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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A group of lawsuits filed yesterday by Priceline founder Walker Digital take aim at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and more than 100 other comp...
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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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Google and the state of Connecticut have reached an agreement that won't force a courtroom showdown over Google's Wi-Fi spying scandal.
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Amazon denied today that government pressure played any role in its decision earlier this week to stop hosting WikiLeaks' content.
In a blog pos...
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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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Intel has received a thumb's up from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed purchase of McAfee.
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TomTom&39's Via Live 120 satellite navigation system warns drivers about police speed cameras. But its congestion-avoidance technology also turned ...
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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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The incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says WikiLeaks should be officially designated as a terrorist organization.
Rep. Pe...
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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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Julian Assange
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Julian Assange should have been arrested in Sweden as soon as a prosecutor ...
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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...
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Net neutrality advocates in Washington have long insisted that eventual government regulations would be simple and easy to understand. Public Knowle...
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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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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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Netflix has been sued by the National Association of the Deaf for failing to offer closed-captioning on enough of its streaming content.
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STANFORD, Calif.--President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an In...
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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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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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