Roy Mark

Roy Mark is a Datamation contributor.

Beyond The FCC’s 700 MHz

With an unprecedented demand for mobile devices and services expected in the near future, the scramble is on for the one thing all cell phones, PDAs, iPhones...

FCC Turns to Private Sector For Public Safety

The lesson of 9/11 for civilians and first responders can be stated simply: in the new age of terror, they -- we -- are the primary targets....

FCC: Get Your Spectrum Paddles Ready

It once all seemed so inevitable, so cut and dried, so business as usual in Washington. By the end of January, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to...

Google Prepping National Wireless Broadband Entry?

A possible Google entry into the wireless broadband market received a boost today with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin endorsing dedicating a portion of the upcoming...

Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts

Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office (GAO). The report, issued...

Motorola Makes IPTV Buy

Motorola continued its expansion into IPTV with the acquisition Thursday of Modulus Video, a privately held maker of MPEG-4 advanced video coding (ATV) compression systems. Founded in 2002,...

VoIP Still on FCC’s Open Road

A federal appeals court has upheld a 2004 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling that Voice over IP services are interstate in nature and not subject to state...

IBM, Cisco Preach Crisis Services

IBM and Cisco hope to turn the debate over crisis communications from a hardware issue to a service solution, launching today a service based on a managed...

Markey And His Net Neut Show

Verizon and AT&T dodged a major legislative bullet on mandated network neutrality in the Republican-controlled 109th Congress. They had to give up on a major telecom-reform bill...

Poll: Next Bill Gates Likely From China or Japan

A New Zogby/463 survey finds Americans bullish on the Internet, if not the future of U.S. tech education. Almost half of all Americans believe the next Bill...

Groups Target Another Spyware Operator

FastMP3Search.com.ar is the latest alleged spyware operator to get caught in the crosshairs of consumer and advocacy groups. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and StopBadware.org were...

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