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JibJabbing At US Politics
News We've always been interested in politics, but in doing this for five years, you start to learn what works on the Web and what doesn't. The California based company JibJab took the Web by storm with its first animated satire about the 2004 US...
[October 19, 2004, 13:00]
Isn't It Just SO American...
Talkback Conservative politics in the US are beneath contempt to most external observers. And let’s make no mistake about this, politics is what this is, not law. As such, there may not be such a big difference between the substantive jurisprudence of the...
[October 1, 2007, 2:12]
E-envoy Tells Government To Lay Off The Net
News If the Internet can enable us to get more people interested in politics and wanting to play a role, that can only be a good thing. Allan acknowledges the as yet under-developed role the Internet can play in bringing people back to politics.
[June 28, 2000, 12:18]
Fiorina Wins Role On Schwarzenegger Team
News Co-founder David Packard got involved in Republican politics in the late 1960s and landed a role in the Nixon administration, serving as a deputy secretary of defense. Fiorina was asked at a July event whether she would consider a career in...
[October 10, 2003, 9:15]
China Bans AltaVista Searches
News China regularly restricts Internet usage by prohibiting access to certain Web sites it views as subversive to reigning politics. Just how much they tighten the controls reflects how sensitive they are to the presence of the Internet at that moment...
[September 10, 2002, 9:43]
Software Patent War Ignites Again
News Three political groups in the European Parliament (EP) have warned that software patents are re-emerging into EU politics with an EP vote scheduled for next month. We have had enough of hidden agenda politics, it's time for the Commissioner to...
[September 21, 2006, 13:05]
Red Hat: Open Source Driven By Anti-US Sentiment
News Speaking at Red Hat's user conference in Nashville in 2006, Eben Moglen, professor of law at Columbia Law School, said that, far from being communist or anti-business, as some proprietary companies have claimed, the politics of open source go to...
[March 26, 2008, 15:27]
US Legislature Suggests China Web Crackdown
News While the measure is likely to draw support from some politicians from both major parties, no companion version currently exists in the US Senate, and election-year politics could complicate efforts to enact it anytime soon.
[February 20, 2006, 12:35]
US Approves Billion-dollar Cybersecurity Bill
News Critics have called CSDRA a combination of pork barrel politics and corporate welfare. The US Congress approved a massive spending programme on Tuesday afternoon that allocates nearly a billion dollars for computer security research.
[November 14, 2002, 7:59]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
News Because the FCC is overseen by Barton's committee, that proposal would effectively cut off Judiciary Committee members from being able to hold hearings on net neutrality antitrust violations, give speeches about corporate malfeasance and solicit...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
A Year Ago: US Vs MS - The Case At A Glance
News It's a complicated story, too, involving the law, technology, business -- even politics. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates: "What the government is asking would significantly hamper us from competing through innovation and would put everything...
[May 18, 1999, 6:53]
EC Seeks To Refine Microsoft Antitrust Remedies
Talkback They might surprise you given how EU goverments think about US software and politics nowedays (project Echelon wasn't the smartest move and so is Passport, Microsoft tax, WRMS and a few other things).
[September 19, 2003, 23:50]
US Anti-piracy Law Gathers Strength
Talkback This proposal is yet more evidence of the power and influence of money and corporate interests infesting US national government lawmaking and politics.
[July 22, 2004, 22:14]
US Justice Department Ready To Prosecute File-swappers
News A lot of people think these activities are legal, and they think they ought to be legal," Malcolm told an audience at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual technology and politics summit. The US Department of Justice is prepared to begin...
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
Google Hails Vote To Open Up US Wireless Spectrum
News As an engineer, I was really gratified to see that the FCC decided to put science over politics," Larry Page, co-founder of Google, said on his blog. Google and other technology companies that have sought access to more free spectrum in the US have...
[November 5, 2008, 8:22]
Europe And The US Philosophically Divided On Open Source?
News Deciding what lies at the heart of some countries' almost-zealous uptake of open source is not as simple as looking at the cold, hard costs — politics, national security, anti-Americanism and innovation all have a part to play.
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
HiperLAN Collapse Opens European Door To 802.11a
News Wireless LANs running at 54 megabits per second (mbps) could be available in the UK within six months, although politics could delay it till the end of 2002. The collapse of the rival HiperLAN standard gives the European standards agencies a short...
[December 18, 2001, 15:34]
A Tale Of Two Cases
News But legal experts say the divergent courses stem largely from politics and entirely different evidence, not any serious disagreement in antitrust philosophy. After five years of investigation, European antitrust regulators are seeking substantial...
[March 24, 2004, 15:10]
Schneier Slates Misuse Of 'cyberterrorism'
News It's kids playing at politics. Schneier added: "We should save 'terror' for the things that deserve it, not things that piss us off. But we know that countries are spending money on military hacking organisations -- Israel, China, [the US] and...
[April 26, 2005, 13:10]
Open Source Comes Of Age
News The end result is that a lot of people who didn't think free software's politics were particularly important or relevant to them are now starting to take an interest. Linus Torvalds is a good example of the ambivalence many feel toward the politics...
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
