02.24.09
Georgia Tech issues CogNEA press release
(link) Yesterday, Georgia Tech issued a press release announcing their membership in CogNEA.
There
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02.21.09
CrownCom09 submission deadline delayed to March 2
Via email (and on their site), there
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02.05.09
Other White Space News
Beyond the launching of the database group news below.
(link) White spaces may be coming to Europe.
But the UK is not the only market in Europe, and in less space-restrictive countries it could be practical to utilise white spaces, which explains the White Space Coalition launching a European campaign at the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations.
Dr. Alexandre Kholod, of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications, told PolicyTracker, after the meeting, that he didn
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White Spaces Database Group
(link) Yesterday, Google et al announced the formation of a group to standardize whitespace database information.
With a goal of bringing the benefits of white spaces to consumers as soon as possible, the Group intends to establish data formats and protocols that are open and non-proprietary and will advocate that database administration be open and non-exclusive.
[somewhat reordered paragraphs] Founding members of the White Spaces Database Group include Comsearch, Dell, Google Inc., HP, Microsoft Corporation, Motorola Inc., and NeuStar.
(link) The Google public policy blog added:
In the coming weeks and months, members of the group will be offering to the Commission their perspectives, and some specific recommendations, about the technical requirements we would like to see adopted for the database. Many of these specifications ultimately will be heavily technical; put simply, we
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