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Hal Jackson, 96, New York Broadcaster Who Broke Racial Barriers in Radio

Submitted: May 25, 2012 - 7:49am
Last updated: May 25, 2012 - 7:55am
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New York, NY, United States
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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.

High Noon for Diller's Aereo

Submitted: May 25, 2012 - 7:48am
Last updated: May 25, 2012 - 7:53am
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New York, NY, United States
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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.

Lawmakers question whether Google misled Congress on data collection

Submitted: May 25, 2012 - 7:47am
Last updated: May 25, 2012 - 7:50am
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Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20530-0001, United States
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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.

E-Mail Shows Murdoch Bid Maneuvering

Submitted: May 25, 2012 - 7:45am
Last updated: May 25, 2012 - 7:47am
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London, United Kingdom
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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.

My Other Phone Is a Phone

Submitted: May 25, 2012 - 7:44am
Last updated: May 25, 2012 - 7:45am
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Forrester Research, 400 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
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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.

FCC Dedicates Spectrum Enabling Medical Body Area Networks

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 7:05pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 7:07pm
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States
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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.

FCC Explores Use of Emergency Aerial Communications to Enable Quick Restoration of Communications for First Responders

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 7:04pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 7:05pm
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States
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The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to explore the use of Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture (DACA) technologies. DACA ...

FCC Promotes Wireless Investment and Deployment in the 800 MHz SMR Band

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 7:02pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 7:03pm
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States
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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.

As Facebook Launches a Standalone Camera App, the Instagram Buy Comes Into Focus

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:38pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:53pm
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Facebook (new HQ), 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, United States
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Facebook will launch Facebook Camera, and it’s essentially Instagram redux.

GOP lawmakers question Twitter's tracking practices

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:38pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:50pm
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Twitter, 795 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
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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. Lee defends Verizon, cable providers’ proposed spectrum deal

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:37pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:47pm
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Senate Judiciary Committee, Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE Dirksen Senate Office Building -- 226, Washington, DC, 20002, United States
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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.

Hard-up telcos get stingy with mobile give-aways

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:36pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:45pm
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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.

Chairman Rockefeller Asks American Gas Association for Cybersecurity Standards

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:34pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:43pm
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Senate Commerce Committee, Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE Russell Senate Office Building - 253, Washington, DC, 20002, United States
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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.

FCC Chair Responds to Sen Grassley Criticisms of Transparency

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:32pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:40pm
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States
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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.

State Department Report Highlights Limits Of Technology

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:31pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:37pm
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Department of State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC, 20520, United States
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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 takes down 1.2 million search links a month over piracy, copyright issues

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:30pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:35pm
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Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
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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.

Pop Culture is King in Social media

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:29pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:33pm
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Project for Excellence in Journalism, 1615 L Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
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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.

FCC’s Genachowski Ignores Harm Of His Data Cap Sentiments

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:27pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:30pm
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States
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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 Sues Networks, Fox Sues Dish Over Ad-Skipping Auto Hop

Submitted: May 24, 2012 - 6:26pm
Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 6:27pm
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U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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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.