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The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) latest annual survey of federal chief information officers finds that government CIOs are less focused this year on the single issue of electronic government and more focused on a confluence of issues surrounding information security and infrastructure. The Arlington, Va.-based ITAA survey found that the overriding issue facing […]

The next step in the tangled legal woes of NextWave is the Supreme Court, which on Monday decided it would hear the case involving the bankrupt cellular carrier and its disputed spectrum rights. In June of 1996, NextWave declared bankruptcy and defaulted on $4.7 billion due on spectrum wireless licenses awarded to the company by […]

Wireless data software developer Aether Systems, Inc. is cutting 25 percent of its workforce, approximately 225 employees, to reduce operating costs. The Owings Mills, Md.-based company also said it will consolidate facilities and further streamline Sila Communications, its European venture. Aether will take a restructuring charge of approximately $11 million in the first quarter relating […]

Bodacion Technologies offered a $100,000 cash prize today to any one who can crack the encryption system of the company’s Hydra Internet server. The Barrington, Ill.-based company issued the challenge at the Information Assurance Technical Framework Forum (IATFF), an organization sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA). More than 1000 representatives from U.S. government agencies […]

International corporate IT industry spending on wireless applications will reach an average of $680,000 in 2002, a dramatic 94 percent rise over $360,000 in 2001, according to a new report by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) and the Wireless IT Research Group (WIRG) released at the 2002 World Congress on IT in […]

Reaction to Wednesday’s successful passage of the Tauzin-Dingell legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives was swift and predictable. The regional Bell companies, who poured millions of dollars into the effort, said the bill was the magic economic bullet the country needed, while the long distance carriers, competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), cable companies and […]

The House of Representatives passed legislation today that would allow regional Bell companies to enter the broadband market, limit access of their DSL circuits to competitors and impose a ban on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or state regulation of the rates, conditions for, or entry into high-speed Internet service. The Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment […]

While the proponents of the Tauzin-Dingell legislation make their arguments today that the only way to spur broadband growth in America is to allow the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) to close their DSL networks in a manner similar to cable companies, Telecommunications Reports International (TRI) is issuing a report saying providers of broadband Internet […]

Fans of softcore porn site Voyeurdorm.com can relax and continuing paying nearly $500 a year to watch college-aged women do whatever it is they do in the bathroom and bedroom, thanks to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that allows the Internet company to keep webcasting “college girl secrets exposed” from a home in Tampa, Fla. The […]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is blaming online piracy and CD burning as the major culprits for a 10.3 percent slide in 2001 music sales. According to RIAA data, total U.S. shipments dropped from 1.08 billion units shipped in 2000 to 968.58 million in 2001. The dollar value of all music product shipments […]

Global trade management software developer Vastera, Inc. has completed its acquisition of Imanet, a provider of software solutions for GTM in Canada. Founded in 1989, Imanet’s GTM software solutions are currently being used by companies including Emery Worldwide, Kodak of Canada, Inc., UTi and Nippon Express. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Imanet develops […]

The Department of Justice has begun a review of the AT&T-Comcast merger, precluding Federal Trade Commission (FTC) involvement in the proposed $40 billion deal that would create the nation’s largest broadband provider with 22 million subscribers in eight of the nation’s 10 largest markets. Under the Byzantine federal rules of merger approvals, either the FTC […]