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There haven’t been too many iPhone applications that prompted a federal investigation, but one that did–Google Voice–is now finally available in the App Store. Google announced the availability of the official app today, nearly a year and a half after it first submitted Google Voice to Apple. Apple’s reluctance to approve Google Voice–Google claimed that [...]

Google and Verizon Communications have released a proposal that would give the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limited power to enforce Net neutrality rules, including levying fines up to $2 million for violations by broadband providers. Officials from the two companies, in an announcement Monday, said they hope to move the often-contentious Net neutrality debate ahead [...]

Google and Verizon Communications have released a proposal that would give the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limited power to enforce network neutrality rules, including levying fines up to $2 million for violations by broadband providers. Officials from the two companies, in an announcement Monday, said they hope to move the often-contentious net neutrality debate ahead [...]

Amid reports that Verizon and Google are near a deal of their own on Net neutrality principles, new reports suggest the Federal Communications Commission has decided to stop brokering a compromise between the parties. The Associated Press and Washington Post reported Thursday afternoon just after the close of trading on the stock market that the [...]

Google today denied reports that it is in talks with Verizon for a deal that could undermine Net neutrality. According to reports in today’s Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Google and Verizon, both major online players, are close to finalizing an agreement that would have Verizon speeding some online content more quickly [...]

Google and Verizon are reportedly in talks over how to manage network traffic, an agreement that could influence how U.S. regulators view Net neutrality, according to a report in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. Verizon confirmed the talks have been ongoing with Google and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for 10 months, the paper reported. [...]

Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead this weekend with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference. Using several thousand dollars worth of equipment, Paget was able to intercept mobile-phone data on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks used by [...]

Samsung appears to have won the race to be the first device manufacturer to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a phone based on the 4G LTE standard. Currently known as the Samsung R900, the device will have LTE connectivity as well as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3G EV-DO Rev. A connectivity. The FCC [...]

The U.S. mobile wireless industry has become increasingly concentrated over the past five years, and carriers’ network capital investment has not kept pace with their revenue gains, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Thursday in its annual report on mobile competition. The two largest mobile operators, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, have 60 percent of the [...]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will move to reclassify broadband transmission as a regulated, common-carrier service, but exempt many broadband services from new regulations in an effort to find a middle ground between no oversight and heavy-handed new authority, the agency’s chairman said Thursday. The FCC’s move to reclassify broadband as a common-carrier service regulated [...]