Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems     by Manlio Allegra       Home         Topics: Main | M&A | Funding | Earnings | Jobs | People | Bankruptcy | Silicon | Europe | Japan | Most Acquisitive | Archive   Genachowski Appoints FCC Managing Director and General Counsel FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced two senior staff appointments. Managing Director -- Steven VanRoekel has over 18 years of Information Technology and management experience and was most recently a top executive in the Windows Server and Tools division at Microsoft. He held various positions in his 15 years at Microsoft, including managing Microsoft's cross-industry Web Services team and serving as Speech and Strategy Assistant to Bill Gates. General Counsel -- Austin Schlick has served most recently as Chief of the Civil Division of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General, responsible for the state's civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels. In addition to overseeing the defense of the State of Maryland and its officers and employees, Mr. Schlick has led affirmative litigation in the fields of environmental and consumer protection. Mr. Schlick previously served at the FCC as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and as Acting General Counsel. Prior to that, he was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.fcc.gov 14-Jul-09 Recent Financial News Cisco to Acquire Arch Rock for Wireless Energy Sensors 9/2/2010 Alcatel-Lucent Acquires OpenPlug, Extending its Application Enablement Strategy 9/1/2010 NSN Partners with Telefónica on Smartphone Experience Lab 8/30/2010 Intel Confirms Acquisition of Infineon Wireless 8/30/2010 Cisco to Acquire ExtendMedia for Video Content Management 8/26/2010 Nimbula Raises $15 Million for Cloud OS 8/25/2010 HP Bids $24 per Share for 3PAR, Topping Dell 8/23/2010 Nokia to Acquire Motally for Mobile Analytics Service 8/20/2010 ZTE Reports 1H 2010 Revenue of US$4.5 Billion 8/19/2010 China Mobile Appoints Mr. Li Yue as CEO 8/19/2010 China Mobile Tops 554 Million Customers 8/19/2010 Airband and Sparkplug Announce Merger -- Fixed Wireless Operators 8/19/2010 Marvell Acquires DS2 for Powerline Chips 8/19/2010 Marvell Posts Revenue of $896 Million, Up 5% Sequentially 8/19/2010 Brocade Posts Revenue of $504 Million, up 2% YOY 8/18/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton