Roy Mark

The federal spending boom on IT security products and services is slowing according to a new report by Input, a Reston, Va.-based research and marketing firm. According to the report, spending will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent from $4.2 billion in fiscal year 2003 to nearly $6 billion in fiscal […]

A House Judiciary subcommittee Thursday afternoon approved a bill to permanently extend the existing moratorium on new and discriminatory Internet taxes. The measure now goes to the full Judiciary Committee for a vote. The current temporary moratorium on Internet taxes — including taxes on Internet access, multiple-state taxation of a single item bought online, and […]

The market for unlicensed wireless communications devices is experiencing unprecedented, double-digit growth and is expected to reach $5.2 billion of revenue by 2005 for wireless computer networking alone, according to a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report. Written by the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis (OSP) and Office of Engineering and Technology […]

WASHINGTON — A legislative “silver bullet” to curb spam was all the talk Wednesday at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail. More specifically, there was consensus opinion that there was no such thing. Since the 108th Congress convened in January, there have been more than a half dozen proposals for federal […]

While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fine tunes its historic unbundling decision for final publication, the telecommunications equipment manufacturing industry is losing jobs, according to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin. In February a sharply divided FCC ruled on two related but distinctly different issues that will have a long-term effect on the […]

E-commerce sales by wholesalers grew at a healthy 13 percent clip between 2000-2001 while their overall sales were relatively flat, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s newly published 2001 E-Stats Report, which tracks e-commerce sales by wholesalers and other areas of the economy. The new report showed wholesalers accounted for approximately 25 percent of all […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee lined up the usual suspects for its Wednesday hearing on possible spam legislation. There was Ted Leonsis of America Online, Brightmail’s Enrique Salem and Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), all urging immediate federal laws to curb the onslaught of unsolicited bulk e-mail. Not so […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled Monday an ambitious five-year upgrade of its computing infrastructure that may cost as much as $1 billion. Called the Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, the project is expected to begin in 2005 and will support the NSF’s research and engineering efforts. Gregory Andrews, division director for experimental and integrative activities at NSF, […]

While most regulatory decisions made by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) often take years to be felt in the consumer market, an FCC ruling made just 15 months ago may well result in new wireless electronic products parked under this year’s Christmas tree. The most likely items will be camcorders that wirelessly stream video to […]

Treasury Secretary John Snow and Commerce Secretary Don Evans have sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to extend the existing moratorium on new and discriminatory Internet taxes. The current moratorium on Internet taxes — including taxes on Internet access, multiple-state taxation of a single item bought online, and discriminatory taxes that treat Internet purchases […]

Reversing a 40-year-old policy, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 4-1 Thursday to allow wireless carriers to lease their assigned spectrum to others, creating a long discussed secondary market in airwaves. The decision to allow wireless carriers to enter into spectrum leasing agreements affects both mobile and fixed services, including cellular, personal communications services (PCS), […]

In its latest crackdown on Internet fraud, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday 45 criminal and civil law enforcement actions have been taken against Web scammers and deceptive spammers in a coordinated campaign with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Postal Inspection Service, three United States Attorneys, four state attorneys general, and two […]