look-a-like TeleCom companies, that are
using the NBS copyrights and servicemarks
without their permission.
•••
The court
order, which not only represents a major
victory for toy giant Mattel, but for the
USPTO. whom are at times short on defining
what are the effects of ®™©
when one registers a required
®™© for doing business in
the U.S.A.
•••
As for the Jan 3rd hearing, a
spokesman for WiTEL says that, "the Bratz
fans get a glimmer of hope in court. A
federal judge says he's looking for a way
to allow the copyright-infringing dolls to
continue to be made and sold during the
2009 retail buying season.
•••
The LA Times reported that the
Bratz doll maker had another bad day in
federal court on December 31, 2008, but
fans of the sassy dolls were given hope
that the girls will live to see another
Christmas.
•••
Bratz manufacturer MGA
Entertainment Inc. lost a bid to remain in
the Bratz business past Feb. 11, the date
of a hearing set earlier in U.S. District
Court in Riverside.
•••
As of that date, MGA -- which lost
an acrimonious court battle over the
copyright of the doll known for its
platform shoes, hip-hugging outfits and
bare midriffs -- has to give up the dolls
and name to archrival Mattel Inc. of El
Segundo. The court also ordered MGA to
recall almost all Bratz products in stores
and give them to Mattel, even while the
Van Nuys company appealed various
rulings.
•••
But Judge Stephen G. Larson, who
has on several occasions expressed worry
that retailers could be adversely affected
by the case, gave MGA a glimmer of hope.
He wrote in an order Tuesday that the
company had convinced him that "a
modification" might be made "to address
the concerns regarding the 2009 retail
buying season."
•••
He told both MGA and Mattel to
propose solutions that would allow the
manufacture and sale of Bratz dolls to
continue through that time.
•••
MGA's outspoken chief executive,
Isaac Larian, celebrated by sending a note
to his staff saying it was a "good day"
for the 1,500-employee company and Bratz
and that the judge's action would allow
for "the continued manufacture, sale and
license of Bratz products."
•••
But even if it does happen, Larson
hasn't indicated that MGA will be the
company allowed to do it.
•••
Mattel had successfully argued in a
jury trial that the upstart Bratz dolls
were created by one of its own Barbie
designers and that it thus owned basic
copyrights.
•••
On Monday, the two companies will
be back in Larson's court. Mattel has
asked that a receiver be appointed to
monitor the financial dealings of MGA.
•••
In court documents, Mattel charged
that MGA might be so fiscally unhealthy
that it couldn't "maintain and preserve
the Bratz intellectual property" that the
court had determined belongs to
Mattel.
•••
Attorney Tom Nolan, who represents
MGA, said that Mattel's charges were
baseless and that the company would
"vigorously oppose" the appointment of a
receiver. Mattel executives declined to
comment.
•••
Mattel's court filing calls into
question several recent MGA financial
matters.
•••
* The toy giant charges that Omni
808 International, a company that recently
provided funding to MGA, is a "newly
formed offshore corporation that appears
to be a shell."
•••
Nolan said Omni 808, registered in
the Caribbean island of Nevis, was
reputable. He said he couldn't provide
specifics because those details were given
to the court by MGA under seal.
•••
* Mattel charges that "MGA has
funneled millions of dollars to Isaac
Larian's relatives."
•••
MGA is a private company, Nolan
said, and doesn't have to disclose those
matters.
•••
After
confirming the ruling, Portz agrees with
the Judge, "that MGA may no longer
manufacture, sell, advertise or license
its core lineup of Bratz dolls or any
other product with the Bratz
name."
 •
The
"NBS
WiTEL®™©" Business Model NBS
WiTEL®™©
•
NBS
WiTEL DEMANDS For Payment from TelCos for
Copyright infringment
•••
The Wireless
Telephone®™© Organization,
like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and
Sprint, all have business models. The
Wireless Telephone®™© still
touts the one established in 1902," by
inventor, Nathan B. Stubblefield, its
founder.
•••
Before Troy Cory-Stubblefield took over
the Wireless Telephone®™ business
over 35 years ago, the Wireless
Telephone®™© was referred to
as radio, computers were things delivered
by forklift, and the analog effects of
WiTEL, WiFi187 radio and TV broadcasts
were free to listen to and watch.
