Roy Mark

Motorola wasted no time at the CTIA Wireless 2008 show in Las Vegas, using the forum March 31 to announce its latest WiMax and femtocell releases: the first a common wireless platform that supports both WiMax and LTE, as well as the company’s first 3G femtocell. Physically smaller than Motorola’s first-generation WiMax release, the new […]

LOS ANGELES-No conference on technology policy would be complete without a debate on where America stands in the global competition race. Is the pipe half full or half empty? Not surprisingly, the talk at the second annual Tech Policy Summit was decidedly mixed. “The U.S. is still the most dynamic broadband economy in the world,” […]

LOS ANGELES-The agreement between Comcast and BitTorrent to resolve issues involving the throttling of P2P traffic may end a government investigation into the matter, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said March 27. Comcast is facing a complaint filed with the Federal Communications Commission that claims the company’s network management practices violate the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement […]

LOS ANGELES-The scene was all Hollywood but the talk was pure Washington as the Tech Policy Summit-the annual confab of Capitol Hill policy wonks and the Silicon Valley-opened March 26. It didn’t take long for this year’s elections to warm up the crowd. Meeting in the heart of a Hooray for Hollywood tourist center at […]

Verizon Wireless walked off with the top prizes in the FCC’s recently concluded 700MHz auction, capturing prime swaths of spectrum for the nation’s No. 2 carrier’s next-generation wireless broadband service. The FCC concluded the auction March 18 with winning bids of nearly $20 billion. Verizon Wireless paid more than $6.5 billion for six large regional […]

It should come as no surprise to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin that Comcast is contending that the agency has no legal authority to stop it from throttling P2P applications like BitTorrent during peak network hours. After all, Martin said so himself three years ago. Comcast is facing a complaint filed at the Federal Communications Commission, […]

Bowing to legal pressure from Sequoia Voting Systems, New Jersey election officials decided March 18 to pull their request for Princeton University researchers to conduct an independent analysis of Sequoia’s e-voting machines. The request originally came after Union County, N.J., officials reported some of Sequoia’s AVC Advantage machines reported incorrect party vote totals in New […]

IT workers are evenly split between Barack Obama and John McCain as their choice for the next president of the United States, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association and Rasmussen Reports. The survey of IT workers, taken in early March, shows Obama and McCain in a dead heat, with each […]

Bidding in the FCC’s 700MHz auction closed March 18 after the auction raised a record $19.6 billion over 261 bidding rounds. The winners of the spectrum have not been disclosed as yet by the Federal Communications Commission. The results of this single spectrum auction surpass the $19.1 billion combined total raised by the FCC in […]

“Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrations.” In English, it translates roughly into the $10 million mistake that put America on the map. With the help of hyperspectral imaging, the Library of Congress plans to keep it that way. Thought to be the only surviving copy of a 1507 world map made […]