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The Federal Communications Commission is expected to rule that Verizon Communications Inc. violated privacy laws when it tried to keep phone customers from switching providers, a person at the agency who is familiar with the issue said Thursday.
Federal regulators may require the winner of airwaves being auctioned off by the government to provide free wireless high-speed Internet service across a large swath of the country.
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it agreed to $600,000 in settlements and judgments against several private investigators involved in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying case.
Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticized a potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, saying it would concentrate too much power in the online communications market, stifling innovation and curbing competition.
A Cisco Systems Inc. executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China's goal to "combat" a religious group did not reflect the company's views on censorship.
A Senate subcommittee on Tuesday is expected to question a Cisco Systems Inc. executive about an internal 2002 document that includes a reference to censoring "hostiles" in describing the Chinese government's technology position and goals.
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman on Monday said Google Inc. is not thorough enough in removing YouTube videos that he says are used by al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations to spread propaganda and recruit followers.
Losing the audio feed during "Monday Night Football" may seem like a crisis for some sports fans, but it's nothing compared to losing the signal that monitors a critically ill hospital patient.
Any glitches in the nationwide switch to digital television will be felt first in Wilmington, N.C.
Forget long layovers, longer security lines and delay-induced dinners of Auntie Anne's Pretzels at the airport, the Transportation Department wants you to think of life in the fast lane when you travel.
Microsoft Corp. has yet to convince Yahoo Inc. to agree to a friendly takeover, but the software company is already hiring lobbyists to help it convince regulators to let the deal — hostile if it has to be — go through.
With classified revenue dwindling, the news industry must get better at tailoring articles and display advertising to online readers, several newspaper executives said Tuesday.
Federal regulators on Thursday fined Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co., and other retailers $3.9 million combined for failing to properly label that analog-only televisions will need to be retrofitted after the switch to digital TV next year.
Ten months before the nation flips to digital television, technology companies and TV broadcasters are fighting over the virtual remote, with different ideas of what to do with the unused airwaves.
IBM Corp.'s ban from all new federal work stems from an $84 million Environmental Protection Agency contract the company lost last year and is protesting.
With its winning $4.7 billion bid last week, Verizon Wireless didn't just stake claim to beachfront wireless property, it also grabbed control of the guest list to the open-access party.
Telephone companies that exclusively give apartment buildings service will likely have to unplug and let tenants have their pick of providers.
WASHINGTON — Contract battles with phone companies are no fun — just ask anyone who's tried to get out of one.
Bill Gates is coming back to Capitol Hill with the same wish list he's had for years: more visas for highly skilled workers, more math, science and engineering in schools and more money for technology investment.
Regulators on Friday fined 13 Fox TV stations $7,000 each for a 2003 episode of "Married by America" that included graphic scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties.
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang wants U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to help get two Chinese journalists out of prison — where they've been since Yahoo complied with Chinese investigators.
Birds and wireless towers are a deadly mix — a fact that preservationists and policy makers agree to. But the role of the regulators in keeping the two apart has been up in the air.
Americans worried about losing their television signals when analog goes dead next year now have a new concern: the government-issued coupons for the converter boxes have a short shelf life.
Technology companies eager to grab vacant airwaves and use them for high-speed Internet service first have to develop a gizmo that makes the conversion possible.
Federal mine-safety regulators on Thursday said they approved the first wireless-tracking system to locate miners trapped underground.
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