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The Sunlight Foundation developed this network neutrality primer including a micro-history of the issue, a chart to introduce you to the major players, and some graphic-packed research into the lobbyists they've brought on board. read more

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosts a Web-based system that collects specific identification information (e.g., company name, location and projected range of the operation, etc.) from applicants seeking to operate in existing and planned radio frequency (RF) bands that are shared on a co-primary basis by federal and non-federal users. read more

Rand Beers, the Undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate with the Department of Homeland Security has a lot on his mind. read more

Standards that define what constitutes an official electronic health record aren't strict enough to justify the billions of dollars in incentives the government plans to pay physicians and hospitals to install the systems, Republican lawmakers said on July 20. read more

It's easy to figure a strategy for surviving a tidal wave ... run like hell for the high ground. It's more difficult to apply that thinking to the Smart Grid. read more

Recent announcements illustrate that battle lines are forming over who, what, and how home energy management will be offered to consumers. read more

The "smart grid," or the way that the electric infrastructure can be enhanced with interactive, telecommunications- and broadband-related capabilities, may not be that important for consumers. read more

Of the some 100,000 albums released last year, only 2% of new albums on Soundscan sold over 5,000 copies -- that's a skydiver's plummet from the golden era of the music industry. read more

The problem, in a nutshell, is this: A print newspaper is not just a vehicle for delivering news -- it's a vehicle for delivering a truckload of high-priced ads. read more

Are government subsidies the cure for what ails the news business? Why should journalists be entitled to a multi-billion-dollar batch of media subsidies? read more

This is what happens when ideologically-focused noise machines are treated like real news outlets. read more

Billions of people live in countries where the Internet is not free. Confined behind the elaborate firewalls of authoritarian regimes such as China and Iran, they find their rights to expression threatened online and off -- by elaborate systems of monitoring and censorship and by harsh laws that punish bloggers with imprisonment or even death. read more

The Venezuelan government will put a representative on the board of Globovisión, the country's most influential opposition television station, President Hugo Chávez, said July 20. Globovision rejected the move, saying... read more

Lack of maturity, lack of supervision, and technology that can transmit messages instantly to millions of people: This is the volatile cocktail that lies at the root of cyberbullying. read more

The Federal Communications Commission rightly finds today that all means all. If 14 to 24 million Americans can not make use of today's essential communications tool, then the U.S. has a problem. In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, we need all Americans connected to the tools that are essential to jobs and economic growth, democratic engagement and civic engagement, health and public safety, and education and lifelong learning. Both the public and private sector should see the FCC's new report as another call to join forces and implement the National Broadband Plan. If not, we run the risk of a unconnected America, a second-class player on the global stage. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Developed nations such as the U.S., Japan and the UK are driving mobile data demand, but emerging markets aren't far behind when it comes to mobile data service revenues. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Sweden's Pirate Party wants to continue defending people's "right to act politically," and has decided take its ideals a step further than just hosting The Pirate Bay on its own servers. The political Piratpartiet has big plans to launch its own ISP that delivers service in line with the party's ideals. It won't be like your standard ISP, though: the Pirate ISP founders say that users will be responsible for fixing and maintaining their service, and that privacy will be one of its highest priorities. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:A Q&A with DoCoMo President Ryuji Yamada. read more

New research from the Federal Communications Commission finds that between 14 and 24 million Americans still lack access to broadband, and the immediate prospects for deployment to them are bleak. read more

Capital and Telecommunications policy conference, Blair Levin, the principal author of the National Broadband Plan, addressed, universal first-class digital citizenship. read more