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Bell and cable companies have long wanted to move on from net neutrality, their 2006 policy debacle. But once Washington has grabbed hold of an issue, it can’t seem to let it go.
I’m not talking about the Federal Communication Commission here. The big Bell companies currently hold sway at the communications agency. No one expects [...]

Fixed mobile convergence, the merger of wired and wireless networks, is a topic that always seems to top the list of telecom trends every year. T-Mobile made the topic interesting last year when it started a service for consumers in the Seattle area, and the WSJ even recently picked up the topic looking at mostly [...]

Wi-Fi hardware startup Ruckus Wireless says it has started selling a $200 Wi-Fi access point geared for Wi-Fi hotspots with more active (ie. bandwidth-needy) users, called the MediaFlex HS. The company says the gear doubles the signal range, and offers better access to voice and video — nice. It sounds like it has the features [...]

If you have been a victim of identity theft, then you know it can be a harrowing experience. Tom Fragala, founder of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Truston, has first hand experience and that is one of the main reason he co-founded MyTruston, a service that helps you manage the pain of ID Theft.
The 10-person company [...]

BitTorrent is all set to launch a legal P2P video download service, BitTorrent Entertainment Network, that will offer television shows for sale and movies for rental from some of the major Hollywood studios. The news has created quite a stir amongst the technorati. Mathew Ingram, a man not known to mince words, is convinced that [...]

Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler. The opinion piece, titled “The Movie Magic is Gone”, explains how Hollywood is losing its place as the epicenter of cultural products and [...]