Michelle Maisto

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to adopt Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The vote was split along party lines, with Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel, Democrats like Wheeler, voting in favor of the notice, and Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly voting against it. The vote moves the […]

Elementary schools often don’t have an IT staff, if even more than an IT administrator, and so Samsung has introduced its first tablet dedicated to K-12 education environments, with plans to make it compatible (via an upcoming upgrade) with Samsung School, an interactive classroom management tool. The tablet also integrates with Google Play for Education, […]

There are two sides to every story, and the companies backing the less publicly popular position on the net neutrality debate voiced their concerns to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a May 13 letter. Twenty-eight companies, including AT&T, Verizon, Cox Communications, Cablevision, CTIA, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, called on the FCC to reject […]

Gigi Sohn’s net neutrality-focused Twitter Chat May 13 was at one point trending higher than a photo of Ben Affleck in his new Batman suit—the surest indicator of the event’s success. Sohn lead consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge for 12 years—a good portion of which she spent pressuring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on behalf […]

AT&T Mobile Share Value plan subscribers this summer will be able to add select cars to their plans for $10 a month, the same price as a tablet. AT&T made the announcement May 12, alongside news that GM is the latest automaker to team with it and offer drivers and passengers access to 4G LTE […]

Last October, T-Mobile called out its rivals for unnecessarily overcharging customers the moment they left U.S. soil —or, “gouging them to the tune of 90 percent margins,” in the words of T-Mobile CEO John Legere—and declared itself a new example for the industry. It stopped charging subscribers international texting and data roaming fees and lowered […]

BlackBerry offers an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution that enables customers to manage BlackBerry smartphones alongside iOS and Android-running devices (and with the launch of BES12 later this year, also Windows Phone devices). On May 13, BlackBerry became still more accommodating of the reality of EMM today, announcing that it will also enable its competitors—AirWatch, […]

The Utility Reform Network (TURN), Public Knowledge and 10 other public advocacy groups have joined together to ask the Federal Communications Commission to investigate claims that Verizon, AT&T and other carriers are “forcing” customers to give up their copper-based phone service and instead rely on fiber or an IP-based service. The carriers are anxious to […]

Sprint wants to merge with T-Mobile, and as early discussions proceed, T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom is insisting that a $1 billion breakup fee be put in the contract, assuring it’s well-taken care of for its troubles, should regulators prevent the deal from going through. The Wall Street Journal reported the news May 9, citing […]

There’s little doubt that Apple is planning to introduce some type of health and fitness solution, whether a device, software, a platform or all three. The question is the scale of the impact such a solution—coming from a company that’s proven it can change the behaviors and expectations of people around the world—might have. For […]

Apple revolutionized the digital music industry, if not arguably created it, with the iPod and iTunes. That industry has since taken on a life of its own, though, and to keep up, Apple is said to be considering a bit of outside help in the form of a $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics. The […]

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has called for the Federal Communications Commission to delay its current May 15 plans to address new rulemaking around net neutrality, the term for an Internet that treats all traffic equally. The issue is a contentious one and has grown more so amid reports that new FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is […]