Consumer Electronics Show

According to an ex parte filing with the Federal Communications Commission posted Jan. 12, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Comcast chief Brian Roberts met Jan. 7 in Las Vegas, where Chairman Genachowski was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show. During the meeting, the two discussed retransmission consent, TV set-tops, network neutrality and the broadband plan.

Usage-based pricing models for wireless services may be a way to ease some congestion on cellphone networks, Federal Communications Commission members said.

The Federal Communications Commission used the Consumer Electronics Show to push forward its hope of making the television the gateway to the Internet.

National Association of Broadcasters CEO Gordon Smith says the government should not choose winners and losers in the technology sector when allocating broadcast spectrum. his message comes as the Obama...

Of all the hype generated by the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, few products generated more headlines and heat than tablet PCs.

Just when the world got familiar with the smartphone, the mobile phone community is starting to talk about the "superphone."

The debate over whether the federal government should reclaim part, or all, of broadcasters' spectrum and reallocate it for wireless broadband applications continued at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...

In a wide-ranging one-on-one keynote interview with Consumer Electronics Association chief Gary Shapiro at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 8, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski described broadband as an "engine for economic growth" and emphasized that providing wireless broadband access will be an important component of the national broadband plan the Commission is currently formulating.

Aneesh Chopra, President Obama's chief technology officer, and Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association, agree that there are things the government should do to spur the digital economy. But they don't see eye to eye on many issues such as trade policy and the stimulus package.

Online entertainment and video executives and developers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are talking about how their future rests largely with the Federal Communications Commission.

To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated Internet-connected computers: the front seat.

More of your everyday stuff may be able to communicate with cell networks throughout 2010, at least if AT&T has anything to say about it.

A raft of sci-fi-inspired gadgets and technologies are being announced this month, promising a future of 3-D television, super-smart phones and next-generation electronic tablets that wrap the features of a laptop and a digital book into one wafer-thin package. If you think you've heard all this before, well, you have.

Tech geeks, meet the feds. That will be one of the notable themes at the International Consumer Electronics Show that begins Thursday in Las Vegas, where the Obama administration's top technology advisers, regulators and lawmakers plan to mingle with Silicon Valley's gadget heads for the year's biggest show-and-tell for technology.

Top policymakers will address key technology issues at the 2010 International CES with government officials slated to speak, including Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.