With the streaming video market a hotly contested property, and many services vying for the prize of being the primary provider of video for customers who want to watch whatever they like whenever they like, services like Comcast are finding themselves under fire for potentially playing favorites. And while the FCC will be the ultimate force in deciding whether or not Comcast violated net neutrality principles, the end result is the same: Comcast has a clear advantage in the field.

The FCC's Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a lot on his mind for his upcoming hearing with the Senate Commerce Committee this Wednesday, and based on his opening statement, it's all about the broadband...well, almost.

This summer, aside from the charges you might rack up for texting while driving or speeding (though we hope not), you may want to make sure you are not committing the sin of all sins - the summer tech crime. From Tweeting about Britney Spears joining "The X Factor" while at the beach to spending summer cooped up playing Diablo III, you might be breaking some cardinal tech laws without even knowing it.

Soon, FORTRUST will not just be a company confined to offering services from a dingle data center in Denver, Colorado, as it is expanding to offer colocation services from data centers in New Jersey and Phoenix.

According to Whirl, the company will be using IO modular data center technology at these data centers, while providing colocation services to companies. All three data centers will be powered by a technology called data center 2.0 IO.

Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures recently agreed to jointly buy IPWireless, a company that dealt in wireless internet transmission hardware. With the purchase of IPWireless came a list of patents that may very well change the way patent portfolio acquisitions are performed in the future, and the reasons that they are performed as well.

The purchase of IPWireless brought Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures an array of patents involving LTE, LTE-Advanced, 3G and 4G connectivity, measuring right around 500 individual patents. This is a pretty healthy haul, especially given that Nvidia rose to prominence on the strength of their graphics card offerings geared toward PC gamers and similar media enthusiasts.

Timing as they say is everything in life. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, albeit ready to become a multi-billionaire several times over by the end of the week, must be wondering about the timing of all of the bad press about the company coming out just days before its IPO. Consider the less than flattering items that have come out in the past few weeks some of which that have been self-inflicted. This includes:

- Admission in their amended IPO filing that it has limited ads on mobile sites despite the fact that nearly half of its 900 million users access it through mobile devices.

As the birds chirping outside the window wake you up in the morning, you realize spring is nigh, and summer is rapidly approaching. It means the turtlenecks and snow blowers have been put away, making room for shorts and lawn mowers. It means pool covers are coming off and chlorine levels will be checked. It means tents, backpacks, canoes, and volleyballs can all be brought out of hibernation.

“We’ve got summertime music and we’re in the thick of it… Weekend’s started up, green grass, brown eyed girls, let’s do it!”

Here are four things to contemplate. First, the drama surrounding the comings and goings at Yahoo continue to unfold. Second, in the face of Facebook’s IPO a new survey by the Associated Press and CNBC found that 50 percent of respondents see Facebook as a fad like the hula hoop and lava lamp raising doubts about the stock’s valuation. Third, questions as to whether AOL can transform fast enough to be a premiere player going forward abound as it adapts to life with the Huffington Post as part of its body politic. Fourth, Google’s portfolio is being investigated for fears of domination.

Like the new hit TV show Touch, all of these developments are connected. The connection is TIME, the universal constant and true lingua franca of the Internet age. Let me explain.

following the determination that the paid advertising had very little impact on consumer behavior choices. But that doesn't mean that GM will stop using Facebook in terms of advertising and promotions, rather, that they'll be going about it in a whole new way.

GM has decided to focus its Facebook advertising ventures on Facebook pages instead, where it can display the content they like at no additional cost, as opposed to paying Facebook for advertising space. It's the kind of effort that makes perfect sense for GM—getting people to add GM to their friends list in a bid to find out more about GM's upcoming offerings, or in exchange for prizes, costs a lot less than paid advertising—but couldn't come at a worse possible time for Facebook.

Apparently even leaders of the nation's largest businesses don't know which way the economy is heading.

In a recent interview with Bloomberg Business Week, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson acknowledged that conventional methods of assessing the strength of the U.S. economy are no longer reliable, especially in a market with such varied spending patterns in both the consumer and business sectors.

According to a new poll from the Associated Press and CNBC, half of Americans think that despite Facebook’s popularity, the network is merely a passing fad. Not only that, but as the company has officially gone public, half of Americans also said that they think Facebook’s asking price is too high.

