Avatar Posted by lveptep 5510 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Lawsuit accuses Apple others of fixing worker pay
A diagram from the suit demonstrating how the tech companies allegedly reached agreements on hires and compensation. (Credit: Lieff Cabraser Heiman... read more »
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Avatar Posted by noviygod2011 5614 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Schmidt: Adult supervision Google no longer n
Modern CEOs live on airplanes. But in stepping down from the CEO role to become executive chairman, Eric Schmidt's travel schedule is about to go int... read more »
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Avatar Posted by beres62 5595 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Witness: Assanges version of events needed hea
Julian Assange (Credit: Screenshot from &34'60 Minutes&34' interview) Julian Assange should have been arrested in Sweden as soon as a prosecutor ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by mharpsterr 5642 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: FCC closer approving Comcast-NBC deal
The Federal Communications Commission is a step closer to approving the $37 billion joint venture between Comcast and General Electric's NBC Universa... read more »
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Avatar Posted by howtomakeawebsite 5679 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: My private memory hole
Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes' bio below. In "1984," George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, protagonist Winston Smith is ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Puja 5673 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: WikiLeaks promising even bigger leak of secret fil
WikiLeaks is promising to release its largest cache of classified files yet. In a post on Twitter late Sunday night, the WikiLeaks organization ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by ArjunSahker 5688 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Meg Whitman could won
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... read more »
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Avatar Posted by pharmacykingmak 5667 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: WikiLeaks files detail U.S. electronic surveillanc
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining "security measures, passwords,... read more »
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Avatar Posted by gearsandgeardrivess 5613 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Report: Android code identical Java
Updated 1:20 p.m. PT with additional analysis that comes to a different conclusion. Did Google take code from Java when it built Android Oracle sure ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Dhoni 5693 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: High Courts violent-game ruling: Why now?
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... read more »
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Avatar Posted by fanclubmib 5686 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Yes insults on Facebook still fired
A federal agency recently brought a complaint against a Connecticut medical-services company for allegedly firing an employee over a Facebook post. ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Arvinda 5606 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Amid unrest Egypt goes offline (roundup)
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... read more »
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Avatar Posted by medicabc 5666 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Level takes spat Comcast public
Internet backbone provider Level 3 is accusing cable giant Comcast of violating Net neutrality principles as it takes public a dispute over networ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by clememeeml 5625 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: U.S. patent awards surge 2010; IBM still tops
The number of U.S. patents awarded jumped significantly from 2009 to 2010 among the 10 companies that got the most. (Credit: IFI Claims) There's ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by elishassah 5603 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Google drops $5 million on D.C. lobbyg 2010
Google spent more money in Washington in 2010 as it tried to make its case while fending off federal regulators. Doing business in the nation's ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by jasonmichael004 5691 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: N.Y. appeals court revives Amazons tax suit
In a long-awaited decision that could shape the debate over Internet taxes, a New York appeals court today reinstated Amazon.com and Overstock's law... read more »
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Avatar Posted by buildmix5 5692 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Facebook defends privacy practices Congress
Facebook offered a pointed defense of its data protection practices in a letter to two members of Congress released today, saying recent reports of ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Ben001 5693 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: GOPs Whitman Fiorina lose California elections
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, two ex-Silicon Valley executives who pledged to use their business acumen to fix California's many economic woes, tod... read more »
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Avatar Posted by acaiberriesfx 5633 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Report: FBI seizes server probe of WikiLeaks atta
The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks launched in December agai... read more »
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Avatar Posted by parsirlim254 5650 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: warrants online data: Getting
Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes' bio below. There was good news yesterday for Internet intermediaries and other cloud-computi... read more »
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