FCC slaps $15.000 fine on VoIP blocking company

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) charged rural North Carolina Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) with a $15.000 fine. It appears Madison...

Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy

John Gilmore’s splendid isolation began July 4, 2002, when, with defiance aforethought, he strolled to the Southwest Airlines counter at...

AOL blocks music-copying feature

The company’s Winamp software was identified by bloggers this week as part of a process that transformed copy-protected music downloads...

FCC Censorship

When the Federal Communications Commission fined Clear Channel Communications $27,500 last year for each of eighteen incidents of “indecent material”...

Australia says no to mandatory national internet filtering

Communications Minister Helen Coonan said the government had recently reviewed ways of preventing child pornography, including a British-style national internet...

FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said that regulators had overstepped their authority by imposing a rule designed to limit...

U.S. makes first arrest for spim

A U.S teenager has become the first person to be arrested on suspicion of sending unsolicited instant messages–or spim. Anthony...

Fight the Broadcast Flag by hosting a HD-PVR Build-In

So, you’d like to host a Build-In. Building an HD-PVR can be even more fun with a group. If you’d...

RFID Tracking Pilot Program Ended in Sutter School

The Sutter-based company InCom announced last night, at a packed special school district meeting, that it would end its pilot...

35,000 in state to receive warning

Tens of thousands of Californians will find out any day now if their personal information may have been compromised in...