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November 25, 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:13 PM/EST

Leahy Wants More Info on Obama Phone Breach

The media word on the street is that Verizon has fired the employees associated with the unauthorized access of President-elect Barack Obama's mobile phone. According to CNN, the employees had limited access to Obama's records and were unable to monitor...

November 18, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:54 PM/EST

Did Microsoft Buy Yang's Departure?

Some of my colleagues are making much out of Microsoft's lobbying efforts to kill the proposed Google-Yahoo advertising deal that ultimately led to the resignation of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. As the Iconoclast puts it, "In return for millions of...

November 17, 2008

Monday, November 17, 2008 5:28 PM/EST

Sorry, AT&T, Net Neutrality Debate Is Still On

James Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs, recently told my colleague Grant Gross that the network neutrality bills currently perking in Congress in the aftermath of Barack Obama's election are unnecessary. "There's a lot of...

November 12, 2008

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:07 PM/EST

Google Ups Washington Presence

Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have eliminated himself from the running to be Barack Obama's CTO, but Google is still going full-bore to influence the new administration's technology policy, no doubt to the telecommunications companies' annoyance that theirs is no...

November 7, 2008

Friday, November 07, 2008 9:31 AM/EST

Obama Likely to Quash Lame Duck Trade Deals

The tech sector enthusiastically embraces the president-elect's technology-centric proposals for just about everything that ails America; Barack Obama's insistence that trade agreements include strong labor, environmental and safety standards, not so much so. So much not so that tech is...

October 27, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008 11:11 AM/EST

Dingell Dangles White Spaces Questions

Rep. John Dingell, the powerful chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, is not sold on using unlicensed broadband devices in the interference buffer zones between digital television signals. Dingell, aka the Grand Inquisitor, wants some answers first....

October 24, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008 5:16 PM/EST

Sprint's Hesse: Say No to Network Neutrality

WASHINGTON -- Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told a National Press Club luncheon here Oct. 24 that a Barack Obama administration likely means network neutrality rules with "horrendous implications." In 2007, Obama promised that if he were elected he would appoint...

October 7, 2008

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:55 PM/EST

Congress Still AWOL on Data Breach Disclosures

In 2005 ChoicePoint was forced to admit it was duped into turning customer data over thieves. Almost 200,000 people were affected by ChoicePoint's data breach and Congress was riled. But what got lawmakers really steamed was ChoicePoint's admission that if...

September 23, 2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:39 AM/EST

America's Newest Addiction: Selling Hot Online Goods

WASHINGTON - America has become a nation of thieves hustling stolen goods off the back of a truck to sell on eBay. You name it, we steal it and we put it up for auction: infant formula, iPods, razor blades,...

September 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:38 PM/EST

Why Broadband Is Important and the U.S. Senate Is Not

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation held a hearing here Sept. 16 on "Why Broadband Is Important." Two senators -- Chairman Daniel Inouye and ranking member Ted Stevens -- showed up, although several more briefly...



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