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The Vonage-Verizon high stakes legal battle moves to the U.S. Court of Appeals this morning with Vonage hoping to stave off what could be a disastrous scenario for the Internet telephone company. Without some court relief for Vonage, the company says it faces possible bankruptcy and a disruption of service for its more than two […]

Improved cyber security, increased law enforcement and public education top the recommendations of President Bush’s Identity Theft Task Force plan issued today. The president created the task force in May of last year with a mandate for final recommendations by November 2006. The plan calls for national standards to be established for the safeguarding of […]

UPDATED: Online privacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today seeking to block Google’s $3.1 billion bid for online advertising firm DoubleClick unless the world’s largest search engine agrees to greater consumer privacy protections. The combination of Google and DoubleClick would combine two of the biggest players in online advertising. Google’s […]

Will wireless carriers walk away with most of the spectrum being vacated by broadcasters in a winner-take-all auction that could give up to $10 billion to $15 billion to the U.S. Treasury? House Democrats injected themselves into that public-policy debate Thursday, providing a hearing for radically alternative proposals backed by a number of Silicon Valley […]

WASHINGTON –Intellectual property leaders from both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced legislation today targeting patent reform, setting the stage for extensive and expensive lobbying campaigns for and against the measure. The Patent Reform Act of 2007 would more narrowly define willful infringement, which brings treble damages. The […]

Vonage Holdings Corp. outlined a bleak future for the Internet telephony company — including a possible bankruptcy — if it loses its ability to solicit new customers as ordered by a U.S. district court judge on April 4. Vonage hopes to stay that ruling Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. In a […]

Lawmakers are again reaching for their favorite panacea in their futile campaign against online pornography: Web site labeling. It’s good politics but bad policy. For a politician, child safety trumps free speech every day — at least on the campaign trail. In real life, though, the courts have consistently rejected Congress’ repeated attempts over the […]

The broadband debate is no longer about whether the United States is falling behind in the race, but rather it is about how far and what can be done about it. With Congress already planning a hearing next week on the pace of U.S. broadband deployment, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said late Monday it […]

May 14 will be day the music dies on Internet radio. So say webcasters. The gloomy pronouncement comes just one day after the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board upheld a March 1 decision to nearly triple the royalty rates for music played over Internet radio stations. The three-judge panel denied motions by Internet radio stations and […]

Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar agreed today to pay $52 million in restitution as part of his guilty plea to securities fraud and obstruction of justice. Kumar was convicted last year of inflating CA’s (formerly Computer Associates) quarterly revenue and earnings to hide actual losses. U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser ordered Kumar to pay […]

The government’s annual agency information security reports cards are out, and Uncle Sam is still struggling to protect sensitive data. While the cumulative score of 72.9 represents the government’s first overall passing grade, many agencies still made D’s and F’s. The Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) showed […]

WASHINGTON — It was easy, even for a criminal on the run in Greece, to use stolen identities to obtain more than $43,000 in fraudulent tax returns, Evangelos Soukas told lawmakers today. Soukas, 28, currently serving nearly eight years in a federal prison on a number of fraud convictions including identity theft, testified before the […]