In recent weeks, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch has suggested that he wants to block the search giant, Google, from scooping free content from his newspapers. Is he only bluffing?

Vivendi is seeking a bigger portion in cash from partner General Electric for its 20 percent stake in NBC Universal. The talks are key to GE's plan to form a venture with Comcast, which would own a majority of a new entity combining NBC Universal assets with its own.

Verizon's holiday ads have stirred the pot, inflaming AT&T to file a lawsuit, which was not a successful endeavor. The legal defeat hasn't stopped the wireless carrier from rushing out the first in a series of new ads as counter commercials to shoot down 'Map for That' claims.

The FCC recently met to discuss obstacles to enacting a national broadband policy that will provide high-speed Internet access to every American. One major issue has to do with the Universal Service Fund, and on the wireless side, the key barrier is a lack of spectrum.

The FCC unanimously agreed to give local governments 90 days to determine whether to co-locate an antenna on an existing tower and 150 days for new sites. The antenna rule, backed by the wireless industry, comes as the FCC crafts a national high-speed Internet plan aimed at increasing adoption throughout the country.

AT&T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon's coverage. A federal judge declined to grant AT&T a temporary restraining order that would force Verizon to stop showing the ads.

Verizon was right. The truth does hurt. And it is especially painful when it's meted out by a court of law. A U.S. District judge denied AT&T's request to force Verizon to pull its 'There's A Map For That' and 'Island of Misfit Toys' commercials, saying that while the ads might be "sneaky," they are "literally true."

Broadcasters have been telling the FCC that they will need every bit of their digital spectrum allocations to have sufficient leverage to get their money's worth out of retrans negotiations with multichannel video operators. At least that was the impression broadband czar Blair Levin says he got from a recent meeting with broadcast executives.

The FCC began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business, outlining the hurdles America needs to overcome to improve the availability of high-speed Internet access. The FCC identified a number of issues the government should address

The cable industry's wants the ability to control analog outputs on your TV, in order to offer "high-value" content sooner. But television isn't just one more gadget; it's part our national public network, and selectable output control poses an eventual threat to this important resource.