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With five days left before Super Tuesday, the presidential candidates are buying TV time.

President Bush signed a 15-day extension for a temporary surveillance law yesterday, signaling a brief reprieve in an ongoing battle with Democrats in Congress over whether to immunize telephone companies from lawsuits alleging invasions of privacy for helping the government conduct warrantless wiretaps.

The New York Times Co. and Richmond's Media General reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 earnings yesterday, exacerbating conditions that have brewed shareholder revolts at both companies.

A look at the Congressional agenda for 2008.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., unanimously ruled in favor of TiVo on EchoStar's appeal of a district court patent-infringement decision with regard to software elements of TiVo’s patent. But it overturned the lower court’s ruling that Dish infringed on the hardware elements.

The United States, Sweden and Japan topped a new ranking that measures how well countries use telecommunications technologies -- networks, cell phones and computers -- to boost their social and economic prosperity.

After 14 rounds in the Federal Communications Commission's 700-megahertz spectrum auction, total bidding stands at $10.1 billion, including a $4.29 billion bid for the C block of 50-state licenses.

Free Press and other groups are using a Federal Communication Commission spectrum auction initiated last week to push for broader changes to the FCC’s policy on wireless use.

Google intends to be a big player in the airwaves, trying to get into the so-called "white space" -- slivers of unlicensed, unused spectrum that lie between television channels.