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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved anti-pretexting rules on Monday that would require telephone carriers to have a better grip on their customers’ records. The rules still need the approval of the White House Office of Management and Budget, which could take as long as six months. The rules would provide mandatory password protection for […]

Congress still has knotted knickers over illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, once again showing how utterly out of touch lawmakers can be in a rapidly changing digital world. So when Hollywood began bleating about the high rate of online piracy at colleges and universities, Congress decided to do something about it. Our lawmakers seem utterly […]

Gary S. Kaplan, one of two fugitive founding co-owners of BetonSports sought by U.S. authorities, was arrested Wednesday night in the Dominican Republic. Kaplan, 48, faces 20 U.S. felony charges related to the operation of BetonSports, the British-based, publicly traded wagering site. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), Kaplan was transferred to Puerto Rico […]

Public interest advocates are urging lawmakers to make Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports available to the public over the Internet. Taxpayers spend more than $100 million a year to fund the CRS, but its reports are rarely available to the public. The CRS was created by Congress to provide lawmakers with non-partisan, objective analysis on […]

AT&T, Verizon and Qwest today won a piece of the government’s largest-ever telecommunications contract, leaving long-time federal supplier Sprint in the cold. The deal for the three telecoms is potentially worth $48 billion over 10 years. The deal comes against the backdrop of the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando, Fla., where scores of mobile phone […]

A 36-year-old Indiana man was sentenced today to more than two years in prison for selling counterfeit Rockwell Automation software on eBay. Courtney Smith was also fined $2,000 and ordered to pay $5,200.45 in restitution to Rockwell Automation. The conviction is the third since December of Rockwell Automation counterfeiters. All three have admitted to buying […]

New York and New Jersey law enforcement officials busted two Internet bookmaking operations today that allegedly handled more than half a billion dollars in sports wagers over the last 16 months. Authorities said the arrests targeted “traditional mob-run” bookie operations. In more than 70 raids based in Queens County, N.Y., and Monmouth County, N.J., authorities […]

Earlier this month U.S. Rep. Ric Keller warned colleges and universities if they didn’t “get serious” about curbing peer-to-peer (P2P) music and movie theft on their campuses, “the hammer is coming.” First, though, comes cash. The Florida Republican introduced legislation Tuesday to allow schools to apply for federal grants to help purchase anti-piracy systems. The […]

Sprint Nextel said today it plans to reach 100 million Americans by the end of next year with its wireless broadband network. The mobile carrier plans to debut its service by the end of this year and eventually build it out in 19 markets. The news came amid a raft of WiMAX-related announcements on the […]

RFID systems  came along years after somebody coined that old enterprise IT axiom about not becoming data rich and information poor in your database environment. But these days, the technology brings new meaning to the saying, thanks to the velocity with which RFID tags and sensors are scraping, pumping then dumping data from supply chains […]

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case involving the overturned conviction of a Florida man for soliciting or offering online child pornography. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law includes protected free speech and is unconstitutional. At issue is the conviction of Michael Williams of Miami for the possession and […]

Vonage attempted today to reassure its 2.2 million customers that its Internet telephone service is not in jeopardy despite a looming permanent injunction that could prohibit Vonage calls from connecting to traditional telephone networks. On April 6, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton is expected to sign the permanent injunction he issued last Friday. The injunction […]