WASHINGTON - Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Olympia Snowe,R-Maine, the chairman and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released a new draft of comprehensive, bipartisan cybersecurity legislation this week. The primary goal of the...

Image Credit: Daniel Adel, New York Times And so the saga continues..............   What once seemed as a beautiful friendship and had many in the Washington DC Administration worried with Google and Apple working so closley together in harmony to prevent Microsoft from dominating the Smartphone industry has turned into a bitter rivalry. According to the NYT, ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - With a goal of providing the best possible customer service experience, Verizon is introducing its Service Commitment to FiOS customers in Indiana, Oregon and Washington. Residential customers making the switch to FiOS TV, Internet and voice services can count on...

WASHINGTON--The FCC today formally unveiled and delivered to Congress its national broadband plan, which calls for increasing wireless spectrum for mobile broadband as part of a much broader and complex effort to expand high-speed Internet access across the nation.  Many pieces of the 360-page plan have been previewed over the past several weeks by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski as the commi...

The annual gathering for the global satellite-enabled communications, Satellite 2010, starts today. Some than 9,300 satellite professionals will particpate in the conference, which runs March 15-18th, near Washington, D.C. Their press release proclaimed that dozens of ground-breaking satellite products and services will debut. But news from exhibitors looked sparce. Hughes Network Systems today an...

Surprisingly, at least one Microsoft executive thinks Apple’s patent lawsuit against HTC might help sort out some intellectual property ownership issues -- despite the fact that the suit also names Windows Mobile devices. That’s what Microsoft general counsel and senior vice president Brad Smith said in a speech on intellectual property and copyright laws at the Washington State Conven...

WASHINGTON, USA - The unannounced LG Cosmos VN250, now approved by US regulator FCC, is yet another QWERTY keyboard-portraying mobile phone for US carrier Verizon Wireless. The handset is expected to be unveiled on the 25th of March, and should feature a 2" display, a 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD memory card support, and a microUSB port,

You gotta love the MPAA for the sheer Hollywood brashness of two recent press releases, that the Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro decided to compare and call the MPAA on its blatant dishonesty. The first press release, from back in December, was all about how the internet and file trading were killing the industry: Yet our industry faces the relentless challenge of the theft of its creative con...

Washington - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has solicited sworn declarations from Google's (NASD: GOOG) competitors, on the potential for reduction in competition in the mobile ad market due to its acquisition of AdMob, Bloomberg reported.read more

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Omnibus Initiative team on Wednesday (March 10) outlined its recommendations to ensure the accessibility of high-speed Internet to people with disabilities. Those recommendations will be included in the FCC's National...