Wireless

White House Must Lead on Wireless

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Spectrum, Wireless, Mobile Policy, Wireless Spectrum, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Wireless Internet, Wireless Generation, Mobile Communications, Technology News

The message is clear: Political gridlock and bureaucratic inertia in Washington must take a back seat to the more urgent tasks of moving our economy forward and putting the interests and needs of our citizens first.

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Corruption, Democracy, and the Search for a Better World

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Corruption, Wal Mart, International Business, Zambia, Uruguay, Ethics, Wireless, Bribery, Technology, Fcpa, Business News

Wal-Mart is making the headlines with the FCPA corruption case it faces in Mexico. But anyone who has been on the ground trying to close business in c...

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How Wireless Hype Is Hurting America

Bruce Kushnick | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Wireless, AT&T, Broadband, Netflix, Internet, Nielsen, Verizon, Fcc, Internet Connection Speed, Smart Phones, Technology News

If Americans believe the phone company hype -- and are seduced into believing that a slow and expensive wireless infrastructure is better than a fast wireline infrastructure -- the economic consequences could be grave.

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On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Internet Access, Navajo Nation, Native American, Native Americans, Tribal Land, The Navajo Nation, Breakdown, Internet, Navajo, Fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Broadband Access, Wireless, Navajo Indians Internet Access, Technology News

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Like many college students, Wilhelmina Tsosie must go online to complete her assignments. But unlike the vast majority of Americ...

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White House Needs to Shake Loose Underutilized Government Spectrum

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Spectrum, Wireless Spectrum, Wireless, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Technology News, Wireless Policy, Mobile Future, Technology News

Today, U.S. consumers and businesses largely take our mobile connectivity for granted. It is incumbent on all political leaders to ensure this never changes.

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World Going Wireless: 1 In 4 Homes Connect Wirelessly

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Asia Pacific, Broadband, Strategy Analytics, USA, South Korea, Households With Wireless, Wireless, Japan, China, Wifi, Technology News

A new study estimates that 25 percent of all Internet-connected households in the world now have wireless home networks -- and that number is growing ...

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She Was Wireless Before Her Time

Tom Falco | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Wireless, Joan Crawford, Hollywood, Technology, Humor, Comedy, Comedy News

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A "Separate But Equal" Internet?

Preeti Vissa | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Wireless, Internet, Technology, Fcc, Net Neutrality, Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, Verizon Censoring, Censoring, Technology News

In short, net neutrality simply preserves the free, open Internet we know and depend on today. But is that free and open Internet really in danger? In a word, yes.

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Watching Wireless Grow Up (and Up and Up)

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Wireless, Wireless Policy, Wireless Spectrum, Mobile, Mobile Future, Mobile Phones, Technology News

Today, policymakers have an opportunity to transform challenges into opportunities by adopting policy prescriptions that make more spectrum available for mobile and enable robust wireless investment and innovation.

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Secrecy and Corruption at the NTIA

J.H. Snider | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Corruption, Special Interest Politics, Spectrum, Fcc, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Wireless, Political Corruption, Wireless Internet, Wireless Spectrum, Ntia, Lawrence Strickling, Nextwave, Technology News

Anything short of this type of personal liability is unlikely to provide agency heads with an adequate incentive to comply with FOIA under circumstances when they believe that compliance could damage their careers.

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Let's All Panic!

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.02.2012

Thing One: Let's All Panic About Oil: The oil market is as jittery as Rick Santorum in a sex toy shop. Case in point: Yesterday a sketchy "news" repor...

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, # 7: Wireless Data From Every Lightbulb

Harald Haas | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Tedtalks, Lightbulb Data, tedtalks2011, #18ideas, Wireless Spectrum, Spectrum, Wireless, Wireless Internet, Wireless Data, Smartphones, Technology News

Soon when you switch on the light in the morning, that light will beam the latest news to your smartphone. From the breakfast table, you will be able to send emails through the table light.

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Harald Haas On Lightbulb Data

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Spectrum, Lightbulb Data, tedtalks2011, Wireless Data, #18ideas, Smartphones, Wireless, Tedtalks, Wireless Internet, Wireless Spectrum, Video, Technology News

jQuery(function($) { $('#ad_sharebox_260x60').prepend(''); }); In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are ex...

