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Article | 11/06/2013 Organizations push for Congress to curtail NSA spying
Privacy advocates are pushing the U.S. Congress to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to collect massive amounts of data from U.S. re...
Article | 4/06/2013 Obama targets so-called patent trolls
The U.S. Congress should allow new challenges to patents on processes that are enabled by computers, and lawmakers should make it more difficult for p...
Article | 1/04/2013 Appeals court says Aereo streaming TV service doesn't infringe
Streaming television service Aereo does not appear to infringe the copyrights of over-the-air TV stations, and a request from several stations to shut...
Article | 22/03/2013 FCC chairman announces his resignation
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Friday he will soon step down, following months of rumors that he would r...
Article | 19/03/2013 Supreme Court reaffirms resale of copyright works
U.S. residents have the right to resell software and other products protected by copyright even when they are manufactured overseas, the U.S. Supreme ...
Article | 12/03/2013 Third mobile-phone-unlocking bill introduced
Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to...
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 | 12/02/2013 ITIF: US broadband service competitive with other nations
The U.S. has better broadband service than some critics give it credit for, with speeds, availability and prices that are competitive with many other ...
Article | 16/01/2013 Public Knowledge says AT&T MicroCell policy violates net neutrality
AT&T is violating the spirit of net neutrality with its policies on the use of small cellular base stations in homes, the consumer advocate group Publ...
Article | 27/11/2012 Experts call for deregulation at the FCC
Lawmakers should downsize the U.S. Federal Communications Commission by taking away its power to review mergers in the telecom industry and most of it...
Article | 8/11/2012 AT&T reverses FaceTime blocking decision
AT&T has reversed its decision to allow Apple iPhone and iPad owners to use Apple's FaceTime videoconferencing application only on the carrier's most ...
Article | 6/11/2012 Mobile networks nearing normal coverage after Sandy
Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remai...
Article | 29/10/2012 Lawyer: Buyers have the right to resell copyright-protected works
U.S. residents who buy products protected by copyright shouldn't have to worry about where those products were manufactured before reselling them, a l...
Article | 26/10/2012 US Supreme Court to look at NSA spying, resale of products
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases with potentially broad implications to technology users, one reviewing whether consumer...
Article | 20/12/2011 AT&T kills $39 billion T-Mobile deal
AT&T has scrapped its plans to purchase rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA in the face of opposition from two U.S. agencies.

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