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Sanjay Kumar, CA’s former chief executive, is facing 12 years in prison and an $8 million fine for his role in illegally manipulating the software company’s financial results. U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser imposed the sentence Thursday in a Brooklyn courtroom following the 44-year-old Kumar’s April guilty plea to eight counts of security fraud, […]

Wi-Fi competition at Boston’s Logan Airport is alive and well, thanks to a Wednesday ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC unanimously sided with Continental in a dispute with the airport over Wi-Fi hotspots. The commission said allowing multiple Wi-Fi suppliers at Logan causes no interference to the “safety-of-life” communications network the airport […]

Two consumer advocacy groups want the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate alleged unfair and deceptive practices by Internet advertising networks. In a joint filing Wednesday, the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) claim current privacy disclosure statements are inadequate in light of increasingly sophisticated data-collection techniques. […]

At 3:54 p.m. last Friday, Christopher Soghoian wrote this on his blog: “The FBI is at the door.” He wasn’t kidding. Just two days before, the 24-year-old Indiana University computer science doctoral student posted a simple program on his blog — slight paranoia — that creates and prints fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines flights. […]

Sony Corp.  joined a growing list Tuesday of static random access memory (SRAM) chipmakers touched by a Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust investigation. The Japanese electronics giant confirmed it had received a subpoena from the DoJ seeking information about Sony’s SRAM business. The DoJ has already issued similar subpoenas to Samsung, Mitsubishi, Toshiba and Cypress […]

The clamor in the online video market continued today with Brightcove’s launch of a commercial Internet video distribution platform. The free service allows video programmers to build a commercial Internet television channel, syndicate it to other sites, generate advertising revenue and distribute the video over Brightcove’s own distribution site. “Our vision was to launch both […]

A Nashville man faces a minimum of 15 years in prison following his Thursday conviction for online child pornography-related activities. Following a two-and-a-half week trial, Timothy Ryan Richards, 25, was charged with a number of offenses, including distribution and conspiracy to distribute, advertising, production and possession of child pornography, as well as violating the record-keeping […]

It’s a TiVo world. Even online. According to the latest report from the Consumer Internet Barometer, the small but growing number of consumers using the Internet to watch television broadcasts cite convenience and the ability to skip commercials as their primary motivators. The report says more than two-thirds of online consumers log on daily for […]

Hollywood is attempting to ban new digital technologies and strip Americans of their fair use recording rights, contends a new coalition of consumers, artists, innovators and technology companies. In an effort to roll back the legal and legislative efforts of the big record labels and movie studios, the Digital Freedom campaign was launched this week […]

Only three Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries failed to meet today’s deadline for issuing electronic passports. Travelers from VWP countries are not required to obtain a visa for entry into the United States. Of the 27 VWP countries, only Andorra, Brunei and Liechtenstein missed Thursday’s deadline. Travelers from those three countries will need to obtain […]

The United States overwhelmingly leads the world in hosting child abuse Web sites, according to a new survey by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The U.K.-based IWF claims over the last decade the U.S. is the source of 51 percent of sites featuring examples of child abuse, followed by Russia (20 percent), Spain (7 percent) […]

Washington is finally walking the walk when it comes to border security. That may not be a good thing, at least according to some critics. Knowing just who is entering the country is a critical element of the homeland security initiatives passed by Congress in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks. No one disagrees […]