The consent decree which ended the government’s epic antitrust battle with Microsoft is about to expire. This is a fairly successful story, which shows that the antitrust laws can work. The operating system market is still dominated by Microsoft, but Apple has gained strength and Chrome OS is on the way. (And [...]

newspaper ad revenue was largely driven by economic conditions or a more fundamental change in the dynamics of the industry. Alan Mutter says that the results are coming in and the evidence increasingly shows that there is a secular change in the newspaper industry.
Why Newspaper Ad Sales Are Not Recovering
Nearly two years after the [...]

By Josh Smith, National Journal
An overdue government review of media ownership regulations has put the Federal Communications Commission in an awkward spot with its media-reform efforts because it is being forced to wait on the outcome of an ongoing legal battle, according to several FCC commissioners.
Every four years the FCC reviews regulations [...]

Herewith a reminder that current technology is far from perfect. Common sense still has a place in our lives.
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 Book About Flies
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work [...]

by Phil Goldstein, Fierce Wireless
WASHINGTON–Representatives from Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ), AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) and other large companies argued that mandating interoperability across different band classes of the 700 MHz band will be costly and difficult to achieve. On the other side, smaller carriers and consumer advocates argued that, without interoperability, subscribers of [...]

Several start ups are based on the notion that news aggregation (i.e., Google News) is passe. Make way for curation.
The Future Of Media: Storify And The Curatorial Instinct
The explosion of real-time information through social networks and information services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube has produced a never-ending firehose of content. It has also created [...]

April 25, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Matt Wood, Associate Director of Media Access Project, will present at a spectrum policy workshop organized by the Federal Communications Commission entitled “Interoperability of Customer Mobile Equipment Across Paired Commercial Spectrum Blocks in the 700 MHz Band.”
When: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 9:00 a.m. [...]

Charlie Ergen, the contrarian entrepreneur who built DishTV into a multibillion dollar empire, has always fascinated RoadMAP. Litigious and risktaking, Ergen took a bad hit last week when the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of TiVo in a longstanding patent infringement dispute. But even though that decision might cost him [...]

AT&T’s controversial $39 billion bid for T-Mobile officially got under way Thursday, crystallizing a big risk and possibly a big opportunity for President Barack Obama.
The risk: allowing a deal that could, in time, leave Americans with just two choices for cellphone providers. The potential opportunity: extending high-speed wireless to virtually the entire [...]

AT&T Inc. (T) formally asked regulators today to approve its $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the transaction to form the largest U.S. mobile phone company would benefit consumers.
The deal will help meet escalating demand for advanced wireless services and consumers will suffer fewer blocked calls, AT&T said in papers filed in Washington [...]