Friday Evening Links -
Mexico's MVS Plans Broadband Deal With Clearwire advfn.com Creating demand 'crucial to driving broadband' computeach.co.uk Pub fined 8,000 for customer's illicit downloads guardian.co.uk

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FCC Looking For White Space Database Administrators - As agency pushes for new wireless broadband te
An FCC public notice (pdf) indicates that the agency is looking for a few good men, women or companies -- to act as database managers for the agency's white space broadband efforts. White space broadband allows for the unlicensed creation of inexpensive wireless broadband service by using the spectrum partially freed from the migration to digital television. However, the technology has a significant potential for interference (

Virgin Media Starts Snooping In User Packets - Using deep packet inspection to measure copyright inf
UK Cable provider Virgin Media says they're experimenting with a new deep packet inspection solution that will snoop into customer packets to determine if they're trading copyrighted files. The trial will cover 40% of the company's customers, though no action will be taken against users (nor will they be informed of the snooping). The CView technology being used is the same gear used by behavioral advertising firm Phorm. With much P2P traff

Verizon CEO: Hulu Will Be Dead Soon - Leading Internet video service just a fad...
According to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, the telco isn't worried about the threat Hulu poses to their freshly created TV empire, because Hulu will probably be dead in a year or two from now. "This is in for the next eight to twelve months and in two years it won't matter because the world will have moved on," the CEO was recently quoted as saying. He might not be wrong -- Hulu very well could be headed for also-ra