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Hector Ruiz, president and CEO of chip maker AMD , has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN). The advisory panel provides the U.S. Trade Representative, America’s chief trade negotiator and the principal trade policy advisor to the president, with […]

Congress voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support legislation banning the distribution of virtual, or “morphed,” child pornography and to give jail time to online pornographers who attempt to mask their sites behind misleading domain names. The online pornography provisions were amendments added to the Child Abduction Prevention Act, more commonly known as the Amber Alert bill. […]

Online gambling activists are mounting a lobbying campaign to block legislation aimed at curtailing American use of digital gaming tables and sports books. The Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), a trade association for the international interactive gambling industry, launched a Web site Thursday in which users can e-mail their elected representatives to oppose federal legislation that […]

The public’s concerns about the societal and ethical impact of nanotechnology must be addressed for the technology to flourish, witnesses told the House Science Committee Wednesday. The panel was considering the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003 (H.R. 766), which would create a national nanotechnology research and development program and authorizes $2.1 billion over […]

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Tim Muris told Congress Wednesday his agency will continue to address the ever-growing problem of spam, but he is also hopeful that technological fixes and other industry initiatives will provide additional solutions. Speaking before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies in support of a […]

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet approved legislation Wednesday to create a spectrum relocation fund for federal agencies. The Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act (H.R. 1320) seeks to help federal agencies relocate to comparable wavelengths to make way for private wireless carriers’ advanced wireless service offerings to consumers. The government already […]

The Bush Administration’s IT security initiatives are suffering from a lack of leadership and resources, two former top administration officials told a House subcommittee Tuesday. Richard A. Clarke, President Bush’s former cybersecurity advisor and the chief architect of the White House’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and […]

WASHINGTON — For the third year in a row, Canada heads a list of 22 countries in terms of the sophistication of their online services and in overall e-government maturity. Singapore ranked second and the United States third in the annual survey released Tuesday by Accenture. The Accenture analysis considered a variety of factors, including […]

The Information Technology Association of America (http://www.itaa.org) wants the Bush Administration to withdraw its proposed contract bundling rules, saying the plan will not accomplish its stated purpose of helping small businesses compete for government contracts. Contract bundling, where agencies combine multiple projects into one deal, is a common practice in the federal government contracting world. […]

BearingPoint and Microsoft are making a legal play by introducing an electronic filing solution for state courts. The system aims to streamline the process for filing and managing court documents. The McLean, Va.-based BearingPoint , formerly KPMG Consulting, will sell the offering as a managed service based on Microsoft’s .Net and open source Web standards. […]

AeA, the nation’s largest high-tech trade association, joined the R&D Credit Coalition last week to urge key Congressional leaders to permanently extend the research and development (R&D) tax credit. The temporary R&D tax credit, which has been extended ten times since its inception in 1981, expires next year on June 30. The Coalition sent a […]

With its costly, oft-criticized Trilogy network now functioning, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said Thursday his agency has put in place for the first time a formal structure to prioritize intelligence exploitation and to establish strategic plans for intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination. The $458 million Trilogy network replaces the FBI’s dated local area and […]