Tom Wheeler's long history has some observers wondering if he was the best choice for the job.

Pentagon officials have been given the green light to begin using new Blackberry and Android smartphones on Defense Department networks. 

The Obama administration is changing a program to help bring broadband Internet service to rural areas.

The anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is expanding his criticism of a proposed online sales tax measure, raising a slew of issues with a key sponsor of the bill.

Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform, is pressing Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) over whether the Marketplace Fairness Act would make businesses more vulnerable to out-of-state audits, and why the bill would count tribal lands as states.

In a letter dated Thursday, Norquist also asks whether bill could have a negative impact on financial transactions, an idea that has also worried Wall Street groups.

“We believe that there are a number of unanswered questions concerning the Marketplace Fairness Act that remain troubling to taxpayers,” Norquist wrote to Enzi.

A group of lawmakers active on technology policy, including Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), will appear in a documentary film that examines the recent policy battles in Washington over the future of the Internet and its infrastructure.

The film, "War for the Web," is expected to be completed in early 2014 and will touch on issues ranging from net neutrality, cybersecurity, competition in the broadband market, online privacy and last year's protests over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

It also includes interviews with several prominent figures in the tech policy realm, including Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, former White House official Susan Crawford, Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld and Michael Copps, a former Democratic commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission. 

Time Warner Cable's CEO said the company might consider entering Aereo's space and offer live TV network programming over the Web, The Washington Post reports.

The New York Times takes an in-depth look at Y-Combinator, the incubator for start-ups in Silicon Valley.

Twitter hired a veteran investment banker with experience in initial public offerings to head up its corporate development team, according to Reuters.

Intel has tapped a new CEO and president to lead the company as it works to incorporate its chips into new kinds of devices, The Wall Street Journal writes.

The Information Technology Industry Council Council (ITI) announced on Thursday that technology giants Facebook and Samsung have joined as member companies.

Dean Garfield, the group's president and CEO, said he expects to lobby on privacy regulation, cybersecurity and other issues for the companies.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is expressing concern about President Obama's nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission due to his ties to the industries he would be in charge of regulating.

Tom Wheeler, announced as the president's nominee on Wednesday, was the top lobbyist for the cable and cellphone industries before he became a venture capitalist.

In a statement on Wednesday, Sanders said he is "troubled" that the president would nominate the head of two major lobbying groups to regulate the industry.

President Obama on Thursday rounded out his second-term economic team.