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This headline is presented in partnership with:Jeremy Hunt, the UK's Culture Secretary, said the target to make sure every home has broadband speeds of 2 megabits per second (mbps) by 2012 was unrealistic in the teeth of a recession. He said the target will have to be pushed back to the end of the current Parliament in 2015. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:The European Commission said Thursday it does not object to Google digitizing 160,000 books in the archives of the National Library of the Netherlands if they will be made publicly available. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:The priorities for the Internet begin and end with security, a top Chinese government adviser said July 15. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Dozens of blogs by some of China's most outspoken users have been abruptly shut down while popular Twitter-like services appear to be the newest target in government efforts to control social networking. read more

Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their traffic. When Google engineers tweak its supersecret algorithm -- as they do hundreds of times a year -- they can break the business of a Web site that is pushed down the rankings. When Google was a pure search engine, it was easy to appear agnostic about search results, with no reason to play favorites with one Web site or another. read more

In Google's view, the notion of "search neutrality" threatens innovation, competition and, fundamentally, your ability as a user to improve how you find information. read more

CTIA, the lobbying arm of the wireless industry, questioned the Federal Communications Commission's recent survey on cell phone bill shock, pointing to what it called methodological holes in the agency's analysis. read more

The ruling by the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which sends the FCC back to the drawing board for its policy on "fleeting expletives" on broadcast television, has unexpectedly raised the hopes of First Amendment scholars and legal experts who would like to see less government regulation of the media. read more

Apparently, the Federal Communications Commission plans to propose a new program to help rural doctors get access to broadband in hopes of improving patient care. read more

Did White House business liaison Valerie Jarrett just give the big kiss-off to Verizon Chairman Ivan Seidenberg? Or did she invite more negotiations on some crucial telecommunications issues? read more

Since the President's speech last year and the release of the President's Cyberspace Policy Review, the Administration has taken concrete steps to make cyberspace more secure. On July 14, the National Security Council released a progress report. read more

A change to Sprint Nextel's cellular infrastructure that the wireless telecom is considering could have profound effects on the country's mobile environment. In the not-too-distant future, you might be able to buy a cellphone that could be used on any of the major U.S. carriers, according to rumblings in the mobile phone industry. read more

GE and four venture capital firms announced an unusual, $200 million partnership to find breakthrough smartgrid ideas - from small, startup companies or solo inventors - and speed those concepts to market. read more

What if Julius Genachowski, chairman of the FCC, is simply running out the clock? The idea works like this: The FCC (and members of Congress) have endless rounds of these stakeholder meetings. They make a big show of "listening" to everyone who comes their way. And then, before you know it, we're in election season. read more

Federal regulators have distributed nearly half of the $7.2 billion in stimulus dollars set aside for extending broadband's reach, particularly to rural areas, with investments in 270 projects nationwide, according to a report released July 14 by the Council of Economic Advisors. read more

Colleges and universities will be among the anchor institutions in an ultra high-speed nationwide Internet network after President Obama earlier this month announced more than $760 million in grants designed to expand broadband web access. read more

Comcast says it has no incentive to withhold NBC shows and channels from Internet distributors such as YouTube and Vuze because the company want as many eyeballs as possible. read more

On a 290-131 vote, the House passed the Telework Improvements Act of 2010 on July 14. read more

In letters to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski says the FCC has already conducted work that provides a foundation for a comprehensive inventory of the use of spectrum by licenses and users under the FCC's jurisdiction. read more

On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission announced it was seeking nominations of Tribal representatives to serve on the FCC-Native Nations Broadband Task Force. The FCC set a July 15 deadline. Now, the FCC has determined that a short extension of time to submit nominations is advisable to permit Tribal governments adequate time to complete their internal processes associated with nominating a representative to the Task Force. Therefore, the FCC now extends the deadline for the receipt of nominations of Tribal representatives for the Task Force until August 20, 2010. read more