Employees of the Telecommunications division of the California Department of General Services spend each day tearing apart sport utility vehicles, trucks, cars and off-road vehicles, only to put them back together again with the lights, sirens and radios that state public safety officers rely on to keep them safe.
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A briefing for telecoms analysts from Ofcom’s London offices on 8 July 2009
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Voice has for decades been a “service” sold by the “the line” or as an “application” created by a premises switch. Now voice also is a feature of instant messaging, Web sites, enterprise applications and email. As a result, there now are multiple business models, revenue streams and applications that use the “voice” feature. This panel will examine some of the ways this is happening, and what it means for traditional providers of voice services.
Recorded at Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008
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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 istant 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 ociate, 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 ociation, awards from the Seymour ociation, 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 ociation; was a member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Communications Law Committee of the ociation of the Bar of the City of New York; and was a member of the American Bar ociation.
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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Gary Kim, Editor-in-Chief of IP Business interviews Stealth Communications’ CEO, Shrihari Pandit about the economy and its impact on the telecom sector at PTC’09.
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Free power and energy: Rural wind turbine powers telecoms tower in Africa. www.ProvenEnergy.com
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Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann Special Comment: In a Presidency of hypocrisy; an Administration of exploitation; a labyrinth of leadership, in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot, this one, is surprisingly easy.
President Bush has put protecting the Telecom giants from the laws ahead of protecting you from the terrorists.
He has demanded an extension of the FYCA law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the Telecoms who helped him spy on you.
Congress has given him, and he has signed, a 15-day extension, which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as ’soft on terror’ and getting in the way of his Superhuman efforts to protect the nation when, in fact and with bitter irony, if anybody is ’soft on terror’ here it is Mr. Bush.
In the State of the Union Address, Sir, you told Congress, “if you do not act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger.”
Yet you are willing to weaken that ability!
You will subject us, your citizens, to that greater danger.
This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough even for you to understand: If Congress approves a new FYCA act without telecom immunity and sends it to your desk and you veto it, you, by your own terms and your own definitions, you will have just sided with the terrorists.
You got to have this law, or we’re all going to die. But you might veto this law!
It’s bad enough, Sir, that you are demanding an ex post facto law which would clear the phone giants from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive, and blatant collaboration with your illegal and unjustified spying on Americans, under the flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass e-mail.
But when you then demanded again, during the State of the Union address, that Congress retroactively clear the Verizons and the AT&T’s, you wouldn’t even confirm that they actually did anything for which they deserved to be cleared!
“The Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have isted in the efforts to defend America.”
Believed?
Don’t you know?
Does the endless hair-splitting of your presidential fine print, extend even here?
If you, Sir, are asking Congress, and us, to join you in this shameless, breathless, literal, textbook example of fascism; the merged efforts of government and corporations who answer to no government, you still don’t have the guts to even say the telecom companies did ist you, in your efforts?
Will you and the equivocators who surround you like a cocoon never go on the record about anything?
Even the stuff you claim to believe in?
Silly me.
Of course Mr. Bush is going to say “believed.”
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Many services that we take for granted today are only possible because of the reliability of modern telecommunication satellites: from mobile applications, internet and TV and radio broadcasting, to essential services for ships, vehicles and planes.
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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.
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A short clip about the risks of the telecoms package which is debated in European Union in 2008.
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