Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

The federal government should be able to read all communications on the Internet, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said during a New Yorker interview.

A study conducted by the University College London found that young people lack analytical skills necessary to assess the information they find on the Internet

If the tests are successful this time and the devices are approved, the coalition plans to introduce commercial devices for sale after the digital television transition in February 2009.

The unorthodox formula has brought her a total of 8.2 million views on YouTube — and, just as important, a host of buyers.

A satellite due to launch in three years promises to expand high-speed Internet services to rural Americans who cannot get access through cable or phone companies.

For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their networks as leverage to dictate what phones will get made, how much they will cost, and what features will be available on them. Handsets were viewed largely as cheap, disposable lures, massively subsidized to snare subscribers and lock them into using the carriers’ proprietary services. But the iPhone upsets that balance of power.

"We are still hopeful there will be someone who will emerge as being willing to take on this challenge," the FCC said in a statement.

"The coming year is going to be incredibly important for the wireless industry as new business models begin to take shape," said Jorge Fuenzalida, vice president of communications consulting for inCode, a VeriSign company. "Beginning with the spectrum auction in January, to the continuing battle between fourth-generation (4G) technologies LTE and WiMAX, to what it’s going to take to make converged wireless a reality, wireless will look significantly different in several critical ways one year from today."

Yahoo believes its Go software gave the company an early advantage in a battle to deliver more advertising and Internet services to the 3 billion mobile phone subscribers.

The effort is aimed at enabling public safety personnel to talk to each other on different communication systems in real time.