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A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., calls for electronic surveillance reforms that would require law enforcement to have a probable-cause warrant before obtaining email or other online data, or tracking ongoing mobile activity, among other enhanced legal...

There was a time when businesses names were simply picked out of a hat, literally, and often very successfully. Later, the complexity of the marketplace boosted the name lists to such huge quantities that they had to use larger drums. This is how most business names came about, and on that note, the...

The leak of a memo from HP CEO Leo Apotheker describing a tough upcoming quarter prompted the company to deliver its quarterly earnings report a day earlier than planned. The results for the second quarter were actually in line with expectations, but the company lowered its guidance for the rest of ...

Vendors seeking to provide cloud-based information technology to federal agencies now have some idea of the potential market for their offerings. The General Services Administration has asked vendors to submit bid and qualification information that could lead to their selection as contractors for e...

The cloud-based storage system Dropbox is the most recent online provider to be criticized for misleading customers in terms of of privacy and security, according to an FTC complaint. Dropbox deceived customers by making them believe that its employees did not have access to their data, alleges Chr...

The IT industry loves the concept of "innovation," but many vendors' hearts largely belong to just the most conventional sorts of wisdom. That adoration takes a number of shapes: Stone Age business models; dusty Neolithic technologies and architectures; fossilized go-to-market strategies. In point o...

Sony's PlayStation Network has been rebuffed in the company's home country. The game-maker relaunched the troubled online service elsewhere around the world, but it has been blocked in Japan by government order. Japan wants Sony to implement further preventive security measures and make more progres...

In today's global economy, the United States is a major player. Enterprises of all sizes have a presence in the United States, whether through foreign direct investment, strategic alliances, or simply having clientele in the U.S. Thus, being able to transfer personnel to the U.S. quickly and seamle...

Google has set aside a cool half-billion dollars to cover any penalties related to AdWords postings for illegal drugs. The search giant reportedly is nearing a settlement with the DoJ in a criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online ph...

Today's cloud computing phenomenon is causing havoc among many legacy hardware and software vendors who worry that the increasingly competitive market is going to cannibalize and commoditize their traditional products and services. One company that may sit in an advantageous position is Dell. I've l...

In a bit of non-Earth-shattering news, Apple this week was deemed the world's most valuable consumer brand. The title was bestowed by the Millward Brown branding agency, which has been publishing a list of the top 100 brands for past six years. To compile its rankings, Millward Brown polls more than...

Looks like Facebook wanted to mount a dirty tricks campaign against Google, but so far all the mud is clinging to the social network and its PR goons. Burson-Marsteller was hired to run a negative campaign against Google's Social Circle, aka Social Search, according to reports. Facebook confirmed it...

LightSquared sounds like a great idea. The company sees a growing need and has a plan. It plans on building a network and offering extra capacity to wireless carriers for wireless data usage. Wireless carriers that need wireless data capacity can just partner with this company and get the connecti...

Microsoft's announcement Tuesday of its purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion stunned industry watchers, who had seen Facebook, Google and perhaps Cisco sniff around the VoIP giant in recent weeks. The impact of that deal, if it gets the thumbs-up from regulators, will reverberate through the online se...

No doubt you've heard the term "Net neutrality." Proponents and opponents have much to say on this topic. However, many Internet users don't even know what it means, or how it will affect them. What is Net neutrality? "Net neutrality" is short for "network neutrality" or "Internet neutrality." The c...