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Viewpoints: Keep Internet phone service free from PUC regs Gordon Moore, the visionary Californian and co-founder of Intel, famously conceived Moore's Law, which generally states that the speed and scale of technological innovation doubles every two years. www.sacbee.com
Get Home Phone Service for Less Than $10 a Month Internet phone products sell service via your broadband connection at dirt-cheap rates. Here’s how three stack up. finance.yahoo.com
Comcast Adds Free Wi-Fi Calling for Voice Subscribers Comcast's Voice 2go service allows home phone subscribers to make calls on their iPad, smartphone, or other mobile device at no cost, whenever they have Internet access. www.pcmag.com
Comcast service would connect home phone line to smartphones Kids, remember good old cordless phones, those bulky handsets that allowed you to answer your home phone line anywhere in the house, and even a few feet into the backyard? Well, Comcast Corp. will soon begin offering a service that turns your smartphone into a cordless home phone with a very wide range. www.latimes.com
The Toll Roads First in Nation to Offer Free Mobile Phone App for Account Management The Transportation Corridor Agencies today announced the launch of a free mobile phone app it created for download on the iPhone and Android. The app is the first of its kind finance.yahoo.com
Consumer Report: Cutting Phone, TV and Internet Bills If you’re not bundling your TV, Internet, and phone service and getting all three as a discount package, you could be missing out on big savings. www.wilx.com
Verizon landline phone service is ho-hum, but new DSL customers must get it Verizon is now compelling new subscribers to its DSL Internet service to also take landline voice service finance.yahoo.com
Digital Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Internet TV Service Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcast to New Yorkers. Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broadcasters are asking, simply because there is no federal licensing scheme yet for internet streaming of ... www.wired.com
No Signal? No Problem. States Push Tech-Free Escapes In parts of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois, broadband internet access and good cell phone reception are tough to come by. Robert Siegel talks with Dave Decker, executive Director of the Tri-State Tourism council, about his efforts to spin that potential nuisance into a positive, by pitching tech-free vacations. www.npr.org
Comcast's fight for the pipes of the Internet The company ha gotten into scrapes with customers and critics over bandwidth caps. It's backed off for now -- but don't expect that to be the end of the story, not with numbers like these. tech.fortune.cnn.com
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