U.S. officials went to extremes to stifle our legal challenge to Bush's warrantless surveillance -- but a federal judge says the program is criminal, anyway.
By Jon B. Eisenberg Jul 9, 2008
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The U.S. continues to fall behind other nations in providing fast Internet access to all its citizens. The good news: We're saving rural America from smut overload.
By Andrew Leonard
October 25, 2007
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FCC chairman Michael Powell, Colin's smooth, ambitious son, has never met a media merger he didn't like.
By Eric Boehlert
August 6, 2001
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A case of mistaken identity exposes how a long-distance telephone company is targeting Asian immigrants.
By Deborah Scoblionkov
October 16, 2000
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Telecommunications behemoths throw a wrench into the plans of Internet phone providers -- and you'll be the one stuck with the bill.
By Jake Tapper
June 14, 2000
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Its Silicon Valley glory days long gone, the telecommunications firm kowtows to the inevitable.
By Andrew Leonard
September 28, 2007
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Why is a Turkish village more connected than a Japanese megalopolis? Lonely Planet's peripatetic founder celebrates and laments the state of global communications.
By Tony Wheeler
November 10, 1999
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RCN, the up-and-coming fiber optic network, tries -- a little too hard -- to get us to think of it as a telecom revolutionary.
By Janelle Brown
October 7, 1999
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A new series of television ads warns of the dangers of Internet regulation. The real story: Telecom industry bickering.
By Andrew Leonard
July 19, 1999
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@Home's purchase of Excite poses a new challenge to AOL and leaves Microsoft on the sidelines -- for now.
By Scott Rosenberg
January 20, 1999
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Internet activism, Czech-style: By Mark Schapiro. The Communists are yesterday's target -- today, it's the phone company's Net-access rate hikes.
By Mark Schapiro
December 8, 1998
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The Net becomes WorldCom's fiefdom
By Scott Rosenberg
October 9, 1997