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The three-year-old gag order imposed on Advanced Micro Devices’ antitrust lawsuit against Intel should be lifted, according to an Aug. 21 court filing by media outlets the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Computer & Communications Industry Association. AMD originally filed the antitrust case against Intel in 2005, claiming Intel operates a microprocessor […]

Verizon CTO Richard Lynch told the Progress & Freedom Foundation’s annual Aspen Summit Aug. 19, “We need to guard against turning technical and business decisions into political decisions.” He was, of course, referring to the Aug. 1 FCC (Federal Communications Commission) decision that Comcast broke the agency’s network neutrality principles when it throttled peer-to-peer traffic […]

The United States, along with Japan and Taiwan, are asking the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to review whether the European Union has failed to accord duty-free treatment to some technology products covered by the WTO Information Technology Agreement. According to the U.S. complaint, the ITA products include flat-panel computer monitors […]

Rogers Communications plans to introduce the new 3G BlackBerry Bold Aug. 21 in Canada. Already the dominant maker of smart phones for the enterprise, Research in Motion has loaded the new BlackBerry with a number of consumer attractions, including a 2-megapixel camera with video recording capability, a music player, GPS and Wi-Fi. Pricing for the […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission debuted its successor to the agency’s EDGAR database Aug. 19 with Chairman Christopher Cox proclaiming the new interactive database to be faster, more accurate and more meaningful than the 1980s-era EDGAR. Called IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications), the database is based on a completely new architecture being built from the […]

Almost a thousand incoming freshmen at ACU (Abilene Christian University) received an Apple iPhone 3G or iPod Touch Aug. 16 as part of their first day in college. The deployment marks the first time that a university has introduced the Apple mobile devices as learning tools on such a large scale. According to ACU, students […]

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 […]