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FCC to Test All-Digital-TV Service In Small Market Before National Run

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 22:51

For the residents of Wilmington, N.C., the transition to digital television will come much sooner than expected.

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Congressional Action Heats Up on FISA

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 22:48

Telecom companies have presented congressional Democrats with a set of proposals on how to provide immunity to the businesses that participated in a controversial government electronic surveillance program, a House Democratic aide said Wednesday.

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Memo to the Media: Have You Hosted the Person Who Told Rumsfeld, 'You Are Our Leader'?

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 22:42

Following the publication of the April 20 New York Times front-page article on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon, the Department of Defense has released to the public numerous documents regarding

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Miller's Fake Blog

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 22:25

From product-branded videos on YouTube, to interactive games big beer and alcohol companies are spending a lot of dough entertaining potential customers online.

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Clearwire, Sprint Nextel Set Course for WiMax

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 21:35

If the $12 billion venture formed by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire yesterday works out, your cellphone may turn into a far more powerful, versatile and perhaps costlier mobile device.

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Fourteen Years After Founding Yahoo, This Man Has Eight Weeks to Save It

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 02:30

For Jerry Yang, July 3 will loom very large in his diary. That is the date that Yahoo, the online giant he co-founded 14 years ago, has set for its annual shareholder meeting and he will face investors dismayed and angry at the weekend's rejection of a last-minute $47.5bn offer from Microsoft.

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U.S. Newspaper Gloom Overshadows Industry Survey

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 01:14

The gloom hanging over the US newspaper industry is distorting an otherwise optimistic mood among the world’s newspaper editors, according to a global survey of newsroom opinion.

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Cablevision’s Newsday Bid Would Face Few Regulatory Hurdles

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 00:57

If Cablevision Systems manages to wrest the Tribune Company's Long Island, N.Y., newspaper Newsday away from other interested bidders, the transaction would raise the ire of consumer groups, but regulators in Washington won't have much to say, The Deal.com reported.

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Markey Says Legislation Would Promote Net Diversity

Thu, 08/05/2008 - 00:49

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Tuesday urged Congress to pass net neutrality legislation aimed at preserving "the most level playing field for commercial opportunity ever invented."

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Big Tech Firms to Invest in Wireless

Wed, 07/05/2008 - 22:31

The race to bring consumers ultrafast wireless Internet service is on.

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