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The Obama Administration said Oct. 24 it has relaunched Whitehouse.gov using the Drupal open-source content management platform. Founded and developed by a 2-year-old company named Acquia that touts the software as “social publishing,” Drupal marks a transition for the White House site from running on proprietary software to being an open-source site.In addition to Acquia, […]

Just days before NASA launches the first Ares I-X test rocket — the current future of the agency’s space flight plans — former Lockheed Martin executive Norman Augustine presented the final report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Oct. 22 outlining what the blue ribbon panel considers to be the futility […]

On the same day the Federal Communications Commission voted to begin consideration of codifying and expanding the agency’s network neutrality principles, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced legislation that would prohibit the FCC from enacting rules that would regulate the Internet.“Keeping businesses free from oppressive regulations is the best stimulus for the current economy,” McCain said […]

Despite a record number of iPhone sales and activations, AT&T posted flat third quarter profits Oct. 22 as revenue fell 1.6 percent to $30.86 billion. The iPhone sales were driven by the introduction of the iPhone 3G just prior to the start of the third quarter and Apple’s subsequent price cuts to as low as […]

Wireless broadband carriers responded quickly to the Federal Communications Commission’s Oct. 22 decision to begin consideration of network neutrality rules that would apply to wireless networks. Currently, wireless carriers are exempt from the FCC’s four network neutrality principles and, not surprisingly, the carriers found little to like in the proposal. The proposed rules would codify […]

A split Federal Communications Commission voted Oct. 22 to begin consideration of network neutrality rules that would apply to both wired and wireless networks. The proposed rules would codify the agency’s four existing network neutrality principles and add two more rules of the road for broadband providers: a prohibition against ISPs discriminating against content or […]

Hello, Claudville, Va., the home of the nation’s first deployed wireless TV white spaces network. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) voted a year ago to allow the unlicensed use of the interference buffer zones — known as white spaces — between digital television signals to deliver broadband and other advanced media services.Under an experimental license […]

The U.S. Air Force launched its latest meteorological satellite Oct. 20. The DMSP(Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft accommodates larger sensor payloads than earlier generations and is used for strategic and tactical weather prediction to aid the U.S. military in planning operations at sea, on land and in the air.The F-18 Block satellites, […]

On the eve of a historic FCC vote to codify and expand the agency’s network neutrality principles, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg called the proposal a “mistake, pure and simple-an analog idea in a digital universe.”The Federal Communications Commission is expected Oct. 22 to approve new network neutrality rules that would require carriers to deliver broadband […]

The letters-pro and con-keep pouring in for the Federal Communications Commission, 48 hours before the agency is scheduled to vote on proposed new network neutrality rules. One day it’s 72 Democratic members of Congress urging the FCC to proceed with caution, the next day Republicans raise the specter of Internet regulation and yet another day […]

In the frenzied lobbying leading up to the Federal Communications Commission’s Oct. 22 vote to propose new and expanded network neutrality rules, AT&T is pulling out all the stops, including urging its employees to write to the FCC that Internet regulation is bad for consumers, jobs, investment and universal broadband.“Those who seek to impose extreme […]

The vast majority of health care organizations experienced at least one incident of lost or stolen electronic health information in the past year, and 4 percent had more than five patient data breaches, according to a new survey by LogLogic and the Ponemon Institute. Of the 80 percent that reported a data breach, more than […]