The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported in 2008 that driver distraction is the cause of 16% of all fatal crashes - 5,800 people killed - and 21% of crashes resulting in an injury - 515,000 people wounded. by Doug Hanchard
IBM conformed today that Bob Moffat, a senior IBM executive arrested last month as part of an FBI insider trading sting, is no longer with the company. by Sam Diaz
In documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Google said it had more than 1.4 million Google Voice users - with some 570,000 using the service seven days a week - and hinted that it has plans to expand the service, or possibly elements of it, beyond the U.S. ...
Law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and green research and events company Cleantech Group have assembled an online database with info about state and federal government green funding options. by Heather Clancy
Atrise FBI Find Bad Information is a tool to check your data CD/DVD, flash drive and a dying HDD for bad reading files (soft and true HDD bad blocks, wrong reading, faulty drive/cable. Atrise FBI shows a full path to the current checking file, so it is very useful to...
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously today to move forward on a process - expected to take 120 days - that could lead to Net Neutrality regulations. The vote came after the two dissenters on the commission - Republicans Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker - went on the record...
The report says the same things we all knew: That the U.S. Government wants to subsidize the cost to deploy broadband to rural areas with incentives. That it needs more reports and analyses and that there are a few application forms to fill out to receive grants. by Doug Hanchard
AT&T's top policy exec - aka lobbyist - has turned to AT&T employees for a last-chance campaign to flood the FCC with anti-net neutrality messages. In a memo that's starting to circulate around the Internet, Senior Executive VP Jim Cicconi tells encourages the employees, their friends and family to "join...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...
Herring Broadcasting wanted access to a network platform and its programming did not have the quality or ratings the cable companies believed were required to make money. by Doug Hanchard
The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...
Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
AT&T upped the ante in its war with Google this week with a blistering new letter to the FCC. In it, the telecommunications giant attacked not only the Google Voice service, but broadened its offensive to cover Google Search and Advertisements as well. More flame-bait than legalese, the letter accused...
AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...
In the midst of the battle with AT&T over Google Voice, Google is forging ahead without spending any time worrying about what the FCC might decide after their investigation. If you are a user of Google Voice, you will begin finding invitations in...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Hiner: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech...
Is a Google Voice a phone service or a web service? The fact is, it's a question that can't be answered under our current definitions. But one thing is clear: Google Voice is the camel's nose under the policy tent that should - and perhaps will - cause a full-blown...
Google is obviously annoyed with the fact that AT&T is stirring the pot, and in their words, using "regulatory capitalism" to block or slow down innovation. This is turning into a fairly heated debate, and is getting more interesting all the time. Google defends its position...
There's been yet another twist in the ongoing drama surrounding Google, AT&T and the FCC. Washington lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have asked the FCC to launch a formal investigation of Google Voice, specifically Google's blocking of calls to certain rural exchanges, according to a...
Do we really want more nanny-state activities??There is something fundamentally wrong with this phrase in your post: [i]"...will help government agencies and businesses identify behavior that can be adjusted"[/i]I don't WANT government "identifying" any of my behaviors in attempts to "adjust" them. That is NOT the role of the imperial...
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