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Article | 22/05/2013 IP theft commission: US needs to take strong action
The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the cou...
Article | 22/05/2013 U.S. power companies under frequent cyberattack
A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 ...
Article | 21/05/2013 Apple defends offshore decisions that result in low taxes
Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company i...
Article | 21/05/2013 WikiLeaks' donations barely enough to keep the servers running
Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transpar...
Article | 21/05/2013 Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use
Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower ...
Article | 21/05/2013 EU investigation could affect business from China's 4G deployment
The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment impor...
Article | 20/05/2013 Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction
Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying t...
Article | 20/05/2013 Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have been confirmed as the secret backers behind the European Privacy Association (EPA) which was accused of a lack of tra...
Article | 20/05/2013 US Defense Department approves Apple's iOS devices for its networks
Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department move...
Article | 19/05/2013 Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto
With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinio...
Article | 17/05/2013 T-Mobile drops challenge to FCC's net neutrality rules
T-Mobile USA has dropped a pending challenge to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.
Article | 17/05/2013 Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges
Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the...
Article | 16/05/2013 Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort...
Article | 16/05/2013 NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet
E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems wo...
Article | 16/05/2013 German online copyright law to take effect in August
A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into...