This year’s CTIA Wireless trade show, scheduled to commence on Tuesday, will largely be a platform for the wireless industry to highlight its move to faster network speeds, as well as the handset manufacturers to display a wide array of new smartphones.

The recent row between Walt Disney Co’s ABC Network and Cablevision Systems Corp has prompted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a review into the manner in which retransmission deals are negotiated by broadcasters and cable companies.

Following the posting of vulgar photographs by two Australian High School teachers on Facebook, agitation has sprung up among the students and the staff members of the school. The matter is being investigated by the school authorities, confirmed the Education Queensland's department.

According to Betanews, a series of wide-ranging performance tests - comparing Microsoft’s Tuesday-released Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview to the existing Web browsers – have revealed that the IE9 boasts notable speed gains over others browsers in specific categories, most significantly in computation; thanks to the development team’s JavaScript engine ‘Chakra.’

During the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s Wednesday roundtable discussion about privacy, the agency’s outgoing Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour said that it was “irresponsible” on the part of Google to have introduced its social-networking service Buzz, without conferring with the Gmail users.

The Web analysis firm Experian Hitwise’s Monday-released figures, which reveal that social networking site Facebook overtook the Internet search giant Google as the most visited US site during the week ending March 13, indicate a noticeable shift in the way Americans are searching for Web content.