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Remember Howard Schmidt, the White House's newly appointed cybersecurity czar ? According to FCW.com , the former Microsoft exec's appointment to the post was widely applauded, and he reportedly ha... More >
Telecom giant AT&T is lobbying the Federal Communications Commission again. This time, however, it has nothing to do with net neutrality or Google Voice . Not directly, anyway. MobileBu... More >
Social networking in the corporate environment has been one of my favorite blog subjects lately. Since the concept of corporate social media policies is still evolving, there is always something ne... More >
For the last month at least, I've been writing about Google and its seemingly endless quest for control of the Internet experience. There is, however, at least one thing the search giant won't be con... More >
Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules requiring public companies to increase transparency around their boards' risk oversight activities, executive compensat... More >
Nokia has filed a patent infringement claim against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission, according to a Dow Jones Newswires piece published at CNNMoney.com . And this time the hands... More >
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission asked Google for more details on its proposed acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob. Predictably, the agency is concerned that the acquisi... More >
Observers said Google was looking for regulatory trouble. We covered it here at IT Business Edge as recently as two weeks ago , when I pointed to Brian Acohido's post in USA Today on the Federalist ... More >
Last week I wrote about i4i's big win over Microsoft in the patent infringement case that involved XML capability in Microsoft Word. In a statement, Microsoft said it would do what was necessary to... More >
After the Securities and Exchange Commission granted SMBs one last Sarbox compliance delay , but before the House of Representatives passed legislation that would, among other things, exempt public... More >
Remember all the fuss when Toronto-based development company i4i sued Microsoft, claiming the XML capabilities built into the latest versions of Microsoft Word infringe a patent it has held since 1... More >
When Melissa Hathaway resigned the post in August for "personal" reasons, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Chris Painter took over as an interim cyber security coordinator for the White House.... More >
I imagine that at least once, in business or personally, everyone has stuck with a service provider he or she didn't like for at least the length of the service contract, if only to avoid early term... More >
As part of its year-end coverage, The Washington Post is running a series on " The Worst Ideas of the Decade . " Right in the mix, next to "compassionate conservatism" and "world-is-flat movies," N... More >
Google may face legal trouble over its Android-based smartphone before it even hits the shelves . But for once, it's not patent litigation, arguing someone else was first to market with or already o... More >
When the Federal Communications Commission first issued its proposed rules on network neutrality , AT&T was the first and loudest critic . The company wrote letters to the FCC, sent a represen... More >
Friday, I wrote that Mac clone maker Psystar was going out of business after being permanently enjoined from selling products that would violate Apple's intellectual property rights. But something ... More >
Days after a federal judge permanently enjoined Mac clone-maker Psystar from selling products that violate Apple's intellectual property rights, Apple Insider reports the company's Web site has ... More >
When the House Financial Services Committee passed legislation including a provision that would exempt public companies with a market capitalization of less than $75 million from the requirements o... More >
PCWorld.com reports that a small company in Missouri has filed a trademark infringement action against Microsoft for its use of the word "Bing" in connection with its search engine. After a quick ... More >
Microsoft may finally see light at the end of its antitrust tunnel - or at least a faint glimmer. Last week the U.S. Department of Justice and the software juggernaut filed a joint status upd... More >
What's that old saying -- strike while the iron is hot? That's exactly what EPIC is doing. According to a press release , the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a complaint with ... More >
In Wednesday's post about Microsoft and Plurk , I noted that Microsoft admitted the vendor with which Microsoft China was working on Juku had copied code from rival microblogging site Plurk. I also ... More >
In case you missed it Wednesday , U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted Apple's request for a permanent injunction against Mac clone maker Psysta r . The Florida-based company started ... More >
Social networking policies are a hot topic today. With the increased popularity of sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others, not to mention the belief held by some in Generation Y that they... More >
Microsoft China caused many a raised eyebrow recently when it launched -- and then quickly suspended -- a new microblogging site called Juku. Computerworld reports Microsoft apologized Tuesday and... More >
Along with looking into online privacy regulation, providing guidelines for blogger endorsements and getting tough on robocallers, the Federal Trade Commission has officially joined the fray surround... More >
Best Buy, JVC, Samsung, and Westinghouse are among the 14 companies named in a lawsuit filed Monday by the Software Freedom Law Center , InformationWeek reports. The SFLC, on behalf of the Softwar... More >
Google already has antitrust regulators (not to mention competitors) up in arms as it methodically "invades" one market after the other . As eWEEK 's Clint Boulton put it last week , Google demo... More >
Text messages and the privacy we can expect to have in them (or not have in them) have been all over the news lately, thanks to Tiger Woods. Though his messages were of a personal nature, the situati... More >
