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Article | 24/11/2010 Tim Berners-Lee criticises Web leaders
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with creating the Web, has warned that social-networking sites, efforts to prioritize Web traffic and closed systems such as...
Article | 24/11/2010 Jury orders Seagate to pay $1.9M to former employee
A federal jury this month awarded awarded a former Seagate Technology engineer $1.9 million, in a wrongful employment case.
Article | 24/11/2010 Biggest threat to Internet is government, warns group
Increased government control is the biggest risk to the future of the Internet, according to the Internet Society.
Article | 24/11/2010 Trade agency to investigate Apple's patent complaint
The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate a smartphone patent complaint brought by Apple against Motorola, the latest action in...
Article | 18/11/2010 China telecom operator denies hijacking Internet traffic
China's largest fixed-line phone carrier has denied it hijacked worldwide Internet traffic this past April following a U.S. government report that sai...
Article | 18/11/2010 Experts: Stuxnet changed the cybersecurity landscape
The appearance of the Stuxnet worm in June should serve as a wake-up call to governments and businesses, especially those relying on Internet-based in...
Article | 17/11/2010 Juniper defends poky pace on IPv6-enabling its Web site
It's surprising that Juniper will admit to being two years behind arch-rival Cisco at anything, let alone a development related to IPv6, the next-gene...
Article | 13/11/2010 U.S. building next wave of supercomputers
The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today, including China's new supercomputer, the ...
Article | 13/11/2010 Sarah Palin hacker Kernell gets one-year sentence
The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to a y...
Article | 11/11/2010 HP to pay $16M to settle E-Rate fraud charges
Hewlett-Packard will pay $16.25 million to settle a case that resulted in jail time for a school district's former chief technology officer and comput...
Article | 9/11/2010 Oracle fails in bid to dismiss DOJ fraud suit
Oracle has managed to get some but not all aspects of the U.S. government's fraud case against it dismissed, according to documents filed last week in...
Article | 8/11/2010 NASA wants its data up in the clouds
NASA is backing open source cloud computing with a single goal in mind: to stick to space exploration and stop running data centers.
Article | 6/11/2010 'Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow for an open Internet separate from specialized services that may prioritize IP traffic, a grou...
Article | 6/11/2010 Italy to remove public Wi-Fi restrictions
Italy will remove existing restrictions on public Wi-Fi access to the Internet starting in January, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni announced...
Article | 5/11/2010 Microsoft: Cloud services hampered by unclear data rules
The patchwork of rules across Europe regarding the handling of data poses a hurdle for Microsoft's efforts to provide cloud-based services, a senior M...