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Stepping into the brave new world of geo-location mobile advertising, CBS said Feb. 6 it is teaming with social networking mapping and communications service Loopt to offer cell phone ads based on a user’s location. Deploying Loopt’s GPS technology, CBS hopes to convince advertisers to target mobile consumers, wherever they may be, with local ads. […]

WASHINGTON-Even as U.S. airlines plan to roll out in-flight broadband services this year, U.S. government restrictions on airline cell phone use are likely to put U.S. carriers at a global competitive disadvantage, a panel of aviation executives said Feb. 5. Under an agreement signed by American and European carriers in 2007, the airlines will be […]

The Bush administration strongly opposes a key provision involving damages in the patent reform legislation currently stalled in the U.S. Senate. In a Feb. 4 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy, the Department of Commerce said the White House would continue to oppose the bill in its entirety unless changes are made. The legislation […]

10 Things You Should Know About Election Tech Trends Broadcast This: Campaign News is Devoured Online The number: 48%Americans who said the Internet was their primary source of their knowledge of the presidential candidates. Only 31% and 13% cited television and radio, respectively.Nearly 67% of 18-29-year-olds cited the Internet as their primary source of news, […]

One of the two primary groups pressuring the White House to reveal the whereabouts of millions of missing Bush administration e-mails asked Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey Feb. 4 to appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter. In a letter to Mukasey, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) is seeking a federal […]

It didn’t take long for Congress to get involved in Microsoft’s proposed $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. The day after Microsoft’s Feb. 1 offer, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Task Force on Antitrust and Competition announced a Feb. 8 hearing on the proposed takeover. Ostensibly entitled “State of Competition on the Internet,” the hearing is […]

Democrats streaming to the polls for the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries won’t be the only party members casting their votes. In nearly 100 other countries, Democrats living overseas will begin voting in a Feb. 5-12 global primary offering online voting for the first time. Devised by Democrats Abroad, the official DNC (Democratic National Committee) […]

Specialized virtual network operator Kore Telematics has a super assignment this week: providing bandwidth and network services to support the NFL’s security team at Super Bowl XLII in Phoenix. With video and a Kore-powered GPS vehicle tracking application from US Fleet Tracking, NFL security personnel will remotely monitor key locations such as team hotels and […]

Ericsson said Feb. 1 it will consider buying Motorola’s struggling handset unit. However, after announcing a 42 percent drop in fourth-quarter profits and pending job cuts of 4,000, Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg said any Motorola deal would be approached cautiously. Motorola, after another sharp decline in mobile handset sales resulted in an 84 percent decline […]

Lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee debating the economic stimulus plan rejected Jan. 30 a proposal by Sen. John Ensign to give corporations such as Intel and Microsoft doing business overseas a tax break for reinvesting foreign profits in the United States. Ensign’s proposal would cut the tax rate on foreign profits from 25 percent […]