One of the FCC commissioners who approved the Comcast/NBC Universal deal is leaving the commission to work for Comcast. Meredith Attwell Baker, one of two Republican commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission, announced today that she is leaving her government post when her term expires in June. Baker was appointed to the FCC by President …

SAN FRANCISCO–Angry Birds is coming to Web. At the Google I/O developer conference today, Rovio head Peter Vesterbacka took the stage and demonstrated the popular game played in the Google Chrome browser. Rovio Rovio is using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to build the Web-based app. And it’s hosted on the Google App engine. The game is available free of …

Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, kicks off Tuesday at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center. CNET/James Martin Editor’s note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component below. Replaying the event will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers …

SAN FRANCISCO – Search and advertising still pay the bills at Google, but as the company moves into new markets such as mobile and Web apps, increasingly its fortunes will be tied to developers outside the Googleplex. At this week’s Google I/O developer conference here the company will be reaching out to thousands of these third-party developers in an effort …

SAN FRANCISCO–Google defended its music storage service at a press conference today shortly after it unveiled the service at its developer conference here. The new Google Music service, which CNET first reported last night, allows people to store up to 20,000 songs in the Internet “cloud.” The benefit of doing this is that they will then be able to access …

Video chat has come a long way in the past decade, but what’s the best option for a first-time dad who’s looking to share his baby’s special moments with the grandparents hundreds of miles away? Twelve years ago when my older sister, who was living in California, had her first baby, she bought our parents, who lived across the country …

Next week, CEOs from some of the nation’s largest wireless companies will be testifying on Capitol Hill for and against the proposed $39 billion megamerger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA. On Wednesday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm will argue in favor of the merger in front of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled “The AT&T/T-Mobile …

An Australian woman was reportedly sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a SIM card from a utility meter and racking up more than $190,000 in charges. SIM (subscriber identity module) cards give mobile phones their ID on mobile networks. Stephen Shankland/CNET Kylie Maree Monks, 33, pleaded guilty to computer-related fraud, receiving stolen property, and one count of making …

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile USA are scaling back plans for a mobile payment system that will allow people to buy things with their cell phones, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal today. NFC (near-field communication) chips are embedded in phones and talk to the merchant’s payment console. CNET In November the companies announced that they had …

Clearwire’s revenue grew as it added loads of new subscribers in the first quarter of 2011. But the wireless company’s losses widened as it spent more to grow its business. Clearwire, which is building a nationwide 4G wireless network, today reported losses of $227 million, or 93 cents a share in the first quarter, compared with a loss of $94 …