A coalition of wireless carriers urged Congress to give the Federal Communications Commission flexibility in how it manages proposed auctions of wireless airwave licenses

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GigaOM, a technology media company, has acquired ContentNext Media, the parent company of paidContent, from Guardian News & Media, for an undisclosed sum.

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Transportation deputy secretary John Porcari told the House Transportation and Infrastructure's subcommittee on Aviation that LightSquared's planned wireless network is "not compatible" with flight-safety GPS devices used in commercial aircrafts. Porcari said testing confirmed that LightSquared's signal is not bleeding into the GPS band, but he said GPS receivers are too sensitive too filter out LightSquared's powerful cell towers operating on nearby frequencies.

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The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Here’s the agenda.

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SDN Communications, a partnership of 27 independent telecom providers covering 80 percent of South Dakota, is using a Recovery Act grant to expand its 1,850-mile, 300-gigabit-per-second fiber-optic network by another 360 miles and add an additional 100 gigabits of bandwidth along high-capacity routes.

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Apple is attempting to stop the use of "standards essential" patents on 3G technology as legal bludgeons against smartphone competitors.

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Google is working to collect information about Internet users that it can't get from just monitoring its own browser, services, and Android devices.

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AT&T had quite the Super Bowl. At the game AT&T’s networks carried 215 GB of traffic, placed 74,204 phone calls and transmitted 722,296 SMS messages. AT&T reported no problems in handling the traffic and had, in fact, been prepping for game day by adding permanent and temporary capacity. But in what is now becoming a common refrain, AT&T used the event to lobby regulators for more spectrum.

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The smartphone's rise in overseas markets is a "key development" that the State Department is watching over the next year, signaling the agency's interest in using mobile technology to advance foreign policy goals.

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In the past weeks, Americans have been realizing that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might not have been the Great War, but a short battle in hostilities of grander proportions.

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Here are two things you don't often hear mentioned in the same sentence: social media and nuclear weapons.

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The Federal Communications Commission has enacted “Roaming” policies over the last two years that have actually cost the American economy much needed network infrastructure investment and the jobs associated with that investment.

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Ohio is investing approximately $10 million to expand the speed of its broadband network to 100 Gbps.

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Teri Takai, the Defense Department's chief information officer, kicked off a speech at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Cyberspace Symposium by asking, "Everyone wants an iPad, right?" and then implied quick deployment of tablet computers and smartphones across the department without defining the timeline.

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The Chicago Tribune will begin charging online readers for access to content and is considering a “creative way” to do that, said Gerould Kern, the paper's editor.

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In the Federal Communications Commission’s review of Verizon’s acquisition of spectrum currently owned by cable television companies, Verizon Wireless and the cable companies files copies of commercial agreements that provide the parties to those agreements with the ability to act as agents selling one another’s services. The companies claim that the agreements are neither anticompetitive nor relevant to this proceeding, claims that cannot be evaluated without reviewing the agreements themselves. The agreements are subject to the stringent confidentiality provisions of the protective orders issued by the FCC in this proceeding. But the companies filed them with redactions concerning pricing and compensation.

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Advocates asked a federal court to order the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its privacy settlement against Google, saying the company’s new privacy policies violate the agreement.

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Social news website Reddit, Wikipedia and scores of other smaller websites that went dark in protest of anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA helped turn the inside-the-Beltway lobbying racket on its head, said Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian. The outcry from Internet users proved “that Americans actually still can dictate policy and not just lobbyists.”

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The European protests against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have now reached the highest levels of the Czech government. Prime Minister Petr Nečas has ...

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Boxee’s live TV dongle has only been available for a few weeks, but the company is already embroiled in a fight with cable giants like Comcast and Time Warner Cable over it, and it is now getting support from groups like Public Knowledge and the Consumer Electronics Association.

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Nancy Pearl, who has done as much to promote reading as anyone this side of Oprah, has been caught in the crossfire.

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Online social games and free-to-play games, especially those such as FarmVille on Facebook, have helped the number of people who play video games to more than double to 135 million from 56 million in 2008.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) asked for volunteers to help evaluate whether applicants for new Web domain endings should qualify for a reduced application fee.

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The major telecom providers have done a good job securing their networks and don’t require further regulation by the government, experts testified before the House Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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Facebook’s governance structure resembles a dictatorship, requiring investors to surrender rights to founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to Gamco Investors Inc.’s Larry Haverty.

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As of 2012, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has doled out over two million computers across 42 countries, in places as diverse as the Solomon Islands (300 machines), Haiti (15,000), Mongolia (14,500), and Iraq (9,000). Its most widespread deployment to date (by percentage of population) is in Uruguay.

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Amazon continues to ramp up the amount of video content it offers for free to its Amazon Prime subscribers.

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Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services -- enabling people to buy Facebook Credits and charge them directly to their mobile bills. Now, it’s increasingly looking like that may just be the beginning.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology's IT Laboratory, which works on IT standards and metrics as well as federal cybersecurity programs, will be placing a new focus on big data and mobility technologies this year and will continue its work on cybersecurity and cloud computing, according to IT Lab Director Chuck Romine.

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What would the mobile computing industry (defined for this purpose as smartphones and tablets) be without Apple, had the company not entered it in June of 2007 with the iPhone? Less lucrative, that’s what.

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