http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:48:24 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-03-17T15:48:24Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/legislation-pushes-white-house-private-sector-collaboration-in-cyber-crisis/?cs=40125 Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV and Olympia J. Snowe continue to push their proposed Cybersecurity Act, which seeks to push the Obama administration and Congress to be more aggressive in creating a coordinated national plan for dealing with cyber attacks. legislation_and_regulation network_security government_agencies business_technology Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:48:24 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/legislation-pushes-white-house-private-sector-collaboration-in-cyber-crisis/?cs=40125 2010-03-17T15:48:24Z 13 hours, 53 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/legislation-pushes-white-house-private-sector-collaboration-in-cyber-crisis http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40125 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/cuba-says-us-ruling-on-internet-access-does-nothing/?cs=40084 Cuba has criticized recent a U.S. ruling that would make it easier for companies to provide Internet services on the island, saying it is meant to destabilize the country, reports boston.com .   Last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury business_technology legislation_and_regulation government_agencies latin_america cuba Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:58:25 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/cuba-says-us-ruling-on-internet-access-does-nothing/?cs=40084 2010-03-16T14:58:25Z 1 day, 14 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/cuba-says-us-ruling-on-internet-access-does-nothing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40084 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/court-again-upholds-i4is-patent-win-over-microsoft/?cs=39973 The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has again upheld a jury's verdict ordering Microsoft to pay more than $240 million in damages for willfully infringing on patents awarded to i4i, reports Computerworld .   The three-judge panel ruled that there business_technology microsoft intellectual_property xml litigation i4i word Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:49:01 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/court-again-upholds-i4is-patent-win-over-microsoft/?cs=39973 2010-03-11T14:49:01Z 6 days, 14 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/court-again-upholds-i4is-patent-win-over-microsoft http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39973 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/no-more-ban-on-exporting-internet-services-to-iran-sudan-cuba/?cs=39906 In an effort to spread free-speech freedoms, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has lifted its ban on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, according to Computerworld .   U.S. companies are now allowed to legislation_and_regulation global_markets business_technology productivity_software government_agencies Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:44:46 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/no-more-ban-on-exporting-internet-services-to-iran-sudan-cuba/?cs=39906 2010-03-09T14:44:46Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/no-more-ban-on-exporting-internet-services-to-iran-sudan-cuba http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39906 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/new-exec-for-worldwide-web-consortium/?cs=39884 The World Wide Web Consortium, the organization that oversees Web standards such as HTML 5 and others, has a new executive director , reports The Boston Globe .   Jeffrey Jaffe, most recently CTO at Novell, will assume the leadership role and worldwide_web_consortium business_technology standards_bodies w3c executive_suite html5 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:48:59 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/new-exec-for-worldwide-web-consortium/?cs=39884 2010-03-08T16:48:59Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/new-exec-for-worldwide-web-consortium http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39884 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/fcc-proposes-25-billion-in-new-spending-for-broadband/?cs=39770 The coming National Broadband Plan proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will suggest up to $25 billion in new federal spending for high-speed Internet lines and a wireless network for police and firefighters, business_technology broadband_services government_agencies federal_communications_commission fcc Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:05:44 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/fcc-proposes-25-billion-in-new-spending-for-broadband/?cs=39770 2010-03-03T15:05:44Z 2 weeks, 14 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/fcc-proposes-25-billion-in-new-spending-for-broadband http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39770 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/ibm-has-issues-with-microsoft-browser-ballot/?cs=39733 Even though Microsoft has revamped its browser ballot and the European Union has accepted the proposal , IBM is still not happy. The company says the random scrambling of the choices gives Google's Chrome the best chance of landing in the preferred microsoft antitrust chrome business_technology ibm Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:19:22 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/ibm-has-issues-with-microsoft-browser-ballot/?cs=39733 2010-03-02T15:19:22Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/ibm-has-issues-with-microsoft-browser-ballot http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39733 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/masachusetts-data-security-law-in-effect/?cs=39730 Massachusetts' new data security regulations are in effect. As IT Business Edge blogger Sue Marquette Poremba reminds us, the new state law requires that companies encrypt sensitive personal information