Actions. Will interconnected text providers confer their offerings to noninterconnected providers . Is the cost worth it . Although i disagree with the majority of todays item, i thank the Commission Staff for their efforts in the chairman for the dialogue on this topic. As everybody has talked about, there are almost 2 billion Text Messages sent through carrierbased sms Services Every year and billions more sent through over the top. As we graphically heard from the Simpson Family example texting is now as important a function on a mobile device as talking. And some of those Text Messages are cries for help. And some of those cries for help are from individuals who cannot hear or speak. Yes, call 911 if you can. But if you cant, what are you going to do . I remember hearing i remember a meeting with the young deaf woman who told the the story of her sister having a seizure and she could not call 911. Because she could neither hear nor speak. And she was alone. She forcefully had the p
Press releases today this did not end ammic bring. We have more details on what happened here today. Yes. Also yahoo getting active. Shares surged today as investor taking a big position in the stock. There it is up. We will have the latest on whos behind this and how ceo is reacting. Also, of course, these markets, i mean, volatility is back in a big way this week with the dow bouncing back after one of the worst days of the year yesterday. The dow enjoying its best day in seven months or something i saw. 181 points. Undoing some of the damage of yesterday and we shouldnt forget the week its been. Tripledigit moves in both directions. Maybe its that time of yore. We got the s p up 17 points. We are at 1983 at this hour. Nasdaq doing very well up 44 points. But again, i mean, we have had 100point swings for the dow every day this week. Multipercentage moves for all the major averages. Three of them down. Two of them up. Look at the russell. Up right now at 1118. Lets talk about it. In
Melissa stocks seeing red. The dow plunging more than 200 points with a mixed bag of economic reports. Leading some to fear that Interest Rates may soon be on the rise. Investors also skiddish following a report that isis is plotting imminent attacks on subways here in the u. S. And in paris. Lets bring in todays panel. Fox business as own Charlie Gasparino. We have dan schaefer also from schaefer asset management. Todd schoenberger of jay striker asset management. Thanks to all three of you joining us. What do you think has the markets on edge today . I think it is Interest Rate fears. One of the fed governors, i forget which one, because of strong dollar. Melissa dudley, right. New york fed president. One of the governors or president of a branch of the fed. Melissa anyway. Because of the strong dollar, inflation will be subdued therefore the fed wont have to raise interest its. That sent the market up. People are looking at strong dollar news as potential for deflation. Where you mi
Good afternoon. Welcome to the internet caucus. Thank you for joining us today. We are here today do discuss the European Unions right to be forgotten. I am stepping in for tim lord and today. Before we get started i would like to take time to thank the cochairs of the congressional internet caucus for hosting this briefing in conjunction with the Advisory Committee and this entire series of briefings with the Advisory Committee. Namely congressman bob goodlatte. Senator Patrick Leahy and senator john boone. The series is a great platform to debate and discuss internet policy issues. Privacy experts and regulators have been discussing the right to be forgotten for several years now. In may the European Court of justice reached a decision that many say found the right to be forgotten within the existing European Data protection directive. The bottom line is Search Engines can be asked to remove links to certain websites from their search results. We have a distinguished panel to tell us
Hipaa. Can you talk about that . There is this unpleasant reality that the internet is a global medium. Google implemented this on hundreds of specific sites where they say all but 5 of the search traffic occurs in the e. U. If you go to france or germany or whatever, you get the unfiltered results. Suppose they decide they do not like that. Do they say you can show those results to people outside the e. U. Proxy servers exist elsewhere. Suddenly you have this regime to stop people from being embarrassed. That seems excessive. This really strikes me as the law equivalent of an older the court kind of did not know how to edit. They said we know this could be exploited but we will figure it out in practice. Can i respond to the wikipedia stuff . Favorite cases when i was a general counsel for wikipedia was this. Two convicted german murderers who had served their time for having killed a german eventuallystar were they served their time and got out on good behavior. They were convicted i