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Stellian writes “The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Second Report and Order that establishes rules to allow new, sophisticated wireless devices to operate in broadcast television spectrum on a secondary basis at locations where that spectrum is open. It’s the first time we have access to clear specifications for these devices, dubbed TVBDs — ‘TV band devices’ by the FCC. The published guidelines allow manufactures to create protocols and build compatible devices, which could be available in 18 Months, according to Larry Page. The full PDF text of this Second R&O is published on the FCC site.”

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Rinisari writes “Finally, the day has come. Adobe has released a pre-release version of the 64-bit Flash player. It is available at the Adobe Labs Flash Player 10 download site immediately. Where are the Windows and Mac versions? “Release of this alpha version of 64-bit Flash Player on Linux is the first step in delivering upon Adobes commitment to make Flash Player native 64-bit across platforms. We chose Linux as our initial platform in response to numerous requests in our public Flash Player bug and issue management system and the fact that Linux distributions do not ship with a 32-bit browser or a comprehensive 32-bit emulation layer by default. Until this pre-release, use of 32-bit Flash Player on Linux has required the use of a plugin wrapper, which prevents full compatibility with 64-bit browsers. With this pre-release, Flash Player 10 is now a full native participant on 64-bit Linux distributions.” Windows and Mac OS X 64-bit versions will follow, and the final versions all will be released simultaneously. Tamarin, the JIT compiler in Flash, is now capable of producing 64-bit code and nspluginwrapper is no longer required. There are, however, no plans to release a debugger version of the 64-bit plugin.”

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Original post by CmdrTaco

UltraAyla writes “With the announcement that President-Elect Obama will record his weekly address as a YouTube video to be posted at Change.gov, questions arise as to how an Internet-fueled candidacy based in part on a platform of government openness can begin to use technology to make government transparent. Aside from popular Slashdot policies, such as Net Neutrality, how do you think government (either in the United States or elsewhere) can best utilize technology to engage the public and make government more transparent and accessible?” Reader Rick Zeman points out a related New York Times story about how Obama will have to give up some of his communications gadgets because of the Presidential Records Act. Despite that, he apparently hopes to be the first US president to have a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.

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Original post by Soulskill

circleid writes “The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission Review team. Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, member of the board of directors of ICANN, and OneWebDay founder, as well as Kevin Werbach, former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual Supernova technology conference, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team’s review of the FCC. ‘Both are highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts in telecom policy, and they′ve both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration’s telecom policies in the past year.’ The choice of the duo strongly signals an entirely different approach to the incumbent-friendly telecom policy-making that’s characterized most of the past eight-years at the FCC.” Reuters has a related story about Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who plans to introduce net neutrality legislation in January.

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Original post by Soulskill

This is a call out to all bloggers out there - Rich Tehrani, my boss has extended an open invitation to bloggers interested in blogging for TMCnet.com, a leading communications/telecom site according to Alexa, Quantcast, and others.

Today, TMC launches its Blog Aid program to help people out of work stay in the public eye - in order to improve their hiring prospects in a tough economy. In the last few months, many good marketers, PR people, engineers and others who have been laid off. These potential Blog Aid bloggers have a good deal of quality commentary and information to share which could be very useful to the TMC community of online readers.

TMC is offering these new bloggers - especially those working in the communications and technology industries, a venue to voice their thoughts on the spaces where they have expertise so as to allow them access to the 2-3 million global visitors who come to TMCnet on a monthly basis.

So if you enjoy writing about communications, telecom, VoIP, wireless, unified communications, mobile, etc. and want a wide audience, go check out Rich’s blog for more details.

p.s. The blogging platform is Movable Type 4.21.

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Original post by nafiz

Filed under: Cellphones

Looks like we’re inching ever closer to getting our paws on the mythical Helio Ocean 2 — the fun-loving regulators at the FCC just added a Pantech OZII dual-slider handset with Helio branding to their all-knowing database. Nothing you couldn′t have guessed here — QVGA display, EV-DO, 2 megapixel cam with video, full HTML browser, ʌDP support — but hey, this is The Phone That Could Have But Didn′t Save Helio, you know? It’s alright to be excited.

