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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. […]

The online pitch goes something like this: Invest in our paid autosurf program and earn a 125-150 percent return for every dollar invested. All the investor has to do is surf a few Web sites each day. At least that’s what Thomas A. Bowdoin and his AdSurfDaily.com site claims. Sound too good to be true? […]

Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and other Internet companies have reached an agreement in principle that would govern their actions in dealing with China and other countries that restrict Internet freedoms. The companies said the core principles of the voluntary agreement will be announced later this year. The Internet companies said more than a year ago they […]

In what is believed to the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted, the Department of Justice said Aug. 5 it has indicted 11 people for the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers. According to the DOJ, the card numbers were obtained by “wardriving” and hacking into […]