 •••
What makes the NBS Wireless
Telephone®™© very unique
today is that Troy, the biological
grandson of the founder, still maintains
the company. It was his Grandpa Nat, who
not only first invented the term "Wireless
Telephone," -- but he registered and
published the copyright, and servicemark
®™© in 1907, one year before
being granted patent - 1908. (See
USPTO drawing) Click from More about -
Grandpa Nat,
• ••
Troy ofttimes uses "NBS
WiTEL®™©" to fully describe
both the effects of WiTEL, WiFi and WiMAX
187, and the hand held WiTEL mobile unit
itself.
•••
Whenever he discusses the ways to
facilitate the methods for his company to
collect WiTEL's copyright royalties from
the four TeleCos, he advises all
interested parties to focus on the
www.patent887.com
drawings.
•••
"As they say . . .," says Troy --
"a picture
is worth a thousand
words. The
WiMAX WiFi187 towers, the vehicle, and the
copper wire connections, . . . are all IDd
with numbers to pinpoint the WiTEL sender,
and receiving mobile vehicle. The only
thing missing is the satellite, with a Fig
#."
•••
For the Four Major Telco firms to settle
the monies now all due and payable to NBS
WiTEL®™©, for the use of
WiTEL phone number assets, "it could be
done fairly easy," says
Gary Gysel of Pacific
Sunrise. The royalty
payment could be as simple as changing the
name from NBS
Wireless Telephone®™© to
Verizon WiTEL®™© '
VoIP," or "it could take as
long as it took Mattel to settle their
copyright infringement action in the
Barbie
Doll vs Bratz Doll case."
CLICK
FOR MORE VERIZON VOIP
STORY.
•••
"It is almost like a flying arrow just
shot from the bow of Cupid. No one wants
to catch it before they know what the ring
will cost them. Will it be a FREEBE, or
will their be a $$ charge? In our NBS
Copyright infringement claims, we . . . as
well as our targets know who they are, and
we have only two choices.
•••
Do you extend the time before the $Billion
Dollar Invoice hits the WiTEL user,
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint?
Or do you design "WTQCA-09"? I think it's
only logical to settle the
WiTEL®™© infringements with
our "share
the program" we have laid out within the
defines of WTQCA-09. CLICK FOR MORE
STORY
•••
The WiTEL Quality Control Authority is the
NBS watch dog eyeballing the Who's Who in
the creation of phone numbers, and for the
analog to digital seizure for coupons
exchange, that will take place in February
- 2009. The organization needs to be
turned into a $Billion asset, controlled
by a non-profit organization, like
ICANN
- (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers) // ICAAN -
http://www.icann.org/
WTQCA-09
 •••
Troy says, "what we have done since our
first contact with the FCC in 2006, is
stay calm. This has been our NBS
WiTEL®™© greatest
contribution -- not being impulsive, no
law suits, not changing the rules
willy-nilly, but going through a very
professional and orderly process that
takes into account unintended
consequences.
•••
That's our moon-shot: not to find another
model but to save the one we've got . . .
the one based on the asset legacy of NBS
WiTEL®™© - 1902, in exchange
for theirs.
 •••
If we can't iron out issues with the
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint,
the FCC, and the USPTO, operating as
government fiduciaries could lose
credibility. A long drawn out dispute over
WiTEL®™© phone number fees
now due the NBS WiTEL organization, could
leave 243 million WiTEL customers in
bewilderment about phone number
ownership.
•••
The copyrights alone are worth over
$1.2-Billion per month to NBS. If
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile or ITT
got $5.00 per number per month for every
WiTEL®™© assigned to a WiTEL
unit, they would cash in: (243 million
units x $5.00 = $10 billion) -- straight
to the bottom line.
 •••
The NBS WiTEL organization of 1902 --
wasn't prepared for the 1911 RF spectrum
Regulatory seizure by the U.S. But this
time, the model is prepared for this to
happen. And if it does, this time we'll
have a real value attached to each RF-300
spectrum sold to the Telcos backed-up by
the governments own established benchmark
value . . . "IDd by a NBS
WiTEL®™© phone number." We
intend to convert an entire industry to
one of transparency. By the market, and by
edicts, not as a science project.
