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Federal agencies aren’t doing enough to secure their network systems, even as documented cyber-attacks against the U.S. government continue to dramatically rise, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) said Thursday. Putnam pointed to the federal agencies’ overall security grade of “D” issued in December and a General Accounting Office (GAO) study released Thursday reporting 1.4 million […]

The Federal Communications Commission wants your input about possible regulation of Voice over IP services. As part of its just-released Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for IP-enabled services, the FCC said it is looking for “specific, pragmatic proposals” for the possible regulation of the technology, including VoIP. Since announcing in December that it would launch […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has quietly released proposed rules for regulating IP-enabled services that may elicit howls from Voice on Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony firms and Internet service providers (ISPs) alike. Last month, the five commissioners agreed to launch a regulatory proceeding to determine if federal jurisdiction extends to Internet telephony to the extent […]

The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States’ first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail. Since the Can Spam Act became effective on Jan. 1, it has been criticized as ineffective in slowing junk e-mail. But […]

WASHINGTON — Four of the world’s largest e-mail providers are launching a coordinated legal attack against kingpin spammers violating the provisions of the two-month-old Can Spam Act. At a press conference just blocks from the White House, where President Bush signed the Can Spam Act in December, America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo! said Wednesday […]

WASHINGTON — The United States is devoting more enforcement resources to pressure China and India into rescinding their “discriminatory” technology trade policies, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick told a Senate panel Tuesday. Zoellick addressed the panel at a time when both countries’ technology policies have come under increasing criticism — India for benefiting from offshoring […]

The presidential campaign season heated up in the U.S. Senate Thursday during a dispute over an offshoring amendment that led to charges of election-year grandstanding between Republicans and Democrats. As the Senate began to consider a corporate tax bill critical to U.S. exporters late Wednesday afternoon, Democrats, led by Connecticut’s Christopher Dodd, moved to add […]

Led by Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, more than 70 CEOs and executives are working Washington this week with a targeted economic agenda top lined by free trade and aggressive tax cuts and incentives for the technology industry. Private sector technology leaders from California, New England, Texas and Washington State are pressing their case […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals decision Tuesday afternoon overturning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) year-old decision to force incumbent Bells to share their networks with long distance rivals at discounted prices is as significant for what it upheld as for what it didn’t. While the court tossed out discount line pricing for long distance carriers, […]

The solution to digital piracy is new business models, not legal action and regulatory mandates, a new report by the Committee for Economic Development (CED) concludes. The prestigious organization of business leaders and university presidents said “hastily enacted” laws and regulations could have unintended consequences and slow the pace of innovation and economic growth. Congress […]

Two champions of last year’s Can Spam Act have introduced legislation in Congress to outlaw invasive software such as spyware and adware from being secretly installed on computers. Currently, these type of programs often piggyback on downloaded files without the user’s consent, transmitting information about Internet traffic patterns and generating pop-up advertisements. Known as Spyblock […]

WASHINGTON — The music industry and the new public face of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks came to Capitol Hill on Thursday to break bread and find common ground. They ate the lunch, but compromise between the hostile litigants was more elusive. Speaking at a noontime affair that drew approximately 50 congressional staffers monitoring the possible need […]