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Article | 28/04/2012 US senator set to let FCC nominees go forward despite LightSquared worries
U.S. Senator Charles Grassley plans to drop a hold he placed on two FCC nominees because of a tussle with the agency over documents related to its tre...
Article | 11/04/2012 Lawmakers ask how much LightSquared tests cost taxpayers
Two U.S. lawmakers pressed a federal agency on Monday to say how much taxpayer money went into testing the proposed LightSquared network, a private 4G...
Article | 6/04/2012 Ten ways your smartphone knows where you are
One of the most important capabilities that smartphones now have is knowing where they are. More than desktops, laptops, personal navigation devices o...
Article | 3/04/2012 LightSquared question is in FCC's hands now
With the end of the public comment and response periods on LightSquared's plan to operate a 4G LTE service near GPS frequencies, it's now the FCC's tu...
Article | 24/03/2012 As navigation looks indoors, new uses appear
The maps on smartphones and tablets soon may extend into buildings, but consumers and service providers won't use indoor maps the same as outdoor, par...
Article | 22/03/2012 Location-based firms see mobile profit, user worries
The location-based mobile services industry is already lucrative but has to do a better job easing consumers' fears about invasion of privacy, some ex...
Article | 17/03/2012 Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights
The FCC's proposal to kill LightSquared's planned LTE network would violate the fledgling carrier's property rights by taking away its spectrum and de...
Article | 29/02/2012 LightSquared's Ahuja resigns as CEO
LightSquared Chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his CEO post, in the latest change to rock the company that still says it wants to build a 4G ...
Article | 18/02/2012 LightSquared's owner hires lawyers to study legal battle on GPS
LightSquared's primary investor, Philip Falcone, is exploring possible lawsuits against the FCC and the GPS industry in the wake of the FCC's rejectio...
Article | 16/02/2012 LightSquared vows to keep seeking a GPS solution
LightSquared said Wednesday it still wants to find a solution to the GPS interference issue that has probably already doomed the fledgling carrier's p...
Article | 9/02/2012 Feds look beyond LightSquared to set GPS interference standards
A high-ranking federal official and aviation industry leaders called on Wednesday for rules to prevent future interference with GPS, looking beyond a ...
Article | 24/01/2012 Senator questions ethics of alleged LightSquared lobbying
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Monday that the owner of LightSquared and a possible representative of the company may have broken ethics rul...
Article | 24/01/2012 Supreme Court: GPS tracking needs court warrant
U.S. law enforcement agents need court-approved warrants to track a suspect's whereabouts using a GPS device, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday, in d...
Article | 14/01/2012 Federal body concludes LightSquared can't work with GPS
A key federal agency involved in testing the proposed LightSquared LTE network has concluded that there is no practical way to solve interference betw...
Article | 4/01/2012 Sprint gives LightSquared more time to win over FCC
Sprint Nextel has given LightSquared another month to gain FCC approval for its planned 4G network, extending a deal in which LightSquared would use S...