Cap Gemini Target Telcos With Intershop Deal.
Cap Gemini SA, the French IT services firm, has signed a marketing partnership with German-American e-commerce front-end provider Intershop Communications AG to target European telcos which are trying to become service providers. Cap Gemini will integrate Intershop's software and provide any customization required as well as some consultancy services....

Taiwan firm exports $ 449 M from Subic.
Taiwanese-owned Wistron Infocom Phils. Corp., formerly Acer Computers, exported $ 448.734 million in 2007 accounting for almost half of the overall $972 million 2007 exports of Subic Bay Freeport last year. This was announced by Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority administrator Armand C. Arreza to reporters during a...

Keeping the internet neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo debate.
Tim Wu is Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School. He is the author of Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination (2003) and coauthor, with Jack Goldsmith, of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford University Press 2006). Christopher S. Yoo is Professor of Law and Director of the Technology and Entertainment...

Going, going ... Telstra no longer represents the ideal of accessible communications services for all. Gerard Goggin looks ahead to a different future.
After the many pitched battles fought over the national telecommunications provider, the final act of August-September 2005 was truly history repeating itself as farce. Blessed by the sturdy rural denizens of Queensland, Senator Barnaby Joyce enjoyed a brief, callow and spectacularly opportunistic role on the parliamentary stage, eking out...

Introduction.
Convergence was the hype concept, which everyone praised in the late 1990s and became a quasi dirty word with the dot-com crash. However threatened they might have felt at the time by the forthcoming end of the established patterns for production, aggregation and distribution of media content, most media...

Foreword.
In our last issue of the year we wanted to spotlight the Review of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications services. This seemed only natural to us in view of the recent closure (October 27th) of the public consultation launched on this topic by the European Commission, as...

Toronto--in April 2006, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission granted an FM radio license to Rainbow Media Group for a station devoted to "gay" and lesbian listening; such self-identified individuals number about 80,000 in the Greater Toronto Area.
Toronto -- In April 2006, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission granted an FM radio license to Rainbow Media Group for a station devoted to "gay" and lesbian listening; such self-identified individuals number about 80,000 in the Greater Toronto Area. In 2003 the same CRTC rejected the application for...

A horizontal leap forward: formulating a new communications public policy framework based on the network layers model.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I. OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY II. BACKGROUND A. The Worm of Legacy Communications Regulation B. The Network Engineering Concept of Layered Architecture 1. The Layering and End-to-End Principles 2. Protocol Layer Models C. The Internet Era: Legal Walls Stay Up as Logical Walls Come Down 1. The Communications...

The regulation of interactive television in the United States and the European Union.
I. INTRODUCTION The broadcasting industry is rapidly entering the era of digitization, distributed intelligence, and interactivity. Despite lingering standardization issues, digital transmission is replacing analog transmission in the three major delivery platforms (terrestrial, cable, and Direct Broadcast Satellite ["DBS"]). Programmable user terminals built upon personal computer hardware...

The effectiveness of audiovisual regulation inside the European Union: the television without frontiers directive and cultural protectionism.
I. INTRODUCTION In early January of 2002, Jean-Marie Messier, the chief executive of French audiovisual giant Vivendi Universal, held a press conference to discuss his company's latest acquisition: American-based USA Network's media business. (1) During the conference, a French journalist asked Messier whether this latest $10.8 billion...