The House of Representatives has submitted or reviewed 10 bills this year proposing changes to existing laws related to the telecommunications sector, none of which have been approved. Among the measures is House Bill 2489, filed in February, to authorize the Telecommunications Regulatory Board to regulate the terms and conditions stipulated in data service contracts […]

Local venture capital group Guayacán Group Inc. is throwing its support behind technology transfer and furthering the commercialization of innovation or discoveries through a partnership with the University of Texas, Austin. As part of that effort, Guayacán will host a series of workshops on Jan. 13-14 with the Univ. of Texas Austin’s IC2 Institute open […]

The University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) recently released the results of a study predicting that news applications for Apple’s iPad will diminish newspaper print subscriptions next year. The study focused on how iPad consumers consume news content, concluding — among other things — that 84.4 percent of the people used the […]

Eight months after receiving $25.7 million from grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to develop its Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative project, Internet Service Provider, Critical Hub Networks recently announced it has officially activated the Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative’s fiber optic network between Puerto Rico and Florida and has begun final network testing. In April […]