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On Monday, Julius Genachowski was sworn in as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission by Supreme Court Justice David Souter, reports Reuters . After breezing through his confirm... More >
New ICANN chief Rod Beckstrom says he doesn't have a "fixed form opinion" about breaking from alleged U.S oversight but is sure that an "optimistic" resolution can be achieved, reports Computerw... More >
According to Computerworld , IBM has obtained a court order that limits the duties of former executive David Johnson , who now works for Dell. The motion reverses a ruling by Judge Stephen Robinson... More >
internetnews.com reports that lawmakers and officials are looking at ways to improve public-private partnerships. According to Ellen Doneski, chief of staff for Senate Commerce Committee Chai... More >
According to Computerworld , Judge Stephen Robinson has ruled that former IBM executive David Johnson can continue working as Dell's senior vice president of strategy. IBM sought to block the appo... More >
The U.S. Department of Justice is extending its examination of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems beyond the initial review period, reports Computerworld . According to a statement... More >
According to Computerworld , the Federal Trade Commission has suspended a large portion of the judgement against James Reno and his Web hosting company, ByteHosting Internet Service of Ohio. Reno ... More >
Judge Rosemary Ledet has found Dell Inc. in contempt of court , accusing the company of making a "mockery" of the system by dragging its feet in producing documents in a civil lawsuit over New Orlea... More >
According to internetnews.com , President Barack Obama has nominated Republican Meredith Attwell Baker fill the last spot on on the Federal Communications Commission. Baker has served in th... More >
InformationWeek reports that two Illinois residents are suing Apple for fraud , breach of contract, and violations of Illinois consumer protection laws. Daniel E. Owens and Barbara S. Owens ... More >
The PCI Security Standards Council wants comments about how the current version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is working. According to Computerworld , retailers, financi... More >
According to The Register , it's official: ICANN has hired U.S. ex-cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom as its next boss. Rumors of the possible appointment surfaced yesterday. Some have won... More >
According to an Associated Press article on Newsvine.com, former U.S. cyber security chief Rod Beckstrom is the top candidate to head ICANN . Beckstrom's approval could come as early as Friday wit... More >
ICANN will start taking applications for hundreds of generic top-level domains in the first quarter of 2010, reports Computerworld . Some groups have already announced plans to apply for generic t... More >
The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a court to let its attorneys see the Department of Justice's defense of a national security letter subpoena it sent to an Internet service provider. ... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that the European Union has issued new guidelines that require stricter privacy standards on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. The move is intended... More >
According to The New York Times , a group is pushing to make sure the rights of patients is recognized in the Obama administration’s multibillion-dollar drive towards electronic medical records. &... More >
The trial of four Google executives -- Peter Fleischer, David Drummond, George Reyes and Arvind Desikan -- accused of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data, a violation of Eur... More >
Spam kingpin Alan Ralsky is facing 7 years in prison and a $1 million fine after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and violating the CAN-SPAM Act, reports the Inquirer . &... More >
The Federal Trade Commission has plans to bring bloggers under its guidelines that ban deceptive or unfair business practices, reports CNET News . The rules would apply to bloggers who review or p... More >
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ordered the FCC to redo its 2007 decision that prohibits Verizon from raising wholesale prices for rival phone companies in six East Coast... More >
President Barack Obama has nominated David Kappos , vice president of intellectual property law at IBM, as the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to internetnews.com .... More >
According to Reuters , Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama's choice to head the FCC, says the commission will review the exclusive deals between wireless carriers and cell phone makers. &nb... More >
Google says it will delete some of the original, unblurred images on its German Street View service, reports Computerworld . In addition, the search giant says it will delete images of homes if as... More >
Reuters reports that the Senate Commerce Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of Julius Genachowski to become the next chairman of the FCC. The committee also unanimously approved the renomina... More >
Representative Eric Massa has announced plans to introduce a bill that would require ISPs to get regulatory approval before implementing a pricing model that would charge consumers based on Internet ... More >
Two New lawsuits could make the corporate scrap between EMC, Data Domain and NetApp even muddier. According to vnunet.com , the directors of Data Domain have been slapped with a class action... More >
The Indian government's Directorate General of Foreign Trade has banned the import of mobile phones without an IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), which is a code that identifies a devi... More >
The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, Sen. Herb Kohl, is asking the Justice Department to scrutinize the increase in text messaging rates by the four largest cell ph... More >
A last-minute deal has saved SCO from liquidation. According to The Salt Lake Tribune , Gulf Capital Partners LLC, a group formed by investor Stephen Norris, has agreed to purchase the company's Un... More >
Julius Genachowski , President Barack Obama's nominee for FCC Chairman, told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that he plans to focus on creating a national broadband service plan, pushing for more... More >
Four Senators are asking the Federal Communications Commission to look into whether exclusive deals between wireless carriers and cell phone makers affect competition and choice in the marketplace,... More >
Reuters reports that Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against three individuals accusing them of "click fraud." The software giant alleges that Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen improperly... More >
Following pressure from the Article 29 Working Party, a coalition of European data protection agencies, Google has agreed to make some changes to the way it collects images for its Street View serv... More >
As rumors begin to fly about who is up for the post of cyber security coordinator, some lawmakers are starting to question how a White House cyber czar will impact the role of the U.S. Department o... More >
According to Bloomberg , Melissa Hathaway , author of the 60-day review of computer security in government and private industry, is a candidate for the position of cyber security czar. If chosen by... More >
Solid Oak Software is accusing Green Dam, China's Internet-filtering program, of pirating some of its code , reports DailyTech . Solid Oak claims that code from its CyberSitter, a product that is d... More >
