AP – Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
AP – India’s national space agency said communications with the country’s only satellite orbiting the moon snapped Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the spacecraft.
AP – Watch what you tweet.
AP – Chatter about ensuing plans permeates any graduation, though it’s not common for the talk to surround which class projects will receive venture capital funding.
AP – Sun Microsystems Inc. recorded a $147 million loss while sales eroded 31 percent in the April-June period, likely the server and software maker’s last full quarter as an independent company.
AP – An appeals court overturned a rule that said a cable TV company could not serve more than 30 percent of the nation’s subscribers. The verdict Friday was a victory for the largest cable company, Comcast Corp., which has 25 percent share and sued to block the rule.
Motorists traveling U.S. 165 between Bastrop and Monroe may have noticed something different along the way: The sign in front of the CenturyTel corporate headquarters has been changed to reflect its recent merger with the Embarq Corporation of Overland Park, Kan.
Despite protestations from the Bush administration, the FCC succeeded last year in making a certain chunk of the nation’s TV and radio spectrum–dubbed “white space”–available to unlicensed broadcasters. That meant that companies could begin developing super Wi-Fi devices that create networks at a distance of miles, instead of the 50+ feet we’re used to today. [...]
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made the momentous decision late in 2008 to allow unlicensed broadcasting devices access to ” white spaces ” in the television spectrum, backers hailed the move as a major step forward for US wireless networking. “WiFi on steroids,” was how one engineer put it during the debate. But for [...]
The inquiry will be divided into three broad categories: competition, innovation and consumer access to accurate information about wireless services.