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Ergen Dish Plan Obstacles: Cable Wi-Fi, Verizon 5G

How much of a competitive edge does Dish Network stand to gain if it rolls out mobile video services, as Chairman Charlie Ergen has touted? Any advantages could be limited as cable TV firms expand public Wi-Fi, Verizon Wireless targets 5G video and more Internet firms jump into content distribution. But Ergen is undaunted. “We have to make our video ubiquitous,” he said last week on Dish Network’s (DISH) Q3 earnings call, amid the firm’s expensive

Amazon.com Cloud Push Seen Creating ‘Losers’ In IT

Amazon.com’s widening push into cloud-computing services has the traditional IT industry bracing for more competition. Amazon Web Services, the cloud unit of the e-commerce leader, this month showcased its fast-growing cloud wares for large enterprises at its own developers conference. Amazon’s shift in focus from smaller companies to big enterprises is having an impact on many information technology companies. Shares of data center technology

Feds Exploring Regs For Google, GM Self-Driving Cars

As Google and carmakers continue develop self-driving vehicles that could be in driveways by 2020, federal officials are trying to steer regulations for an industry in which “thousands or millions of lines of code” control vehicles. “We are still in a research mode,” National Highway Traffic Safety Administration administrator David Strickland told a congressional committee in Washington on Tuesday. “NHTSA as an agency needs to create a regulatory