Forging an alliance of public interest groups, CLECs, ISPs and Web companies would help the next presidential administration realize that Net Neutrality is not just something that popped up a year or two ago, said Google's Rick Whitt at COMPTEL.

While Congress passed the bill to improve broadband data collection, there won't be any money actually set aside to pay for the program until appropriations bills are passed for the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1, 2009.

During a recent interview, Microsoft's Craig Mundie spoke about technology issues: The failure of the United States to keep up in the worldwide race to extend broadband service to its citizens and how the FCC should handle the "white spaces" in the radio spectrum.

In their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, professors Tom Hazlett and Vernon Smith advocate a model for white spaces that replaces one gatekeeper for another. There are plenty of instances where spectrum use does not have to be coordinated, managed and priced by a single licensee.

While its cable competitors look for ways to curb their customers' usage of their networks by either slowing down certain applications or metering usage, Verizon plans to spend about $23 billion through 2010 to take fiber directly into people's homes to actually increase the amount of bandwidth people consume.

Silicon Alley Insider and CNN are at center of controversy surrounding false report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack. Citizen journalism may not be solely to blame.

As news organizations chase exclusives about the Wall Street meltdown, they also are grappling with a troubling question: Why didn't they see this coming? The business press never conveyed a real sense of alarm until institutions began to collapse.

The times couldn't be tougher, as Americans cut their nonessential spending in the face of a teetering global economy. They're cutting everything, or nearly everything. But here's what they say they're not cutting: broadband.

if you're a northern Virginia resident interested in this fall's faceoff between two former governors now running for the U.S. Senate, you can forget about watching tonight's debate on TV. Not a single Washington, D.C., TV station will provide live coverage the only televised debate of this campaign.

The Supreme Court begins a new terms, with cases about tobacco company lawsuits, protecting whales from Navy sonar and a government crackdown on dirty words on television.