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A big chunk is missing from the armor of the All-Channel Receiver Act, the law that lets the Federal Communications Commission require every television receiving device to receive all TV channels. read more

Working with national arts organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) has developed a first-of-its-kind Arts skills map that clearly defines how arts education promotes key 21st-century skills. read more

Replacing textbooks with e-readers would create a platform that lets students learn as much as they can, as fast as they can. read more

The Federal Communications Commission receives thousands of complaints a year about cell-phone bill shock - what happens when consumers get sudden, unexpected increases in their bills from one month to the next. read more

Apparently, Apple released its newest iPhone despite internal concerns about its antenna reception, and gave wireless carriers far less time to test the phone than is typical. read more

State regulators said they'd look out for consumers after California's phone market was deregulated in 2006. They didn't. read more

The big complaint from the business lobby these days concerns a "lack of clarity" about federal regulation that prevents companies from using all that cash piling up on balance sheets to hire workers and make major investments. Then, without missing a beat, those very same business groups declare themselves unalterably opposed to any climate-change legislation that sets plant-specific targets for carbon reductions, puts a floor and a ceiling on the price of carbon, tells utilities exactly how much of their power should come from low-carbon sources or sets specific standards for the energy efficiency of cars and appliances. read more

Congressional candidates, political parties and special-interest groups have spent more than $139 million on TV ads to influence November's federal elections, more than twice the spending at this point in 2006. read more

The conventional wisdom is that Apple is one terrific company -- key word: "one." To compete with the vast ecosystem emerging from Android's innovative playland - will Apple CEO Steve Jobs never learn? read more

Google is an innovative company that has produced many benefits for consumers with its free search technology. In turn, it has become a highly profitable enterprise with a strong market share. It is thus very important to many companies - particularly small businesses - where they appear in Google's search rankings. read more

The federal appeals court decision against the Federal Communications Commission regulations of "fleeting expletives" needs a hearing in the Supreme Court. read more

Paul Allen, who founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates, announced on Thursday that he planned to give more than half of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy. read more

Google is giving researchers nearly a half-million dollars to test the academic value of its rapidly growing online library. The grants announced July 14 will be used to help pay for 12 humanities projects studying questions that will require sifting through thousands of books to reach meaningful conclusions. read more

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. said July 15 it has reached an agreement to buy Dimension Data Holdings PLC , a South African technology-services provider, for £2.1 billion in cash ($3.2 billion), as part of an overseas expansion for the Japanese telecommunications giant. read more

The Federal Communications Commission introduced a new health care connectivity program that would expand investment in broadband for medically underserved communities across the country. This program would invest up to $400 million annually to enable doctors, nurses, hospitals and clinics to deliver, through communications technology, world-class health care to patients, no matter where they live. read more

The Federal Communications Commission took steps to make additional spectrum available for new investment in mobile broadband networks by promoting flexible use and removing barriers, while ensuring robust mobile satellite service capabilities. read more

In an effort to streamline access to information for consumers as well as industry, the Federal Communications Commission proposed completing the transition to electronic filing of tariffs, which disclose the rates, terms and conditions set by certain carriers. The proposal is part of the FCC's broader Data Innovation Initiative to modernize and streamline how the agency collects, uses, and disseminates data. read more

In this Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) originally released May 20, the Federal Communications Commission proposes rules to expedite access by telecommunications carriers and cable operators to utility poles. Comments are due on or before August 16, 2010 and reply comments are due on or before September 13, 2010. read more

The Senate Commerce Committee approved the Equal Access to 21st Century Communications Act (S. 3304). The bill would require that new technologies such as the Internet and smart phones be accessible to those that are hearing and vision impaired. The legislation would update existing rules requiring that technology be accessible to the hearing and vision impaired by ensuring that smart mobile devices such as an iPhone or Blackberry are hearing aid compatible and would require that television shows streamed on the Internet include closed captioning. read more

On July 15, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on protecting youths in an online world including the issues of cyberbullying, and violent and sexually explicit sites. read more