FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Crisis
New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed CTIA-The Wireless Association at the industry trade group’s 2009 convention on October 7. Genachowski told...
Computers
PC Makers End Lengthy Boot Times
Personal computers' BIOS (basic input/output system) makers have, due to the frustration of many...
U.S. Opens ICANN to Global Influence
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
FCC Chief Backs Net Neutrality
Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has proposed extending FCC regulation of...
Five States Throw the Book at Google
The Attorneys General from at least five states have filed briefs critical of Google’s...
Coming Cyberczar to Regulate Internet
President Barack Obama is close to adding another czar to the growing number of...
Fed Gov’s Cloud Computing & Apps.gov
The federal government announced on September 15 that it will adopt cloud computing to...
Report Links Cellphones to Brain Tumors
A group known as the International EMF Collaborative has released a report stating that...
Many Filings on Google Books Settlement
The time has expired for interested parties to file either for or against Google’s...
China Orders Use of Real Names Online
Communist China in August secretly ordered certain Chinese news websites to require new users...
MIcrosoft Gets Reprieve on Word Ban
Microsoft has obtained a stay against a court injunction that would have prevented the...
Journalism 101: Buy an iPhone
The New York Times reported Monday that a news portal website in San Francisco...
Bill Would Give President Internet Control
CNET News reported on August 28 that it had obtained a draft copy of...
Broadband Initiative Stimulates Interest
The Obama Administration, under the rubric of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of...
State Department Passport Snooping & RFID
A sixth U.S. State Department employee or contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking...
Microsoft, Yahoo Oppose Google Books
Microsoft and Yahoo are joining a coalition to oppose Google’s creation of what could...
Microsoft Appeals Ban on MS Word
Microsoft on August 18 filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling that the company’s...
Computer Chips Based on DNA
In order to meet the demand for ever smaller and faster computer chips, IBM...
Twitter Attack Aimed at Georgian Blogger
CNET News reported on August 6 that “a Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter,...
Cyberattack Takes Down Twitter
A denial-of-service attack took down the Twitter short messaging service on the morning of...