on Massachusetts residents that is stored on business_technology massachusetts legislation_and_regulation privacy encryption Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:56:05 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/masachusetts-data-security-law-in-effect/?cs=39730 2010-03-02T13:56:05Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/masachusetts-data-security-law-in-effect http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39730 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/eu-orders-google-to-delete-street-view-images-after-six-months/?cs=39689 According to Computerworld , Google has been ordered by the European Union to delete images captured for its Street View service after six months . Google usually keeps images for a year, but the EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party says a privacy data_management government_agencies business_technology european_union google europe Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:01:59 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/eu-orders-google-to-delete-street-view-images-after-six-months/?cs=39689 2010-02-26T19:01:59Z 2 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/eu-orders-google-to-delete-street-view-images-after-six-months http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39689 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/microsoft-withdraws-cryptome-complaint/?cs=39681 Microsoft has withdrawn its take-down order of the the popular Cryptome watchdog site under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, putting the site back online, reports V3.co.uk . Microsoft had taken out an injunction against the site after it microsoft business_technology privacy cryptome Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:56:51 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/microsoft-withdraws-cryptome-complaint/?cs=39681 2010-02-26T15:56:51Z 2 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/microsoft-withdraws-cryptome-complaint http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39681 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/senators-continue-to-push-cyber-security-bill/?cs=39664 In a hearing, Sens. John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe said they have no intention of backing down on expanding executive authority to respond to an attack on the nation's digital infrastructure, reports eSecurity Planet . The Cybersecurity Act of legislation_and_regulation network_security government_agencies business_technology Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:20:45 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/senators-continue-to-push-cyber-security-bill/?cs=39664 2010-02-25T18:20:45Z 2 weeks, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/senators-continue-to-push-cyber-security-bill http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39664 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/eu-begins-google-antitrust-probe/?cs=39629 PCWorld.com reports that the European Commission has confirmed it is in the early stages of an antitrust investigation into Google . The commission says it is not a formal investigation yet, but it is examining three complaints against the search google european_commission europe antitrust business_technology microsoft Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:03:29 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/eu-begins-google-antitrust-probe/?cs=39629 2010-02-24T15:03:29Z 3 weeks, 14 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/eu-begins-google-antitrust-probe http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39629 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/google-execs-convicted-in-italian-privacy-case/?cs=39626 According to The New York Times , an Italian court has convicted three Google executives of violating privacy laws for allowing a 2006 video of students bullying an autistic boy to air on the now-defunct Google Video site.   David Drummond, google legislation_and_regulation litigation privacy europe business_technology italy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:27:43 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/google-execs-convicted-in-italian-privacy-case/?cs=39626 2010-02-24T14:27:43Z 3 weeks, 15 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/google-execs-convicted-in-italian-privacy-case http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39626 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/european-data-protection-chief-concerned-about-anti-counterfeiting-trade-pact/?cs=39604 Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, says the super-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) could prove unworkable under current European Union data protection laws, according to V3.co.uk .   Last year, details of business_technology software_licensing legislation_and_regulation intellectual_property Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:12:22 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/european-data-protection-chief-concerned-about-anti-counterfeiting-trade-pact/?cs=39604 2010-02-23T18:12:22Z 3 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/european-data-protection-chief-concerned-about-anti-counterfeiting-trade-pact http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39604 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/fbi-loking-into-webcam-spy-allegations-against-pa-school-district/?cs=39572 According to eWEEK , the FBI is now investigating allegations that the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa. spied on students and families by activating webcams on school-provided laptops. CNN says the FBI is trying to determine if business_technology legislation_and_regulation government_agencies fbi privacy Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:38:47 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/fbi-loking-into-webcam-spy-allegations-against-pa-school-district/?cs=39572 2010-02-22T14:38:47Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/comment/fbi-loking-into-webcam-spy-allegations-against-pa-school-district http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39572