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Count America’s struggling No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel as the latest victim of the credit crunch. Citing fourth-quarter losses among customers who do not have contracts, Sprint officials said Jan. 18 that they plan to lay off more than 4,000 employees. The prepaid market that Sprint targets is particularly susceptible to downturns in the […]

WASHINGTON – Despite the endorsement of one of the government’s top-ranking technology officials, software-as-a-service vendors still face a tough battle trying to crack the federal agency market. SAAS (software as a service) continues to grow in the private sector as a popular cost-saving alternative to buying software, but government agencies are hamstringed by worries of […]

While Congress debates the merits of a national broadband mapping plan, California has moved ahead and issued its own mapping results, finding that 96 percent of Californians have broadband access, but at speeds, service and pricing levels that vary widely from region to region. According to the California Broadband Task Force organized by Gov. Arnold […]

In a last-minute filing in federal court, the White House admitted Jan. 15 that it had recycled computer backup tapes containing millions of missing e-mails related to the early years of the Bush administration. However, administration officials refused to admit that any e-mails are actually missing. Instead, in a sworn deposition, Theresa Payton, CIO for […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started the clock ticking Jan. 14 on its investigation of allegations that telecom and cable carriers are violating the FCC’s network neutrality principles when it comes to text messaging and handling of peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. The probe will be the agency’s first major test of its network neutrality principles and […]

Traditional telecommunications powerhouses AT&T and Verizon will face an unusual lineup of challengers Jan. 24 when the Federal Communications Commission begins its auction of the spectrum being vacated by television broadcasters as part of the digital transition. As the nation’s two largest telecom carriers, AT&T and Verizon have planned all along to bid for the […]

With the U.S. House of Representatives returning to work Jan. 15, and the Senate returning a week after that, the technology agenda might be dead on arrival. If Democrats proved one thing during their first year this century in control of Congress, it was this: they can get as much done in advancing a technology […]

Citing “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots,” Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said Jan. 10 he wants a recount of the Jan. 7 New Hampshire primary vote. In a letter to N.H. Secretary of State William M. Gardner, Kucinich, who finished fifth among the Democrats with 3,901 votes, said the wide disparities between […]

Last summer’s collapse of the leveraged buyout technology market is expected to carry over well into 2008, according to a new survey of tech investment banking by the 451 Group. If so, the slump would snap a string of five consecutive record years of mergers and acquisitions. While more than two-thirds of technology bankers surveyed […]

Frontline Wireless, the ambitious wireless startup with plans to bid in the Jan. 24 Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction, is no more, according to company spokesperson Mary Greczyn. “Frontline is closed for business at this time. We have no further comment,” Greczyn said in a brief statement to eWEEK. Led by industry veterans and public […]