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Before proposing the "third way" on broadband reclassification, Engebretson would grade the current Federal Communications Commission with a A- or B+. read more

Market research firms SNL Kagan and MediaBiz this week released a new report timed with The Cable Show, the national cable TV industry convention in Los Angeles, that suggests pay TV subscribership is still growing and that cable TV operators remain the dominant players in the sector. read more

The hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter has come from a standing start in 2006 to become as well known as Facebook in the US. read more

After talking during the past year with engineers and strategists at Google and recently interviewing some of their counterparts inside the news industry, Fallows is convinced that there is a larger vision for news coming out of Google; that it is not simply a charity effort to buy off critics; and that it has been pushed hard enough by people at the top of the company, especially Schmidt, to become an internalized part of the culture in what is arguably the world's most important media organization. read more

Verizon Wireless said in March that its 4G LTE network was showing higher speeds than expected in real-world tests near Boston. read more

Citing defamation and "suffered embarrassment" allegedly caused by online comments posted at the web affiliate of The Times-Picayune, Jefferson Parish interim President Steve Theriot has filed a lawsuit requesting the identities behind 11 user accounts on the website. read more

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the awarding of a total of just over $9 million in matching funds to be used by four states to plan for their Medicaid programs to subsidize provider purchases and the use of electronic health-record systems. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:The joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom announced its name in a statement on Tuesday, along with a plan to launch a "new assault" on the UK business... read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Germany's top criminal court ruled Wednesday that Internet users need to secure their private wireless connections by password to prevent unauthorized people from using their Web access to illegally download data. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. said it expects to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of subsidies to users who buy Apple's iPhone and other smartphones for use on the Chinese carrier's high-speed wireless network. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Spain's Telefónica SA offered $7.3 billion in cash to grab control of Brazil's largest wireless carrier from its partner in the venture, Portugal Telecom, showing how global operators remain hungry... read more

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that it was seeking public comment on a plan that would require wireless phone companies to notify customers when they are running up unusually high charges for data usage, roaming or other uses beyond what is covered by regular monthly fees. read more

Helping consumers get a handle on the actual speeds of their broadband service is likely to be one of the next initiatives out of the FCC's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. read more

On May 11, Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn spoke at the Free Press policy summit, stressing that the agency's plans to rein in high-speed Internet providers is not exclusively an attempt to institute tough net neutrality rules. She also called for the FCC to hold public field hearings on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal joint venture. read more

A new policy paper from Free Press presents a series of creative policies and proposes reforms to support quality news reporting in local communities and to build a world-class noncommercial media system in America. read more

The State Department has decided to fund a group to provide software to skirt Internet censorship across the globe. read more

In 2015, 3-1/2 billion people - half of mankind - will have access to the Internet. There has never been such a revolution in freedom of communication and freedom of expression. But how will this new medium be used? What new distortions and obstacles will the enemies of the Internet come up with? read more

Human history is replete with stories of nations in conflict but it is rare for a huge national government to do battle with an influential global business firm. The tale of China versus Google is something new, and it threatens to upset many existing arrangements necessary to maintaining peaceful relationships among people. read more

The Federal Trade Commission got a two-week extension from Google and AdMob for its review of Google's $750 million acquisition. read more

Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, has been confirmed to head a new military command that will be capable of launching attacks against enemy computer networks. read more