Avatar Posted by bugbewin 5435 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Lawmakers demand answers Apple on iPhone tracking
Lawmakers want answers from Apple after a report was published this week that showed that iPhones and iPads track and store users' location inform... read more »
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Avatar Posted by mark876611 5464 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: RIM pull drunken-driving apps
Following yesterday's letter from four U.S. senators that asked Apple, Google, and Research In Motion to remove applications that could help dru... read more »
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Avatar Posted by rleisersir 5414 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Leahys Protect IP bill even worse COICA
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... read more »
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Avatar Posted by nuingrebossmancur 5569 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: Intellectual Ventures files three new patent suits
Intellectual Ventures, founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, filed three patent infringement lawsuits today again... read more »
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Avatar Posted by elishassah 5515 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 mharpsterr 5554 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 gearsandgeardrivess 5525 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 buildmix5 5575 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: WikiLeaks faces U.S. demands prosecution
WikiLeaks encountered another round of criticism in Washington political circles today as the two senators who head the Senate Intelligence Commit... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Puja 5585 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 Arvinda 5518 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 beres62 5507 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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