Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes' bio below.
The U.S. Supreme Court today heard arguments in Schwarzenegger v. EMA, a cas...
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An advocacy group has filed a complaint with the FCC that argues Verizon Wireless shouldn't be allowed to block tethering apps that let people co...
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WikiLeaks is promising to release its largest cache of classified files yet. In a post on Twitter late Sunday night, the WikiLeaks organization ...
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at Mobile World Congress 2011
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AT&T, facing major regulatory scrutiny of its $39 bill...
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Data is often only as good as the tools used to help people understand what it means.
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Living amongst a sea of data can be a great...
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I woke up this morning thinking about Meg Whitman. You see, I'm finding hard to come to terms with the fact that my campaign to become customer of th...
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Internet backbone provider Level 3 is accusing cable giant Comcast of violating Net neutrality principles as it takes public a dispute over networ...
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A federal agency recently brought a complaint against a Connecticut medical-services company for allegedly firing an employee over a Facebook post.
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The topic for today's Senate Homeland Security hearing was supposed to be air cargo security.
But in the wake of growing public concern about the ...
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The White House is urging Congress to enact a new "privacy bill of rights" that would provide clearer guidelines to online users and businesses about...
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Add the Federal Communications Commission to the list of legal headaches for Google caused by its Wi-Fi spying debacle.
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Florida has officially banned jurors from tweeting.
New jury instructions adopted by the Supreme Court of Florida, which judges will pass along to...
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Facebook offered a pointed defense of its data protection practices in a letter to two members of Congress released today, saying recent reports of ...
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Whistle-blower site continues to face heavy criticism and a criminal probe, while founder Julian Assange, sought by Swedish authorities, remains in h...
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Intellectual Ventures, founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, filed three patent infringement lawsuits today again...
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Oracle is seeking billions of dollars in damages from Google in a lawsuit that accuses the search giant of infringing on patents related to Java.
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Google is facing yet another challenge over privacy rights--this one to be played out in a Spanish courtroom, starting tomorrow.
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Antitrust expert Gary Reback outlines how regulators might one day try to take down Google.
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WASHINGTON--Fresh off the ne...
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Following days of street protests demanding an end to autocratic rule by President Hosni Mubarak, a country of more than 80 million people has found...
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The biggest social-networking site in the world broke with many of its online brethren today when it issued a statement saying that it will not ban...
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