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Verizon 'Emergency' Text Alert Causes Panic In New Jersey

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Alert, Verizon, Homeland Security, Panic, Wireless, Emergency, Text, New Jersey, Cell Phone, Technology News

NEWARK, N.J. — Not quite the "War Of The Worlds" broadcast of a Martian invasion in New Jersey, a Verizon "emergency" alert Monday that the comp...

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Defending the Merger Between AT&T and T-Mobile

María Elena Durazo | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: T-Mobile, Unemployment, AT&T T-Mobile Merger, AT&T, Economy, Telecommunications, Wireless, Jobs, Unions, Labor Unions, Mergers, Los Angeles News

The merger between AT&T and T-Mobile makes sense. It will create a much-needed boost to our economy. It's a good deal for California and a good deal for Los Angeles.

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Entrepenuership Should Not Be Limited By Color Or Access In The Wireless Age

Navarrow Wright | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Wireless, Wiresless Broadband, 4g, Digital Divide, Technology News

In the wireless age, we should be able to have a level playing field in which an idea -- an entrepreneur -- will be judged by the content of its concept rather than by the color of its maker. So we need to make everyone has equal access and the opportunity to do so.

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Selling Our Wireless Future

Yochai Benkler | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Verizon, Broadband, Mobile Broadband, AT&T, Wireless, Supercommittee, Wireless Internet, Wifi, Technology News

As the deficit supercommittee searches every corner to make budgetary ends meet, one solution they are considering, "incentive auctions" of the TV bands, could threaten the future of wireless innovation.

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There Are Now More Wireless Devices Than Human Beings In America

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Connectivity, U.S. Population, Ctia Survey, Comscore, Wireless, Ctia, Survey, CTIA Wireless, Technology News

For the first time ever, there are more wireless subscriber connections than there are people in the United States. According to a survey by the CT...

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Wi-Fi: Three Steps to Stay Safe

Christopher Burgess | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Passwords, Network, Wifi, Online Safety, Family, Encryption, Wireless, Wi-Fi-Alliance, Safety, Router, Security, NCSAM 2011, Technology News

Those who have followed my writing on the subject of Wi-Fi security know my passion for taking seemingly basic steps to keep one's wireless activity s...

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Soaking the Rich in Obama's Jobs Plan?

J.H. Snider | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Special Interest Politics, Public Assets, Corporate Welfare, Spectrum, Tea Pot Dome, Information Policy, Telecommunications, Wireless, American Jobs Act, Information Technology, Public Airwaves, Technology News

The Obama Administration's spectrum reallocation policy has been characterized by lots of talk of spectrum auctions and fees while in practice relying almost exclusively on giveaways.

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Connecting America's Jobs Plan to the Mobile Future

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Mobile Policy, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Mobile Technology, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Wireless, Obama, Technology News

It's critical that leaders on both sides of the partisan divide recognize that U.S. mobile policy is a poster-child for just the sort of forward momentum the President and leaders in Congress are seeking to gather to get the nation back on a healthy and sustainable job growth track.

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Broadband Can Power Clean Energy Future

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Wireless, Clean Energy, Wireless Technology, Mobile Technology, Clean Energy Future, Mobile Future, UK Environment, Technology News

In a new report, The Carbon Disclosure Project rightly declares that we are in the middle of a "network driven communications revolution." And, it contains broad possibilities both for our economy and for the sustainability of our planet.

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DOJ's AT&T Suit Shows Law Trumps Politics

Edward J. Black | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: T-Mobile, AT&T T-Mobile Merger, Ccia, AT&T, Wireless, Technology News, Takeover, Justice Department, Technology News

Darwinian competition, not government micromanagement, forces firms to innovate and keeps prices low -- and that is exactly what antitrust intervention is designed to promote.

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CEO Perspective: Rapid Growth With a Female Touch

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Leadership, Motorola, Bell South, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Women-Owned-Business, Wireless, Ceo, Technology, Business News

Fiercely proud of being a woman and now running a successful woman-owned enterprise, Jennifer Schoenhofer believes that women manage organizations differently than men.

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Families of Color Will Pay the Price of an AT&T-T-Mobile Merger

Joe Torres | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: AT&T, Latinos, Economy, T-Mobile, Wireless, Merger, Jobs, Techonlogy, African Americans, Technology News

Like many developments in this Great Recession, the AT&T-T-Mobile merger has the potential to add millions more to the pockets of the already wealthy while hurting those struggling to get by.

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