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Mega-church steps up criticism of white spaces plan

Joel Osteen, senior pastor of the huge Lakewood Church in Texas, has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject a request by several tech companies to allow proposed wireless broadband devices to operate on spectrum now occupied by wireless microphones and television stations.



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Google, Yahoo delay ad deal over DOJ investigation

Google said that it will delay its search advertising deal with Yahoo while the DOJ continues its antitrust investigation into the agreement.

| News | Government | Legal | 10/05/08 at 4:40 pm |


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Skype says it was unaware of China message-logging

In a blog posting to the eBay subsidiary's corporate blog, Skype President Josh Silverman said his company had no idea that the Tom-Skype software, distributed to Skype users in China, was logging chat messages and storing them on a publicly accessible server.

| News | Government | Security | 10/02/08 at 8:20 pm |


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5 sites that will boost your political awareness

It's election time again, and there's no shortage of spin and distortion about candidates and issues. Fortunately, we have some very good political Web sites to help us make well-reasoned choices at the ballot box. And that's just the start: Some of our other favorite sites use the latest Web tools to bring a new transparency to governments, special interests, and campaigns--year round.

| Opinion | Government | Internet | 10/02/08 at 3:16 pm |


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