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The Broadband Wireless Alliance (BWA) has created 17 new broadband wireless working committees, including a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Regulatory Issues Committee and a Frequency Coordination Committee to establish a formal mode of communication from wireless Internet service providers (WISP) to the FCC and vice versa. The new committees add to the BWA’s existing […]

According to an unreleased draft plan prepared by the Bush administration, the president favors creating a centralized source for collecting and reviewing e-mail and data relating to cyber security. The new organization would collect threat data from the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, the Department of Energy and commercial networks, […]

IBM and a partnership of public safety and transportation agencies in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia have been selected to build a public safety data communications network for the Washington D.C. region. The first interoperable wireless system to span multi-state government jurisdictions, the network will allow officials from more than 40 local, state, […]

Nextel Communications, Inc., , the nation’s fifth largest wireless carrier that has mostly focused on the business market, is teaming with Boost Mobile, a “lifestyle-based” telecommunications brand that will exclusively target the youth market in the United States. Boost Mobile will initially launch in September in the test markets of California and Nevada, with service […]

David Colburn, the former AOL Time Warner executive in charge of deal making at the Dulles, Va.-based online division, is the initial focus of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) probe into AOL’s accounting practices. Last week, AOL forced Colburn out of the company, literally locking him out of his office. According to the Wall […]

David M. Colburn, who negotiated many of America Online’s biggest advertising and marketing deals that are now the subject of investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, has left AOL. According to a Washington Post account, Colburn was locked out of his Dulles, Va., office on Friday. The newspaper reported […]

Microsoft Corp. agreed Thursday to 20 years of independent, third-party audits of the Passport identification and authentication system to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that Microsoft falsely misrepresented the privacy and security of personal information collected from consumers through Passport. FTC Commissioner Timothy J. Muris said his agency’s review of Passport procedures found no […]

Verizon is testing the ability of a new wireless technology — known as broadband fixed wireless — to deliver broadband communications services to consumers and business customers in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County. In the field trial, the technology is being tested to determine if it can supplement and expand the ongoing delivery of Verizon’s digital […]

In February, the Federal Communications Commission authorized the commercial deployment of a new wireless technology that can transmit data, voice and video over short distances with more flexibility than other radio frequencies. Known as ultra wideband (UWB), the FCC said the technology holds “great promise for a vast array of new applications.” The agency somberly […]

President Bush on Tuesday proposed launching a systematic national effort to harness science and technology in support of homeland security. Bush wants to build a national research and development “enterprise” for homeland security “sufficient to mitigate the risk posed by modern terrorism.” Under the proposed plan, the government will consolidate most federally-funded homeland security research […]

Earlier this year, Congressman Lamar Smith (R.-Tex.) said, “We must send a clear signal that those who engage in cyber crime or cyber terrorism will be punished.” The House of Representatives certainly did that on Monday, passing by a 385-3 margin a bill that would provide for life sentences for certain types of computer hackers. […]

WASHINGTON — Claiming cable high-speed Internet systems are being built to “block content,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today launched a campaign to redefine the issues involving the deployment of broadband as the “key First Amendment issue of the 21st Century.” Teaming with the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the Consumer Federation of […]