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WiMax carrier Clearwire’s financially shaky plans to build a nationwide wireless 4G broadband network will receive a boost this summer, with cable giant Comcast planning to buy Clearwire’s Portland, Ore., service at wholesale prices and repackage it into a Comcast-branded product. Comcast has already invested $1 billion in Clearwire. The wholesale deal was established when […]

Nortel has already collapsed into bankruptcy protection while Motorola simply keeps collapsing with its stock price currently just a few ticks above its 52-week low. The ongoing woes of the former tech titans is now drawing the attention of private equity firms, according to rumors swirling around the Internet. According to the Financial Times, at […]

Multiple launch postponements have plagued the latest space shuttle Discovery mission, but the eight-man spacecraft finally got underway March 15 for a 14-day assignment to the ISS (International Space Station). Now, though, traffic reports indicated Discovery may have to reroute in order to avoid orbiting space debris.According to NASA, a breakaway piece of a Russian […]

AT&T is scrambling to meet coverage demands created by the thousands of Apple 3G iPhone-touting conferees at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. As the crowds began descending on Austin for the March 13-22 festival of music, interactive applications and independent film, iPhone users have found coverage spotty to nonexistent.AT&T called the […]

After just one week on the job, President Obama’s new chief technology officer, Vivek Kundra, has taken a leave of absence in the wake of a federal graft and corruption investigation at the District of Columbia’s office of the chief information officer. Kundra, who served as DC’s Chief Information Officer before resigning from his DC […]

Round up the usual suspects. Reporters Without Borders March 12 issued its “Enemies of the Internet” list which examines Internet censorship and other threats to online free expression in 22 countries. We’re not talking network management issues here but, rather, the imprisonment of cyber dissidents, online news and information censorship and government-sponsored efforts to scramble […]

With March Madness looming, CBSSports.com released March 12 an on-demand application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that provides live streaming video and audio of every game of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. The app also includes tournament brackets updated in real-time with up-to-the minute scores, and the ability to click directly […]

When all else fails, turn to Apple’s wildly popular iPhone and iPod Touch. Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Kamarzin said March 12 the financially strapped satcaster will introduce a streaming application for the iPhone and iPod Touch by next quarter.Speaking at a teleconference to review Sirius XM Radio’s dreary financial performance, Kamarzin said, “By streaming […]

Officials from India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies, or NASSCOM, an IT outsourcing trade group, worked Capitol Hill this week, lobbying lawmakers and the White House about its “extreme concern” over H-1B visa reform legislation that will soon be introduced in Congress. “Last year, many changes were being proposed for H-1B use, including […]

The FBI conducted two raids early March 12 focused on the District of Columbia’s chief technology office. One raid, which is still ongoing, hit the D.C. CTO office while a related raid descended on the home of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp. President and CEO Sushil Bansal.Both Bansal and D.C. CTO employee Yusuf Acar were arrested […]