T-Mobile, Rural Carrier Group Team Up to Help Fight Verizon’s SpectrumCo Deal

T-Mobile, Sprint a public interest group and an association of rural carriers are joining forces to encourage regulators to take a tough look at Verizon’s effort to purchase spectrum from several cable companies.
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Hooking up a PC to a TV

Walt answers a reader’s question on hooking up a PC to a TV.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Bubble-Pops at Democratic Policy Confab: The Full Speech

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an appearance at the three-day U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat today to talk about innovation and, let’s be real, the very bad economy and the impact on businesses like the tech giant. The confab has already seen an appearance by President Barack Obama yesterday and one by Vice President Joe Biden this morning. Ballmer got the lunch spot today. Ballmer’s message was a bummer, appropriately: “In my view, what we now have will be a fundamental economic reset.” Here’s his whole speech.

Turning Your Cellphone Into Your Home Phone

Cellphones rule in lots of places but the old-fashioned wired phone still wins at home. Here’s a look at two products that aim to solve that problem by tying your cellphone into your wired home phone setup.
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