Sezmi wants to deliver a more personalized and economical multichannel video alternative to cable TV, in the same way JetBlue successfully challenged the major incumbent airlines.

The FCC is seriously considering re-establishing some kind of open access rules, which would give new entrants access to incumbent infrastructure at reduced price. The lamentations of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association are ringing a little hollow, after years of fitting science to the political agenda.

While its touts itself as a comedy show first and foremost, The Daily Show is also an unabashed media critic and ombudsman of sorts that exposes journalists' wrongdoings and shortcomings.

General Electric and Vivendi are wrangling over a price difference of several hundred million dollars as the French conglomerate seeks to sell its minority stake in NBC Universal. The talks have delayed a deal that would give Comcast control of NBC Universal.

Microsoft is in discussions with News Corp. and other publishers about the possibility of paying them to remove their sites from Google's search index. At an earlier meeting in Europe, Bing dangled the prospect of premium spots in search results to publishers and outright money for search R&D.

In his first appearance on The Communicators, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski discussed efforts on formalizing rules on Net Neutrality and the expansion of broadband in the United States. (Video 31:37)

A former editor who spent most of his career at the Chicago Tribune is competing head-to-head with the paper as editor of a new local news venture in Chicago, a small band of people that includes other Tribune alumni and Tribune critics.

In a telecom law conference by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln law school, McLaughlin and Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, talked about how an open Internet underlies free speech on the Web. Without it, censorship can occur.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) will soon introduce a bill to rein in the fees wireless carriers charge consumers who want to switch carriers or cut off cellphone service before their two-year contract is up.

CBS News Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan is joining the staff of the PBS NewsHour and will play a key role in bridging its broadcast and digital platforms. The new format places a strong emphasis on the entire NewsHour team of seasoned and highly regarded journalists.