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RIM, T-Mobile Roll Out BlackBerry Curve 8900 by Roy Mark No Title The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is made of hard-shelled plastic in a titanium-colored finish with chrome highlights. RIM claims the 8900’s screen is the highest resolution available on a BlackBerry smartphone. The device also comes with a 512MHz next-generation processor, although T-Mobile plans to […]

The troubled U.S. economy will inevitably lead to a decline in new broadband connections in 2009 unless President-elect Barack Obama is successful in expanding broadband availability as part of his economic stimulus package, according to a new forecast by market research firm Pike & Fischer. Based on current conditions, P&K predicts a 12 percent decline […]

T-Mobile USA plans it own exclusive BlackBerry with the introduction of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 in February. AT&T already has its own deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion to offer the BlackBerry Bold, while Verizon features the BlackBerry Storm as a smartphone. The new hybrid, quad-band Curve 8900 is the thinnest and lightest QWERTY […]

In June of last year, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., took to the floor of the House of Representatives to announce his office computers had been hacked via China. The veteran lawmaker also revealed that the House Information Resources and the FBI told him that other members of Congress had been similarly compromised. Wolf did […]

If not quite coast-to-coast, WiMax is now at least on each coast. Three months after Sprint Nextel carried out the nation’s first WiMax rollout in Baltimore, Clearwire-the newly combined WiMax operations of Sprint and Clearwire-flipped the switch Jan. 6 on a WiMax deployment in Portland, Ore. WiMax’s 4G technology allows for the delivery of last-mile […]

The Feb. 17 digital television transition took another stumbling turn this week when the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) announced that funding for the $1.34 billion digital converter box coupon program has been exhausted, at least for now. The NTIA said consumers still seeking a coupon would be placed on a waiting list as […]

Ethernet vendors Turin Networks and Force10 Networks said Jan. 5 they are merging their operations in what is widely viewed as a defensive maneuver in tough economic times. Turin President and CEO Henry Wasik will become the president and CEO of the combined entity, while current Force10 Networks President and CEO James Hanley will assume […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has extended the deadline for Certicom stockholders to accept RIM’s hostile takeover bid of $1.50 a share from Jan. 15 to Jan. 27. The Certicom board opposes the approximately $53 million bid from RIM as undervaluing the company that develops the elliptic curve cryptography technology coveted by RIM. Certicom went […]

One of the great unknowns heading into Barack Obama’s presidency is the influence of the online legions that helped propel him into office. As president, will Obama be able to draw on the same forces he managed to mobilize into campaign engagement and activism through e-mail, text messaging and social media? After all, what works […]

Hollywood has again failed to convince the Federal Communications Commission to lift its ban on selectable output controls that would allow video distributors to remotely close down analog outputs on digital devices such as DVRs. The FCC imposed the ban in 2003 but in June granted the Motion Picture Association of America a new review […]

Years ago in an early DTV (digital television transition) hearing in the U.S. House, a senior lawmaker told his colleagues, “Gentlemen, mess with the voters’ television and you won’t be coming back after the next election.” It’s a warning elected officials took to heart, allocating approximately $1.5 billion for digital converter box subsidies. Additionally, Congress […]

A U.S. district court has granted Verizon a $33.15 million judgment against domain registrar OnlineNIC for bad faith registrations of Verizon-related domains. OnlineNIC, based in San Francisco, registered 663 domain names that were identical or similar to Verizon trademarks. In a Dec. 24 decision, Judge Jeremy Fogel of the California Northern District Court ordered OnlineNIC […]