Proposed penalties for violating the CBDTPA ranged from five to twenty years in prison, and fines between $ 50, 000 and $ 1 million.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Had the CBDTPA become law, it would have prohibited technology that read digital content ( such as music, video, and e-books ) without Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) that prevented access to this material without the permission of the copyright holder.

The CBDTPA was proposed by South Carolina senator Fritz Hollings ( D-SC ).

The CBDTPA was known as the " SSSCA " while in draft form, and was killed in committee in 2002.

Other U. S. senators named as sponsors of the CBDTPA bill include:

-- Consumer spending edged down in April after rising for two consecutive months, the Government reported.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

In addition, because biomedical engineers often develop devices and technologies for " consumer " use, such as physical therapy devices ( which are also " medical " devices ), these may also be governed in some respects by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Consumer and some commercial printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs ; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document.

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

Together with the Austrian Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection, the Justice Ministry opened the discussion with a conference held in Vienna in June, 2005.

In India, the Consumer Protection Act 1986 clearly differentiates a consumer as consuming a commodity or service either for his personal domestic use or to earn his livelihood.

Consumer demand can be restrained in favor of greater capital investment for economic development in a desired pattern.

The online Britannica won the 2005 Codie award for " Best Online Consumer Information Service "; the Codie awards are granted yearly by the Software and Information Industry Association to recognise the best products among categories of software.

In Australia, Trade is covered under Australian Treasury Guidelines for electronic commerce, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulates and offers advice on how to deal with businesses online, and offers specific advice on what happens if things go wrong.

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inducted him in 2000, " in recognition of his contributions and pioneering spirit that have laid the foundation for consumer electronics.

The H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its " 57 Varieties " slogan and its ketchup, is a U. S Consumer packaged goods company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The report was disputed by representatives of the Consumer Federation of America, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Center for Economic Justice, for relying on data provided by the insurance industry.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

According to Consumer Reports, the most common large size configuration for the 2011 model year was 7 passenger seating.

* Philips Consumer Products, Guildford provides sales and marketing for televisions, including High Definition televisions, DVD recorders, hi-fi and portable audio, CD recorders, PC peripherals, cordless telephones, home and kitchen appliances, personal care ( shavers, hair dryers, body beauty and oral hygiene ).

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

* Consumer / lifestyle public relations – gaining publicity for a particular product or service, rather than using advertising

GE then sold the rights to make RCA-and GE-branded televisions and other consumer electronics products in 1988 to the French Thomson Consumer Electronics, in exchange for some of Thomson's medical businesses.

This now-discontinued ISR practice was informally labeled a scam and a fraud, and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs issued a violation against ISR for engaging in a deceptive trade practice.

At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.

Mobile broadband user have seen their percentage grow from 14 % in 2007 all the way to 39 % in 2010, and will continue to grow as more and more users are opting for this type of technology in a country where Home Broadband speeds are more expensive and slower.

Broadband internet access is becoming more readily available in Russia, and as a result the internet is growing as an avenue for Russian commerce, with 42 % of internet users in Russia shopping online, and 38 % using online banking services.

Telia Broadband was relaunched in 2008 because of the need for TeliaSonera to have both mobile and broadband in all of their home markets ( Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland ).

Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.

Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband and Communications, has stated to Telstra that the company can either " break itself up or ( the government ) will do it for them ".

Davidson, Robert P. Broadband Networking ABCs for Managers: ATM, BISDN, Cell / frame Relay to SONET.

Broadband applications benefit from low-latency communications, so LEO satellite constellations provide an advantage over a geostationary satellite, where minimum theoretical latency is about 125 milliseconds, compared to 1 – 4 milliseconds for a LEO satellite.

Broadband connections typically offer speeds 700 kbit / s or higher for two-thirds more than the price of dial-up on average.

Since 2010, Branson has served as a Commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN initiative which promotes universal access to broadband services.

Broadband access is serviced primarily by City Broadband ( Ethernet Broadband-Over-Fibreoptic ), TMnet, MyKris, NTT MSC ( formerly ARCnet ) and recently Air Broadband which has announced its test pilot plans in Cyberjaya for Wimax.

Broadband systems usually use a different radio frequency modulated by the data signal for each band.

Broadband became a marketing buzzword for telephone and cable companies to sell their more expensive higher data rate products, especially for Internet access.

Broadband open access is an issue of policy debate in telecommunications, regarding whether or not companies which own broadband telecommunication infrastructure ( such as cable operators ) should be required to provide access to their facilities for competing businesses which do not own physical infrastructure.

Broadband high-speed internet has become a worldwide breakthrough for telecommunication services.

A demonstration satellite for the Teledesic constellation, originally labeled Broadband Advanced Technologies Satellite (" BATSAT "), and later renamed " Teledesic T1 ", was launched on a Pegasus-XL launch vehicle in February 1998.

Matthew was an alum from Sony Corporation where he was an audio research engineer in Sony's Broadband Applications Laboratories as well as a translator for English speaking management and Japanese speaking engineers in the Corporate Technology Division.

In December 2004 Tandberg Television acquired Atlanta-based N2 Broadband, a provider of open-platform solutions for video-on-demand.

* NBNCo – fully owned and responsible for the rollout of the National Broadband Network