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Article | 6/05/2011 FCC chairman defends net neutrality rules
U.S. government regulators should depend on antitrust laws to protect broadband customers, instead of the network neutrality rules the U.S. Federal Co...
Article | 13/04/2011 Lawmakers target 'wasteful' IT spending in gov't
The U.S. government needs to provide more transparency about its IT projects, and agency CIOs must be held accountable for failed projects, a U.S. sen...
Article | 9/04/2011 House votes to strike down FCC net neutrality rules
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to kill network neutrality rules approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in December,...
Article | 7/04/2011 Senators: E-surveillance law needs to be updated
The U.S. Congress needs to rewrite a law governing law enforcement access to mobile-phone data, e-mail messages and other electronic communications to...
Article | 30/03/2011 Group protests proposed cuts in e-gov't transparency efforts
A U.S. government budget for 2011 being considered in Congress would make huge cuts to the budget for President Barack Obama's transparency programs, ...
Article | 22/03/2011 Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against US surveillance
A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit, brought by civil liberties and other groups, challenging the legality of a controversial government law...
Article | 2/03/2011 US Senate begins debate on patent reform
The U.S. Senate is debating an overhaul of the nation's patent system this week, but several technology groups have opposed the bill, saying it would ...
Article | 18/02/2011 FBI: Web-based services hurting wiretapping efforts
Web-based e-mail, social-networking and peer-to-peer services are frustrating law enforcement wiretapping efforts, a lawyer for the U.S. Federal Burea...
Article | 15/02/2011 Groups: Spectrum incentive auctions would raise big bucks
Wireless auctions using spectrum voluntarily given up by television stations could raise US$33 billion or more for the cash-strapped U.S. treasury, ac...
Article | 11/02/2011 Obama goal: 98 percent of US covered by 4G broadband
Ninety-eight percent of U.S. residents would have access to high-speed mobile broadband service within five years under a plan that President Barack O...
Article | 3/02/2011 Dell, IBM CEOs push for gov't focus on competitiveness
The CEOs of IBM and Dell have called on U.S. government leaders to put aside their differences and create a long-term agenda to promote innovation and...
Article | 1/02/2011 Intel, IBM invest in White House innovation effort
Intel Capital and IBM are investing a combined US$350 million in a new effort by President Barack Obama's administration to encourage entrepreneurs an...
Article | 26/01/2011 Obama talks about innovation, IT investments in speech
U.S. President Barack Obama called for Congress to focus on supporting innovation and support research in IT and clean energy during his State of the ...
Article | 25/01/2011 Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Google
Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google's privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into t...
Article | 15/12/2010 US gov't worker pleads guilty to accessing student files
A former employee of the U.S. Department of Education has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing confidential loan files of several hundred college stu...