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After a six-year run with T-Mobile providing Wi-Fi access to its 7,000 coffee shops, Starbucks said Feb. 11 that AT&T will be its new carrier for wireless service. The ubiquitous chain is also brewing up a new deal for Wi-Fi customers: up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day. In addition, all Starbucks […]

It was a busy day for Motorola at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb. 11, with a raft of WiMax announcements and rumors swirling that Motorola and Nortel are considering combining their wireless infrastructures. In what Motorola calls a “significant milestone” for the still struggling WiMax take-up rate, the company said it plans to […]

Congress’ headlong rush to investigate the privacy and antitrust implications of Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion for Yahoo hit a bump Feb. 7 when the House Judiciary Committee canceled a hearing on the matter. Just a day after news of the proposed deal broke Feb. 1, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., announced the panel’s […]

WASHINGTON — Not so long ago, any sort of “green” discussion on Capitol Hill between the IT industry and lawmakers would have meant only one thing: the size of the political donation. But members of the Technology CEO Council, an IT lobbying group, were pitching a different green message this week: an energy initiative that […]

WASHINGTON – Key players in the nation’s transition to digital television rallied Feb. 7 to tout efforts to make sure the 11 percent (about 13.5 million people) of Americans who receive over-the-air broadcasts via analog sets will not be left with a snowy screen in 376 days. The only things missing were balloons and a […]

On Super Tuesday, tech was everywhere: twittering away on Google, powering get-out-the-vote SMS campaigns, leveraging mobile political apps, furiously posting at blogging parties, ginning up barrels of money and continuing to weave its political voice into the 2008 national election debate. However, at the end of the historic U.S. electoral day, nothing had changed, no […]

Stepping into the brave new world of geo-location mobile advertising, CBS said Feb. 6 it is teaming with social networking mapping and communications service Loopt to offer cell phone ads based on a user’s location. Deploying Loopt’s GPS technology, CBS hopes to convince advertisers to target mobile consumers, wherever they may be, with local ads. […]

WASHINGTON-Even as U.S. airlines plan to roll out in-flight broadband services this year, U.S. government restrictions on airline cell phone use are likely to put U.S. carriers at a global competitive disadvantage, a panel of aviation executives said Feb. 5. Under an agreement signed by American and European carriers in 2007, the airlines will be […]

The Bush administration strongly opposes a key provision involving damages in the patent reform legislation currently stalled in the U.S. Senate. In a Feb. 4 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy, the Department of Commerce said the White House would continue to oppose the bill in its entirety unless changes are made. The legislation […]

10 Things You Should Know About Election Tech Trends Broadcast This: Campaign News is Devoured Online The number: 48%Americans who said the Internet was their primary source of their knowledge of the presidential candidates. Only 31% and 13% cited television and radio, respectively.Nearly 67% of 18-29-year-olds cited the Internet as their primary source of news, […]

One of the two primary groups pressuring the White House to reveal the whereabouts of millions of missing Bush administration e-mails asked Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey Feb. 4 to appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter. In a letter to Mukasey, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) is seeking a federal […]

It didn’t take long for Congress to get involved in Microsoft’s proposed $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. The day after Microsoft’s Feb. 1 offer, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Task Force on Antitrust and Competition announced a Feb. 8 hearing on the proposed takeover. Ostensibly entitled “State of Competition on the Internet,” the hearing is […]