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A brouhaha erupted when executives at Digg began removing posts that contained a software key needed to crack the encryption used to limit copying of HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. Digg, which began removing the posts after it got a cease-and-desist lette
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The U.S. Army is tightening restrictions on soldiers' blogs and other Web site postings to ensure sensitive information about military operations does not make it onto public forums. The Army's new regulation affect service members who have r
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Search engines like Google, portals like MSN, news aggregators like Yahoo News, online video Web sites like YouTube, celebrity gossip blogs like Perez Hilton, local news sites like Topix, and social news sites like Digg are making the MSM obsolete.
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"We feel very strongly about our legal position and we are ready to take it to court," said Catherine Lacavera, Google's litigation counsel. "They are making allegations of copyright infringement and we are denying them."
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Google has launched a government search site that the company says will simplify the process of finding government information for government employees and contractors.
Online advertising has long been plagued with connections to spyware, and now the seedy spyware underground has moved from pop-up networks to Google's search ad network.
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The UK Government is preparing to give the police the authority to force organisations and individuals to disclose encryption keys, a move which has outraged some security and civil rights experts.
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"You can't hide anything anymore," Don Tapscott says. Coauthor of The Naked Corporation, a book about corporate transparency, and Wikinomics, If you engage in corporate flimflam, people will find out.
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The 2008 presidential contenders may soon be slugging it out in cyberspace, with pioneering online-only debates being planned for early next fall, a new media partnership says.
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YouTube confirmed that it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu ditty about starting a war with Iran.
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The wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident sued Yahoo Inc. under human-rights laws, saying the Internet company voluntarily revealed her husband's identity to the Chinese government and is responsible for his arrest and torture.
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Rupert Murdoch (Fox News) bought MySpace for $580,000,000 for a reason. Can you guess what it was?
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A human rights group sued Yahoo on Wednesday, accusing the Internet giant of abetting the torture of pro-democracy writers by releasing data that allowed China's government to identify them.
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The U.S. Department of Defense will launch a satellite carrying an Internet router into space in 2009. Called Internet Routing in Space (natch), or IRIS, the project will allow voice, video and data communications for U.S. troops.
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Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies. Many webcasters will be put out of business.
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Hodge and others like him are caught in the middle of a battle over how much artists and record labels should be compensated for music streamed over the Internet. A recent ruling by a panel of copyright judges, they say, could put them out of busi
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Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is considering a change in the way Internet's governing body is organized that could allow it to skirt some potential legal issues.
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Deputy energy, water and communications minister Shaziman Abu Mansor said his department was considering an option to make surfers identify themselves so that the government can track their activities.
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Tokyo's election commission asked the popular video sharing website YouTube to take off clips of candidates for the local governor's race, saying it gave some of them unfair advantages. [like free coverage for everyone]
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This is about Internet freedom. "Network Neutrality" -- the First Amendment of the Internet -- ensures that the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by preventing Internet companies like AT&T fr
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A few years ago the question was whether the United Nations would take over ICANN. Today, though, it looks more like ICANN will try to mimic the United Nations.
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A few years ago the question was whether the United Nations would take over ICANN. Today, though, it looks more like ICANN will try to mimic the United Nations.
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"The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." These are the words of John Gilmore, radical libertarian, Sun Microsystems employee number five and bona fide west-coast guru-gazillionaire, and for much of the last 10 years they*
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The U.S. has failed to change its ban on Internet betting to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling that said the legislation unfairly targets offshore casinos, the global trade body said.
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A key Internet oversight agency put the brakes on plans to construct an online red-light district, rejecting for a third time a proposal to create a voluntary ".xxx" address for pornographic Web sites.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone - a demand that has other nations alarmed. With the master key, DHS would have control over the Internet, as
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The U.S. military is quietly expanding capabilities to attack terrorist computer networks, including websites that glorify insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, military officials and experts say.
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McCain’s staff used his template, but didn’t give Davidson credit. Worse, he says, they use images that are on his server, meaning he has to pay for the bandwidth used from page views on McCain’s site. (so this is what happened...)
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The U.S. government taxes wireline carriers to subsidize phone services for rural areas that are more expensive to reach by wire. This Universal Service Fund has come under attack for being an outdated burden in an age of cellular and other forms of
