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BSA, as part of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, filed its recommendations with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick on which countries should be included in the United States’ annual Special 301 report. The Special 301 provision requires USTR each year to identify countries that (1) fail to provide adequate and effective protection for intellectual property […]
Over four years, the Atlanta school district and its vendors used $60 million in federal E-rate funds to build one of the most lavish classroom computer networks in the country for public schoolchildren.Read the Full Story
The FCC decision represents the culmination of a comprehensive regulatory proceeding that commenced in 1998 and has included more than 1,200 filings by broadcasters, cable operators and programmers, and consumer groups.Read the Full Story
The massive, $2.5 trillion proposal includes a 1 percent across-the-board reduction for all discretionary spending programs and would earmark $56 billion for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) in 2006, down from more than $57 billion in 2005.Read the Full Story
There’s just a middle-age man who sits at a computer in a tiny, undecorated, windowless office in the basement of a downtown building.Read the Full Story
With the USDLA’s emphasis on providing increased education and training opportunities through distance learning, it is well positioned to support this proposed merger. The merger will bring together the resources of a combined company to innovate and more quickly deliver to customers the next generation of advanced, integrated IP-based wireline and wireless communications services, which […]
But a state lawmaker says he is worried that colleges and universities in those three cities and others could be spending money developing the same online courses — negating the whole point of distance learning.Read the Full Story
ED on Feb. 1 unveiled a new web site, intended to crack down on the swath of phony online degrees that have begun cropping up in both private and public sector jobs in recent months.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON — The beleaguered telecommunications industry has blamed its collapse on manipulative executives and their misleading of consumers, but according to a report issued today by the Cato Institute on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 1996 Telecom Act, the “official version” of the cause of the industry’s current malaise is wrong.Read the […]
The recommendations – which allocate $24.4 million for public television and $15 million for public radio – were developed with input from consultation panels and endorsed by CPB management.Read the Full Story