Carrier IQ’s alleged snooping on millions of phones has gotten the attention of the United States government. Today, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Carrier IQ asking them to specifically clarify what its software does on phones. Sen. Franken asks Carrier IQ respond to his inquiry by December 14, 2011.

AT&T may have just encountered its biggest setback yet in its journey to acquire T-Mobile USA. Bloomberg reports that the United States government is against the merger. The Justice Department has filed a complaint stating the merger is simply bad for competition.

The upgrade to 4G LTE for the Motorola Xoom 3G was set to begin in September, and now we’re getting word that the upgrade has already begun for a very select pilot test group. In fact, the pilot test group is said to consist of various business and government personnel in the United States. The more »

The BlackBerry PlayBook is not making any waves with mainstream consumers. Even Windows 7 tablets are outselling the PlayBook. Even with all its woes, the United States government has taken a shine to it. The PlayBook is the first tablet to be certified by the U.S. government for use by government agencies.

According their own website, the Chinese government is looking into tracking its citizens by their phone. Using the data signal, the government is looking to track users in real time. The government holds they will use this information for traffic reporting purposes. In Beijing, cell phone adoption rates hover near 70%. Movies in the western more »

A few weeks ago, in response to proposed Net Neutrality rules, AT&T sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to look into Google Voice. AT&T argued that Google Voice should be subject to the same telecom rules it follows if AT&T has to be subject to Net Neutrality. It still seems like a more »

West Virginian Senator Jay Rockefeller is working on a bill that would give President Obama control over the Internet in the event of what he terms a “cybersecurity emergency.” The bill would allow him to declare such an emergency and take control of private-sector networks. It doesn’t however specify what would constitute such an event more »

“U.S. Government Broadband, Inc. now bringing you the World Wide Web at lightning speeds.” Wait – the U.S. Government provides broadband? But, the Government isn’t a telecom — yet. A member of the Obama Administration is supporting the idea of a U.S. tax-subsidized public broadband network. Just imagine, high-speed internet everywhere, even in the most rural parts of the country. Plus, this isn’t your ordinary cable internet – when they say high-speed, they are talking 100 times as fast as what we have now.

So, theoretically, you could sit back and stream HD movies to your laptop, even if you’re in the middle of nowhere. Isn’t that what we all want? For most of us, the answer is yes, but, is such a large-scale telecom project possible? Well, Australia and Singapore are already in the process of successfully implementing such a network and Britain and the Netherlands are making their own network plans.

I’ll admit it, I was a bad American Tuesday night. I was far too busy with my homework to bother watching President Barack Obama talk about the economy, as I’m sure a lot of other people had their own reasons for not watching the President speak. There’s no way I’ll miss him speak on Thursday, though.

Most of us are familiar with how Obama used technology and the Internet to help him win the job as President. He also promised to use the Internet as a means of talking to the American people, which he is making good on now. American citizens can sign up on the new Open For Questions section of whitehouse.gov, ask questions and vote on the questions they want to see answered. President Obama will be answering the most popular questions live online on Thursday.

A New Zealand man thought he was just buying an MP3 player at an Oklahoma thrift shop, but what he ended up with was much more. When Chris Ogle hooked the player up to his computer he found it loaded with 60 files, all containing classified information about the US military. Some of the files more »