[Via Phone Scoop]

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Original post by Nilay Patel

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Hey, look at that — the Squeezebox Duet just popped up for pre-order. Slim Devices’s answer to Sonos was pretty impressive when we played with it at CES, and it looks like pricing is exactly what we heard: $400 for the wireless controller and a single Squeezebox Receiver, which can stream music off your home machine or tune into Rhapsody or Pandora. Units are expected to ship at the end of the month, but it doesn′t look like you can buy additional $150 receivers or $300 controllers yet.

[Thanks, Gregg]

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Original post by Nilay Patel

Filed under: CES, Features, Home Entertainment

If the idea of a receiver is just too lowbrow for you, check out Denon’s processor/amplifier separates, the AVP/POA-A1HDCI (’AVP’ for the processor, ‘POA’ for the amp). Six HDMI 1.3 inputs, two parallel HDMI outputs and Silicon Optix Realta video processing are some processor highlights; the amp packs in 10 channels at 150-watts. While you′re at it, why settle for a Blu-ray player when you can get a dedicated transport? That back panel picture of the DVD-2500BTCI is no prototype unit — all you get is a power cord, HDMI output, and RS-232. Spin those bits off the Blu-ray disc and send them on to the AVP-A1HDCI for decoding. Pricing is securely in the “if you have to ask…” category: $7k for the AVP-A1HDCI, $7k for the POA-A1HDCI and $1200 for the DVD-2500BTCI.

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Original post by Steven Kim

Filed under: CES, Features, Home Entertainment

If the idea of a receiver is just too lowbrow for you, Marantz is introducing their new AV8003 and MM8003 processor/amplifier pair. It’s a nice couple: HDMI 1.3a (four in, two out), Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, DeepColor and Audyssey to get things dialed in; the amp kicks out eight channels at 150-Watts. Both available Q2 2008, prices to be determined.

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Original post by Steven Kim

Filed under: CES, Features, Home Entertainment

If the idea of a receiver is just too lowbrow for you, Marantz is introducing their new AV8003 and M򽼓 processor / amplifier pair. It’s a nice couple: HDMI 1.3a (four in, two out), Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, DeepColor and Audyssey to get things dialed in; the amp kicks out eight channels at 150-Watts. Both available Q2 2008, prices to be determined.

 

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Original post by Steven Kim

Filed under: CES, GPS

Whoa, Nelly! Garmin just did the deed and loosed a swarm of details on its jam-packed CES 2008 lineup, and sure enough, there aren’t too many surprises. We′ll let the new n&uumlvi lineup get us started. First up, we figured you Americans should know that the previously Euro-only pink nüvi 200 is headed your way in ̫ for $249.99. Next up is the currently unpriced nüvi 260W, which looks to boast the exact same features as the nüvi 260 save for that luscious 4.3-inch touchscreen that this one is rockin’. Right on cue, it’s the nüvi 5000 ($799.99), which you can catch more on — along with the now official nüvi 780 / 880 (pictured above) — right over here. Hungry for more? Head on past the break.

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: CES, GPS

Just a day after uncovering what appears to be Garmin’s CES 2008 lineup, we’ve now got reason to believe that the Colorado series is all but official. After first seeing the unit rumored last month, quickly “confirmed” and clarified yet again within the past 24 hours, we’re now hearing that the series will boast four different models and will undoubtedly cater to the outdoorsy set. Reportedly, the Colorado will be offered up in four flavors: the 300, 400t, 400i and 400c. The whole lot will tout the firm’s new “Rock ‘n Roller” input wheel, an SD expansion slot, wireless sharing of waypoints, routes and geocaches, a 400 x 240 resolution display and a battery life of around 15 hours. Word on the street has ‘em landing this month and next, and while the 300 is set to launch at $499.99, each of the 400 variants will demand $599.99. Hit the read link for the full spill, and be on the lookout for Garmin to fess up soon enough.

 

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: GPS

We’ll start by recommending a little dose of salt before taking this one in, but nevertheless, an interesting photo coupled with a “prototype hands-on report” has got us wondering if Garmin doesn’t have a new GPS unit somewhere close to release. Apparently, the device you see above (labeled Colorado 300) relies primarily on the circular scroll wheel for navigating menus, and if we had to guess, it’ll likely be marketed towards marine / outdoors customers. Aside from that, all we’re told is that it should land sometime this Spring for around $500, but we’re not holding our collective breath just yet.

[Via GPS Tracklog, thanks Rich]

 

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Original post by Darren Murph