•••
This caution has really been a signal
achievement for both the FCC, and the
USPTO in their efforts to settle this
matter. "Thus far," says Troy, "NBS is
following one of the oldest dogmas of
capitalism. Addiction: the more
someone wants something the more you can
charge for it. Or, as in the Barbie
Doll vs Bratz Doll case, you the
have supply-demand tenet to think about.
(See the 2009 Barbie Court extension)
 •Part
Two / Troy Cory-Stubblefield, the
Biological Grandson of the Inventor
•••
It's got to be strange to be Troy
Cory-Stubblefield right now. If anyone
should be able to look back on a career
with a sense of satisfaction, he
should.
•••
The biological grandson of N.B.
Stubblefield, is the founder of the NBS
Achievement Award given to those leaders
within the WiTEL industry. Troy also
co-founded VRA TelePlay Pictures,
Smart90.com, China Expo 2000, WiFi, WiMAX
187, WiTEL, VATS, and the TeleKey Group,
is retiring later this year along with his
wife, Josie, to devote their full energies
to the Stubblefield Radio Trust. Click
to View YouTube, The
Bequest.
•••
"The Trust leaves behind not just one of
the world's most influential businesses,
but two entire industries. There's much
money to be collected and given out from a
WiTEL auction. Not only will Billions go
back into the hands of the U.S. Treasury,
through future FCC auctions led by NBS
Achievers, but Billions to the
cultural-educational philanthropical
community.
 •••
The NBS100
"Teléph-on-délgreen" MSU
Campus, and its RF police and fire
emergency network system throughout the
U.S. -- is a priority," says Josie
Cory.
CLICK
FOR MORE ABOUT MSU
"Teléph-on-délgreen"
STORY
•••
"It would be easy for a big company like
AT&T, Verizon, Spring, Google or even
Comcast to fit into the shoes of the
NBS100 WiTEL-1908 organization," said
Troy, "but personally I'd like to see
Google or Virgin Mobile get the WiTEL
honor."
• "The most appealing elements
of
the NBS WITEL®™©
organization founded in 1892, is to find
the opportunity to tap into the
demographics of the kids around the world
in their middle and high school years.
"They have never heard of NBS nor have
they had a chance to
become addicted to "Teléph-on-délgreen"
- and the jobs the WiTEL industry has
created since the first of several NBS
Teléph-on-délgreen
Industrial schools was founded." CLICK
FOR MORE STORY.
•
Next
Week How did you end up in the "WiTEL" and
the "WTQCA-09" business? Troy
has become a proselytizer for Mac and PC
wireless laptops, Mac iPhones, and
Google's G1, that play and operates
Internet content. Today's Wireless
Telephone(s)®™©, (The
Cellphone) -- are as ubiquitous as a
TV-set, or a radio station built.
 CES
2009 WIFI 187 DEMOS
TROY /
Troy
Examines Best of nbsWiTEL's at CES. TODAY,
if you have access to Google, Smart90,
LookRadio, YouTube, iPhone, a Magic Jack
with a NBS WiTEL®™© phone
number, and/or all other aspects of the
Internet, feel lucky. With the
exception of NBS WiTEL®™© --
they were not available in 1902, nor even
in 1992.
••• In
fact, the effects of the Wireless
Telephone®™©, phone numbers,
WiFi 187, etc. -- including the first
"Green" Colleges, were just being
introduced to the world in 1902, says
entertainer/author Troy Cory-Stubblefield,
the grandson of the founder and inventor
of the Wireless
Telephone®™©, N. B.
Stubblefield.
 ••• •
What's
NBS WiTEL®™© RF Induction
Radio?
"Checking out
the goods, products, and services related
attached to my grandfather's
WiTEL®™© inventions at the
annual CES show in Las Vegas, has been my
pet project since 1992," says Troy.
••• The
PowerMat and Row22 were just two items I
found the most interesting. The PowerMat
was a take off on his "All Green Earth
Battery" (a non - fossil fuel technology)
patented in 1898.
