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US patent reforms inch forward
News A US Senate panel has taken a step towards overhauling the patent system in a manner endorsed by hi-tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon.com and Oracle. But he and other bill sponsors at the meeting said it's vital for Congress to forge ahead with...
[June 22, 2007, 15:53]
US to keep EU passenger data for 15 years
Blog The US will now keep European Union passenger name records (PNR) data for fifteen years -- far longer than the the three and a half years it kept it previously, reports Out-Law.com. The letter goes on to say that EU and US privacy laws are broadly...
[July 26, 2007, 16:02]
US govt to reconsider Microsoft patent
News A US government agency agreed this week to re-examine a controversial Microsoft patent on the Windows file format, following an objection from a public-interest group. In April, the Public Patent Foundation asked the US Patent and Trademark Office...
[June 14, 2004, 8:55]
US states home in on Oracle bid
News Edwards among one another and with the US Department of Justice, sources familiar with the situation said. Clearly, there are major issues for customers, and it doesn't surprise us that the state attorneys general are taking it seriously.
[July 11, 2003, 15:44]
US visitor visas 'ship middle-class jobs offshore'
News L-1 visas and other guest-worker visas have been misused by companies to harm US workers, witnesses told a congressional panel on Wednesday. Shah said a subsidiary of computer services company Automatic Data Processing had kept her and other US...
[February 5, 2004, 11:35]
Europe to remove encryption restrictions, US to follow
News The European Union is expected to dramatically reduce restrictions on the export of encryption between member nations this coming Monday -- a move which experts believe will force the US to take similar steps.
[May 26, 2000, 8:04]
US software 'blew up Russian gas pipeline'
News Faulty US software was to blame for one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions the world has ever seen, which took place in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new book published on Monday.
[March 1, 2004, 14:10]
US Government 'lobbied EC' over Microsoft fine
Talkback If Microsoft break EU law, the US government have no business trying to interfere with the legal process. Even the US courts found Microsoft guilty of breaking the law, but when it came to punishment they mysteriously backed down.
[September 27, 2006, 14:57]
US tech firms lock horns over patent law
News A rift has arisen among larger technology companies and smaller venture capital firms over whether dramatic changes to US patent law are necessary. The differences in opinion played out during a Thursday hearing in the US House of Representatives...
[March 30, 2007, 8:58]
US accounting rules blamed for software slump
News Chief financial officers rushing to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley accounting rules in the US may have little time to sign off on new software deals, contributing to the industry's general weakness, according to a Piper Jaffray analyst report released...
[July 13, 2004, 9:15]
US Government 'lobbied EC' over Microsoft fine
Talkback The real question seems to be not *whether*, but *why* the US government would get involved. Interesting round of comments here. Microsoft is an independently owned and operated corporation, capable of making its own decisions, and paying its own...
[September 28, 2006, 15:54]
US seeks super spying computers
News The US Defense Department on Tuesday awarded grants totalling more than $146m (£89.27m) to Cray, IBM and Sun Microsystems for work to create supercomputers by the end of the decade. NEC's Earth Simulator supercomputer in Japan alarmed the US...
[July 9, 2003, 7:59]
US payment processor in credit data breach
News A US-based payment processor has suffered an information breach that could have compromised millions of credit-card details. Heartland Payment Systems, one of the largest US payment processors, announced on Tuesday that it had discovered "malicious...
[January 21, 2009, 15:42]
Report: US most prolific source of online attacks
News US networks pumped out the highest percentage of attacks during the second half of last year, with China running a distant second, according to a report released on Monday by security firm Symantec. The US accounted for 31 percent of malicious...
[March 20, 2007, 8:25]
US Army apologises for threats
News The US Army has apologised for threatening to prosecute an open-government advocacy group after it republished a document copied from a military Web site. An official with the US Army Services and Operations Agency on Wednesday accused the...
[February 6, 2004, 9:55]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News The honeymoon between China and the US tech industry is over, and the warm feelings may be gone for a while. US trade representative Robert Zoellick has issued a statement calling for China to change its tax policy and repeal the WAPI law, and US...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
Experts: US has hazy grasp of cloud computing
News Internet users have jumped headfirst into the world of cloud computing, but both US policy makers and the public have a lot to learn about it, technology experts said on Friday. We've got some huge challenges ahead of us.
[September 15, 2008, 12:20]
US agencies shun Windows Vista
News The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cite fear of compatibility problems as one of the reasons not to allow their tens of thousands of employees to upgrade to Microsoft's latest...
[March 14, 2007, 8:39]
US congress to ask for Carnivore code
News The US congress is expected to put pressure on the FBI to release the working details of its controversial "Carnivore" email monitoring system at a hearing Monday, reports the Wall Street Journal. The FBI has reportedly claimed that revealing this...
[July 24, 2000, 17:31]
US clears way for semiconductor merger
News Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker ASM Lithography said on Thursday it had received approval from the US government to buy California-based Silicon Valley Group (SVG). In a statement, ASML said that as part of an agreement reached...
[May 3, 2001, 11:01]
