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The Federal Communications Commission believes the cable industry is big enough to be regulated, according to the New York Times. Expect the FCC to push for cable channels to be offered a la carte, rather than in huge bundles. TechCrunch thinks this could be good news for Google, who is having trouble launching a TV advertising system, and they speculate that Google might even be inspired to launch their own channel.

Sprint and Clearwire had a five billion dollar plan to jointly provide a national WiMax service, but Clearwire announced that the deal was off in conjunction with Friday's earnings release. GigaOm reminds us that WiMax plans are alive and well abroad, particularly in developing countries.

The Register has tales that big crowds waiting in line for the iPhone at key Apple stores were the exception rather than the rule. Reuters is reporting a lukewarm reception in Germany as well.

Apple has released the latest iPhone firmware upgrade. The 9 to 5 Mac blog says it doesn't do much, other than break any third-party application running on your iPhone. Even before the firmware's release, The Unofficial Apple Weblog was reporting on new Jailbreak software that re-opens the iPhone to third party apps.

In the battle between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, the only losers are the consumers.

Internet measuring firm Comscore said that only 40% of Radiohead downloaders paid anything for the album, but RadioHead said this "in no way reflected definitive market intelligence, or indeed, the true success of the project."

Prince has ordered three sites to remove album covers, lyrics, and certain images from their pages (housequake.com, princefans.com, and prince.org) Now he's gearing up to sue the Pirate Bay .

The New York Times reports on an email scam that starts when scammers get hold of the password to your email account. Then they log in and send an email to all your friends about how you lost your wallet in Nigeria and you need them to wire you money.