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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 […]

Americans continue to cut the wires to their landline phone service, according to a new survey by J.D. Power and Associates. The marketing information services firm says in its 2008 U.S. Wireless Contract Regional Customer Satisfaction Index that more than one-fourth of wireless phone customers have snipped their traditional landline connection and rely exclusively on […]

WASHINGTON-Most American computer users are aware of the dangers of cruising the Internet with the security windows down and they are taking precautions, or at least think they are. The numbers, though, say otherwise. For instance, according to a study released Oct. 2, more than 80 percent of American computer users polled claimed to have […]