As reported by Esme Vos at Munireless , the St. Cloud Muniwireless system has been granted a reprieve. In an effort to lower municipal costs to avoid raising taxes, the town council voted on Sept...
I have no doubt it seemed like a good idea at the time. The official OMB Guidance to Federal agencies on how to handle stimulus money requires everyone to go through the federal grants portal Gra...
O.K., I hope tonight's election results go better. Rumor is the hold up is on roaming conditions in the VZ/Alltel merger. Continue reading
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/230-pm-still-no-meeting/
If I told you after the Palin announcement that Republicans would attack Oprah, you'd have called me crazy. Oprah is beloved of the precise demographic Rs hope to win over by naming Palin. Cont...
Apparently, the Dems were accused of being too wonky by having Mark Warner talk about bringing tech jobs to America, and the Republicans vowed not to repeat that mistake. Even former EBay CEO Meg...
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/the-mccain-tech-policy-in-action/
So my old friends at the National Cable Telecommunications Association (NCTA) are doing a blogger outreach event today. Oddly, I was not invited. Continue reading
The FCC has just released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing the problem of wireless microphone operations in the 700 MHz Band and how it may screw up the introduction of new public safet...
In an interesting turn of events, industry analyst Craig Moffett takes a look at the growth of cable broadband and overall subscriber growth, as compared with that of telcos and satellites, and c...
I'm off for my annual escape from the 21st Century . Don't look for me until after August 10. Sadly, this means I will miss the conclusion of the Comcast bittorrent complaint on Friday, and will ...
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/really-getting-away-from-it-all-for-bit/
So here I am at the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform , and I have the most exciting news: the FOX NEWS TEAM IS HERE for Bill O'Reilly. (No doubt he is in town to endorse Al Franken in his...
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/back-in-the-ncmr-pappa-bear-comes-to-town/