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Google Fiber: Modern Technology, but Obsolete Policy Thinking

| Scott Cleland
Google Search

In touting the benefits of Google Fiber, Google hid the taxpayer-subsidies Google extracted from Kansas City

Obama grants DHS power to takeover commercial, private communications during emergency - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Janet Napolitano Homeland Security Secretary

DHS charged with handling of communications during a national security event or natural disaster

Taxpayer funds wasted on flawed agenda-driven study, expert says - TheDCNF

| Betsi Fores
OECD

MIT telecommunications director: OECD’s methodology fundamentally flawed

Iran buys Chinese surveillance system - RT.com

| Josh Peterson
Fulvio's photos/Flickr

The agreement has now acquired particular importance in view of the recent tightening of global sanctions against the Islamic republic.

Agency advisor has possible conflict of interest in LightSquared controversy - BGR

| Josh Peterson
LightSquared

‘The advisor works both as a vice chairman of Trimble Navigation, an industry board that advises federal agencies on GPS technology, and also as a Stanford University professor’

NJ: "AT&T and the FCC have staged aggressive public-relations plays" - National Journal

| Josh Peterson
AT&T - T-Mobile merger

‘It’s complicated between AT&T and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’

Obama Administration invokes Cold-War powers to force telecom companies to divulge security secrets in aim to find Chinese spyware - Bloomberg

| Josh Peterson
Obama

‘The survey represents “very high-level” concern that China and other countries may be using their growing export sectors to develop built-in spying capabilities in U.S. networks’

FCC's Genachowski calls for extra hearing for AT&T-T-Mobile merger - WSJ

| Josh Peterson
ATT TMobile

‘The unusual decision by the Federal Communications Commission to call the extra hearing—its first such move in nine years—adds a new roadblock and forces AT&T to consider an unpalatable range of options’

Ten reasons why telecom unions are going extinct

| Samuel R. Lewis

As the recent Verizon strike illustrated, telecom unions are out of place in the modern world.

AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA - AP

| admin

AT&T Inc., the second-largest wireless carrier in the United States, on Sunday said it will buy T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest for $39 billion

House passes sweeping cuts to domestic programs - AP

| admin

House votes to impose $61 billion in cuts aimed at domestic programs and foreign aid

Obama promotes plans for wireless expansion - AP

| admin

POTUS formulates plan proposal for all Americans to have access to speedy wireless internet

Iran tech expo sends defiant message to West - AP

| admin

Show aims to show ‘friend and foe’ that sanctions have not slowed Iran

Verizon unveils pricing details for iPhone service - AP

| admin

Verizon Wireless is revealing details of how much it will charge iPhone users for voice, text and data service

Most innovative products of 2010 [SLIDESHOW] - AP

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

As Top 10 list season winds down and awards season cranks up, Good Housekeeping named some winners of a different sort

Motorola to officially split into 2 companies - AP

| admin

Motorola will divide into two companies and begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday

EU clears News Corp acquisition of Sky network - AP

| admin

Complaints from several competitors say the decision will give Rupert Murdoch’s media empire too much sway in British media

FCC Dems close to agreement on net neutrality rules - National Review

| Chad Brady (admin)

FCC Republicans remain staunchly opposed, arguing that the proposed rules amount to unnecessary government regulation of the Internet

FCC net neutrality plan faces battle with GOP - AP

| admin

Just hours after the head of the FCC said he would push ahead with net neutrality rules, battle lines are being drawn

Satellite appears to show NKorea nuke building - AP

| admin

New satellite images show construction under way at North Korea’s main Yongbyon atomic complex