Comcast’s proposed deal to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal from General Electric is having congressional hearings today. The proposal faces strong opposition from many consumer groups and competitors, although federal regulators are likely to approve it with conditions. “Many are concerned that this transaction could result in the best of NBC’s programming [...] Full story...
South by Southwest Interactive, ground zero in social media, produced several new apps for social media over the last few days.
The Financial just reported that the top wireless carriers in the United States added 4.2 million retail subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2009.
The annual gathering for the global satellite-enabled communications, Satellite 2010, starts today. Some than 9,300 satellite professionals will particpate in the conference, which runs March 15-18th, near Washington, D.
The State of the Media report, released Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, has good news and bad news for newspapers.
The Motorola DynaTAC, the first mobile telephone, weighed 2 pounds, sold for $3,995 and offered just a half-hour of talk time in 1983.
Stacey Higginbotham of GigOm has an interview Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer at Clearwire.
Sievert said it cost Clearwire “somewhere in the mid-$20 range” per person to build out its WiMAX network, an estimate that relies on several things, from the cost of the spectrum to the number of the towers Clearwire needs to deploy.
Apple began taking preorders for the iPad this morning, and published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader, notes Wired.
Twitter’s geolocation feature was officially announced today by Twitter co-founder and CEO Biz Stone.
AT&T announced today it will carry live mobile coverage of all 64 games of the NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Championship through its AT&T Mobile TV and AT&T Radio services.
This is MY project! And I don’t want to see it end up on some Defense scrap heap before we know what it’s really about!
– Brainstorm
The Intendix from Guger Technologies is a system that uses an EEG cap to measure brain activity in order to let you type with your thoughts, reports Engadget.