Roy Mark

The digital television transition has been called a lot of things, but at an April 30 hearing of the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee, it earned a new sobriquet: the largest planned government-mandated obsolescence in history. That’s a huge problem for the United States’ already flagging recycling programs. As Americans buy digital TV sets […]

Advanced Info Service, Thailand’s largest mobile operator, conducted field trials during the first quarter of this year for the deployment of Motorola’s WiMax WAP-400 platform. The trials measured the performance of applications over WiMax networks and customer usage models in metropolitan, suburban and rural areas. AIS tested Motorola’s WiMax platform with various applications including using […]

Republicans and Democrats alike are harshly criticizing the Bush administration’s Real ID program, which requires states to digitally store individuals’ identity documents and provide electronic access to all other states. Implementation of the controversial law signed by Bush in 2005 has twice been delayed, and states currently have until 2011 to meet the standards outlined […]

Democrats may not know who their presidential candidate will be yet, but they at least have settled on Microsoft as the official software and HD Web content provider for the Democratic National Convention Aug. 25-28 in Denver. As part of the deal, Microsoft software will be used to support delegate tracking, voting and the management […]

Clinton, Obama and McCain Vote For/Against Tech Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain will be the next president of the United States. All three have cast votes in the 110th Congress that affect technology, and according to the Computer and Communications Industry Association, Obama voted with IT 86 percent of the time, followed by […]

A New Jersey judge is ordering an independent review of Sequoia Voting Systems after the company’s AVC Advantage machines reported incorrect party vote totals in the state’s Feb. 5 presidential primary election. According to New Jersey voting officials, the ancillary party totals had no effect on the cast vote records on the voting machines. In […]

The economy may be slumping, but don’t tell that to the nation’s top two telecom companies. Verizon, the No. 2 U.S. carrier, reported April 28 first-quarter profits that jumped 9.8 percent over the first quarter of 2007. Verizon’s revenue rose 5.5 percent to $23.8 billion in the quarter ending March 31, up from $22.6 billion […]

AT&T and Starbucks plan to start offering their joint Wi-Fi service May 1 in San Antonio, the corporate headquarters of AT&T. By the end of 2008, AT&T said it would be offering Wi-Fi at all company-operated Starbucks stores. After a six-year run with T-Mobile providing fee-based Wi-Fi access in its 7,000 coffee shops, Starbucks announced […]

Weeks after the Federal Communications Commission completed its $19.5 billion spectrum auction, NextWave Wireless is planning a spectrum sale of its own. The technology company said April 23 it plans to put 223 of its licenses on the block. The licenses come from three blocks of spectrum NextWave bought several years ago for $500 million, […]

Concerned over contradictory White House statements about the government’s controversial e-mail archiving efforts, a U.S. district judge April 24 ordered the Bush administration to collect and preserve all e-mails in .pst files for individuals employed at the White House between March 2003 and October 2005. Millions of White House e-mail are missing from the period. […]

Troubles continue at struggling Motorola as the company posted a $194 million loss in the first quarter. Hamstrung by plummeting handset sales, officials with the iconic U.S. technology company predicted April 24 that second-quarter losses would be wider than originally projected. Motorola said it shipped 27.4 million handsets in the first quarter, a 40 percent […]

U.S. House Republicans turned to obscure procedural maneuvers April 23, aiming to revive a vote on the Senate version of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) that includes immunity for the telephone companies that participated in the White House’s domestic surveillance program. In March, the House approved a version of FISA with no immunity for those […]