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Article | 21/04/2011 DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents
Microsoft will not be able to keep patents it proposed to buy from Novell under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Article | 20/04/2011 Change.org victim of DDoS attack from China
Change.org, an online petitioning platform, has come under an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack originating from China after the sit...
Article | 20/04/2011 FTC takes action against 'fake' news sites
Several websites apparently featuring news reports that show the weight-loss benefits of acai berry products aren't what they appear to be, the U.S. F...
Article | 19/04/2011 India plans paper trail for electronic voting machines
India's Election Commission is considering introducing paper trails to its electronic voting machines (EVMs), following criticism that the machines co...
Article | 19/04/2011 In reversal, Yahoo will store user search data longer
In a move that is unlikely to win it any new friends in the privacy community, Yahoo has announced that it will retain consumer search data for a subs...
Article | 19/04/2011 EU data retention law blasted on privacy issues
The European Union's data retention law has come under scrutiny, with a new report saying that it poses significant risks to individuals' right to pri...
Article | 18/04/2011 China's Huawei reveals board members to boost transparency
Huawei, China's largest telecommunications equipment provider, has for the first time revealed its board of directors along with its overseas sales fi...
Article | 18/04/2011 UAE restrictions will hit all wireless providers, says RIM
Potential changes to wireless data services for very small business in the United Arab Emirates will affect the entire industry and not just BlackBerr...
Article | 14/04/2011 India’s telecom regulator proposes quota for local equipment
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) wants to compel telecommunications service providers to purchase more equipment made locally in the c...
Article | 14/04/2011 DOJ gets court permission to attack botnet
The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have obtained a temporary restraining order allowing them to disrupt a compute...
Article | 9/04/2011 AT&T/T-Mobile merger to get Senate hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile next month to examine the deal's potential impa...
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 | 9/04/2011 DOJ puts conditions on Google's ITA acquisition
The U.S. Department of Justice will require Google to develop and license travel software to competitors as a condition of its US $700 million acquisi...
Article | 8/04/2011 FCC kicks off review of cell signal boosters
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may regulate cellular signal boosters, which are designed to solve voice and data coverage gaps by picking ...
Article | 8/04/2011 FCC revamps pole-attachment rules for broadband services
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to revamp nationwide rules governing how broadband providers can attach their lines to utility po...