Monday, September 29, 2008 4:32 PM/EST
Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider is less impressed with the debut of Sprint's Xohm network in Baltimore Sept. 29 than he is concerned about how Sprint will manage its new WiMax network. In fact, he fears Sprint is heading...
Friday, September 26, 2008 4:17 PM/EST
These are not the best of times for Ralph Nader, the perennial and current Independent Party candidate for the presidency. Most newspapers and broadcast outlets have simply refused to cover his campaign. The thinking is that Nader has no influence...
Friday, September 26, 2008 2:56 PM/EST
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin may have tipped his hand earlier this week on white spaces: "I do think we need to try to more efficiently use the broadcast spectrum and we need to do so trying to find...
Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:04 PM/EST
Joe LaRocca is standing by his testimony before the U.S. House Sept. 22 despite NetChoice's Sept. 23 demand for a public apology to the "millions of Americans who have ever sold anything online." In a hearing about the growing problem...
Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:44 PM/EST
With national elections looming and a likely change of leadership at the Federal Communications Commission, perhaps Chairman Kevin Martin is worried about his legacy when it comes to an interoperable network for first responders. You may have noticed -- seven...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:29 PM/EST
WASHINGTON -- Larry Page doesn't get it and he admits it. Fresh off introducing the T-Mobile G1 smart phone in New York Sept. 23, the Google co-founder traveled to Capitol Hill Sept. 24 to lobby for tech's use of white...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:37 PM/EST
The tech coalition pushing the use of empty spectrum (white spaces) between digital television channels to deliver unlicensed broadband is preparing its latest spin dose in the war of words with broadcasters, cable networks, telephone companies and professional sports leagues,...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:39 AM/EST
WASHINGTON - America has become a nation of thieves hustling stolen goods off the back of a truck to sell on eBay. You name it, we steal it and we put it up for auction: infant formula, iPods, razor blades,...
Friday, September 19, 2008 10:20 AM/EST
Ike Brannon, a senior policy adviser to the McCain presidential campaign, will hold a private audience Sept. 19 with AeA (the former American Electronics Association founded in 1948 and soon to be part of the ITAA's orbit). His talk: John...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:38 PM/EST
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation held a hearing here Sept. 16 on "Why Broadband Is Important." Two senators -- Chairman Daniel Inouye and ranking member Ted Stevens -- showed up, although several more briefly...