Gates and Kennard headline Wireless 2000
News Kennard was followed by Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT Mobile Communications Network, who took the stage to discuss the Tokyo company's recent success in the wireless data business. The session, which also featured Microsoft chairman Bill Gates...
[February 29, 2000, 13:18]
Green light for AOL-Time Warner merger
News The FCC conditions are "designed to protect the open, competitive nature of the Internet", Kennard said during a press conference. FCC commissioner William Kennard announced Thursday that the agency approved the deal and imposed three additional...
[January 12, 2001, 7:58]
US Report: Taxman says he never wanted to tax Internet
News With the volume of protests rising, FCC Chairman William Kennard issued a statement on Friday declaring the issue "has NOTHING to do with consumer Internet charges. The FCC has repeatedly stated for the past decade -- and is stating again today...
[November 9, 1998, 8:44]
AOL not sold on IM interoperability
News At the time of the ruling, then-FCC chairman William Kennard said the restrictions were implemented so AOL would own up to claims that it was exploring interoperability. All we're doing" with IM conditions, Kennard said during the press conference...
[July 24, 2002, 9:26]
Juno links up with Time Warner
News FCC chairman William Kennard has said opening access to competitors to high-speed cable lines was a key issue in approving the merger. Time Warner has signed a deal to allow Juno Online Services to offer high-speed Internet access across its...
[July 31, 2000, 14:29]
AOL IM may have shot itself in the foot Pt II
News Late last year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called William Kennard, then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, urging him to closely examine AOL's IM dominance when studying the company's proposed merger with Time Warner.
[April 5, 2001, 12:24]
Visioneer offers software-only PaperPort package
News When people look at scanners they look at the unit when they should be looking at the software," said Charles Kennard, general manager of Visioneer Europe. PaperPort Deluxe Software adds several features to the utilities included with the huge...
[January 29, 1997, 12:05]
Excite@Home keeps a 'video collar'
News The limit on video content has drawn the concern of William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communication Commission and members of Congress. When new subscribers to the Excite@Home cable modem service sign their contract, no one tells them where...
[November 1, 1999, 7:52]
Wireless World: News roundup
News Gates and Kennard headline Wireless 2000 Wireless is the one thing we do better here in the UK than in the US. Mobile phone penetration is far greater in Europe, and two thirds of the wireless phones in the US are still analogue devices.
[March 2, 2000, 11:20]
Obama's search for a national CTO
News Genachowski was an adviser to two Federal Communications Commission chairmen during the Clinton administration — Reed Hundt and Bill Kennard — and is the founder of start-up incubator LaunchBox Digital.
[November 7, 2008, 10:49]
