Yet the FCC has spent five years bickering with the Fox broadcast network over a naughty word.

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As speech-recognition algorithms improve, the spoken word could become the main interface to the network.

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The NTIA advises the government on spectrum policy but the FCC has the final word on whether LightSquared can turn on its network.

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Meanwhile, the rest of us continue to struggle with the problems users face even in a Windows 7 world: sporadic freezing, the occasional printer that disappears from our network, the sudden shutdown of Word when in the middle of a document.

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Heather Sokol does just that, as well as spreading word of coupons she likes on her "frugal blog network, " Inexpensively.

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In other Facebook news, word is that Microsoft's bankers contacted the social network about acquiring it after the software giant dropped its bid for Yahoo!

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Anonymous is more of a nebulous network of hacktivists and online pranksters than an organization, so word of where collective action is going tends to come in small, cacophonous waves.

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Word on the street is that Apple received the free promotion simply by providing the network with an iPad to use on the show.

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The 12-word version: Apple's going to couple WiMax equipped notebooks with Sprint's nascent WiMax network.

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