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With the markers already down in the 4G battle between Clearwire and Sprint Nextel’s WiMax and Verizon Wireless’ LTE, Clearwire March 9 named former Vodafone and Pacific Gas & Electric executive William T. Morrow as CEO. Morrow replaces current CEO Benjamin G. Wolff, who will become co-chairman of Clearwire, sharing the duties with current chairman […]

Complaining that the National Security Agency exerts too much influence on national cyber-security policy, Rod Beckstrom, head of the U.S. National Cyber Security Center, resigned March 6. Beckstrom, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, follows a line of national cyber-security chiefs with short tenures.Beckstrom, who is best known for founding Twiki.net and for his book on the […]

The reviews are in for the BlackBerry Storm on Capitol Hill, and it turns out change is not what lawmakers’ staffs want when it comes to smartphones. As it turns out, Hill staffers prefer keyboards to touch-screens.After Research In Motion introduced the BlackBerry Storm as a potentially serious iPhone challenger, a number of staffers took […]

Even as the financial losses pile up, its stock price drops and the credit market is tight to nonexistent, Clearwire said March 5 it still plans to roll out 4G WiMax networks in eight cities in 2009 and add at least another four markets in 2010.Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are the only two U.S. carriers […]

With the disastrous failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory just two weeks behind it, NASA plans to tee up twice in one week with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft followed by the March 11 Discovery space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. The OCO on Feb. 24 failed to separate from […]

President Obama March 5 named Vivek Kundra, CTO for the District of Columbia, as his administration’s CIO. As CIO, Kundra will direct the policy and strategic planning of federal information technology investments and be responsible for oversight of federal technology spending.“Vivek Kundra will bring a depth of experience in the technology arena and a commitment […]

Claiming WiMax is a niche play for 4G networks, Nokia executive James Harper said March 5 the world’s largest cell phone maker is committing to rival technology LTE and plans to have LTE devices on the market by next year. Harper declined to say what types of devices Nokia will be offering, although speculation is […]

Google’s new Latitude program, which allows mobile phone and other portable device users to automatically share their whereabouts, will follow competing service Loopt when it comes to disclosing information to law enforcement officials: get a warrant.Introduced last month, Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on mobile devices where users in 27 countries are […]

Apple finally got it right March 5, winning approval to open a store in the historic Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. A design approval panel-the Old Georgetown Board-had rejected Apple’s architectural plans four previous times, saying the plans did not fit in with Georgetown’s colonial feel.Apple did not indicate when the store, the first to […]

Broadcasters have moved to block a November 2008 decision by the Federal Communications Commission allowing the use of the so-called white spaces between digital television signals to deliver wireless broadband and other advanced media services.In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, (PDF) the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) […]

In the gush of praise for Julius Genachowski’s March 3 nomination as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, two words were often missing: network neutrality. Perhaps reflecting the delicate nature of the issue in Washington, virtually no one was talking about it, even those who are confident that Genachowski will warmly embrace network […]

WASHINGTON-NASA and Cisco Systems said March 3 they are teaming to develop an onlineglobal monitoring platform to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world. The platform-known as “Planetary Skin”-will combine NASA data from a wide range of sources to measure, report and verify environmental data in near real time to […]