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As the Federal Communications Commission finishes field testing white spaces devices to determine the practicality of tapping the unused spectrum between digital television channels, Google has launched a public campaign to promote unlicensed use of the airwaves. This unused spectrum-known as white spaces-is provided to broadcasters to create interference buffer zones. Google, Microsoft and other […]

Proxim Wireless is exploring possible strategic alternatives for its Harmonix Division, including already finding a favored, but undisclosed, bidder. A division of Proxim’s Terabeam subsidiary, Harmonix develops millimeter wave systems, sub-systems and components for military and non-military governmental units and for Proxim’s Gigalink 60 GHz and 70-80 GHz radios. Proxim said Aug. 13 the components […]

Long on tax cuts, free trade agreements and expanded H-1B visas, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issued his technology policy Aug. 14, prescribing a dose of open markets and unregulated competition for the nation’s IT sector. While many of McCain’s proposals mirror his Democratic opponent Barack Obama’s technology policy, a McCain presidency would sharply differ […]

U.S. Air Force officials are denying reports that it plans to suspend the operations of its Cyber Command program that aims to specialize in establishing, controlling and fighting in the cyberspace domain. Instead, the Air Force claims, it is only considering delaying the high-tech program. The Air Force provisionally created the program last year with […]

While the cell phone business-with the notable exception of Motorola–seems to be booming in the United States, the broadband business is not. Two new reports claim broadband providers suffered serious declines in new second quarter subscribers and those that already subscribe to high-speed services endure speeds well below global leaders such as Japan and South […]

The Federal Communications Commission is facing a September deadline to decide if the agency wants to hold a spectrum auction requiring the winner to offer free broadband service to 50 percent of the United States within four years and 95 percent of the country within 10 years. Not surprisingly, incumbent wireless carriers, in particular T-Mobile, […]

The good news for Motorola: The iconic technology company is still the top seller of cell phones in the United States. The bad news: Motorola’s lead is slipping fast. In the second quarter, Motorola captured almost 26 percent of the U.S. market, maintaining its longtime perch at the top of U.S. handset makers, according to […]

Shure is sure. After the Federal Communications Commission tested white spaces devices at the Buffalo-Washington preseason game Aug. 9 at FedEx Field, the nation’s dominant maker of wireless microphones pronounced the field trials a bust. White spaces are interference buffer zones between digital television channels that Google, Microsoft, Motorola and other tech powers think are […]

iPhone, iPhone, iPhone: That’s all Research In Motion heard throughout July as Apple’s media blitz over its first iPhone 3G mobile device dominated the news. But that was July, and RIM on Aug. 7 began firing up its own campaign to promote the BlackBerry Bold, the company’s first 3G phone, originally announced May 12. With […]

It’s been one week since the Federal Communications Commission bopped Comcast’s ears for blocking the peer-to-peer application BitTorrent, ruling that the broadband provider violated the FCC’s network neutrality principles. After the predictable celebrations by network neutrality advocates came the darker, more ominous message from other circles: If broadband providers can’t manage their networks to keep […]

Motorola said Aug. 7 its geolocation device operated successfully in the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing white spaces field trials. White spaces are the unused interference buffer spaces between digital television channels that a number of tech companies want to use to deliver unlicensed broadband services. The spectrum between the channels will become available after Feb. […]

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