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Liz Gasster, the acting director and general counsel of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), admits she is an optimistic person, but she is nevertheless “discouraged” over Washington’s failure to adequately address data security issues. Calling 2006 a “kind of disaster” for data security, her trade group, which includes Entrust , McAfee and Symantec , […]

On Monday in some office at the Department of Justice (DoJ), attorneys will be partying, and it won’t have anything to do with who won the Super Bowl pool. It’ll be all about who couldn’t get a bet down online. In Justice’s eye, that would be every single American. Sunday, Las Vegas sports books are […]

WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin found himself on the defensive today over his comments that AT&T’s network neutrality concessions in its $85 million merger with BellSouth “would not dictate or bind government policy.” Testifying for the first time before a Democrat-controlled Congress, the Republican chairman’s post-merger statements were challenged by new […]

U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) predicted before an early Wednesday morning crowd at the State of the Internet Conference that the tech industry’s interest in patent reform would be rewarded early in the 110th Congress. Hours later, Boucher and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) introduced the Patents Depend on Quality Act of 2006 (PDQ Act). Boucher […]

WASHINGTON — In the inflamed rhetoric of network neutrality, the debates are often cast as broadband providers versus content providers, big companies versus even larger companies and regulation of the Internet versus non-regulation. For U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, these arguments oversimplify the issue. Speaking at the Third Annual State of the Internet Conference Wednesday, the […]

U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced legislation Wednesday to permanently extend the temporary ban on Internet access taxes. The bill is the House companion to legislation recently introduced in the U.S. Senate by Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). The current moratorium expires on Nov. 1. Originally passed in 1998, Congress has twice extended the moratorium, most recently […]

Sony BMG Music agreed Tuesday it violated federal law by not telling consumers CDs sold by the company contained digital rights management (DRM) software that monitored user listening habits to send them marketing messages. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Sony BMG agreed to allow consumers to exchange the CDs embedded with the DRM through […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) will review two patents held by EpicRealm, a Texas firm that has filed a number of infringement lawsuits against companies employing dynamic Web technology. Dynamic Web sites produce custom responses for users and are widely used to personalize their site experience. EpicRealm has filed more than a dozen […]

The tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua has won its latest long-shot effort to force the U.S. to open its market to offshore gambling, according to a confidential report issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO). A United States Trade Representative (USTR) official told internetnews.com that the report concludes the U.S. “has not taken the […]

Verizon and AT&T dodged a major legislative bullet on mandated network neutrality in the Republican-controlled 109th Congress. They had to give up on a major telecom-reform bill that contained many plums for the telcos, but the two telephone giants were more than willing to make that trade-off. Not that a Democratic-controlled 110th Congress will make […]

A Nigerian convicted of running a sophisticated identity theft ring that stole the personal data of online gamblers registered with BetonSports was sentenced today to 34 months in prison. Lanre Elekede, 32, is the lead defendant in the case in which he pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of at least 175 individuals. According to […]

President George Bush was far more circumspect about information technology in his Tuesday night State of the Union address than he was during his 2006 speech in which he gave a major plug for technology and competitiveness. The president was facing an entirely different scenario than his five previous State of the Union addresses. Democrats, […]