InternetNews Staff

In this new column, we cover some of the ever-changing legal news in the world of wireless networking. Reuters reported last week that U.S. telecommunications regulators sought public comment on how to define “broadband,” a step that could impact how the industry delivers Internet services to consumers. The Federal Communications Commission issued a fact-finding notice on its Web […]

Online social networking site Facebook is looking to expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year, its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told the Bloomberg news agency in an interview dated Aug. 20. Facebook’s Web site says it has more than 900 employees. The company, which counts venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, […]

BEIJING — A Chinese court has jailed four people for spreading their bootleg “Tomato Garden” version of Microsoft’s Windows XP program, in what the Xinhua news agency called the nation’s biggest software piracy case. Hong Lei, the creator of the downloadable “Tomato Garden Windows XP” software, was jailed for three and a half years on […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. telecommunications regulators on Thursday sought public comment on how to define “broadband,” a step that could impact how the industry delivers Internet services to consumers. The Federal Communications Commission issued a fact-finding notice on its Web site seeking the public’s input as it drafts a national broadband plan that is slated to […]

The U.S. government on Thursday announced grants of almost $1.2 billion to help hospitals and health care providers implement and use electronic health records. The Obama administration has made the overhaul of the $2.5 trillion U.S. health care system the centerpiece of its domestic agenda, including the use of technology to improve efficiency and cut […]

Microsoft said on Tuesday it filed a motion to stay an injunction imposed by a federal court last week which threatened to halt sales of some versions of its popular Word application. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) also asked for an expedited review of […]

Apple is investigating media reports that one or more of the company’s iPhones have exploded in Europe, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The spokeswoman for the EU executive, which oversees the safety of consumer products sold in the 27-country bloc, said Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) had described the reported incidents as isolated. Apple said […]

Sony Ericsson on Monday entrusted the head of Ericsson’s U.S. technology division with the task of leading the struggling cell phone maker back to profit and reversing a sharp decline in market share. The 50-50 venture said it had named Bert Nordberg as chief executive to replace Dick Komiyama, who retires at the end of […]

Search market leader Google holds greater loyalty among its users, who conduct more searches a month than those on Yahoo and Microsoft, new data issued on Friday showed, posing a challenge for the new team of rivals to Google. While Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) lag far behind Google in overall search share, […]

The U.S. government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that lets residents break through screens set up by their governments to limit access to news on the Internet. The “feed over e-mail” (FOE) system delivers news, podcasts and data via technology that evades web-screening protocols of restrictive regimes, said Ken Berman, head of […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday that the network equipment maker’s latest expansion in the online media and entertainment business will help improve relations between the music industry and Silicon Valley. Cisco announced it was expanding an existing deal with the world’s third-largest music company, Warner Music Group, to build and manage websites […]

The Georgian blogger targeted by a cyber attack last week that affected millions of Internet users across the world said Wednesday that Russian hackers were to blame, but that he would not be silenced. The attack last week on the sole blogger took Twitter offline for several hours and caused problems for Facebook and online […]