Wireless Ink Corp., which runs the Winksite service, claims that Facebook Mobile and Google Buzz are infringing a patent issued in October. In a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan, the company is seeking cash compensation and a court order to prevent further use of its invention.
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Under a long-awaited proposal outlined by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, broadcasters and other existing spectrum holders would voluntarily give back some spectrum and share in proceeds raised by government auctions of those airwaves to wireless companies.
Wireless carriers have been clamoring for more spectrum as their customers increasingly check e-mail, update Facebook and watch [...]

Lawrence Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission on Monday that wireless connections offer the best hope for injecting new competition into the duopoly market for broadband services in the United States.
The NTIA, an arm of the Commerce Department, offered its input as the [...]

As mobile phones become more sophisticated, they transmit and receive more data over the airwaves. But the spectrum of wireless frequencies is finite – and devices like the iPhone are allowed to use only so much of it. TV and radio broadcasts, Wi-Fi networks and other communications services also use the airwaves. Each transmits on [...]

In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Federal Communications Commission needs to ramp up oversight of the wireless industry and do a better job of enforcing consumer protection rules.
The GAO report comes almost four months after the FCC opened a series of inquiries into the state of the wireless industry, including [...]

Manufacturers of standalone GPS products will have to move quickly and smartly to transform their dumb map readers into intelligent devices that can provide a host of services such as traffic avoidance.
Otherwise, they risk obsolescence in a future in which customers view navigation as simply one more application for their phones. Some of the newer [...]

“What you will see in Brazil this year and next year is that subscriber growth will be faster in Brazil than in the rest of the region,” Garcia Moreno, 52, said yesterday in an interview in Mexico City. “The next big surge of growth will come from Mexico.”
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The purchase of Centennial would “deprive smaller carriers of an ally and consortium partner in buying arrangements,” Cincinnati Bell told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in a meeting Oct. 16, according to a disclosure filing on the agencys Web site.
The Justice [...]

The Federal Communications Commission is continuing to review the wireless merger, which was announced late last year. Under the terms of the deal, Centennial stockholders will receive $8.50 per share in cash.
The Justice Department said it is requiring AT&T to divest Centennial assets in southwestern and central Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi in order [...]

Julius Genachowski said the government is tripling the amount of spectrum available for commercial uses. The problem is that many industry experts predict wireless traffic will increase 30 times because of online video and other bandwidth-heavy applications.
Genachowski promised “a full-throated, strategic look” at how to close that gap between demand and supply, declaring it one [...]