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The Federal Communications Commission has recognized a new era of cable TV with its adoption of new franchising rules, and so will consumers as those rules are implemented.

The blogs are awash in outrage over the Copyright Royalty Board's (CRB) decision about the royalty rates that Internet radio broadcasters must pay for the use of songs protected by copyright.

The wave of state video franchise reform legislation, beginning in Texas and improved in Indiana, continues this year in many states, and the benefits are already apparent.

The World Health Organization has released new figures that show that polio cases are rising in Pakistan.

Over the years there have been many attempts to ensure communications interoperability for state and local emergency first responders such as police, fire, and ambulance services.

It is commonly asserted by the CopyLeft crowd that intellectual property protections have recently been expanded to such a degree that the public domain is under threat.

A few weeks ago, Free Press, a politically-liberal "media reform" group, held its National Conference for Media Reform.

While many states are getting it right, Missouri is getting it wrong -- instead of moving to deregulate old technologies that have no need for the competition-squelching, price-hiking supervision, the state’s public service commission is moving to regulate new technologies harming advances in technology, service to customers, and state competition in the process.

Many members of Congress are once again embracing the notion that the U.

Well, it appears that medical students and patients do.