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Former U.S. cyber security chief Amit Yoran is the new president and CEO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s independent venture capital arm. Yoran, 35, took over the job last week, replacing Gilman Louie, who resigned to start a new venture capital firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gilman ran In-Q-Tel since its inception in 1999. […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin is worried about mounting rumors of a proposed “two-tiered” broadband delivery system by the Baby Bells. Under the plan being quietly pushed in Congress by the Bells, broadband providers would be able to charge Internet companies, such as Yahoo, Google and Amazon, an extra fee to deliver high-bandwidth […]

A 23-year-old resident of Waterville, Maine, was sentenced to more than five years in prison Friday for distributing child pornography over the Internet. According to the Department of Justice, the child pornography involved was produced through the use of actual minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The material was allegedly a visual depiction of such […]

Verizon completed its $8.4 billion purchase of MCI today, creating the nation’s second largest telecom carrier behind the new AT&T , which itself is a newly formed merger between the former long distance carrier and SBC. Like the SBC-AT&T merger, the Verizon-MCI deal combines a Baby Bell with a dominant long distance carrier. MCI brings […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants Sony EMI to grant legal protections for computer security researchers examining the copy-protection technologies of the music giant. In November, EMI — whose labels include Virgin Records, Capitol Records and Liberty Records — sparked a whirlwind of controversy and criticism for issuing music CDs containing a rootkit to cloak […]

Two companies selling alleged bogus anti-spyware software and services settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges Thursday that the firms’ claims were deceptive and violated federal law. The owners and operators of Spykiller and Spyware Assassin each claimed to detect spyware — even when none was on a user’s computer — and then sold consumers anti-spyware […]

Verizon added another piece to its fiber-optic video market Tuesday when Howard County, Md., authorized the phone giant to begin offering its FiOS television service in the prosperous Washington, D.C., suburb. With its more than 265,000 potential viewers, Howard County is the first Maryland jurisdiction to grant Verizon a cable franchise. Verizon already has FiOS […]

BellSouth is reaching for the stars in its Internet Protocol TV trials this summer, signing SES Americom to provide a centralized, satellite-centric video distribution platform. The IPTV trials, set to begin later this year, will be aimed at approximately 1,000 users in Atlanta. SES will provide BellSouth with video aggregation, encoding, monitoring and transport over […]

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) scored a year-ending victory in its long- running patent dispute with NTP Friday. But the future of operating its popular wireless e-mail service in the U.S. is still uncertain for the Canadian-based company, which faces the prospect of an injunction over patent litigation covering the technology. According to the […]

The stock market stumbled again Friday, ending 2005 on a lackluster note. The Dow Jones Industrial Index posted its first yearly loss since 2002 while the tech heavy NASDAQ ended the year with nominal gains. For the day, the NASDAQ tumbled 11 points to 2,207 amid concerns over the continuing inversion in the Treasury yield […]

Years ago — back when dial-up access was growing and broadband was only a vague notion, Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy, a lobbying group for open access with online providers, never missed an opportunity to complain about something he called “walled gardens.” According to Chester, the day was coming when an Internet […]

The new century is bringing new changes in U.S. Internet users, particularly women, according to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Issued Wednesday, the study shows that the American online population, dominated by men in the 1990s, has been evenly divided between men and women since 2000. Moreover, the proportion […]