Are the lights out for good at LightSquared?
Here’s our article from the weekend about the year-long saga for investor Philip Falcone and LightSquared.
The company asked the FCC last week to help it swap its L-band spectrum for other airwaves that don’t have GPS interference issues.
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Comcast said Thursday it will test new Internet data caps, expanding its lowest tier to 300 gigabytes a month from 250 gigabytes of data. It will charge an additional $10 for every additional 50 gigabytes of data on top of the basic tier when purchased up-front.
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Updated with comment from AT&T
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission fired back at AT&T and T-Mobile on Tuesday, saying the agency’s decision to block the mobile giants’ merger won’t push up consumer prices.
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Wall Street guru Philip Falcone placed a $14 billion bet on what he thought was a sure thing. Two years ago, his company had the blessing of the Federal Communications Commission to use satellites to bring cellular service to the farthest reaches of the country, a high priority for President Obama.
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Wall Street guru Philip Falcone placed a $14 billion bet on what he thought was a sure thing. Two years ago, his company had the blessing of the Federal Communications Commission to use satellites to bring cellular service to the farthest reaches of the country, a high priority for President Obama.
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Outside Washington, the world is moving at warp speed away from the BlackBerry. At its maker, profits are declining and executives are leaving, and the BlackBerry has even conceded its perch as the top smartphone in its native Canada.
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The Justice Department has told Apple and the nation’s biggest book publishers that it would sue them for their alleged price-fixing of electronic books unless the companies agree to change their business practices.
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If history is a guide, Apple this week will introduce some upgrades to the iPad that perhaps only a techie will fully grasp — but that will draw millions of new customers anyway.
That swooning interest may say just as much about an often overlooked innovation — price — as about the features of Apple’s products.
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If history is a guide, Apple this week will introduce some upgrades to the iPad that perhaps only a techie will fully grasp — but that will draw millions of new customers anyway.
That swooning interest may say just as much about an often overlooked innovation — price — as about the features of Apple’s products.
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Google, I wish I knew how to quit you.
That’s the frustration felt by Patience O’Connor, who has put much of her sensitive personal and professional information on Gmail and other Google programs and doesn’t want the company to use that data to create a detailed profile of her.
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Google on Thursday named former Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari to head its Washington lobbying and policy office, as the search giant fights scrutiny by federal regulators over antitrust and privacy issues.
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Google on Thursday named former Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari to head its Washington lobbying and policy office, as the search giant fights scrutiny by federal regulators over antitrust and privacy issues.
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Google on Thursday named former Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari to head its Washington lobbying and policy office, as the search giant fights scrutiny by federal regulators over antitrust and privacy issues.
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Google on Thursday named former Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari to head its Washington lobbying and policy office, as the search giant fights scrutiny by federal regulators over antitrust and privacy issues.
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The Obama administration on Thursday announced voluntary guidelines for Web companies to protect consumers’ privacy online, a win for Google, Facebook and other Internet giants that have fought against heavier federal mandates.
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T-Mobile and public interest groups on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to block Verizon Wireless’s spectrum and marketing deal with cable firms, saying the transaction would lead to less competition and higher wireless service fees for consumers.
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The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to yank its support for satellite firm LightSquared all but ends that company’s effort to launch mobile services, analysts say.
Now comes the hangover.
FCC officials say they still have faith that satellite technology can be used to create wireless networks rivaling those of AT&T and Verizon Wireless. But analysts say the agency will step more carefully this time, after being burned by congressional investigations, feuds with other federal agencies and two years of work wasted on LightSquared.
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Federal officials on Tuesday struck a major blow to satellite venture LightSquared, saying the government plans to revoke initial permission it granted for the company to operate as a mainstream high-speed wireless network.
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Privacy advocates on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit aimed at forcing government officials to punish Google over alleged privacy violations.
In the complaint, the Electronic Privacy and Information Center said Google’s plans to tie together data of users across services beginning March 1 violates a settlement agreement the company struck with the Federal Trade Commission last summer over a separate privacy controversy.
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Verizon Communications and Redbox on Monday announced a video entertainment joint venture directly aimed at online streaming giant Netflix.
Verizon and Coinstar, the parent company of movie vending machine service Redbox, announced they will jointly provide users with online streaming and video rental services starting in the second half of the year.
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Facebook is friending the feds.
The company has put political veterans in key executive roles and board positions. It’s also quickly built up a powerhouse Washington lobbying operation and established a political action committee to make it easy for employees to donate to candidates.
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A key Senate Judiciary Committee member said Wednesday he is planning a hearing on Verizon’s spectrum purchase deal with cable companies that includes a controversial marketing arrangement.
Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.), chairman of the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee, said the hearing will include a review of a cross-marketing agreement between Verizon Wireless and cable firms including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House.
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Before its initial public offering, Facebook needed to clear a major hurdle: an investigation by federal regulators over its privacy practices.
It did so by agreeing to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that experts say came with a double bonus: spooking potential rivals.
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Google, facing growing scrutiny over its approach to consumer privacy, said Thursday it would open its social networking site to teenagers, matching the policies of its rivals, such as Facebook and MySpace.
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Google doesn’t make much money from its Android phones, but chief executive Larry Page recently vowed in an earnings call that that was about to change.
A push by the company to create clearer online profiles of Web surfers may turn the promise into reality, analysts say.
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The Justice Department’s shutdown of the popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com reverberated across the Internet on Friday, sparking fresh questions for major Web companies while rattling millions of users of sites like it.
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AT&T’s hike in data plans by at least $5 in most cases may come back to hurt the telecom giant as consumers turn to competitors, analysts say.
The firm announced that starting Sunday its lowest smartphone data plan will begin at $20 for 300 megabytes of data, compared to $15 for 200MB of data.
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Thirty years ago, a young and floppy-haired Steve Jobs made a rare lobbying effort in Washington to get more Apple computers into classrooms.
The effort paid off: Apple got tax breaks for donating computers to schools, a charitable effort that won over educators and made the Apple II and the Mac the first computers used by millions of children.
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Federal regulators are investigating whether Google’s recent changes to its main Web site are stifling competition by giving the company’s services preference in search results, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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LAS VEGAS — A contentious battle over Internet anti-piracy legislation shifted from Washington to the Consumer Electronics Show, where lawmakers and companies on both sides of the issue sought to gain allies.
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LAS VEGAS — The thousands of devices debuting Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show here demonstrate how tech companies are poised to gather unprecedented insights into consumers’ lives — how much they eat, whether they exercise, when they are home and who they count as friends.
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