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GOP: Blame DTV Delay on Clearwire
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2009-02-09
When all else fails, spin out a conspiracy theory. That seemed to be the strategy of Republicans Feb. 4 as they unsuccessfully fought to keep the digital television switch "hard deadline" of Feb. 17 from moving to June 12.
Late in the debate, after the Republicans had all objections to moving
Tech Groups Protest Stimulus Protectionism
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2009-02-05
Tech trade groups are breathing a little easier Feb. 5 after the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to moderate the "Buy American" provisions of the now $900 billion stimulus package. Under a Senate amendment to the bill passed Feb. 4, stimulus funding should be "applied in a manner consistent with
Tech's Skin in the Stimulus Game
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2009-01-30
Just two days after the U.S. House passed an economic stimulus package that includes $6 billion for broadband build outs to rural and underserved areas, the sniping has begun that lawmakers are
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Obama Sends Wrong DTV Signal
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2009-01-12
President-elect Barack Obama isn't playing it very cool when it comes to the digital television transition. No sooner had the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced that
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Crying Wolf: Lawmakers Ignore Cyber-threats
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2009-01-06
In June of last year, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., took to the floor of the House of Representatives to announce his office computers had been hacked via China. The veteran lawmaker also
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Lawmakers Still Fretting over DTV
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-12-31
Years ago in an early DTV (digital television transition) hearing in the U.S. House, a senior lawmaker told his colleagues, "Gentlemen, mess with the voters' television and you won't be coming back
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Lawmakers Continue Push for Free Broadband Plan
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-12-22
Despite Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's decision to cancel a scheduled Dec. 18 agency vote on a controversial proposal to impose a free wireless broadband
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Obama Names Science Team
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-12-22
President-elect Barack Obama selected Dr. John Holdren Dec. 20 to serve as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Holdren will also serve as assistant to the president for science
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Google-Yahoo Deal Went to the Brink ... and Google Blinked
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-12-04
In November, just hours before the government planned to file an anti-trust lawsuit accusing Google of engaging in monopolistic behavior through its advertising deal with Yahoo, the
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AT&T Launches Google Privacy Attack
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-12-03
Don't look for Google to be joining the Future of Privacy Forum any time soon. The FPF is yet another Washington coalition purporting to serve consumers' best interests, fancying itself as a champion
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Leahy Wants More Info on Obama Phone Breach
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-11-25
The media word on the street is that Verizon has fired the employees associated with the unauthorized access of President-elect Barack Obama's mobile phone. According to CNN, the employees
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Did Microsoft Buy Yang's Departure?
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-11-18
Some of my colleagues are making much out of Microsoft's lobbying efforts to kill the proposed Google-Yahoo advertising deal that ultimately led to the resignation of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. As the
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Sorry, AT&T, Net Neutrality Debate Is Still On
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-11-17
James Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs, recently told my colleague Grant Gross that the network neutrality bills currently perking in Congress in
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Google Ups Washington Presence
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-11-12
Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have eliminated himself from the running to be Barack Obama's CTO, but Google is still going full-bore to influence the new administration's technology policy, no doubt to the
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Obama Likely to Quash Lame Duck Trade Deals
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-11-07
The tech sector enthusiastically embraces the president-elect's technology-centric proposals for just about everything that ails America; Barack Obama's insistence that trade agreements
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