““I will be very interested in seeing what he puts out just before he jumps ship.”
Will be something similar to Quebec’s former Health minister Philippe Couillard.”

Good catch. I wasn’t even aware of this. I had to google (scroogle) it and found it.

Very good comment and catch.

Tuesday will be UK broadband D-day. Where Communications minister Lord Carter jumps to will be very interesting to follow. He has the inside info that he isn’t allowed to spill for the next couple of years.

That’s part of the trouble with all these fatcats we’re at odds with right now…
They’re always “loaded”!
: )

Will be something similar to Quebec’s former Health minister Philippe Couillard.

This is a juicy bit of info and rather “timely”.

I looked more into him, seems news of his rumoured departure is confirmed in many press releases today saying that after he tables the UK’s broadband access road map, he is jumping to private sector. This is sounding loaded to me.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6481851.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/12/lord-carter-set-to-quit
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/912718/Lord-Carter-step-down-Communications-Minister/
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/913031/Communications-Minister-Lord-Carter-departure-confirmed/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8097588.stm

I will be very interested in seeing what he puts out just before he jumps ship.

Tether Your AT&T iPhone Right Now Wired
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/tether-your-att-iphone-right-now/
The big letdown when the new iPhone 3G S was announced on Monday was the lack of a tethering option on AT&T. While almost any iPhone customer around the world will be able to share their phone’s internet connection with their computer, AT&T customers are out of luck. If you’re willing to do a little hacking, though, you can have tethering right now, and you don’t even need to jailbreak the iPhone. All you need to do is add a little configuration file to the phone,…

IFPI Still Backing ‘Three-Strikes’ Schemes Billboard
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3idff59d66183db868b373488dc260f2e6
IFPI chairman and CEO John Kennedy tells Billboard.biz that “three-strikes” schemes to tackle illegal file-sharing are still a solution, despite the French legal ruling against a key element of the country’s proposed system. Kennedy also believes that the French can find a way round the June 10 decision by France’s Constitutional Council, which ruled that the proposed administrative body HADOPI could not cut repeat infringers’ Internet access, which had been a key part of the “Creation and Internet” law to deter piracy. “We believe there will be a solution to this,” comments Kennedy. He says that the French government is looking to appoint a special judge to process “three-strikes” cases as that “would satisfy the requirements” of the Constitutional Court…. The U.K.’s strategy to tackle file-sharing will be outlined in the Digital Britain report due June 16. There are media reports that its author, communications minister Lord Carter, is planning to leave government after completing his work on the Digital Britain proposals.

Composers Seek Change In Copyright Law Billboard
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i2976b9e446efa1351efe104871c908b4
…Actors and writers have aired their grievances and demanded Hollywood studios pay up. Now, composers, along with publishers, are urging Congress to change copyright law so that when music airs in an audio-visual download, it is considered a public performance that earns them royalties… Performing rights group American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers is appealing the 2007 ruling. And ASCAP, BMI and various other publishing and songwriting groups sent a letter in March 2009 to Congress urging a change in the U.S. Copyright Law. “It’s important these markets get locked down as composers really rely on public performance royalties,” Conlon said. Meanwhile, the MPAA strongly opposes these efforts, arguing that a download is not a performance. “The MPAA is opposed to amending the copyright law to require a double payment for music in movies and TV shows downloaded from the Internet,” Angela Martinez, a spokeswoman for the MPAA said. “We do not need to amend the Copyright Act to compensate these composers twice for the same activity.”… “This legislative request is the latest effort by these groups to blur the lines between making a copy and making a public performance in order to get royalties where none are obligated or should be obligated,” Potter said.