Good morning tech

FCC filing shows who attended Comcast-NBCU meeting last week. Tech
Daily Dose reports on who was at the meeting of economists, convened by the FCC, to discuss the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal: Northwestern University
economics professor William Rogerson, who represented the American Cable
Association; Bloomberg representative Leslie Marx, a Duke
University economics professor; Navigant Economics
managing director Hal Singer, who represented the Communications Workers
of America; and University of Southern California economic professor
Simon Wilkie, who was there for Earthlink and the satellite programming
provider DISH Network. http://bit.ly/blGxk3

Industry Notes

HP will pay government $55 million to settle kickback lawsuit. The
Department of Justice announced Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard will pay
the government $55 million as part of a whistleblower lawsuit filed in
2004 under the False Claims Act. The government alleges HP paid systems
integrators to recommend its products to federal agencies and also
failed to fully disclose its commercial pricing practices during
negotiations with the General Services Administration. The settlement
does not include any admission of illegal conduct by HP. http://bit.ly/djRYCZ

Sprint faces 4G dilemma. Sprint has to decide whether to
finish building Clearwire’s nationwide network or allow T-Mobile to
invest in Clearwire as well. “Sprint Nextel has bet its future on
offering speedy data services to mobile devices over a new high-speed,
‘4G’ network and has joined with upstart Clearwire to build it,” The Wall Street Journal reports. But now the board has to decide whether to
fund the project on its own or let a competitor like T-Mobile provide
some funding. http://bit.ly/dBOLxu

Amazon mulling online subscription movie/TV service. “Amazon.com has
approached media companies including Time Warner with plans to start an
online video subscription service to rival Netflix, said three people
with knowledge of the talks,” Bloomberg reports. http://bit.ly/d8Pa7F

SAID

“Right now, somewhere there is a child who dreams of becoming a forensic scientist. Sadly, that child’s high school does not offer courses in this specific field of study. Digital learning solves this problem. An online course can be accessed from anywhere, anytime, with a computer and internet access.”

—Jeb Bush, former Republican governor of Florida, on how technology can benefit education in a National Journal forum exploring the intersection. http://bit.ly/dk9QZh

WATERCOOLER

HISTORY — A Twitter account operated by the JFK Library presents the status updates of President Kennedy as he goes through the year 1960. http://bit.ly/dp4fs