When the FCC officially releases the nation's first national broadband plan on Tuesday, the document will be just the start of a long process to extend broadband service to millions of U.S. residents.
Microsoft confirmed on Monday at the company's MIX 10 developers event that native applications will not be allowed on Windows Phone 7 devices. Only applications running in the Silverlight runtime environment or games in the XNA Game Studio runtime will be allowed.
At the start of its annual MIX 10 Web developer conference, Microsoft announced the immediate free release of mobile-enabled versions of its latest core development tools for Windows Phone 7.
The FCC will seek to take back 120MHz of spectrum from U.S. television stations in the next five years and reallocate it to wireless broadband providers in a voluntary program that would allow the stations to share or keep spectrum auction revenues.
Twitter plans to launch a new platform that lets Web publishers display tweets on their sites more broadly and easily than is possible today via the company's APIs (application programming interfaces).
The newest version of Zeus, a do-it-yourself crimeware kit responsible for millions of dollars in losses by consumers and businesses, comes with anti-piracy provisions similar to those used by Microsoft's Windows, a researcher said today.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will recommend the deployment of a nationwide free or low-cost wireless broadband network across the country at a cost of $15.5 billion.
One thing is clear about our recent CIO.com story, Are Macs Really Cheaper to Manage than PCs--readers have vehement opinions on this topic. One other thing: there is no "right" answer to this question.