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Prompted by the grassroots support for his opposition to Time Warner’s proposed broadband cap pricing scheme, Rep. Eric Massa introduced June 17 the Broadband Internet Fairness Act (H.R. 2902) to require phone and cable companies to disclose their pricing plans to the Federal Trade Commission.The bill would give the FTC authority to prohibit a proposed […]

Four U.S. Senators are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigative whether exclusive deals between cell phone makers and wireless carriers are unfairly impacting competition and restricting consumer choice in the commercial wireless marketplace.Unlike wireline services, which are required by law to allow consumers to connect the legal devices of their choice to carriers’ networks, […]

WASHINGTON-Julius Genachowski’s June 16 Senate confirmation hearing to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission was more a condemnation of former Chairman Kevin Martin than a critical examination of President Obama’s choice of Genachowski to head the agency that has the most direct impact on the Internet.On the other hand, most of […]

No sooner had television broadcasters abandoned their analog spectrum June 12 than Qualcomm moved into some of the vacant space, highlighting the promise of the new advanced wireless services coming to the 700MHz spectrum.With a flip of the switch, FLO TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, turned on 100 new transmitters across the United […]

NASA decided June 15 to postpone the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour to June 17. The original launch date for Endeavour’s mission to the International Space Station was June 13, but a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak led NASA to scrub the takeoff.The new launch forces NASA to reschedule the launch of a different […]

Americans marched into the age of digital broadcasting with minimal collateral damage. A day after the June 12 digital deadline for television stations to switch from analog to digital broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission reported June 13 the digital television transition is progressing smoothly, though not without a few bumps.As late as June 11, the […]

The seven-person crew of the space shuttle Endeavour never even suited up before NASA scrubbed a June 13 launch to the International Space Station due to a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak. NASA scratched the launch at 12:26 a.m. EDT, and the 16-day mission will be delayed until at least June 17.That date, however, is […]

The Department of Justice indicted three individuals June 15 who allegedly hacked into the telephone systems of large corporations and entities in the United States and abroad, selling information about the compromised telephone systems to Pakistani nationals residing in Italy.Along with the U.S. indictments, Italian law enforcement raided approximately 10 locations in four regions of […]

The human space population is scheduled to more than double June 13 when the seven-person crew of the space shuttle Endeavour launches for the International Space Station). All five space agencies involved in the ISS — United States, Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe — will have representatives at the space station when the shuttle arrives […]

IBM scientists have demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of individual atoms using non-contact atomic force microscopy. By measuring with the precision of a single electron charge and nanometer lateral resolution, researchers succeeded in distinguishing neutral atoms from positively or negatively charged ones.The milestone, developed in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, […]

Scott Charney, head of Microsoft’s cyber-security division, and Paul Kurtz, who led Obama’s cyber-security transition team, are heading the list to serve as President Obama’s new cyber-security czar, according to Reuters.Citing unnamed sources, Reuters also said former Rep. Tom Davis, Sun Microsystems executive Susan Landau, NSA and FBI veteran Maureen Baginski, and former Assistant Secretary […]

Not unexpectedly, cash-strapped state, county and municipal officials are lining up to oppose Congressional legislation that would impose a five-year moratorium on any new discriminatory taxes on mobile services or mobile service providers. The legislation defines a “new discriminatory tax” as a tax that is not generally imposed on other types of services or property […]