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IBM has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit, though sales of its new mainframe gave it a lift.Revenue for its second quarter was $20.8 billion, down from $24 billion
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Copps says U.S. will have tough transition to digital TV by Feb. 17 Th
polene france e U.S. will have significant problems switching from analog to digital television if the transition goes forward as scheduled on Feb. 17, the recently appointed acting chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Friday.The FCC has had no coherent and coordinated plan
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stanley kubek , Michael Copps said during a speech before the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee. Copps, a Democrat appointed acting chairman last week by President Barack Obama, ripped into digital television transition efforts under his predecessor, Republican Kevin Martin.At this point, we will not have mdash; we cannot have mdash; a seamless DTV transition, Copps said. There is no way to do in the 26 days new leadership has had here what we should have been laser-focused on for 26 months. That time is lost mdash; and itrsquo lost at a cost. There is consumer disruption down the road wersquo;ve been on. We need to realize this. Copps said hersquo focusing on minimizing and repairing problems with the DTV transition. The transition is necessary after Congress passed legislation in late 2005 requiring U.S. TV stations to move to all-digital broadcasts and abandon analog spectrum between Channels 52 and 69. Much of the cleared spectrum, in the 700-MHz band, was sold in auctions that ended in March 2007, and many spe