Top executives of Verizon, Sprint, Cingular and T-Mobile USA have been invited to testify Friday at a U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing into the use of deceptive measures to obtain personal information, known as pretexting, according to Reuters.
The same panel will hear on Thursday from Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, former chairman Patricia [...]
At least 21 HD Radios for the home will be available from 14 brands by November, according to HD Radio patent holder, iBiquity Digital.
The FCC selected the proprietary HD Radio system which works on the same frequencies allocated to analog (FM and AM) radio stations in the United States. Supporters claim CD quality [...]
MuniWireless has details on Chicago’s Municipal Wireless Proposal (pdf). “The city won’t invest money or operate the service,” said Chris O’Brien, Chicago’s outgoing chief information officer. “The service cannot be too expensive and must be universally available across the city.”
Chicago’s Wireless Internet Zones (WIZ) is [...]
Boston airport authorities cannot stop Continental Airlines from offering free wireless Internet service under a proposed Federal Communications Commission ruling, reports the Washington Post.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, or Massport, instructed Continental in 2005 to unplug their free service at Boston-Logan International Airport — and force people to use Massport’s $7.95 a day system. In a [...]
FCC chairman Kevin Martin (wikipedia) is recommending unconditional approval of AT&T’s $67 billion purchase of BellSouth, reports the Associated Press.
Martin circulated the recommendation late Thursday, meaning a formal vote regarding the merger will likely occur at the agency’s Oct. 12 meeting.
The FCC’s action is unusual in that it comes before the Justice Department has reached [...]
Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort software update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company’s wireless drivers, reports MacWorld and C/Net. Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers and that no known exploits exist for the issues addressed in this [...]
“As far as I can tell, we’re the only country on the face of God’s green earth that doesn’t have a broadband strategy,” laments FCC commissioner Michael Copps, at a West Virginian summit to discuss the state broadband penetration.
Karl Bode at Broadband Reports says that’s not entirely true - critics argue [...]
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he was still unable to muster enough votes for his telecommunications bill, which could die if Republicans lose power in the November election, reports Reuters.
The bill would make it easier for telephone companies like AT&T and Verizon Communications to get licenses to offer television service [...]
The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) has a new version of its free community mesh software, CUWiNware 0.7.0.
CUWiN software is open-source, open-architecture, which means that it can be run on any hardware assuming that someone has already or is willing to port the software to your hardware. They recomend the Metrix Mark II kits, because [...]
Minneapolis has signed on to become the anchor-tenant of a municipal Wi-Fi network that will be owned and operated by service provider US Internet. The award, a big win for US Internet and Belair, supports the city’s desire to enhance public safety efforts and bridge the digital divide and offers US Internet a foundation from [...]
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