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The Federal Communications Commission lays out an ambitious agenda for providing nationwide broadband for Americans, including a goal to connect 100 million households to 100-megabits-per-second service within a decade. - The Federal Communications Commission is planning to announce a nationwide broadband initiative this week to expand coverage ...

The FBI says that the anthrax case is closed, and that they have proved that Dr. Bruce Ivins did it.But Congress is not convinced.On March 3, 2010, Representative Holt called for a new investigation:Last week, [Congressman Holt] succeeded in including ...

As I wrote in January:Last May, I wrote about the rumor that the Obama administration might seize funds from American's 401k and IRA accounts.Last week, Bloomberg pointed out:The Obama administration is weighing how the government can encourage workers...

Bernanke is now joining Rosenberg, Ferguson and Faber, Edwards, Grice and many others in warning that the debt crisis rearing its head in Greece may spread to America, causing U.S. interest rates to climb.As the Washington Times wrote yesterday: With...

The Philippines' Supreme Court ruled that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may seek a seat in the lower house of Congress in May's elections, rejecting a petition by an opposition lawmaker. Arroyo, who became leader in 2001 after a popular uprising that removed Joseph Estrada, cannot stand for

While the main focus at this year's Mobile World Congress is on software like Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series and Samsung's open source Bada, there are still a wide selection of handsets making their debut in Barcelona, including smartphone models like HTC's entertainment-fueled HD2, handsets from LG and ...

At Mobile World Congress (MWC), Adobe announces the beta release of Flash Player 10.1 and unveiled Adobe AIR on mobile devices. Earlier in the week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company has no objection to Flash on Windows Phones 7 Series. - At ...

At the Mobile World Congress, the Symbian Foundation announces the release of the Symbian 3 platform, the first fully open-source release of the Symbian OS. - At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Symbian Foundation announced the release of the Symbian 3 platform, the first fully open-source ...

Intel and Nokia are participating in a joint press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to discuss the latest developments in their partnership. To watch the event, join the live Webcast or watch the replay.

Opera said it will offer Mobile World Congress (MWC) attendees to preview a version of its mobile browser Mini that is designed for Apple's iPhone. - Opera Software ASA, designers of the cross-platform Web browser Opera, announced plans for a sneak preview of Opera Mini for iPhone in a ...

A reader asked whether the U.S. is still in an official state of emergency, and if so, what that means.The answer is yes, we are still in a state of emergency.Specifically:On September 11, 2001, the government declared a state of emergency. That decl...

This was sent to me by a contact in Congress.The FDIC has an open comment period for a rule they are considering to tie insurance deposit premiums to executive compensation structures. 13 members of Congress are sending the following letter to the FDI...

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a $3.8 trillion budget request to Congress for the fiscal year that begins on October first. It is the first step in what is expected to be a long, contentious budget process.

The Congress’ core committee met here Friday evening to discuss the appointment of new governors in six states and the vexatious Telangana statehood issue, but failed to arrive at any decision. The core committee, which includes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party president Sonia Gandhi, union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and ...

On December 21st, Glenn Greenwald quoted from The Jewish Daily Forward to make an important point:While reports have focused on alleged tension between the Obama administration and Israel over the latter's uncooperative conduct, this is what is actuall...

India's Congress-ruled government distanced itself yesterday from a move to carve a new state out of Andhra Pradesh and asked the leaders of the southern state to instead build a consensus as protests continued. Last week, the government in a surprise move announced it would ...

Hyderabad: L. Rajagopal, Congress MP from Vijayawada was arrested Monday at the airport here soon after he landed to launch an indefinite fast to oppose the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh. Police have taken Rajagopal to an undisclosed location in view of threats by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti to stop him ...

Hyderabad: Telangana issue looks taking a new turn as the Congress leadership has decided to block the matter for the time being. They are now busy in assuaging the MPs from Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra who were against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and came out by promising inaction after the ...

As I have repeatedly pointed out, proposed derivatives legislation will not make things better:A leading credit default swap expert (Satyajit Das) says that the new credit default swap regulations not only won't help stabilize the economy, they might ...

According to the following Democratic and Republican congress members, economists, financial experts and journalists, the "too big to fails" (with help from bank-friendly voices in Congress) are trying to make the bailouts permanent: Congressman Brad S...