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Regulators Searching Google

Representatives from the European Union said on July 20 that they are investigating Google’s digital book publishing project for possible violations of European...

Steven J. DuBord July 22, 2009

China: Apple iPhones But No Wi-Fi

Steven Yates July 13, 2009

Apple Corp., supplier of Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones, has been carrying on a war of words with the Chinese government — emblematic of what happens...

Cyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?

Steven Yates July 8, 2009

Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal agencies' websites were paralyzed by what was clearly a...

China Delays Censorship Software Rule

Steven J. DuBord July 1, 2009

Communist China on June 30 postponed its requirement that the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort censorship software be included with all computers sold...

Competing for Best Censorship

Steven J. DuBord June 26, 2009

Technology firms in countries with little government repression are currently competing to be the best at helping repressive regimes like China and Iran...

President Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan

Steven J. DuBord June 2, 2009

On May 29 President Barack Obama introduced his administration's new report on cybersecurity in the United States entitled Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a...

Tracking Your Digital Trail

May 28, 2009

Innocent-seeming questionnaires, tests, and surveys are increasingly being disseminated by government officials so that they have complete histories on every citizen. ...

Specialist Claims China Waging Cyberwarfare

Steven J. DuBord May 19, 2009

“China is playing chess while we're playing checkers,” says Kevin G. Coleman, a cybersecurity adviser to the U.S. government, according to a May...

New Cybersecurity Regime Proposed

Ann Shibler April 9, 2009

Introduced just last week in the Senate, rather quietly, was the new Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Proposed by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV...

Google Beware of Antitrust Nominee

Denise Behreandt February 20, 2009

Google, the internationally popular Internet search engine, is under fire. Christine A. Varney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief...