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Fortunately somebody is working on it. A handful of companies, notably twin goliaths Microsoft and Yahoo, have formed a coalition called IMUnified to attack the problem. Unfortunately AOL, which between ICQ and AIM controls 80% of the market, isn't part of the gang. That's what has the FCC's regulatory knickers in a knot...
...right? It doesn't look as if we will find out any time soon. Under the FCC's terms, AOL Time Warner has to open up its network to competitors before it can offer any "advanced, IM-based high-speed services" that involve streaming video. Big deal. AOL has indicated that it wasn't planning to offer such a service in the foreseeable future anyway...
...gets to keep the walls that separate its instant-messaging system from the rest of the world. But that's going to have to change eventually, not because of the FCC, but because consumers want it. And because it just makes sense...
...Rice vice president for student affairs decided to shut down KTRU. He had locks placed on the doors, disabled the KTRU website and instructed that an outside network's programming be played indefinitely. Malcolm Gillis, president of Rice University, defended the decision, pointing out that KTRU's FCC license agreement stipulates that the university president is entitled to "continuous supervision of the broadcasting...
...kiboshed his plans for a Survivor book. "Basically, CBS owns the rights to their stories in perpetuity," says journalist Peter Lance, who was to co-write with Hatch. (In his own book, The Stingray, Lance charged that Survivor producers tried to influence the game's outcome--a potential FCC violation--which CBS denies...