An Internet-fueled backlash against air traveler screening is growing amid signs that the Transportation Security Agency will consider slight change...
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President Obama talks jobs and the economy with some of the nation&39's top tech leaders. Seated at the president's left is Apple CEO Steve Jobs' a...
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Google, eager to strengthen its patent portfolio for a better chance in legal battles, is in the running to acquire 6,000 patents and patent applica...
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AUSTIN, Texas--U.S. Sen. Al Franken wants tech savvy entrepreneurs to keep pushing Congress to protect Net neutrality.
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The Department of Homeland Security&39's notoriously perplexing color-coded alert system.
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Faced with mounting legal bills, Julian Assange has agreed to a $1.5 million deal to write his autobiography.
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Heads up, Skype.
Shortly after releasing software for audio and video chat as an open-source project called WebRTC as open-source software, Goog...
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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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In a sign that the new airport screening procedures may be altered, two key politicians told the Transportation Security Administration today that t...
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Lawmakers want answers from Apple after a report was published this week that showed that iPhones and iPads track and store users' location inform...
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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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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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The state of Alaska is planning to release 24,000 of former Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mails, which are likely to be closely scrutinized as the 2012 elect...
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Google and the U.S. Department of Justice are said to be close to reaching a legal settlement over Google's intended $700 million acquisition of t...
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Sometimes, all of Google's wonderfully intrusive inventions can come in useful.
I am moved, you see, more than usual by a story in SkatterTech of a m...
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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...
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Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes' bio below.
In "1984," George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, protagonist Winston Smith is ...
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A judge has granted Google's request for a temporary court order that puts a freeze on a contract the U.S. Interior Department planned to award to...
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The chairman of the House oversight committee wants more information from the Federal Communications Commission about how commissioner Meredith Attwe...
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A screenshot of Google Street View with a blurred-out house
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