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Article | 13/12/2012 Ban surveillance tech to repressive regimes, says EU parliament
European lawmakers want to stop exports of technology that can censor information to repressive regimes.
Article | 13/12/2012 Belgian news publishers settle copyright dispute with Google
Belgian French-language news publishers settled a copyright dispute with Google, agreeing to promote each others services while Google will pay all le...
Article | 12/12/2012 FCC frees up Dish spectrum for mobile, sets stage for H Block auction
The FCC will allow cellular services on a large block of satellite spectrum held by Dish Network and auction off another set of frequencies to raise m...
Article | 11/12/2012 New EU-wide patent system approved by the European Parliament
The European Parliament has voted to create a pan-European patent system with the goal of making it cheaper and simpler to obtain patents.
Article | 10/12/2012 Top 10 tech stories of 2012: a busted IPO, spotlight on workers, titans in transition
Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace but also in the courtroom,...
Article | 6/12/2012 US Congress passes another resolution opposing UN Internet takeover
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S. government not to give the United Nations' International Telecommuni...
Article | 3/12/2012 Senators' effort to add Internet sales tax to defense bill falls short
An effort by three U.S. senators to add an Internet sales tax amendment to a military spending bill has failed, at least for now.
Article | 30/11/2012 EU says no to increased powers for ITU at WCIT conference
The European Commission has set out its negotiating position for next week's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), while an off...
Article | 30/11/2012 India's Supreme Court to hear petition against cyberlaw
India's Supreme Court has asked the government of Maharashtra state in western India for information on what action was taken against police officers ...
Article | 29/11/2012 Senate committee approves privacy protections for cloud, email
A U.S. Senate committee has voted to approve legislation that would give the public new privacy protections from government searches of email and docu...
Article | 29/11/2012 German parliament to discuss controversial online copyright bill
The German parliament is set to discuss a controversial online copyright bill that is meant to allow news publishers to charge search engines such as ...
Article | 21/11/2012 Hardware vendors sue Dutch government over copyright levies
Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell and Imation are suing the Dutch government over new levies on hard disks, smartphones, tablets and MP3 players that are me...
Article | 21/11/2012 Arrests of Indian Facebook users raise questions about India's cyberlaws
The arrest in India of two girls after they made a Facebook post criticizing a shutdown of the city after the death of a local political leader has ag...
Article | 20/11/2012 US senator has not caved on e-privacy, aide says
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S. agencies access to emai...
Article | 20/11/2012 Price of simpler European patents is an increase of software patent dangers, open source group warns
The European Union is readying a way to make the process of obtaining a patent simpler and less expensive, but it could also make it dangerously easy ...