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Beleaguered, litigious Rambus is vigorously denying it destroyed internal documents in “bad-faith” and is attempting to block a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) motion to declare a summary judgment against the Los Altos, Calif.-based semiconductor chip designer. The FTC claims Rambus has forfeited its right to a trial because of its actions in allegedly destroying documents […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed six complaints in federal district courts against Internet and e-mail operators who hawk international driver’s permits (IDPs) for $65-$375 each. According to the FTC, the IDPs are “worthless documents” pitched to immigrants and other consumers who were seeking an alternative to a government-issued driver’s license or identification document. […]

Telkonet, which is developing technology to transmit high-speed Internet connections over traditional electric power lines, said Thursday it is now in compliance with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations based upon the independent analysis of Product Safety Engineering (PSE), an FCC-accredited equipment authorization testing laboratory. According to PSE’s analysis and test findings, the Telkonet Powerline Communications […]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) moved Wednesday to block all funding for the controversial Defense Department program known as Total Information Awareness (TIA). The program aims to capture the “information signature” of people in order to track potential terrorists and has been sharply criticized by privacy and civil liberties groups. The TIA program is a project […]

Sen. Conrad Burns (R.-Mont.), incoming chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee, said Wednesday his top priorities for the 108th Congress include bills to require senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) to include easy “unsubscribe” options, spectrum reform and mandating 911 as a universal wireless emergency number. Other issues on Burns’ ambitious agenda include broadband expensing, […]

Senators George Allen (R.-Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) introduced legislation Tuesday night to promote a wireless approach to broadband deployment. Known as the Jumpstart Broadband Act, the bill calls for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allocate not less than 255 megahertz of contiguous spectrum in the 5 gigahertz band for unlicensed use by wireless […]

In a move designed to thwart new legislation action regarding digital copyright law, including a bill that proposes to broaden consumer fair use rights, representatives of the recording and technology industries announced Tuesday afternoon they have signed a “landmark” agreement on a core set of principles about the distribution of digital content. The agreement, signed […]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (D.-S.C.) was harshly critical Tuesday morning of possible Federal Communications Commission (FCC) designs to change the rules for implementing telecommunications competition, calling the regional Bell operating companies “liars” and lamenting the “shenanigans” of the FCC. According to a number of reports, the FCC is set to do away with […]

The 10 most critical Web application security problems for government and the private sector were unveiled Monday by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), the Washington, D.C.-based open source community project. The list of vulnerabilities was created to focus government and industry on the most serious of the problems. According to the report, the […]

After studying the facts of the case for more than a month, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson has ruled music and movie picture companies can sue the off-shore file-swapping site Kazaa, which argued it was exempt from U.S. jurisdiction because it is based in Australia and incorporated on the island of Vanuatu. The ruling is […]

The High Tech Broadband Coalition (HTBC), an ad hoc alliance of trade associations of the computer, telecommunications equipment, semiconductor, consumer electronics, software and manufacturing sectors, has delivered a letter to all 22 members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging the senators’ support for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to remove “regulatory […]

The $2.25 billion federal program designed to help schools and libraries connect to the Internet is “honeycombed” with fraud, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based non-profit “public service journalism” organization. The center’s study focuses on the FCC’s “E-Rate” program, a part of the agency’s Universal Service Fund (USF) […]