Roy Mark

It appears the Federal Communications Commission is ready to move forward with a spectrum auction in 2009 that would require the winning bidder to provide a free wireless broadband tier to 50 percent of the United States in four years and 95 percent of the country within 10 years. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin first proposed […]

When Sprint Nextel lit its new WiMax network in Baltimore, the long-promised third broadband pipe into the American home was realized. At least for Baltimore residents, a broadband provider choice now amounts to more than a Tweedledee or Tweedledum pick of DSL or cable. It’s about time. More than six years ago, the Federal Communications […]

Corporate IT managers and vendors are badly underestimating the future demand for mobility devices and services in the enterprise arena, overlooking a new emerging class of mobile workers that rely on smart phones. Underestimating these new mobile users could have a significant impact on device manufacturers, application vendors, middleware providers and network operators aiming to […]

Let the holiday season smart phone wars begin. Research In Motion introduced Oct. 8 its BlackBerry Storm-with its new tactile touch-screen-that will be exclusively available on Verizon Wireless in the United States in a matter of weeks. Both RIM and Verizon Wireless are expecting the Storm to seriously challenge Apple’s 3G iPhone as the hottest […]

BALTIMORE-As Sprint representatives introduced one executive after another and invited them to share the stage Oct. 8 with Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and Barry West, CTO and president of Sprint’s Xohm WiMax unit, the bonhomie was worthy of Charm City. Celebrating the official launch of the nation’s first commercial WiMax network on a sparkling […]

In 2005 ChoicePoint was forced to admit it was duped into turning customer data over thieves. Almost 200,000 people were affected by ChoicePoint’s data breach and Congress was riled. But what got lawmakers really steamed was ChoicePoint’s admission that if it had not been for California’s then-new data breach disclosure law, the data broker would […]

First, the bad news: Data breaches continue unabated at U.S. corporations, governments and universities, already surpassing last year’s record 446 breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Through the end of September, the total number of data breaches recorded by the ITRC was 516, averaging 57 breaches a month. Now, the even worse news: […]

Almost a year ago, bloggers were speculating that Motorola was hiring “scads” of Android developers. Apparently, Motorola still is, as it scrambles to cash in on the expected consumer rush to Android, Google’s Linux-based mobile operating system. According to several reports, Motorola, the top handset maker in the United States, is heavily recruiting to increase […]

Strong presales of T-Mobile’s G1 smart phone have prompted the mobile carrier to triple its orders for the first smart phone powered by Google‘s Android software. Set for an Oct. 22 launch date, T-Mobile also announced it was extending presales of the G1 to Oct. 21 although the much-anticipated phone will be delivered at a […]

WASHINGTON-Craig Newmark is getting political, even though the Craigslist founder readily admits, “Most people don’t want to be bothered by politics, including myself.” Nevertheless, Newmark is banging the drum for Barack Obama and urging young voters to register to vote. “We need them to bail out our collective baby boomer butts,” the 55-year-old Newmark said […]

Hewlett-Packard is the latest company planning to crack the consumer smart phone market pioneered by Apple’s iPhone. With an initial release in Europe by the end of the year, HP is reportedly combining its enterprise-centered iPaq line of devices with a touch screen and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. According to the Wall Street […]

The U.S. House approved the Senate Wall Street bailout bill Oct. 3 and, in the process, finally bumped the expired research and development tax credit to the White House. Strongly supported by the technology sector, the two-year, $14 billion tax credit was part of a package of sweeteners added by the Senate to win the […]