Judge extends Microsoft consent decree
April 22, 2009A U.S. district court judge said today she will extend portions of an antitrust decree governing Microsoft's actions for another 18 months to May 2011.
eBay execs call e-fencing bills unfair
April 21, 2009EBay officials criticized three bills targeting 'online marketplaces' while pledging to work with law enforcement officials to help investigate cases of suspected sales of stolen goods on the online auction site.
Microsoft gains familiar ally in IE antitrust battle in Europe
April 21, 2009The Association for Competitive Technology, a trade group that backed Microsoft in its previous antitrust case in Europe, was accepted as an interested third party in a new one that involves Internet Explorer.
Study: Privacy restrictions may slow rollouts of e-health systems
April 20, 2009Two academic researchers claim in a study that increased efforts to protect the privacy of health care data could hamper the deployment of electronic medical records systems.
Editor's Note: The U.S. is taking vacuous steps toward Cuba
April 20, 2009The Obama administration's announcement that it was authorizing U.S. telecom providers to forge service agreements with their counterparts in Cuba was vacuous at best.
Naughty workers, spam pollutes, Skype spin off
April 18, 2009A whole lot of employees keep "inappropriate" photos, videos and browser cache links on their work laptops, a survey found. (Honestly, how difficult is it to at least clean out the cache?) As if that's not enough, the spam that clogs our computers is spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to McAfee. And eBay plans to spin off Skype after figuring out what many observers said a while ago, which is that they just do not seem to have much in common.
DOJ: U.S. government exceeded surveillance authority
April 16, 2009The U.S. National Security Agency exceeded its surveillance authority of U.S. residents under a far-reaching telephone and Internet communications wiretap program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
Federal cybersecurity review drawing to a close
April 16, 2009A 60-day review of federal cybersecurity efforts that President Obama ordered in February is scheduled to end this week, although it's unclear when the findings will be publicly released.
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IBM, Adobe, Oracle join EU antitrust case against Microsoft
April 16, 2009Some of Microsoft's fiercest rivals, including IBM, Sun and Adobe, have joined the European Union's antitrust probe of the company's Internet Explorer browser.
Agencies flooded with comments about broadband stimulus
April 16, 2009Two U.S. agencies soliciting comments about how to spend $7.2 billion in broadband deployment money have received about 1,400 comments, with conflicting views on Net neutrality among them.
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