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Great British Movies - The Pocket Essential Guide 1

Great British Movies - The Pocket Essential Guide 1

...Golden Age of British cinema with directors such as Carol Reed and Michael Powell leading the way in establishing British cinema as worthy of serious... Read more

26 August, 2010
M (1931) 1.2

M (1931) 1.2

...disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960.)) A group of children are playing a game... Read more

25 August, 2010

Wireless to play a 'major role' in US broadband growth

...television to wireless and expanding bands in the 5GHz range, FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a speech earlier this week at the FCC Wireless... Read more

21 May, 2004 by Richard Shim
What the Obama presidency means for tech

What the Obama presidency means for tech

Democrats in the White House and Congress may have significant repercussions for net neutrality, trade restrictions and copyright Read more

6 November, 2008 by Declan McCullagh and Stephanie Condon

Net neutrality: Meet the winner

Verizon lobbyist Thomas Tauke speaks about net neutrality and Verizon's view of what the US government might do next Read more

13 June, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

Telco censured for blocking VoIP

...that Internet voice service remains a viable option for consumers," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement. The consent decree prevents Madison River from... Read more

4 March, 2005 by Declan McCullagh

Broadband fulfilling its promise

...of broadband technologies is key to that solution," Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell said in a speech in May. "This is the central communication... Read more

27 July, 2004 by Jim Hu and John Borland

Trial runs broadband over power lines

...homes than either cable systems or telephone lines. Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell attended a demonstration of the technology. He has said broadband over... Read more

15 July, 2004 by Ben Charny

FBI wants to tap high-speed Internet

...FCC is expected to take it very seriously. Last month, FCC chairman Michael Powell stressed that "law enforcement access to IP-enabled communications is essential... Read more

15 March, 2004 by Ben Charny and Declan McCullagh

Broadband over power lines sparks interest again

...especially in hard-to-reach rural areas. "One major objective of chairman [Michael] Powell is to find ways to encourage broadband for the entire United... Read more

25 February, 2004 by Jim Hu

US telecoms regulators reveal contentious vision

...the desert from the analogue world to the digital one," FCC chairman Michael Powell, who was overruled in some of his key desires for change... Read more

22 August, 2003 by Ben Charny and John Borland

FBI seeks power to eavesdrop on Net

The FBI wants the right to listen in on Internet phone calls because it says terrorists can communicate undetected through voice calls placed online Read more

29 July, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Microsoft pays court to Washington

...been busier. Microsoft lobbyist Paula Boyd met with Jonathan Cody, FCC chairman Michael Powell's special policy advisor, to talk about this topic on 4... Read more

7 July, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Mobiles usurp landlines' function

...telecom sector, here we see an extraordinary, important bright spot," FCC chairman Michael Powell said on Thursday. "By any measure one can come up with... Read more

27 June, 2003 by Ben Charny

Q&A: Bell Labs eyes broadband's future

...Bell Labs, a 77-year-old institution that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell recently called one of America's technological crown jewels. Hyperbole aside... Read more

13 June, 2003 by Ben Charny

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

2 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

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Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

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Chris Wortman

Good I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...

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PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

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Much as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...

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Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

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Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
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