del.icio.us links for April 19, 2007

del.icio.us links for April 19, 2007

1. BT Says No Need for Traffic Shaping or Breaking Net Neutrality; Just Add Bandwidth

   they’re investing in more bandwidth capacity, and that’s all they need. In discussing Rogers ongoing traffic shaping, BT’s CTO said that it sounds “quite Big Brother-ish,” and he sees no reason to do any traffic shaping, since they’ll have ple

2. YouTube to Split Revenues with Users

   An important step toward integrating advertising with its vast library of videos as soon as next week. Content creators who upload their videos will be offered the option of having short ads shown at the beginning or end, with revenues split 50-50

3. FCC Begins Inquiries on Broadband Data and Deployment

   The first is a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into whether broadband services are being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion. The second is a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)

4. Student-Run Media Meet Challenge

   During the course of that day and through the next, student reporters fanned out to cover the shattering events that overwhelmed the campus, interviewing students, teachers, school administrators, police officers and hospital workers.

5. Fujitsu Starts Volume Production of 2 Mbit FRAM Chips

   FRAM could be used in office equipment to store event counts, or store various parameters, without concern for the number of write cycles. FRAM allows 10 billion read/write cycles, or writing 30 times a second continuously for 10 years.

6. Copyright filter coming very soon to YouTube

   Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt says a copyright filter will be available soon on YouTube. Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Schmidt says a new system called “Claim Your Content”

3 more articles after the jump

1. Yahoo Agrees to Ad Deal With Newspaper Publishers

   Yahoo announced a deal in which publishers representing 264 newspapers have agreed to sell advertising on their sites. The newspapers will begin selling online advertising on Yahoo while sharing all revenue that is generated through ad placement

2. Google Phone expected to ship by the end of this year

   The Google phone is rumored to debut in Europe using a dual-brand strategy: The devices will carry the logos of Google and the carrier Orange. So far, it has been considered unlikely that the Google Phone will also be offered in the U.S.; however,

3. FCC to Investigate Broadband Deployment

   “We can start by facing up to our problem and doing our level best to diagnose its causes. We need to know why so many Americans do not have broadband, and why those who do, or think they do,”