Earlier Monday, fellow IT Business Edge blogger Sue Marquette Poremba pointed to a blog post by AVG exec Roger Thompson . Long story short, Thompson's credit card company had suspended his account... More >
Was it just last week I wondered how long it would be before Google drew increased interest from U.S. antitrust and unfair competition regulators? It seems I was way behind the Federalist Society, ... More >
When Sarbanes-Oxley was new on the scene, corporate boards suddenly became more diverse , and people with auditing and accounting backgrounds were given more serious consideration for board seats. I... More >
Since before the Obama Administration took charge in Washington, we've heard again and again that transparency and an open government were some of the president's highest priorities. Lately, federa... More >
Last week I had a chance to ask Megan Brister and Jordan Prokopy, the analysts from Anzen Consulting who cowrote this guest opinion on targeted advertising not long ago, a few questions via e-mail.... More >
When fellow IT Business Edge blogger Rob Enderle tweeted this story Friday, he prefaced it with "From news of the weird." And it is certainly weird. Here's the situation. Neowin.net 's Benja... More >
Not long ago, Apple and Psystar settled their patent disputes stemming from Psystar's installation of the Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware. At the same time, Apple was addressing claims lodged again... More >
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are poised to pass legislation that is part of the biggest overhaul of financial regulations since the New Deal, according to NPR . But it won't be a... More >
When Mary Schapiro took the reins at the Securities and Exchange Commission from Christopher Cox early this year, many were not optimistic about the future of International Financial Reporting Standa... More >
Microsoft has been working to meet the requirements of its antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice since the settlement was approved in 2002. A joint filing in the case this week... More >
The Control Objectives for Information and related Technology ( COBIT ) framework has become a globally accepted standard for IT governance. So much so, in fact, that the Information Systems Audit an... More >
Christmas shopping is front of mind for many of us this time of year. Debit and credit card transactions make the whole process quicker, whether we're online or in the actual stores, but we need to r... More >
The European Union's Competition Commissioner is optimistic that European Commission will reach "a satisfactory outcome" and ultimately approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Reuters rep... More >
If I've said it once in the past three days , I've probably said it 12 times: I am amazed at how many people don't seem to realize their online activity, their mobile phone calls, and their text mes... More >
A few years ago, the joke around the office here at IT Business Edge (and probably other offices, too) was that Google aimed to take over the world. At the time, it seemed as if every other story ... More >
Regulators have been tossing about the idea of a single fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and investment advisers for a while now. In May, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) chief ... More >
Better consumer protection is high on the Federal Trade Commission's action plan right now; the agency's recent activities demonstrate that. In addition to overseeing blogger disclosure of paid endo... More >
From the day the HITECH Act became law as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, some experts were quick to point out that the act sets out the nation's first federal data breach notifi... More >
Roughly 2 1/2 years ago when I still wrote more about Sarbanes-Oxley than any other piece of legislation or regulation or industry standard, the Free Enterprise Fund and a small accounting firm in... More >
I had to laugh a few weeks ago when an ad on Facebook offered an online dating service through which I could find "older single men." Considering the ad touted singles closer to my parents' age than ... More >
First it was the Federal Communications Commission and net neutrality rules. Now the Federal Trade Commission and online privacy oversight are hot tech topics in Washington. The New York Times re... More >
I was pleasantly surprised upon receiving the agenda for my continuing education last week because there were two sessions devoted specifically to social networking. The first, about which I wrote i... More >
I spent two days last week in continuing education. No matter what your profession, those words alone probably induce yawns and cause your eyes to glaze over just a little. But the reality is it's re... More >
Microsoft Health Vault has one. Google Health has one. As Patient Privacy Rights executive director Ashley Katz told me in an interview last week, nearly everybody promises to protect user informat... More >
Individuals use social networking to communicate with each other; businesses use social networking to communicate with customers, employee candidates, and each other. But how does the government use ... More >
Personal health records have been around for awhile. Microsoft's HealthVault, for instance, entered beta in 2007 . Google jumped into the fray not much later with Google Health . Generally, they ar... More >
Social networking is part of the new normal in business, according to Gartner . Understandably, not every company can go so far as, say, Zappos.com or Southwest Airlines in their enthusiasm. But it'... More >
The Mac Observer reported Tuesday that Apple and Psystar have reached a partial settlement in the intellectual property lawsuit Apple filed in federal court in California several months ago. As a ... More >
Last week the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury delayed compliance with rules adopted under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that would require financial institutions to implement... More >
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