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Website invading your privacy? Bookmark it (and alert the FTC)
See a website that appears to be misusing your personal information it? Bookmark it—and have the...
See a website that appears to be misusing your personal information it? Bookmark it—and have the...
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Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided...
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided...
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Forget DTV; FCC now planning "all-IP" phone transition
If you thought that the digital TV transition, with its billion-dollar coupon program for converter...
If you thought that the digital TV transition, with its billion-dollar coupon program for converter...
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EFF sues feds: tell us how you use Facebook for cyberstalking
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and UC Berkeley's Samuelson Center filed suit in...
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and UC Berkeley's Samuelson Center filed suit in...
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Big Cable to offer half-price 'Net connections to poor kids
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), cable's main trade group and lobby shop...
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), cable's main trade group and lobby shop...
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How the FCC might stop the Comcast-NBC merger
Teeth are gnashing and swords are being drawn in response to the news that Comcast is poised to snarf...
Teeth are gnashing and swords are being drawn in response to the news that Comcast is poised to snarf...
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How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"
It was 1879, and investor Charles A. Sumner sat at his desk, frustration pouring onto the page through...
It was 1879, and investor Charles A. Sumner sat at his desk, frustration pouring onto the page through...
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"Tech tapeworms": Bloggers denounce "parasite" label at FTC
The war between old media titans and scrappy Internet upstarts heated up today as the Federal Trade Commission rounded up journalists of all stripes for a two-day conference on the future of journalism. It wasn't long before the...
The war between old media titans and scrappy Internet upstarts heated up today as the Federal Trade Commission rounded up journalists of all stripes for a two-day conference on the future of journalism. It wasn't long before the...
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Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided...
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided...
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Multi-hop matters: the state of wireless mesh networking
Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely available from commercial vendors. These vendors tout a number of advantages for mesh technologies: lower costs of deployment, easier...
Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely available from commercial vendors. These vendors tout a number of advantages for mesh technologies: lower costs of deployment, easier...
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Multi-hop matters: the state of wireless mesh networking
Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely...
Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely...
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"Tech tapeworms": Bloggers denounce "parasite" label at FTC
The war between old media titans and scrappy Internet upstarts heated up today as the Federal Trade...
The war between old media titans and scrappy Internet upstarts heated up today as the Federal Trade...
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Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing,...
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing,...
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Slow Internet meets its Waterloo as 105Mbps comes to Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa isn't a name that conjures up visions of "blazing-fast Internet," but it's about to...
Waterloo, Iowa isn't a name that conjures up visions of "blazing-fast Internet," but it's about to...
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LCD price fixing admission leads to Nokia lawsuit
On the day before US companies took off for the long Thanksgiving weekend, Nokia's lawyers wished a...
On the day before US companies took off for the long Thanksgiving weekend, Nokia's lawyers wished a...
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East, west coast cities mull pro-net neutrality resolutions
Your garden variety telecom policy issue rarely gets beyond the usual places in Washington, notably...
Your garden variety telecom policy issue rarely gets beyond the usual places in Washington, notably...
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Current ACTA drafts ban DRM interoperability laws
It's not just bloggers who are upset about both the content and secrecy surrounding the...
It's not just bloggers who are upset about both the content and secrecy surrounding the...
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ICANN to prohibit nonexistent-domain redirect for new TLDs
Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of...
Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of...
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FCC posts "Help Wanted" for white spaces database managers
In another significant leap forward in the Federal Communications Commission's campaign to get...
In another significant leap forward in the Federal Communications Commission's campaign to get...
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Military wins small battle in war against counterfeit chips
The US Department of Justice announced [PDF] today that a California man has pled guilty to trafficking...
The US Department of Justice announced [PDF] today that a California man has pled guilty to trafficking...
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Sony still subsidizing US military supercomputer efforts
Consumers aren't the only ones enjoying the PlayStation 3's recent price drop. The US military has...
Consumers aren't the only ones enjoying the PlayStation 3's recent price drop. The US military has...
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Microsoft issues takedown notices over spilled COFEE
Microsoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic...
Microsoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic...
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MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying
The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable...
The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable...
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Swedes start buying music; are anti-P2P laws working?
Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament,...
Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament,...
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"Godfather of Spam" goes to prison for four years
Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam" was yesterday sentenced by a federal judge in Detroit...
Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam" was yesterday sentenced by a federal judge in Detroit...
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Libraries dying for bandwidth—where's the fiber (and cash)?
Most of America's libraries make it a part of their mission to offer Internet access to anyone in the...
Most of America's libraries make it a part of their mission to offer Internet access to anyone in the...
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UK hack reveals climate science's ugly side, little more
Late last week, a collection of e-mails and documents began appearing on a variety of websites,...
Late last week, a collection of e-mails and documents began appearing on a variety of websites,...
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God did it, why can't we? UN ponders 'Net "10 commandments"
Write a new 10 Commandments of the Internet, Peter proposed, and draft them on a tablet PC on Mount...
Write a new 10 Commandments of the Internet, Peter proposed, and draft them on a tablet PC on Mount...
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UK "Pirate Finder General" law innocuous now, could get ugly
The Queen announced on Wednesday that her government would deliver Internet piracy legislation; today it...
The Queen announced on Wednesday that her government would deliver Internet piracy legislation; today it...
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Week in tech: good karma for koalas, not so good for pirates
Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In a comprehensive review, Ars...
Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In a comprehensive review, Ars...
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Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness
MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade...
MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade...
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Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a...
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a...
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Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam
Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal...
Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal...
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Microsoft settles with employee accused of stealing docs
The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the...
The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the...
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Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (network) clunkers"
At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources started with yet another discussion of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This time, talk turned to...
At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources started with yet another discussion of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This time, talk turned to...
14 days ago
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Hollywood wants to own your outputs (and that's a good idea)
We like to encourage debate in hot topics in tech policy and law. This...
We like to encourage debate in hot topics in tech policy and law. This...
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Tim Berners-Lee launches "WWW Foundation" at IGF 2009
Tim Berners-Lee waved his iPhone playfully at the podium, then gave a boyish grin, touched its face, and instantly and wirelessly sent a message to the world, announcing the launch of the World Wide...
Tim Berners-Lee waved his iPhone playfully at the podium, then gave a boyish grin, touched its face, and instantly and wirelessly sent a message to the world, announcing the launch of the World Wide...
16 days ago
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SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP
On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer...
On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer...
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