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Any hope of a U.S. House data-breach disclosure law this year fizzled away Thursday in the face of opposition from Democrats who contend the legislation lacks enforcement teeth. The Data Accountability and Trust Act narrowly passed a subcommittee vote in November, but was pulled from a full committee vote Thursday by Energy and Commerce Committee […]

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is the latest lawmaker to toss a telecom reform bill into the legislative hopper, urging Congress to “wake up” to 21st Century technology. DeMint’s Digital Age Communications Act aims to create a regulatory system that is market oriented and treats all phone systems — Internet, landline, cable or wireless — […]

WASHINGTON — It appears Republicans and Democrats can finally agree on at least one issue: America is losing its leadership grip on global technology. Even more surprising? Both parties agree on the answer: more money for science, math and engineering. A month after House Democrats urged their colleagues to double funding for basic research and […]

The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today, bringing the total number of legal actions this year against alleged peer-to-peer (P2P) infringers to more than 7,000. The John Doe lawsuits filed Thursday cite individuals for illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet through P2P services, such as LimeWire and Kazaa. In addition […]

Almost six months after the Supreme Court’s Grokster decision, illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music sharing is declining, according to market research firm NPD Group. The Port Washington, N.Y.-based company says that from the time of the Supreme Court decision in June, the number of U.S. households that downloaded at least one song from an illegal P2P […]

There’ll be no more deluxe homes, antique cars or vacations for Nathan Peterson, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling pirated business software over the Internet. Next stop: prison. Twenty-six-year-old Peterson of Antelope Acres, Calif., faces up to 10 years of confinement and a $500,000 fine for operating a Web site that the Department of Justice […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nominees Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps are likely to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate within the next two weeks, Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Stevens said Tuesday. Tate, a Tennessee state utility regulator, is a Republican nominee for the remainder of former FCC Chairman’s Michael Powell’s term, while Copps, a […]

WASHINGTON — Neither the Bush administration nor Congress is providing significant leadership or legislation to secure the United States against cyber attacks, a security trade association charged Tuesday. In its first public criticism of the White House and lawmakers’ efforts to follow up on President Bush’s 2003 much-ballyhooed National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the Cyber […]

The tech industry looks nothing like the shell it was after the dot-com bubble burst. That’s what a report released Monday thinks of the U.S. market. According to a benchmark study by Forrester Research and the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), the United States tech industry continues to rebound from the 2001-2003 recession. The […]

For the first time, China has overtaken the United States as the world’s leading exporter of information and communications technology (ICT) goods. According to a new study issued Monday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), China exported (US) $180 billion worth of ICT goods in 2004, compared with the U.S., whose exports […]

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that PC maker Gateway is not infringing on HP’s patents, overturning a previous ruling favorable to HP involving parallel port technology. While dismissing HP’s infringement claims, the ITC sent the case to an administrative law judge to resolve other issues raised by both companies. “We’re very pleased that […]

With midterm elections less than a year away, e-voting is again stirring controversy among voting rights advocates. North Carolina — again — finds itself in the crosshairs. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a complaint against the North Carolina Board of Elections, asking a state superior court to void what the EFF calls an […]