On paper, the main crux of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC)  recently released National Broadband Plan is fairly straightforward: help 100 million rural, underprivileged and otherwise underserved households across the U.S. get access to the Internet at speeds of at least 100 megabits per second over the next decade. The reality of the country's efforts to expand broadband access is much more complicated, according to a roundtable discussion hosted Monday by New York Law School in New York City. [More]

On paper, the main crux of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recently released National Broadband Plan is fairly straightforward: help 100 million rural, underprivileged and otherwise underserved households across the U.S. get access to the Internet at speeds of at least 100 megabits per second over the next decade. The reality of the country's efforts to expand broadband access is much more complicated, according to a roundtable discussion hosted Monday by New York Law School in New York City. [More]

At Perceptive Pixel 's offices on Manhattan's West Side, Jefferson Han stands in front of a megasize multi-touch screen and runs his fingertips across the display. Each finger leaves a trail of colored pixels in its wake, causing the display to look, briefly, like it has been scratched by a set of digital claws. [More]

McGraw-Hill's CEO has answered the burning question in technology for the past several months--what exactly does Apple have up its sleeve? During an interview Tuesday afternoon on CNBC, Harold McGraw confirmed on-air that Apple will introduce its tablet computer Wednesday and that it will use the iPhone operating system. TechCrunch posted video of the three-minute interview to its site this afternoon. [More]

As more and more wireless gadgets suck up more high-speed Internet bandwidth, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is challenged to find new avenues for consumers to get their mobile connectivity. One controversial option that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is considering as part of his agency's National Broadband Plan is to make slots of "white spaces," unused airwaves on the broadcast spectrum, available to the unlicensed mobile phones and PCs that are typically used by the general public. [More]

Tweets and status updates have been buzzing for weeks about DARPA's Network Challenge , even though the event does not officially kick off until 10 A.M. Eastern time Saturday when hundreds of technophiles will compete in an effort to be the first to track down the locations of 10 large red weather balloons positioned across the U.S. throughout the day (pdf) . [More]