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With all the other important issues confronting presidential candidates, it’s hard sometimes to figure out where political would-be leaders stand on geek-centric topics. But since John McCain is making a whistle stop in Silicon Valley next Monday, maybe we can take advantage of the situation and press the senior Senator from Arizona on matters close [...]

Lost in the iPhone news shuffle late last week was Frontline Wireless’s very public smackdown of telco giant Verizon, a who’s-your-daddy type challenge to debate dueling wireless networking plans in public, in front of the FCC commissioners. While Big Ivan is sure to duck the contest, the confidence shown by Frontline’s willingness to swing hard [...]

CHICAGO — Sure, telecom is back from the dead. But for how long?
That was the unanswered question floating around the opening day of the telecom industry’s big trade show here Tuesday, as exuberance over record revenues and booming bandwidth demand was tempered by the harsh realities facing the legacy telephone industry as it heads into [...]

The battle over the valuable 700 MHz wireless spectrum takes an important step forward Wednesday, the day that public comments are due on the FCC’s latest proposal for rules governing the forthcoming airwaves auction. And while an interesting proposal from Google — for ongoing Adsense-like auctions of spectrum — attracted national headlines Tuesday, former FCC [...]

After spending hard time covering last year’s net neutrality battles, it’s easy to get used to hearing telephone companies saying up is really down, and black is really white. That’s why we’re not going to even nibble at the pitch Qwest’s PR representatives sent our way Monday, an invitation to hear more about Qwest’s “broadband [...]

Is having someone else to play against is what draws you to online gaming? What if you don’t have an XBox? Then, you are part of the target audience online gaming startup Power Challenge that just raised an $8 million from Silicon Valley VC firm Benchmark Capital. 
Power Challenge, whose primary web-game Power Football allows [...]