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Every major Senate Democratic challenger this fall has gone on the record as supporting network neutrality, largely as a result of blogger Matt Stoller, co-founder of OpenLeft.com. Since mid-June, Stoller has posted a public listing of where each challenger stood on network neutrality as well as the amount of telecom and cable money contributed to […]

Nokia and Qualcomm ended a long-running patent dispute July 23 with a 15-year licensing agreement. The deal ends all litigation between the two companies, including Nokia withdrawing a European Commission complaint against Qualcomm. The agreement was reached after a busy legal day for the two companies. In Wilmington, Del., a court delayed the start of […]

A little-noted July 25 deadline for comments is looming at the Federal Communications Commission. At stake is a plan by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin that would combine two spectrum blocks for auction and require the winning licensee to offer free broadband service to 50 percent of the United States within four years and 95 percent […]

iPhone 3G sales are moving at nearly twice the pace of last year’s introduction of the original iPhone, AT&T reported July 23. In nearly two weeks since Apple and AT&T-the U.S. carrier for the iPhone-rolled out the latest model, units sold have hit 712,000. “In the days following our exclusive U.S. launch of this new […]

In the warm media afterglow of the iPhone 3G release July 11, a number of analysts and writers are taking a leap of faith and claiming Apple’s new smart phone is now poised to crack the enterprise market. Why? Because that’s what Apple says. In fact, Apple claims, the iPhone is the “best phone for […]

Sony Ericsson will cut 2,000 jobs, it announced July 18, as the company reports a second quarter operating loss of $3.17 million. Sony Ericsson said it has been pinched by plummeting demand for its high-end smart phones and inflation eating away at margins for inexpensive cell phones. The joint venture between Sony and Ericsson AB […]

It has not been a good few months for NebuAd, the Silicon Valley startup pushing DPI, or deep packet inspection, as a source of new revenue for ISPs. Without a user’s consent, NebuAd collects information about the user’s browsing history and serves up ads based on those travels. Privacy advocates have been relentless in their […]

Despite a lukewarm response in Congress to his legislation aimed at banning Internet companies from cooperating with repressive governments, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., found a new supporter July 16: Jules Maaten, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. In a Capitol Hill conference with Smith, Maaten said he plans to introduce a bill in the […]

Finnish cell phone maker Nokia temporarily eased market fears of the global economic downturn slicing into handset sales with quarterly results in line with predictions. The world’s No. 1 handset maker also slightly increased its forecast for global handset market growth, predicting volume growth of a little more than 10 percent. Nokia is the first […]

The Federal Communications Commission began field-testing July 14 several white spaces devices that the tech industry hopes will eventually lead to a new wireless broadband pipe into American homes and businesses. White spaces are the empty interference buffer spaces between television channels. The white spaces devices submitted for testing by Motorola and Phillips use sensing […]

Google and Yahoo went two heavyweight rounds with Microsoft July 15 as both the U.S. House and Senate waded into the proposed advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo. In hearings in both chambers, misstatements, half-truths and general mud slinging were the order of the day. And that was just in the shallow end of the […]

Expect Google and Microsoft to exchange public insults July 15 when a Senate subcommittee examines Google’s and Yahoo’s proposed advertising deal, which is also under a voluntary antitrust review by the Department of Justice and the subject of growing interest by the attorneys general in a number of states. The hearing will place all the […]