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Article | 6/03/2013 US lawmakers introduce electronic surveillance reform bill

Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to provide more protection from government surveillance for people who store data in the cloud.

Article | 5/03/2013 US lawmakers want Internet freedom task force

New legislation in the U.S. Congress would establish a government task force to monitor domestic and overseas policy proposals that could threaten Int...

Article | 5/03/2013 Tech groups ask for a variety of skilled immigration changes

The U.S. Congress needs to fix skilled immigration programs by encouraging talented immigrants to permanently move to the country, a group of witnesse...

Article | 4/03/2013 White House: Unlocking mobile phones should be legal

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of s...

Article | 4/03/2013 FCC begins trial of Google white spaces database

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for w...

Article | 1/03/2013 Tech groups question new do-not-track bill

New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce gr...

Article | 28/02/2013 Tech groups call on Congress to battle patent trolls

So-called patent trolls force tech companies to spend money on lawyers instead of innovation, and the U.S. Congress needs to discourage infringement l...

Article | 27/02/2013 New bill would require loser to pay in some patent lawsuits

Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require a losing plaintiff to pay legal costs in many patent infringement lawsuits, in an ef...

Article | 27/02/2013 US lawmakers look for waste in broadband stimulus

Some Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused two U.S. agencies of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in broadband stimulus money on failed proj...

Article | 26/02/2013 Entertainment producers decry broadband data caps

Data caps on broadband service stifle innovation and hurt producers of groundbreaking video programs, representatives of the U.S. entertainment indust...

Article | 25/02/2013 Privacy group: Google sharing too much personal info with developers

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the California Office of the Attorney General should investigate Google's Wallet service for sharing app buyers'...

Article | 25/02/2013 HP sells webOS to LG for smart TVs

Hewlett-Packard has sold some of the rights to its webOS mobile operating system to LG Electronics for use in smart television sets made by the South ...

Article | 21/02/2013 Software firms go to Washington to defend patents

Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies ...

Article | 20/02/2013 FCC eyes Wi-Fi expansion, approves mobile signal boosting rules

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward an expansion of the spectrum available for Wi-Fi, with the agency launching...

Article | 20/02/2013 Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones

More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress maki...