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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will refund approximately $2.8 billion in refunds to the winning bidders for licenses previously issued to bankrupt NextWave Personal Communications Inc., NextWave Power Partners Inc. (NextWave) and Urban Comm-North Carolina, Inc. (Urban Comm). The FCC said late Wednesday the action will give the bidders access to the bulk of their […]

The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has released results of a new survey indicating that customers are “enjoying significant benefits” from their use of applications hosting and outsourcing services, including high return on investment, cost savings, enhanced security, improved infrastructure, emergency back-up, better time to market, and access to new technology. More than 60 […]

Sen. Ernest Hollings (D.-S.C.) dropped the hammer on Hollywood and Silicon Valley Thursday by introducing legislation that gives the two quarreling parties one year to develop standards to prevent online piracy or have Congress impose a standard, a prospect that neither party relishes. The entertainment industry estimates it loses $3 billion a year to piracy […]

The U.S. telecommunications market for equipment and services will grow modestly this year to 7.6 percent as compared to the 2001 growth rate of 7.2 percent according to a forecast by Telecommunications Industry Association’s (TIA). The trade association’s 2002 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast predicts total 2002 revenues of $713 billion, up $50 million from […]

DirecTV Broadband, Inc., has signed a distribution agreement with WorldCom to expand DirecTV DSL service across the Western and mid-Western U.S. via access to WorldCom’s nationwide DSL services. DirecTV Broadband offers nationwide service and holds agreements with every Regional Bell Operating Company. The company, formerly known as Telocity, was acquired in April 2001 by Hughes […]

As part of a new marketing agreement between Nextel Communications, Inc. and America Online, Inc., Nextel will offer its wireless customers access to AOL’s services and features, including e-mail and instant messages. In addition, Nextel will promote its products and services across several of AOL Time Warner’s , AOL’s New York-based parent company, online, print […]

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been caught with its hand in the digital cookie jar in an apparent violation of national policy on the use of persistent cookies on federal Web sites. The agency has admitted it was using a cookie, marking visitors with a unique identification tag, on its Electronic Reading Room (ERR)site, […]

A group of e-commerce and financial services companies are working together to develop a voluntary model Standards and Procedures for Electronic Records and Signatures (SPeRS). An organizational meeting of the SPeRS drafting committee was held Monday in the offices of the Electronic Financial Services Council in Washington, D.C. The project is expected to take nine […]

Aether Systems, Inc. has completed a $15 million deal to acquire certain assets and licenses of @Track Communications, Inc. , a provider of wireless-based vehicle fleet management and mobile-asset-tracking solutions. Under terms of the sale, @Track sold to Aether assets and related license rights to its Platinum Service software solution, 20/20V, and TrackWare asset and […]

Intelsat, Ltd., has signed an agreement to acquire the World Systems business unit of Lockheed Martin Corp. , including existing service contracts with World Systems’ customers for Intelsat capacity as well as earth stations located in Clarksburg, Md., and Paumalu, Hawaii. Under the agreement, Intelsat would also purchase the teleport facilities and related assets of […]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a rule change this morning reclassifying broadband via cable modem as an “information service,” freeing the cable industry from regulations that typically are applied to “telecommunications services,” including making access to their lines available to competing Internet service providers. The rule change is the first of several […]

For the third consecutive year, Boulder, Colo., has been ranked by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as the top metropolitan area for software-related employment. The second leading area was San Jose, Calif., followed by San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. Rounding out the top ten are Seattle, Boston, Austin, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Denver and […]