Attorney General Mukasey on Telecom Immunity
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/27/U_S__Attorney_General_Michael_Mukasey
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey explains why he supports legal immunity for telecommunications companies who disclosed customer information to the federal government following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Public Corruption and Public Confidence with U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Mukasey took over leadership of the Department of Justice after a time of great turmoil and controversy. Coming in with support from both sides of the aisle, Mukasey has made it a priority to address issues of public corruption and the integrity of our government institutions. – The Commonwealth Club of California
Michael Mukasey was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941 and graduated from Columbia College and Yale Law School, where he was on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to becoming Attorney General, he had a lengthy career as an attorney, including service as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1972 to 1976 in New York. From 1975 to 1976 he also served as chief of his district’s Official Corruption Unit. From 1976 to 1987 he was an associate, and then member, of the firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Mukasey was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and served until 2006, the last six years as chief judge. During that time, Judge Mukasey presided over hundreds of cases, including the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 co-defendants charged with conspiring to blow up numerous sites in New York. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was widely praised for the speed with which the federal courthouse, located just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, returned to normal operation.
Upon his retirement from the bench, Mukasey returned to Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, in the firm’s litigation group.
Judge Mukasey has received numerous awards over the years, including the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence from the Federal Bar Council, the William Tendy Award from the Fiske Association, awards from the Seymour Association, the Respect for Law Alliance, and the Ari Halberstam Award from the Jewish Children’s Museum. He also received an honorary degree from the Brooklyn Law School.
Mukasey’s professional and civic activities have included service as a director of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and as a director of the Jewish Children’s Museum. He has also been a lecturer in law at the Columbia Law School. He was a member of the Automation and Technology Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States; was chairman of the Committee on Public Access to Information and Proceedings of the New York State Bar Association; was a member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Communications Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and was a member of the American Bar Association.
Judge Mukasey was nominated to be Attorney General by President George W. Bush on September 17, 2007, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8. He entered duty on November 9.
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Q&A: How Will Google Voice Affect Telecoms?
In this video, I answer a question from FishTWiT regarding the effect of google voice will have on the telecoms. Google purchased Grand Central which has a lot of features that has one number that forwards to many phones, visual voicemail, and rich filters to route calls based on where calls are coming from. Google voice added SMS, and voicemail transcribing. Yes I think Google voice will have an affect on telecoms. They are positioning themselves to take over the world of telecom. I talk about it more in the video, thanks to FishTWiT for the question.
Duration : 0:6:31
Trends in Telecoms Change our Lives
About 50,000 telecoms and media professionals are expected to gather in Barcelona, Spain this week for the GSMA Mobile World Congress. Ericsson is presenting its telecoms vision and latest solutions there.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/ericsson/40785/
Duration : 0:2:27
John Doherty & John Whelan on ‘The New EU Telecoms Package’
About the Speech:
The wide number of proposals in the Telecoms Package are designed to coordinate action amongst regulators to create a pro-competitive single market without regulatory borders and to reinforce competition. It is intended that this will facilitate high speed internet networks for all Europeans and stimulate economic growth.
In particular, the package will provide for:
- more powers to the Commission including issuing legally binding decisions to ensure the harmonisation of regulation across Member States;
- the establishment of a new telecoms agency;
- ensuring access to optical fibre by smaller telecoms operators;
- the possibility of introducing a functional separation between services and network activities of telecoms operators;
- the introduction of the notion of universal broadband services to consumers;
- wireless services will be made EU-wide operable by harmonising radio spectrum use; and
- the Telecoms Package will provide for the switching of bandwidth from a part of the frequencies now used for broadcasting, to provide wireless broadband services in the future.
These policy objectives of the Telecoms Package are of particular interest to industry regulators, consumer groups, Irish government departments and electronic communication/telecoms operators.
About the Speakers:
Stephen Banable is a national expert with the European Commission in DG Information Society and Media with responsibility for mobile regulatory issues and implementation of the telecoms regulatory framework. Currently he is responsible for the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on international roaming charges.
John Doherty is Chairperson of the Commission for Communications Regulation.
John Whelan is a solicitor specialising in information technology and telecoms regulation at A&L Goodbody.
Duration : 0:27:57
Stephen Banable on ‘The New EU Telecoms Package’
About the Speech:
The wide number of proposals in the Telecoms Package are designed to coordinate action amongst regulators to create a pro-competitive single market without regulatory borders and to reinforce competition. It is intended that this will facilitate high speed internet networks for all Europeans and stimulate economic growth.
In particular, the package will provide for:
- more powers to the Commission including issuing legally binding decisions to ensure the harmonisation of regulation across Member States;
- the establishment of a new telecoms agency;
- ensuring access to optical fibre by smaller telecoms operators;
- the possibility of introducing a functional separation between services and network activities of telecoms operators;
- the introduction of the notion of universal broadband services to consumers;
- wireless services will be made EU-wide operable by harmonising radio spectrum use; and
- the Telecoms Package will provide for the switching of bandwidth from a part of the frequencies now used for broadcasting, to provide wireless broadband services in the future.
These policy objectives of the Telecoms Package are of particular interest to industry regulators, consumer groups, Irish government departments and electronic communication/telecoms operators.
About the Speakers:
Stephen Banable is a national expert with the European Commission in DG Information Society and Media with responsibility for mobile regulatory issues and implementation of the telecoms regulatory framework. Currently he is responsible for the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on international roaming charges.
John Doherty is Chairperson of the Commission for Communications Regulation.
John Whelan is a solicitor specialising in information technology and telecoms regulation at A&L Goodbody.
Duration : 0:23:25
UK telecoms fighting back the recession
The UKs telecom market has not been unscathed by the global economic downturn, which has pushed the economy into one of the deepest recessions experienced by any European country. Overall revenues in the telecom sector increased by only 0.5% year-on-year in 2008, to about £43 billion, considerably lower than the 4% growth seen in 2007. Competition has continued to drive down the price of overall telecom services by about 6% annually, yet the real economic hardship of many consumers will significantly reduce discretionary spend until at least 2011. The consequent decline in revenue for telcos, together with the still problematic liquidity market, will dampen their ability to fund network investment during the next two years. BT has been an early casualty, having been obliged to scale back its 21CN All-IP implementation.
www.budde.com.au
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Besttel Uk – Free Telecoms Expense Audits – www.besttel.co.uk
Besttel’s FREE TEM Audits uncover an average of 18% savings across your comms estate – fixed & mobile voice & data comms
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British Telecom – Apprenticeship Employer
British Telecom, finalist for the Large Employer of the Year Award at the Apprenticeship Awards 2008.
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ON Telecoms ISP (Greece) – *HUGE* Security Hole!
Here’s an example of to how access a router owned by a user of ON Telecoms, given the default username/password: on/on, which cannot be changed!
Se afto to videaki tha deite tin aparadekti politiki tis ON Telecoms, pou dinei ton router tis me to idio username/password gia OLOUS tous syndromites, xoris na tous dinei ti dynatotita na to allaksoune!
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d’Gel Solvent cleaning wipes for Telecom industry
This is a demonstration of the Telecom cables & accessories cleaning process using d’Gel.
For further information on the d’Gel product, visit our website:
http://www.pttechnologies.com/products/solvents/dgel_75.html
PTTechnologies is a leading manufacturer of Solutions, Wipes and Lubricants to the telecoms industry, please visit the Telecoms section of our website to learn more:
http://www.pttechnologies.com/industry/telecoms/
Duration : 0:1:11