It’s not too surprising as numbers have been thrown around as high as $100 billion, which would make Facebook the biggest Internet initial public offering to date while valuing the company higher than Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods right out of the gate.

Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia recently accused Apple of tweaking Siri, the iPhone 4S’ intelligent voice recognition software, after stating and then withdrawing a programmed response that Nokia’s Lumia 900 is the best smartphone around.

It all started last week when Siri replied “Nokia Lumia 900” when asked “What is the best smartphone?” This, of course, caused some controversy.

But Siri seems to have changed its mind as asking that same question of the voice recognition tool now only results in a response of The one you're holding, or You're kidding, right?

As with any soon-to-be-public company, Facebook is being scrutinized from every angle by analysts and potential investors attempting to identify cracks in the seemingly-invincible social networking giant.

On the heels of its relatively meager first quarter earnings report, where it posted revenues of $1.058 billion – up 46 percent annually but down six percent from the previous quarter – Facebook is now being forced to defend against an ominous survey that suggests its greatest moneymaker, advertising, may not be quite the asset we once thought.

Healthcare isn’t the only market using technology to save lives.

For millions of kids across the country, summer means throwing curricula to the wind – or the bonfire if they’re graduating – and using warm weather to mask the chill of having to open a book next fall. But that doesn’t mean everyone else should follow suit, let alone stop learning.

A recent development in Wyoming now uses infrared cameras to save the lives of sick wolves in Yellowstone National Park, setting an amazing precedent for what outdoorspeople can discover with the same technology.

Here in the northeast United States, spring is finally heating up and summer is fast approaching. So, if your garden is tended and your barbeque is broken in, it’s time for camping season. But these days, you need more than just a tent, a couple of sleeping bags and some bug spray. Here, then, are the top five gadgets and apps you need for an outstanding high-tech camping experience:

As warm, star-filled summer nights are almost in reach here on the East Coast, residents of the most amazing city in the world — New York City — are attempting to spend as much time outdoors as possible. Biking, relaxing in parks disbursed throughout the city, people watching at an outdoor restaurant or simply taking a long walk around the neighborhood to see how it has changed in recent months, are a few of the most popular activities in the city that never sleeps, and, even in the busy lives of these tech-savvy individuals, everyone is doing their best to take in some fresh -- rather semi-fresh --air.

Due to the fact that many New Yorkers have iPhones, a brand new and totally free app has just been released that enables them to gain access to over 20 trails located throughout The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, which boasts over 2,000 miles of open trails that the public can use. By the end of the summer, 30 more trails will be added to the application by Trail Conference Cartographer Jeremy Apgar, Newsday reports.

Yahoo has been a bit of a revolving door lately. This week saw the departure of five board members including the CEO, three new board members, and an interim CEO, that actually has more pertinent industry skills that the full time CEO who left. While Yahoo is certainly a mess with all of this change, it is nowhere near as bad off as Apple was when Steve Jobs got in. This suggests that much of the process Steve Jobs used to turn Apple around might work for Yahoo.

Using the Steve Jobs method there are three basic phases to a turn around.

On Tuesday, with investors lining up for an opportunity to get their hands on its stock, Facebook increased the target price range for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The social network now expects shares to begin selling between $34-$38, up from the original IPO range of $28-$35 per share.

The new target range values the company between $92 billion and $103 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

So this might sound a bit odd coming from a technology writer, but what if you consider leaving your technology out of the equation when you go camping? I could barrage you with “the best fly fishing apps” or “five gadgets that repel bears,” but let’s consider the alternative for a second (although the bear repellents sound useful).

The communications technology market these days abounds with devices, applications, platforms, and other features that enhance the user experience while outdoors, yet sometimes one simply wants to be, well, outdoors. And, after all, iPhones weren’t exactly made for bungee jumping.

Depending on your beliefs, the end of the Mayan calendar that is upon us could mean absolutely nothing to you or it could be driving your day-to-day plans over the next six months. However, a recent poll suggests that a surprising 1 in 7 people surveyed around the world believe that December 21, 2012 will indeed mark the end of days, while 1 in 10 people admit they are at least somewhat concerned about it.

To make matters even more complicated (and perhaps add a bit of relief for some), in the past week, new reports have been coincidently circulating regarding a newfound ongoing calendar that shows the world actually isn’t going to end at all (phew!).