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With all the congressional hand-wringing over the tech industry’s dealings in China, perhaps it’s time lawmakers actually did something about it other than point the finger at Cisco Systems, Yahoo and Google. At least, that’s how Ed Black at the Computer & Communications Industry Association sees it. “As things stand now, it almost appears as […]

The Rural Cellular Association wants the Federal Communications Commission to ban exclusive deals between telecommunications carriers and handset makers. The small carriers claim the exclusivity deals are monopolistic and anti-competitive. The so-called Big 5 carriers-AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Alltel Wireless-frequently cut deals with handset manufacturers to gain control over the features, content and […]

AT&T plans to complete its third-generation mobile broadband network by the end of 2008, adding six markets to finish the national footprint of High-Speed Uplink Packet Access technology. When completed, the network will be available in 350 U.S. markets. According to a May 21 announcement by AT&T, the six markets include San Jose, Calif.; San […]

Now comes Cisco Systems with the latest episode of the tech industry’s waffling over its dealings with the Chinese government. Cisco Senior Vice President Mark Chandler told Congress May 20 that his company “has not and does not design products to accommodate political censorship.” Unless, of course, you count supplying the Chinese government with networking […]

WASHINGTON-Cisco Systems has strongly denied that it cooperates with the Chinese government in censoring Falun Gong or other dissident groups. The accusations arose from a 6-year-old sales document produced by Cisco that refers to the Chinese government’s efforts to quash the religious movement. At the time, Cisco was approaching the Chinese government in hopes of […]

Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman called on Google May 19 to immediately remove videos produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. Readily available on Google’s YouTube, the videos show assassinations, deaths of U.S. soldiers and civilians, weapons training and incendiary speeches by al-Qaeda leadership. In a letter to Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman said […]

Sandvine, which produces traffic-shaping hardware and software for broadband providers, said May 19 it will now offer a range of policy options for ISPs, including an application-agnostic approach. According to a number of reports, Sandvine gear is currently being used by Comcast to throttle or block BitTorrent traffic. Sandvine said its new FairShare program is […]

Once again, the desire for justice is outracing the law and potentially exposing to a federal felony beef anyone who has ever violated his or her terms of service with a web provider. You are, no doubt, familiar with the case of Lori Drew, the 49-year-old St. Louis woman who, along with her teenage daughter […]

Sprint kept the WiMax ball moving down the court May 15, declaring its XOHM 3G mobile broadband network has cleared testing and industry standards. Sprint plans to begin service in the Washington-Baltimore region by the end of the year. XOHM President Barry West said Sprint has created a proven WiMax ecosystem that can “deliver this […]

RIM’s WES2008 CONFAB – the annual conference of all things BlackBerry began and ended with rumors that Research in Motion plans to introduce a touch screen version of its new BlackBerry Bold. RIM is mum on the issue, but the speculation is racing through the blogosphere and rumor mills. Why not? With the introduction of […]