Microsoft has agreed to pay the state of Mississippi $100 million to settle an antitrust case, reports Reuters . The suit stemmed from a 2000 ruling by a U.S. federal judge that found that Microso... More >
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU of Ohio, and the Center for Democracy and Technology are getting another chance to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that e-mail me... More >
In documents filed related to its bankruptcy case, Psystar says it owes Apple $75,000. Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren has not commented about what the debt represents. However, Computerwo... More >
High-speed memory developer Rambus has reached a tentative deal with the European Commission, according to Computerworld . In 2007, the EC accused Rambus of "patent ambush," saying the comp... More >
Yes, hacker Gary McKinnon is still fighting extradition to the U.S. vnunet.com reports that in his final plea to the High Court , McKinnon, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, argued ... More >
Despite Microsoft's announcement that it will remove Internet Explorer from its Windows 7 operating system, the European Commission says it will proceed with its antitrust case against the software... More >
Boston.com reports that a South Korea court has rejected compensation claims by Digito.com and Sanview Technology against Microsoft. The companies alleged that by bundling its instant messe... More >
Microsoft is facing another antirust probe in Russia. According to Reuters , this time Russia is treating Microsoft as a third party to an investigation into "coordinated actions" by Acer, ... More >
France's highest legal authority, the Constitutional Council, has ruled a "three strikes" anti-piracy bill unconstitutional , reports Computerworld . The French Parliament had voted in favo... More >
Symantec and McAfee have settled charges by the New York Attorney General's office that they automatically charged software subscription renewal fees without customers' knowledge or authorization. Ac... More >
Last week, we reported that the European Commission is looking into requiring Microsoft to bundle competing browsers in Windows. Computerworld reports that the Commission has begun circulating a... More >
AIM Global, MET Laboratories and the Georgia Tech Research Institute are teaming up to develop a protocol for use of RFID in health care , reports RFID Journal . It says the effort will include RF... More >
The Food and Drug Administration lacks an overall strategic plan for its IT modernization initiatives, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. There are 16 such initia... More >
The Financial Services Technology Consortium, which creates technology standards for the financial services industry , is becoming a division within the Financial Services Roundtable, a U.S. industr... More >
Not to be outdone by the state of New York, the city of San Francisco now allows citizens to tweet about a pothole that needs to be fixed, reports InformationWeek . It tied its 311 non-emer... More >
Participants from 55 countries are expected to engage in debate at the 2nd World Copyright Summit this week in Washington, DC . Microsoft and Google, among other tech companies, movie studios, gover... More >
A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit against Intel's board of directors that claims members turned a blind eye to anti-competitive practices, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Sy... More >
New York State's Office for Technology is embracing social media with a strategy called Empire 2.0, reports Government Technology . According to this press release, it's touting the effort ... More >
Internet service provider Pricewert has been shut down and its partners and providers ordered to cease all contact with the company after the Federal Trade Commission took action on complaints that i... More >
Russia's state anti-monopoly service believes that Microsoft has violated antimonopoly legislation by cutting delivery of Windows XP to Russia, report Reuters . The service has launched a probe of... More >
In a letter to President Barack Obama, the Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Watchdog have expressed their concerns over the appointment of Andrew McLaughlin , Google's former head of global... More >
According to Computerworld , U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker has thrown out 46 civil lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies that allowed the National Security Agency ... More >
The Business Software Alliance set up a meeting between 10 tech-industry executives and members of Congress and the Obama administration, according to The Wall Street Journal . The group, w... More >
Lochner Technologies LLC has filed suit against Dell, HP, Fujitsu and IBM alleging patent infringement, reports TG Daily . According to the Southeast Texas Record , the patent involves " a... More >
Parallel Networks has filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement for technology used in dynamic Web pages, reports ITWorld . In the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Ea... More >
In an effort to tighten management, the SEC is creating a chief operating officer job , reports Reuters . Changes are needed, says SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro. In a prepared testimony before ... More >
Enron's former broadband CFO Kevin Howard has received a one-year home confinement sentence after pleading guilty to falsifying books and records , reports The Wall Street Journal . When Enr... More >
The hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, Apple and some other technology companies are being investigated by the Department of Justice for antitrust violations , reports Computerworld . While ... More >
According to InformationWeek , Philip Reitinger , the current Homeland Security deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, will be taking Rod Beckstrom's place as d... More >
ReadWriteWeb reports that federal CIO Vivek Kundra is advocating a radical new approach to government information technology that uses consumer-type Web 2.0 tools in order to "tap into the vast am... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , the Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether patent protections for business methods should be expanded. The court will hear an appeal by two inve... More >
According to Computerworld , Oregon has become the latest state to reject the Real ID Act , which establishes a national standard for driver's licenses. Minnesota, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Maine a... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , the European Union plans to try a different strategy in its antitrust case against Microsoft: Requiring Microsoft to bundle competing browsers in Windows . &n... More >
According to TrustedReviews , Psion has agreed to withdraw all of its trademark registrations for "Netbook." In February, Dell filed a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with a U.S. court... More >
Andrew McLaughlin , director of global public policy for Google, will be leaving the search giant to join the Obama administration as deputy CTO, under federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, reports Information... More >
The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board says it's time to revamp the Privacy Act of 1974 . Specifically, the board wants to update privacy notices called systems of records notice... More >
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