Hal Jackson, a veteran broadcaster who broke down racial barriers, becoming one of the first black disc jockeys to reach a large white audience and an omnipresent voice on New York City radio for more than 50 years, died on May 23 in Manhattan. He was 96.
When Barry Diller backed a start-up that streams local broadcast signals over the Internet, it looked like another unorthodox move by a famously offbeat mogul. Now that start-up has become a grenade that is threatening to wound the television industry.
Reps. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and John Barrow (D-GA), who both serve on the House Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Google misled Congress and regulators over its collection of data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.
The long-running judicial inquiry into the cloistered world of Britain’s media barons and powerful politicians produced a new and potentially damaging insight into the internal maneuvering within Prime Minister David Cameron’s government as it considered Rupert Murdoch’s $12 billion bid last year to take control of the country’s most powerful and lucrative commercial television network.
A new study from Forrester Research on technology adoption by urban Chinese consumers also illustrates the power of the mobile Internet in China. Out of more than 3,600 people surveyed, 71 percent use their phones to go online at least once daily. Fully one-third of the consumers surveyed own two or more active mobile phones.
The Federal Communications Commission advanced its wireless health care agenda by adopting rules that will enable Medical Body Area Networks (MBANs), low-power wideband networks consisting of multiple body-worn sensors that transmit a variety of patient data to a control device.
The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to explore the use of Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture (DACA) technologies. DACA ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Report and Order that reduces barriers to the deployment of broadband, encourages investment in wireless technologies, and facilitates the efficient use of spectrum by revising a burdensome legacy regulation that unnecessarily constrained 800 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) licensees.
Facebook will launch Facebook Camera, and it’s essentially Instagram redux.
Twitter's recent embrace of the tech industry's do-not-track standard has drawn praise from top Republicans on the House Commerce Committee. But the company's announcement that it will use new methods of highlighting "relevant" users for new users to begin following is drawing questions from two of those GOP committee members, Reps. Joe Barton (R-TX) and Cliff Stearns (R-FL), who sent a letter to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo asking about the ways the company collects and tracks user information.
Sen Mike Lee (R-Utah), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, defended the proposed deal to allow Verizon to purchase spectrum from a consortium of cable companies.
Save up now for that new iPhone: the era of free or cut-price phones when signing a new mobile phone contract may be soon be over in Europe. Telecom companies, facing a profit squeeze from fierce competition and regulatory pressures, are taking the knife to the generous subsidies that allow new mobile customers to get the latest smartphones on the cheap.
Sen John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) sent a letter to the American Gas Association requesting information on cybersecurity standards that were developed in 2006 and designed to protect industrial control systems from cyber attacks.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski defended the FCC's openness and transparency against charges by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that the FCC was one of the worst agencies at complying with document requests.
Last year technology helped more people exercise their rights, but in 2011 more countries restricted access to the Internet or used technology to repress, according to the State Department's annual human rights report.
Google released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.
For the week of May 14-18, the X Factor was the No. 1 subject on Twitter and the No. 5 story on blogs, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. But there was a difference in some reactions on the two social networks.
There probably was no great need for Comcast to raise the usage caps on its broadband service, as it did last week from 250 gigabytes (GB) to 300 GB per month. If the company thought for an instant that the modest increase bought it any good will from its theoretical regulators, it needn't have bothered. The Federal Communications Commission doesn't care.
Dish sued the big four television networks over its new ad-skipping Auto Hop feature, even as Fox filed the first network lawsuit to stop Dish from offering the technology. Dish sought a federal court's "declaratory judgment on questions" related to Auto Hop, which allows viewers to skip commercials when they watch previously aired shows. Fox, meanwhile, accused Dish of copyright violations.