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Motorola introduced six new products and technologies Wednesday, including its first mobile TV with a touchscreen interface. Dubbed the Mobile TV DH02, the phone cannot actually access digital-TV signals until U.S. regulators allocate spectrum for the broadcasts, but Motorola is confident a standard will emerge by early next year. (Computerworld 3/26)

 
WiMax is going nowhere fast but that is not stopping a consortium of cable and tech companies from considering a plan to invest $3 billion more into a proposed bailout-through-merger of Sprint Nextel’s WiMax business (known as Xohm) and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire. The consortium that is reportedly being put together would include Comcast ($1 billion), Intel ($1 billion), Time Warner Cable ($500 million), Bright House Networks and Google ($500 million). (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/26/why-cable-and-wimax-shouldnt-mix  3/26)