••• The
only thing missing was the iron rod RF
aerial, that made the WiFi induction unit
part his "Telephone-del-Green" system. The
®™© metal coil and mesh EMW
conglomeration, not only emitted RF
signals to help power his batteries, but
its firewire effect, (FiWi) caused the EMF
to modulated the amplitude of the signal
to send voice through space, via his WiTEL
WiFi WiMAX 187 network. CLICK
FOR MORE - Ask Priscilla The Consumer
Electronics Show
/
CLICK
FOR MORE ABOUT
"Teléph-on-délgreen" and MSU
 •The
Movie - NBS WiTEL®™© - WHO'S
READY TO BE in the Wireless
Telephone®™©
"Telephon-delGreen" WiMAX187 EMF Induction
"earth battery"
BUSINESS?
••• In
1902, major newspaper headlines read
something like this, "later this month,
WiTEL02 will have a public trial run at
selected cities in the U.S."
••• "Now
there's no way to avoid work," shouts N.B.
Stubblefield above the noise of WiTEL02's
static, that was new to the world in the
1900s.
••• Indeed,
it was easy for the WiTEL author/inventor
to dial-up and talk to the person on the
other end of the connection, by a twist
and a turn of the antenna. The RF signal
transmitted DSL-type speeds as we know it
today, we walk in a slow turn over the
park and pointed in the direction of the
user on the other end of the WiTEL02.
••• The
signal, coming from the caller holding the
NBS WiTEL02 unit 600 feet away in the
hotel room, was picked up by long copper
wires, looped together to make one large
coil loop antenna. The antenna was held
together by a sheath of leather covering.
The stem of the coil was then placed
inside a watermelon buried half way in the
ground for an added attraction to the new
technology.
••• In
1898, Stubblefield was issued U.S. Patent
600457 for this RF WiFi 187 aerial system
he called the "Electric battery," which
consisted of an electrolytic coil of iron
and insulated copper wire that could be
mixed in with various Magnetic properties.
The Magnetic energy mixes were buried
within dampened clumps of earth pads
surrounded by pitchblende, granulated
loadstones, and other of. rare-
earth-based misfit layered materials, that
would create and store electro magnetic
potentials the would induce the (EMF)
needed to transmit RF signals. •
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY MOVIE TREATMENT - the
Wireless Telephone®™©
BUSINESS?
••• As
MSU students have suggested. his aerial
rods would serve as an independent
induction based ground terminal to reacted
as the WiFi carrier for his Wireless
Telephone®™© unit. He
collectively nicknamed, the clumps of
earth topped off with aerial rods that
networked his WiFi 187 system together,
"Teléph-on-délgreen". His
"Teléph-on-délgreen"
industrial School is now, Murray State
University. CLICK
FOR YouTube MORE STORY Stubblefield Earth
Cell Battery
Demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmNoLfjIEac
 HughesNet
High Speed
Internet
••• •The
Consumer Electronics Assn. -- 2009,
appears to have plugging organic LED
displays, digital book readers, and the
ePAD system that charge, Satellite Point
to Point finders, Blu-ray disc players and
lightweight laptops called netbooks.
••• During
the annual Consumer Electronics Show Row
44, a provider of broadband data services
and equipment via satellite to the
aviation industry demonstrated their
soon-to-debut WTB-T Wi-Fi system for
commercial airlines. The demonstration
reminded me of the one given by the
inventor of the original WiTEL02, in
Philadelphia. (Row 44 is working
inconjunction with Hughes and their
HughesNet® broadband satellite
service. Row 44 is a privately held and
funded company.)
••• With
HughesNet®, your super-fast,
always-on, satellite Internet access is
ready when you are -- no dialing in, no
waiting and no tied-up phone lines. You
can download files in seconds, check email
instantly and surf faster. And HughesNet
is compatible with Windows® and
Macintosh®, so getting online anywhere
is easy!
••• Hughesnet
High Speed satellite internet access is
the best way to get space-age satellite
internet access! HughesNet offers blazing
fast speeds, no matter where you live in
the contiguous US. No more sluggish DSL
lines, and forget about dial-up HughesNet
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and the most advanced satellite technology
anywhere!.
 •
What
are the NBS WiTEL®™©
Copyrights Worth?
