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Legislators over the weekend introduced new legislation requiring satellite radio receivers to pick up digital signals, even though federal regulators are still seeking public comment on the issue. House Representative Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Saturday introduced the Radio All Digital Channel Receiver

As you probably already know, the T-Mobile G1 smartphone started out with the code name the Dream. Seems like the G1 dream has become more of a nightmare in terms of product naming. The concerns I raised about the G1 name in my earlier post have intensified.

The award for the clumsiest product code name goes to Apple this week for its secret something that the blogosphere is now gleefully referring to as "Brick." The "Brick" is designed to, you guessed it, smash Windows with its sheer Appleness. Many bloggers are wondering what the "Brick" is, but it is most likely just software updates.

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I was just reading the Phone.com blog by Ari Rabban where he mentions: ITExpo is arguably the largest gathering of the VoIP industry. The conference and expo is a great place for the industry to gather, network and exchange ideas about the industry.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. is making a big push to help customers understand their phones, creating a formal program to make store employees available to explain their products and set them up for buyers.

A comment on our new “” feature discussing the likelihood of either an Apple Mac Tablet or a Mac UMPC took us to task for our reliance on acronyms and abbreviations.  It started me thinking about how naming conventions start, what degree of understanding by others we take for granted, and how we might be in fact promoting misunderstanding by attempting to streamline how we discuss technology.