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Apple -- with a storehouse of billions of music, movie and software downloads -- is studying the buying habits of many of its 150 million iTunes users to show more appealing mobile ads and fuel competition with Google. read more

On July 6, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the appointment of Rick Kaplan as Chief Counsel and Senior Legal Advisor. He will succeed Bruce Gottlieb. read more

Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced July 6 that Angela ("Angie") Kronenberg will assume the responsibility of Chief of Staff, and that Eloise Gore will be on detail from the Media Bureau to advise the Commissioner on media and consumer issues. read more

The European Union's new Digital Agenda, an ambitious program of incentives and legislation designed to improve access to technology across the EU, could force companies such as Apple to open up their businesses by requiring them to offer more interoperability and use open standards. read more

Netflix - a video delivery company - is all about focus. Google, on the other hand, is a company that is still searching for a revenue engine beyond search and advertising. read more

Social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, are now going after the big media prize: billions of worldwide TV advertising dollars. read more

Not only is the FCC trying to determine if Comcast should be allowed to spend $30 billion or so to acquire NBC Universal and whether the American public would benefit from a broadband plan that includes more regulation, the agency has also looked at (and apparently approved) the Logitech Revue Google TV set-top and in now in the process of determining whether it should extend its outage reporting rules to broadband services, including VoIP. read more

Nearly 900 Internet experts and technologists expressed provocative thoughts on the impact that rapidly expanding social media systems are having on individual lives and overall society in a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University. While most respondents noted that the Internet has both positive and negative effects, 85 percent of the people participating in the survey said it has improved their own social relations and will continue to do so through 2020. read more

Computer networks and infrastructures, on which the United States and much of the world rely to communicate and conduct business, contain vulnerabilities that can leave them susceptible to unauthorized access, disruption, or attack. read more

The Obama Administration is trying to fix the Internet's dog problem. read more

Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor. read more

If your Internet service provider can't block some low-bandwidth application like VoIP simply because it competes with one of their own offerings, why should mobile operators have the right to do so? In Canada, they no longer do. read more

The Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Advisory Committee met on June 30, discussing white space spectrum usage, National Broadband Plan implementation concerns, and broadband accessibility to tribal lands and people with disabilities. read more

The Big Ten Network, the all-collegiate sports channel, prompted chuckles when it launched in 2007. But no one's laughing at it now. read more

Stirrings of audience life in multicast channels may the big reason why the national Nielsen ratings acquired by PBS have been rising even though local Nielsen numbers are still generally slipping. read more

After two failed attempts to smoothly spin off its aging landlines, Verizon Communications said it has completed the transfer of its local wireline operations in 14 states to Frontier Communications. read more

On April 30, 2010, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) submitted projections of demand and administrative expenses for the federal Universal Service Fund for the third quarter of 2010. According to USAC's projections, $900 million in unused funds from funding years 2002 and 2005 through 2008 is available to carry forward to increase disbursements to schools and libraries via the schools and libraries universal service program. read more

Apparently, some iPhone owners/AT&T subscribers have seen a sharp decrease in their data upload speeds in recent days. read more

At the moment, Comcast, Google and Facebook have more power over who can speak and be heard than any government or Supreme Court justice. read more

Manufacturing in China is about to get far more expensive. read more