•••
"WHAT
MAKES THIS A
Pin
Pointed legal conclusion for us," says
Portz, "is that like the Barbie case, we
are giving notice to our competitors. Both
the seller and user of any/and all edgy
Cellphones or moble WiTEL units, should
ascertain wheither or not their wireless
phone number was authorized by the NBS
WiTEL®™©
organization.
•••
This case not
only strengthens Copyright laws around the
world, but it's part of the business model
subscribed to,, and by the founders of the
Wireless Telephone®™©
organization in 1902. The names "Barbie
Doll," -"Wireless
Telephone®™©," and their
effects . . . speak for themselves.
CLICK
FOR MORE NBSLEGAL
STORY
/ CLICK
FOR MORE BARBIE Story
 •
Pasadena
- The 120th Tournament of Roses Parade.
A
Josie Cory, Gary Sunkin
Report.
•••
This
years themed "Hats Off To
Entertainment" features
Cloris Leachman as its Grand
Marshal.
•••
The
Rose Parade headed by its president,
Ronald H. "Corky" Conzonire, will take
place on Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 8:00
a.m. (PST) featuring spirited marching
bands from throughout the nation, majestic
floral floats, and high-stepping
equestrian
units.
•••
The
Rose Parade features three types of
entries: floral floats entered by a
participating corporation or community
organization; equestrian units; and
marching bands. The only cars that appear
in the Rose Parade are those that carry
the Grand Marshal, the Mayor of Pasadena,
and the Tournament of Roses
President.
•••
 Many
of the Rose Parade's participating
organizations have a long history with the
Tournament of Roses and have made repeated
appearances in the
Parade.
•••
The
five-and-a-half mile Rose Parade route
begins at the corner of Ellis Street and
Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena and
travels north on Orange Grove at a
leisurely 2.5-mile per hour pace and then
turns east onto Colorado Boulevard where
the majority of the Parade takes place. At
the end of the route, the Parade turns
north onto Sierra Madre Boulevard and ends
at Sierra Madre and Villa
Street.
•••
Photo:
The theme in 1973 was "Movie Memories"
which featured John Wayne, as Grand
Marshal. Ernest Borgnine, and Priscilla
Cory were featured on the winning
Occidental Float. CLICK
FOR MORE ROSE PARADE STORY and 2009 PARADE
TROPHY WINNERS.
•
Verizon
Goes VoIP to route all calls over Web to
its WiTEL TV customers within 7
years.2009
International CES Las Vegas. TVInews'
Josie Cory, Gary Sunkin attending - Jan
8-11.
••••Verizon's
chief Marketing Officer, John Stratton
announced during the show, that Verizon
will start offering VoIP Internet calling
to its FiOS Web and TV customers in the
coming months. The service will begin in
Maryland,
••••Verizon
Communications Inc., the second-biggest
U.S. telephone company, plans to do away
with traditional phone lines within seven
years as it moves to carry all calls over
the Internet, utilizing its the Wireless
Telephone®™© mobile
medium
••••By
offering so-called voice over Internet
Protocol, or VoIP, calls, Verizon is
mimicking providers such as Vonage
Holdings Corp. and cable companies, which
have won customers with digital plans.
••••An
Internet-based service can be maintained
at a fraction of the cost of a phone
network and helps Verizon offer a greater
range of services, Stratton said.
••••"We've
built our business over the years with
circuit-switched voice being our bread and
butter . . . but increasingly, we are in
the business of selling, basically, data
connectivity," Stratton said.
••••Verizon
and rivals such as AT&T Inc. are
losing home-phone lines as customers rely
on mobile handsets or switch to cable
companies that package digital call plans
with Web and TV service. In the third
quarter, Verizon lost 3.7 million lines
from a year
earlier.
•••
You
can you find moguls of television and
cinema, professional athletes, rock stars
and consumer technology's heavy hitters
all on one stage at any of the
International CES keynote addresses. The
only thing bigger than the names is the
technology they're there to
unveil.
•••
With
the economy collapsing, the ranks of the
unemployed growing, and bailout petitions
underway, the last thing we seem to need
in America is a show displaying the
newest electronic contraptions.
