On Monday morning, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI), perhaps in an attempt to diversify its patent portfolio and gain market share in the mobile telecommunications space.

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The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.

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Consumers will see a benefit in clearer pictures, more programming and more broadband space for other telecommunications services.

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Multibillion-dollar budgets have parked people in space, allowed global telecommunications and brought Star Wars military systems within reach.

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Our investment in space exploration helped to create our satellite telecommunications network and the Global Positioning System.

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Omar Khan, the strategy chief for Samsung Telecommunications, said mobile devices will be more valuable in the 3-D space as a way to capture content in that format, rather than to view it.

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