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Add the remote access PC business to the latest market to erupt over a patent infringement riff. Last week, 01 Communique Laboratory filed suit against Citrix Systems, makers of the popular GoToMyPC software. The software allows users to logon from a remote site and access their home or office computers. The Canadian-based 01 Communique also […]

WASHINGTON — The cable and telephone industries again insisted Tuesday they have no plans or intentions to block either Internet content or applications over their high-speed broadband networks. That contention sparked a sharp war of words between Internet companies and the carriers that provide the bandwidth for their services. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, […]

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce unleashed its full investigative and subpoena powers Friday on online data brokers selling confidential phone records. The panel “demanded” the brokers disclose how they are obtaining the records. The committee sent demand letters to First Source Information Specialists of Tamarac, Fla., which manages the datafind.org, locatecell.com, celltolls.com, peoplesearchamerica.com […]

While you are watching Sunday’s Super Bowl, Freddy Harris will be in sunny San Jose, Costa Rica, counting up the gold rolling in from U.S. gamblers. It’s his biggest payday of the year. Harris is pegging it at $5 million. The New York-born (and bred) Harris also pegs himself as “a large gambler” as the […]

WASHINGTON — While tech lavishly dished the dap over the promise of President Bush’s competitiveness initiative, three empty seats in a House hearing room Wednesday afternoon represented a starkly different reality for IT. Google, Yahoo and MSN were all invited to brief the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on the search engine industry’s complicit endorsement of […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expects to open a proceeding next Friday on imposing stricter security standards for telephone carriers’ handling of consumers’ personal data. FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin on Wednesday told a House Energy and Commerce Committee that the FCC will consider approving an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) calling for more stringent regulations […]

Let the countdown begin. Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal. As part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the transition to digital television (DTV) […]

WASHINGTON — Two of the nation’s top regulators urged lawmakers today to ban the sale of consumer telephone information by not only online brokers but also by telephone companies. The comments by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Liebowitz came during a House Energy and Commerce hearing probing the source […]

President Bush’s call for an “American Competitiveness Initiative” in his sixth State of the Union address Tuesday night is winning high praise in the technology community. The president’s plan calls for $5.9 billion in 2007 and $136 billion over the next 10 years to increase U.S. investments in research and development, strengthen education in math […]

Internet powerhouses Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Cisco have all declined offers to testify at Wednesday’s Congressional Human Rights Caucus briefing on China’s Internet censorship policies. Google last week raised the ire of human rights groups by agreeing to Beijing’s censorship demands in exchange for the rights to launch Google.cn, the search engine giant’s latest effort […]

Oh, that pesky paperwork. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Monday proposed fining AT&T and Alltel $100,000 each for failing to file paperwork certifying the security of their customers’ telephone data. The FCC did not claim that either company’s data was not secure, only that the two companies did not file a required certification in a […]

In five previous State of the Union addresses, President Bush has spoken more than 30,000 words and only made fleeting references to technology. He has never used the words “Internet” or “broadband” in a State of the Union speech. That may change tonight. According to sources contacted by internetnews.com, the president is expected to call […]