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Article | 28/07/2009 New initiative is looking for a few good cybersecurity pros

Amid concerns that the U.S. has a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, a new consortium of U.S. government and private organizations aims to ident...

Article | 25/07/2009 Can privacy and consumer protection coexist online?

Legislation that would create privacy regulations for online advertising could cause consumers to get fewer free services and isn't necessary because ...

Article | 24/07/2009 EFF urges members to pressure Google on books privacy

Digital liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging its supporters to pressure Google to build significant privacy protections into i...

Article | 22/07/2009 US residents call for net-neutrality rules

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should include net-neutrality rules in a national broadband plan the agency is developing over the next sev...

Article | 21/07/2009 EMC acquires majority stake in Data Domain

EMC has officially acquired majority ownership of storage vendor Data Domain after a bidding war with NetApp.

Article | 10/07/2009 Cloud computing, security to drive US gov't IT spending

U.S. government IT spending is projected to grow to US$90 billion in 2014, up from $76 billion in 2009, with cloud computing and cybersecurity being h...

Article | 9/07/2009 Google's OS security claims called 'idiotic'

Google, while announcing its new Chrome operating system late Tuesday, said users would no longer have to worry about viruses, malware and security up...

Article | 9/07/2009 Google's new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns

Google's announcement Tuesday that it is developing an open-source operating system raised questions among privacy advocates about the amount of perso...

Article | 8/07/2009 Parents need to talk to kids about Internet use, experts say

Summer vacation is in full swing in large parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and it's time for parents to talk to their teenagers about staying safe du...

Article | 8/07/2009 Software developer pleads guilty to spam charge

A Virginia software developer has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and marketing software designed to send bulk commercial e-mail message...

Article | 7/07/2009 US FTC Web site down Monday

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Web site has been down since late morning on Monday, and agency representatives said they don't know what caused t...

Article | 3/07/2009 Couple gets prison time for Internet obscenity

Husband and wife owners of a California company that distributed pornographic materials over the Internet have been each sentenced to one year and one...

Article | 3/07/2009 Online ad groups release new behavioral ad principles

Online consumers should get more information about what information is being tracked and collected for the purposes of behavioral advertising, and the...

Article | 2/07/2009 US agencies require net neutrality with broadband grants

Two U.S. agencies tasked with distributing about US$7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants and loans over the next 15 months have released an offi...

Article | 30/06/2009 EMC extends deadline for its Data Domain bid

EMC has extended from June 29 to July 10 the deadline on its $US1.8 billion offer to purchase all outstanding shares of storage backup vendor Data Dom...