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Cable giant Comcast may again be in network neutrality hot water with the Federal Communications Commission. The agency is investigating concerns that Comcast’s new network management practices degrade the sound quality of VOIP (voice over IP) services such as Vonage and Skype that compete with Comcast’s own VOIP service. In a Jan. 17 letter to […]

President Barack Obama’s transition team wasted little time taking over the White House Web site, switching over from former President Bush’s site within seconds of Obama’s swearing in. The first post to the site was from Macon Phillips, the director of New Media for the White House, who wrote, “Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov.” Phillips, […]

WASHINGTON-President-elect Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration is widely expected to create the greatest single one-day stress test of U.S. wireless networks. Millions of people are pouring into the nation’s capital, all armed to the teeth with wireless devices, smart and not-so-smart alike. When Obama places his right hand on the Bible and accepts the oath […]

Wireless carriers may be hard pressed to meet President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign slogan of “Yes, We Can” when it comes to completing what is expected to be a record number of wireless messages containing voice, text, videos and photos sent from Washington for the presidential inauguration.No one is quite sure how many people will actually […]

A record 1.4 billion mobile messages are expected to be delivered nationwide on Inauguration Day, according to estimates based on industry analysts’ findings and calculated by VeriSign’s Messaging and Mobile Media division. VeriSign expects the flood of Jan. 20 messages to easily shatter the previous high mark of 803 million Election Day messages set on […]

The Feb. 17 deadline for television stations to switch to digital broadcasting would be moved to June 12 under legislation introduced Jan. 15 by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.“President-elect Obama has asked Congress to delay the date of the transition,” Rockefeller said in a statement. “Over […]

The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Jan. 15 revealed the first details of a massive $825 billion economic stimulus plan that would include $6 billion in grants for broadband and wireless services in rural and underserved areas. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 also spends liberally on a wide range of proposals the […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Jan. 14 he would resign as chief of the agency effective Jan. 20, the same day President-elect Barack Obama is sworn into office. Obama plans to nominate Julius Genachowski, Obama’s chief campaign technology adviser, as the next FCC chairman, according to a number of media reports.Martin, a lightning […]

Just hours after a judge Jan. 14 ordered the White House to search the entire Executive Office of the President and the Office of Administration to collect and preserve all e-mails sent or received between March 2003 and October 2005, a Bush administration official said the White House would meet its legal obligations. Millions of […]

A year ago, Motorola announced it planned to spin off its ailing handset division, but the economy went south and the crumbling credit markets rendered the grand plan moot. Faced with hard reality, Motorola began cutting jobs, axing approximately 3,000 workers in the fourth quarter alone.Then things really turned bad. The job cuts didn’t stanch […]