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US government loses crypto ruling
News The FBI and NSA have successfully blocked most commercial encryption exports from the US, and Government officials argue foreign terrorists and criminals will soon be immune from surveillance if exports of the most powerful cryptography become...
[May 7, 1999, 14:34]
Reports: Split Microsoft into two - US Government
News According to a report in Friday's Wall Street Journal, the American government will ask a federal court to split Microsoft into two separate companies. The report suggests that the Justice Department and most of the 19 states involved in the case...
[April 28, 2000, 10:25]
US Report: Can government handle Starr report Web traffic?
News And if the report is posted on the Library of Congress-run THOMAS network of federal government sites, absent the proper precautions, THOMAS itself could crash, Heiliger and other experts said. Playboy and USA Today, said it's crucial for the...
[September 11, 1998, 8:44]
US government IT spending jumps 50 per cent
News Information technology-related contracts awarded by the federal government jumped to more than $23bn (£12.7bn) in the second quarter of 2004. Federal government IT awards for the same period last year totalled $15.5bn.
[July 29, 2004, 14:30]
US government to boost IT spending
News At a time when many industries are still curtailing spending on high technology, there's one industry that's helping out IT companies: the federal government. The federal government spends money on a regular basis.
[May 16, 2002, 7:31]
US government wants firms' security secrets
News The US Department of Homeland Security is hoping to convince technology and telecommunications firms that it's safe to share information about infrastructure vulnerabilities with the federal government.
[April 17, 2003, 7:58]
US government unveils cybersecurity plan
News More importantly, today's demonstration represents a critical step within the federal government to secure cross-agency information sharing. Two months ago, Clarke lambasted the lack of security in wireless LANs (local area networks) as a major...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
US government ignoring RFID risks
News RFID is becoming increasingly popular inside the US government, but agencies have not seriously considered the privacy risks, federal auditors said. In a report published Friday, the Government Accountability Office said that 13 of the largest...
[May 31, 2005, 9:45]
Microsoft bows to US government pressure
News In a notice filed with the federal judge who is overseeing Microsoft's compliance with its antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said it had concluded that XP's "Shop for Music Online" feature unreasonably invokes Internet Explorer even...
[January 16, 2004, 7:50]
Sun's Liberty gets US government backing
News The GSA said it will explore of ways to implement authentication technology across the federal government's Web sites as part of the Bush administration's 24-step eGovernment initiative. The two federal agencies said they will join Liberty to...
[March 6, 2003, 10:32]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
News SCO's legal threats reinforce a message chief executive Darl McBride sent to another part of the federal government in January: members of Congress. The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix...
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
Oracle attacks US government's case
News Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its $7.7bn (£4.17bn) bid to buy PeopleSoft in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial on Monday. Why should the government want stop that?
[June 8, 2004, 10:40]
Government backs anti-spam mission to US
News Last month, the chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission warned that these proposed laws would not address the growing spam problem, and might actually make it worse. The government claims this move should help to combat spam, which currently...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
US e-government wins higher ratings
News US federal agencies are beginning to make progress on e-government, says an official management report The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has signalled that US federal departments are finally making progress on e-government...
[July 15, 2004, 13:20]
Tax Estimator for iPhone
Downloads Tax Estimator for iPhone application will help you to find out how much you might get refund from the US Federal Government, or how much you might owe to the Federal Government. It calculates the final result according to 2008 tax law in US.
[September 18, 2009, 7:42]
US 'will not enforce' encryption laws
News A pioneering attempt to overturn the US government's Cold War-era laws restricting the publication of some forms of encryption code ended quietly on Wednesday when a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit -- but only after assurances that the...
[October 16, 2003, 15:20]
Bush names new US 'CIO'
News President Bush has picked US Department of Energy chief information officer Karen Evans to become administrator of information technology and e-government for the federal government. Jamie Love, an open-source advocate at Ralph Nader's Consumer...
[September 4, 2003, 11:10]
US Government Web tracking under scrutiny
News Dozens of federal agencies are tracking visits to US government Web sites in violation of long-standing rules designed to protect online privacy, an investigation by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has shown.
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
US agencies demand tighter software security
News Five federal agencies, led by the US Department of Energy, plan to discuss a new set of government contracting practices that hold software makers accountable for making their products more resistant to viruses and hackers.
[September 23, 2003, 11:14]
FBI fears hardware backdoors in US military kit
News The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of threats to the US military and critical national infrastructure caused by counterfeit Cisco products. The GSA is the US federal acquisition agency.
[May 14, 2008, 14:40]
