It is unclear whether the two will reach an accord by the deadline. If not, European authorities have threatened to fine Microsoft millions of dollars a day for noncompliance.
A representative for the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said on Friday that "Microsoft continues to work hard with the commission … Read more
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced a joint campaign with 35 other foreign government agencies to crack down on spam "zombies."
We reported the details a day earlier. They're here.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to create an assistant secretary for cybersecurity.
The vote last week was 424-4. Now the legislation heads to the Senate.
The position, long a favorite of congressional hawks, will be part of the Department of Homeland Security. Whoever gets the job will be subject to Senate confirmation and will be charged with creating a "national cybersecurity response system."
The House of Representatives is ready to vote on two spyware bills in the next few hours.
On Monday afternoon, the House began debate on HR 29 and HR 744.
But for scheduling reasons (basically it's easier to group together votes of all the 17 bills up for review today), votes have been delayed until after 6:30pm ET.
The two bills propose radically different ways to approach the problem of invasive, infective, and malicious code. I outlined the differences in a column, but suffice it to say that HR 29 takes a regulatory approach without criminal sanctions while … Read more
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly is shopping for a home on Maryland's scenic eastern shore.
Cheney and his phalanx of security forces showed up at the airport in Easton, Md. on Saturday without advance notice to pilots, disrupting air traffic and closing the airport until the veep scooted off to look at real estate.
He's been visiting "generally on the weekend," says Maryland Air, which provides aircraft rental and charter services out of Easton's airport. (Easton boasts, by the way, that it's been rated the "8th best small town in America.")
Usually … Read more
For those who can't get enough of the guy on his radio shows, he's taking his Rush Limbaugh Show to the Internet via podcast on June 3.
"I've been getting thousands of requests for this in recent weeks, months, and I had a call on it last week," Rush gushed on his Web site.
Man, oh, man, what's next for the guy?
For those who can't get enough of the guy on his radio shows, he's taking his Rush Limbaugh Show to the Internet via podcast on June 3.
"I've been getting thousands of requests for this in recent weeks, months, and I had a call on it last week," Rush gushed on his Web site.
Man, oh, man, what's next for the guy?
It's been less than two weeks since a federal appeals court yanked down the "broadcast flag," a set of digital TV tuner mandates beloved by the Motion Picture Association of America.
Still, advocates on both sides already are jockeying for position. Last week we told you about a report that the MPAA was drafting legislation that would essentially resuscitate the flag.
This Friday, the Progress and Freedom Foundation is holding what amounts to a lobby-the-congressional-staff event on Capitol Hill. Among the speakers: MPAA Executive Vice President Fritz Attaway (a flag fan) and James Burger of Dow Lohnes (… Read more
The head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency made an interesting point yesterday about the state of his agency's research at univerities: Yes, computer science may be losing its commanding lead when it comes to funded projects, but that's not necessarily bad.
DARPA has been under fire recently, accused of shifting its resources away from open-ended computer science research at universities. In three years, DARPA halved academic IT research to $123 million in fiscal year 2004, according to David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery.
The criticism comes amid concern that the United States is … Read more
The broadcast flag could be raised again.
Less than a week after a federal appeals court nixed the Federal Communications Commission's plan to forcibly implant anti-copying technology into digital TV tuners, Hollywood appears to be turning to Congress for some legislative aid.
Advocacy group Public Knowledge, which sued to challenge the FCC's broadcast flag, says it has obtained a copy of the Motion Picture Association of America's draft legislation.
The draft bill says, simply, that the FCC will "have authority to adopt regulations governing digital television apparatus necessary to control the indiscriminate redistribution of digital television … Read more
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