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Anonymous plots attack on US Federal Reserve site

...The Anonymous activist group says it plans to target the US Federal Reserve from Tuesday, most likely with a distributed denial-of-service... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Elinor Mills
Learn How the IT Director at a <endeca_term>US Federal</endeca_term> Agency Manages IT Changes

Learn How the IT Director at a US Federal Agency Manages IT Changes

Among its initial IT users, this Federal agency calls the experience with new ITinvolve for Change Management™ love at... Read more

12 April, 2012

Report: Google faces fine over Safari tracking

...The US Federal Trade Commission is expected to decide during the next 30 days... Read more

17 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Report: FTC to probe Google+

...The US Federal Trade Commission is extending its probe of Google to include Google... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Joe Svetlik

Facebook strikes deal on privacy with FTC

...expected — and long-awaited — IPO. Facebook has reached an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission on the way it handles user data and privacy... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Report: FTC readies antitrust probe of Google

...The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly ready to serve Google with subpoenas in... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Researcher: Dropbox misled users over data security

...A complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission alleges that cloud-based storage provider Dropbox has deceived... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Madalena Araujo

AT&T and T-Mobile USA merger faces FCC scrutiny

...The US Federal Communications Commission has formally started the process for reviewing the proposed... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

US info chief calls for 800 datacentre closures

...Vivek Kundra, chief information officer of the US federal government, said on Tuesday that the government is actively shutting down... Read more

13 April, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Nasa prepares for potential US government shutdown

...to continue near-normal operation of the International Space Station if the US federal government goes into a temporary shutdown over budget disagreements. Nasa is... Read more

8 April, 2011 by William Harwood

FTC may probe Google search dominance, says report

...The US Federal Trade Commission may soon be adding its name to the list... Read more

5 April, 2011 by Steven Musil

US judge backs Amazon in privacy case

...A US federal judge ruled on Monday that Amazon would not have to turn... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Report doubles amount of US government datacentres

The US federal government has twice the number of datacentres it originally thought it... Read more

14 October, 2010

Regulator attacks AT&T and T-Mobile USA merger

The US Federal Communications Commission has issued an initial report saying the merger of... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Steven Musil

Judge rejects Google books deal

A US federal district court has rejected an agreement between the Authors Guild and... Read more

23 March, 2011 by Caroline McCarthy

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