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Alaska Airlines is evaluating pricing models for its in-flight Wi-Fi service after a successful trial run that offered free wireless Internet connections on flights between Seattle and San Jose, Calif. Since the Feb. 26 Wi-Fi launch on a handful of Boeing 737-700s, more than 2,100 customers have logged on to the service.According to Alaska Airline […]

A Time Warner official said April 13 the company plans to delay implementing its controversial broadband pricing plan in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, until at least October, with actual billing being pushed into 2010. The cable broadband provider still plans to launch the new pricing scheme in August in Rochester, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C., […]

Time Warner’s broadband cap plan may result in federal legislation aimed at unfair tiered price structures from Internet providers. Angered over Time Warner’s pricing plans, U.S. Rep. Eric Massa of New York says that’s exactly what he has in mind, promising a bill to curb tiers, particularly in areas where a broadband provider owns a […]

STRIKE ONE: “Crash after crash. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.” STRIKE TWO: “The audio drops about once per inning and stays dropped for quite some time.”STRIKE THREE: “I’ve got hundreds of apps…and this is by far the worst. All in all, this app is crap.”So go the reviews for MLB.com’s effort to bring […]

President Obama said April 9 the United States has taken the first steps to create portable electronic health records for all military personnel. Under the plan, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will ultimately be able to seamlessly communicate the health records of veterans. Currently, there is no comprehensive system in […]

News reports of Russian and Chinese spies hacking into the U.S. power grid and planting destructive malware for a later date is not as potentially threatening as it might sound, according to several cyber-security experts. While serious, they point out, both the White House and Congress are moving to pass tougher cyber controls and standards […]

The economy seems to have taken a major bite out of the mobile PC data card business, with new subscriber growth plunging in the fourth quarter of 2008. According to comScore, the number of subscribers signing up for Internet connections through mobile ISPs was up by five percent over the third quarter, breaking a string […]

Demand for the controversial H-1B visas is falling sharply, at least in the early going of the annual lottery for educated foreign workers that began April 1. The U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services reported April 8 that only about half of the 65,000 allotment had been taken. In 2008, the USCIS filled the […]

Taiwan chip designer Elan sued Apple April 7, claiming Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and MacBook infringe on touch-screen patents held by Elan. The amount of damages sought by Elan was not included in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco, but, at a minimum, Elan wants an injunction halting Apple from producing and selling any devices […]

Hard as it might seem to believe, the Federal Communications Commission finally got around to deciding it needed a plan to get broadband to more Americans after a decade of falling behind other nations when it comes to penetration and speeds of high-speed Internet. At the FCC’s monthly open meeting April 8, the agency voted […]