Broadcasters’ efforts continue to put more of their receivers in mobile devices like cellphones, PDAs and laptops, now that the FCC has issued rules on the Commercial Mobile Alert Service this month.
A move by Maine corrections officials to set up a public online database of state prison inmates hit a bump in the legislature. The Department of Corrections was working on the database when state Rep. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, chairman of the joint Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, objected Tuesday that the project began without his panel’s involvement. The department wanted a public inmate database to keep crime victims and police agencies abreast of parole status, release dates and other information and to give inmates families a way to send money for payphone calls and other prepaid expenses. Gerzofsky questioned whether Maine needs such a database, voicing concern that it could trigger litigation such as has dogged the state’s sex offender registry. Associate Corrections Commissioner Denise Lord said her agency’s work was in very preliminary stages, adding that she had planned to seek guidance from Gerzofsky’s committee once the department knew better how the site would operate. She said the site would offer material from the public record organized for easy searching. She said 40 states offer online access to prison inmate information, 23 of which include information about former inmates on parole.
Tests of a way to speed peer-to-peer file transfers and similar bandwidth-intensive use of ISPs (CD April 17 p8) are proceeding well, said participants. The trials, involving about a half dozen cable operators and telcos, go further than an earlier round and could be finished at month’s end, with full results coming later, Distributed Computing Industry Association CEO Martin Lafferty said. Both he and Pando Networks CEO Robert Levitan said the data should show that P4P -- a standard letting networks owned by various ISPs communicate with each other -- works on both cable and telco networks using Pando’s product and lets P2P applications sap less network capacity.
A move by Maine corrections officials to set up a public online database of state prison inmates hit a bump in the legislature. The Department of Corrections was working on the database when state Rep. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, chairman of the joint Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, objected Tuesday that the project began without his panel’s involvement. The department wanted a public inmate database to keep crime victims and police agencies abreast of parole status, release dates and other information and to give inmates’ families a way to send money for payphone calls and other prepaid expenses. Gerzofsky questioned whether Maine needs such a database, voicing concern that it could trigger litigation such as has dogged the state’s sex offender registry. Associate Corrections Commissioner Denise Lord said her agency’s work was in very preliminary stages, adding that she had planned to seek guidance from Gerzofsky’s committee once the department knew better how the site would operate. She said the site would offer material from the public record organized for easy searching. She said 40 states offer online access to prison inmate information, 23 of which include information about former inmates on parole.
Tests of a way to speed peer-to-peer file transfers and similar bandwidth-intensive use of ISPs (WID April 17 p1) are proceeding well, said participants. The trials, involving about a half dozen cable operators and telcos, go further than an earlier round and could be finished at month’s end, with full results coming later, Distributed Computing Industry Association CEO Martin Lafferty said. Both he and Pando Networks CEO Robert Levitan said the data should show that P4P -- a standard letting networks owned by various ISPs communicate with each other -- works on both cable and telco networks using Pando’s product and lets P2P applications sap less network capacity.
CEA wants the Miami-based promoter of a CE technology trade show found in contempt on grounds it has defied a July 2 preliminary injunction barring its use of trade names and service marks that mimic the CES brand.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the countervailing duty administrative review of certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India for the period of January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of magnesium metal from China for the period of April 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the countervailing duty administrative review of certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India for the period of January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
The International Trade Administration has made a final affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers/exporters of certain new pneumatic off-the road tires (OTR tires) from China.