Hollywood Opposes Title II Reclassification

Hollywood studios and some major unions say reclassifiying broadband access as a Title II telecom service is not necessary to achieve the open Internet they also support, and is not a desirable method of achieving that public policy goal.

But if the commission does go the Title II route, they argued, there needs to be clear, enforceable rules that give broadband-access providers unambiguous guidance on how to design their networks to avoid online theft without fear of running afoul of the FCC's new regs.

Piracy is the big issue for The Motion Picture Association of America, the Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild of American, American Federation of Radio and Television Artists and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Apparently the groups think Title II would make it harder for ISPs to combat piracy.

Hollywood: Open Net Can't Be Pirate Haven - 2010-08-13 00:20:00 | Multichannel News

Hulu is Thinking about an Initial Public Offering

Sprint Football Live App Now Available

Sprint Football Live is a new free application available to all Sprint or Nextel customers with an "Everything Data" plan.

Football fans can follow their favorite college and pro football teams, manage their fantasy drafts, and keep up with fantasy updates with the new Sprint Football Live app.

With Sprint's 4G network, fans will experience live game viewing similar to what they see on a TV.

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Hulu Serving 3x as Many Ads as YouTube

Hulu generated 783 million video ad impressions in the month of July, more than three times the 219 million impressions generated by Google sites like YouTube.

There are a number of reasons for the disparity. YouTube does not try to display ads on all its inventory, while Hulu tries to.

Hulu features professionally-produced, branded video content with high end user interest. Not all YouTube content is of sufficient quality or interest to create much of an ad opportunity.

Also, Google advertising on YouTube also leans toward banner ads and AdSense text advertising rather than video spots, as Hulu features.

Hulu Serving 3x as Many Ads as YouTube

Smartphone Statistics

Nielsen reports smartphone sales accounting for 25 percent of the U.S. mobile phone market in Q2 2010, and the firm expects smartphones to become the majority by the end of 2011.

According to figures for 2009 released by Gartner, smartphones accounted for 172.4 million (14 percent) of the 1.211 billion mobile phones sold that year.  In the first quarter of 2010, smartphones represented 54.3 million (17 percent) of the 314.7 million mobile phones sold, a sales increase of 49 percent over the first quarter of  2009.

Morgan Stanley Research estimates sales of smartphones will exceed those of PCs in 2012.


http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/wireless-mobile/smartphone-statistics.htm

Startups Responsible for Virtually All New Job Growth

Small startups are not just essential for innovation, it turns out they may be entirely responsible for all job growth in the United States. Not some: all net new jobs.

The Kauffman Foundation has taken a look at job creation since 1977. Kauffman Senior Fellow Tim Kane says startups aren’t just an important contributor to job growth: they’re the only thing.

Without startups, there would be no net job growth in the U.S. economy.

From 1977 to 2005, existing companies were net job destroyers, losing one million net jobs per year. In contrast, new businesses in their first year added an average of three million jobs annually.

Startups Or Behemoths: Which Are We Going To Bet On?

AT&T defends Verizon-Google Wireless Agreement

AT&T hasn't said whether it supports the full set of agreements, but it does agree with the exemption for wireless networks, to nobody's surprise. Wireless networks do face tougher bandwidth constraints than fixed networks, but that isn't the only problem.

Mobile networks also have to hand off traffic between tower sites, between networks and between congested sites and non-congested sites. All that takes much more management, and arguably places a premium on the ability to maintain an existing voice session, for example, rather than admitting a new one, or grooming to give priority to voice and other real-time traffic.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/14/att_defends_verizon_google_mobile_exemption_from_net_neutrality.html?utm_source=run&utm_medium=twitter