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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz says his agency is taking a "very, very close look" at Google's recent admission that it had been collecting more Wi-Fi data as part of its Street View service than it previously disclosed. read more

A prominent civil liberties watchdog has added its voice to those calling for a federal investigation of Google following the company's recent admission of privacy violations related to its "Street View" product. read more

The media cross-ownership debate should be settled by now. Unfortunately, it is acting up again like a slow stubborn disease fed by the greed of big media companies. read more

Newspapers may be struggling with how to monetize their online versions, but they're doing just fine with increasing Web traffic. read more

At a health innovation and investment conference in California earlier this month, there was a lot of energy and excitement about the emerging health and wellness industry. read more

The pickup in tech hiring is spreading beyond Silicon Valley, forcing companies outside the big tech center to rethink their recruiting tactics. read more

Deal-making is back in style in Silicon Valley. Driven by powerful trends in mobile devices, digital media and "cloud computing," tech companies are acting on the urge to merge —... read more

You might imagine the State Department as a place awash in paperwork, a sprawling bureaucratic entity that encircles the globe and still passes information between its foreign missions with telegrams. And you would be right. But spurred by an overwhelming need to share and archive on-the-ground knowledge quickly, the State Department has also become a poster child for government use of wikis. read more

Eircom will begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally. Ireland is the first country in... read more

Allied Fiber said it's begun construction of a nationwide wholesale fiber network that will span 11,548 miles. read more

Five years ago, I was asked whether or not consumers would be willing to cut off their wireline data service in favor of a mobile-only option. At the time it seemed absurd. Fast forward and suddenly it's not such a silly question. read more

President Barack Obama has said that America faces "few more urgent challenges than preparing our children to compete in a global economy." Being able to understand and make use of the world's vast telecommunications infrastructure is certainly part of that preparation. read more

As the Obama administration's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Dr. David Blumenthal is guiding the deployment of up to $27 billion in federal stimulus money over 10 years to help health care professionals and organizations overcome the uneasiness that underpinned his own resistance to change at his hospital. read more

What will Google TV mean for TiVo? read more

Computer security researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a way to distribute adware without having to convince potential victims to install the adware on their computers. read more

A CNN International debate program that took viewers' questions via YouTube broke UK rules by offering product placement and sponsorship to the Google video site. read more

Media criticism has been boiled down to a single, painful word: fail. read more

On February 3, 2010, Rep Christopher Murphy (D-CT) wrote a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski in support of FCC action to preserve the open Internet. Concerning the same proceeding, Rep Trent Franks (R-AZ) wrote Chairman Genachowski because he was concerned that some public comments were barred from the proceeding while others weren't. read more

On March 1, 2010, House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA) wrote Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski saying the FCC should accelerate consideration of modifications to the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule and revise the rule so that a proposed combination may be approved when the number of competing voices present in the community after the combination is sufficient to ensure the voicing of contrasting views on major issues. read more

On April 21, 2010 Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison, the ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee, wrote Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski a letter concerning the order approving a transfer of control of licenses from SkyTerra Communications to Harbinger Capital Partners. read more