The Senate Commerce Committee wasted no time passing the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), its version of the satellite reauthorization bill. The bill extends satellite operators' license to carry distant out-of-market network TV station signals for viewers who can't received a viewable signal from their in-market station.

In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site.

Big Brother is watching: That is the message corporations routinely send their employees about using email. But recent cases have shown that employees sometimes have more privacy rights than they might expect when it comes to the corporate email server.

If it cannot defeat Verizon in the court or in the court of public opinion, perhaps it's time AT&T took the high road, quit, and stopped the teary-eyed back-and-forth. It should focus on bolstering its 3G network and preparing for the onslaught of 4G, instead of dwelling in past missteps and slights.

The debate over Droid versus iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It's no longer a myth, it's real.

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has been making a lot of noise recently about how he's going to slap paywalls on the Web sites belonging to his media companies. But that didn't stop Digg CEO Jay Adelson from telling FOX Business that users probably won't play ball.

The Federal Trade Commission released the agenda and speakers for its upcoming workshop, "From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" The workshop has been organized to consider the emerging issues of an increasingly Internet oriented society. The workshop will run from Dec. 1-2, 2009.

There's not enough spectrum for mobile broadband. A federal fund for phone service needs to be repurposed to include broadband. Consumers should be told the truth about the Internet access speeds they pay for. These are the problems identified by the FCC as obstacles in its effort to blanket the country with high-speed Internet service.

Hailed as the next-big-thing, customer service through tweets is a work in progress. The performance of many companies has been uneven as they try to handle a crush of customer queries, integrate Twitter into their overall strategy and manage the heightened expectations of consumers.

The FCC will lay out the case for expanding broadband Internet service, outlining current obstacles to making it widely available. The agency is considering whether to force Internet providers to share their networks with rivals and raise fees charged on consumer phone bills to pay for the broader access.