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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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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Julian Assange, leader of the WikiLeaks project that's published extensive secret details of U.S. military and diplomatic activity, has been arreste...
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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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The Federal Communications Commission is a step closer to approving the $37 billion joint venture between Comcast and General Electric's NBC Universa...
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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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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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President Obama this evening will call for a wealth of new federal spending on biomedical research, information technology, and clean energy technol...
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Comcast today said its proposed deal to acquire control of General Electric's NBC Universal won't get regulatory approval by the end of the year, as ...
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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today introduced a revised version of a controversial bill that would give the Department of Justice and individuals new p...
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Amazon denied today that government pressure played any role in its decision earlier this week to stop hosting WikiLeaks' content.
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It's called "regulation by merger condition." And at the Federal Communications Commission, it's a problem that has become epidemic. As part of a dra...
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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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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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There was good news yesterday for Internet intermediaries and other cloud-computi...
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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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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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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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Some Americans would pay less for digital purchases from iTunes, Amazon.com, and other online stores in the future, if a bill that two U.S. senato...
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