"Wrong," says Gary Sunkin of TVI
Magazine. "As consumers spend more time at
home, they increasingly consider CE
products as necessities, not luxuries,
even given the tough economic times, when
all global industries are susceptible to
consumer unease about their own personal
finances. But the questions remains, "in
the midst of the sharpest recession in
memory, will anyone truly care about the
latest gadgets and gizmos? "
•••
That depressing question will
be hanging over the Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas this January, as buyers,
retailers, enthusiasts, and reporters will
gather in Las Vegas to either herald the
economy's resurgence, or darn the show for
being just another Comdex or
Macworld.
CLICK
FOR MORE CES
STORY
Date/Time: Wednesday,
January 7, 2009 6:30 p.m.
Location: The Venetian
Room: Palazzo Ballroom
 •Jockey
Club MGM Loan Default Mar 2009. - MGM
Mirage Auditors on March 17th
2009
raise doubts about the casino operator
ability to pay off JockeyClub MGM Loan
Default, which had a $1.15-billion 2008
loss.
•••
Auditors raised "substantial doubt"
about MGM Mirage's ability to continue,
the largest casino owner on the Strip said
on March 17th 2009, in a regulatory
filing. The company also reported a
$1.15-billion fourth-quarter loss after
writing down properties because of
shrinking gambling revenue.
•••
Casino Operator MGM Mirage who's
in charge of the Jockey Club - Las Vegas
City Walk project, won a two-month bank
court reprieve to restructure its
debts.
•••
The auditors' comments increase the
likelihood that MGM Mirage will seek
bankruptcy protection. Banks granted
waivers on the $7-billion bank-loan
facility until May 15. The company said
March 3 that it was in talks to avert a
potential breach of covenants.
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In exchange for the temporary
covenant waivers, MGM Mirage is prohibited
from prepaying or repurchasing other
long-term debt or selling assets. The
company will also repay $300 million of
the fully drawn revolving loan, and it
accepted a 100-basis-point increase in the
interest rate.
•••
MGM Mirage, controlled by
billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, can also fund
construction of its Las Vegas City Center
- Jockey Club project only if partner
Dubai World also finances its half of the
costs, the company said in the filing. The
casino company reiterated Tuesday that it
would finish the project on schedule.
•
Jockey
Club MGM, Deutshe Bank City Walk Project
2009 - MGM, Deutsche talks said to
fail
- March - 2009 MGM Mirage and Dubai
World failed to reach agreement with
Deutsche Bank and talks on a $1.2-billion
loan to complete the Las Vegas CityCenter
project collapsed, according to five
people with knowledge of the
matter.
•••
Deutsche Bank was seeking equity and debt
stakes in the $11.2-billion development on
the Las Vegas Strip in return for the
loan. MGM Mirage and Dubai World are now
holding talks with other parties, one of
the people said. -- times wire
reports
MGM
CEO, Terry Lanni, stepped aside in Nov
2008, just as questions continued to swirl
about his
resume.
He leaves as
MGM Mirage and other casinos
struggle with the worst financial crisis
since the Great Depression. Its shares
have plunged 87% this year as it has tried
to get enough cash to cover loans and
finish the $11.2-billion CityCenter
project on the Las Vegas Strip.
•••
MGM Mirage, the casino firm
majority-owned by billionaire Kirk
Kerkorian, said Chairman and Chief
Executive Terry Lanni retired in November
as questions about his resume surfaced.
Lanni says the USC business degree listed
on his company bio is honorary.
•••
"It's time for a younger generation
to take over," Lanni said in a telephone
interview. He also cited a desire to spend
more time with his family. CLICK
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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 converted 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." CLICK
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Spectrums.
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Google, who just
entered the new generation of WiTEL
organizations with their new G1 WiTEL on
Sept 26th, ( Click
more about Google's World of WiTEL) --
will use the
'white spaces' between channels to go
online with their new Wireless
Telephone®™©
devices.
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10a
/ 10b
- Short Selling, The One Satisfaction Rule
Payoff Game - on Wall
Street.
Short Selling, Insurance 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 gray areas
between NBS WiTEL, and several high-tech
copyright infringers. CLICK
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STORY= FCC
Chairman Kevin J. Martin said.
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STORY.
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