The Department of Homeland Security&39's notoriously perplexing color-coded alert system.
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Data is often only as good as the tools used to help people understand what it means.
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The Federal Communications Commission last week asked a federal court to dismiss lawsuits filed by cell phone service providers Verizon Communication...
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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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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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Intel has received a thumb's up from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed purchase of McAfee.
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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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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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Italy has closed its antitrust investigation into Google after the company modified news and advertising provisions there.
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Over the last decade or two, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly extended the First Amendment's formidable legal shield to the Web.
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Following yesterday's letter from four U.S. senators that asked Apple, Google, and Research In Motion to remove applications that could help dru...
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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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Google&39's proposed acquisition of travel software company ITA Software could face a DOJ review.
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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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Twitter has just hired its first employee in Washington, D.C.
The microblogging site confirmed today that Adam Sharp, currently an executive produ...
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WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was granted bail today by a London judge, but prosecutors said they will appeal the decision.
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Actor George Clooney, who is a spokesman for the Satellite Sentinel Project, on a recent trip to the volatile southern region of Sudan.
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Somehow, with all the strange, otherworldly people standing for office in American elections Tuesday, one ballot measure has not received quite the e...
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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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