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Tech-savvy governments to embrace Web 2.0

January 10, 2008 They'll increasingly use social networking and other innovations to increase citizen interaction, business transactions. TAGS: Web 2.0, government, chief information officer, interaction, Gartner Inc., social networking, networking

Feds: Google's privacy concerns unfounded

February 27, 2006 Justice Department says search giant's arguments for refusing to turn over information lack merit. TAGS: government, Child Online Protection Act, brief, Google Inc., argument, request, search engine, Microsoft Corp.

Belgian government chooses OpenDocument

June 23, 2006 Plan requiring government adoption of format puts further pressure on Microsoft to embrace open standards. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Belgium, open standard, proposal, government, format, Microsoft Office, document, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor

March 4, 2006 "Over my dead body" will governments get into encrypted files, says one Microsoft employee working on Windows update. TAGS: back door, government, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., security, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Robot spy planes get government boost

July 18, 2006 British government will help pilotless aircraft take to the skies for police and fire surveillance. TAGS: aircraft, surveillance, robot, police, government, U.K.

China to register all mobile users

December 5, 2005 Register or lose your phone service, government says. Mandate intended to stop wirelessly distributed antigovernment sentiment? TAGS: China, government

U.K. proposal to police the Web hits hurdles

February 2, 2006 Plans to give police in Britain more power against terror Web sites are defeated by the House of Lords. TAGS: police, terrorism, government, U.K.

A FEMA-ized broadband?

November 9, 2005 Sonia Arrison of the Pacific Research Institute frets about the prospect of a government-controlled Internet. TAGS: government, broadband, telecommunications, supply, communication, America, U.S.

HP aims to help governments check IDs

May 26, 2005 The technology taps into Microsoft .Net to authenticate ID cardholders and people who want to use e-government services. TAGS: biometric identification, e-government, middleware, government, Microsoft .NET, HP, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft aims to reach next billion PC users

April 19, 2007 New program gives near-free Windows and Office to governments that buy PCs for students to use at home. TAGS: Will Poole, government, student, Microsoft Office, software company, Microsoft Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows

FTC demands more details on Intel-STMicro deal

August 30, 2007 Government is taking a harder look at Intel's plans to create a private chip company with STMicroelectronics. TAGS: STMicroelectronics, antitrust, transaction, Switzerland, government, Intel, chip company, attorney, memory

AT&T sued over NSA spy program

January 31, 2006 Civil liberties group files class action lawsuit claiming AT&T illegally opened its network to the National Security Agency. TAGS: NSA, AT&T Corp., secret, surveillance, Bush Administration, privilege, telecommunications, class action, lawsuit, government, worker

Readers weigh in on Internet ownership

October 17, 2005 From Philadelphia to San Francisco, local moves toward metrowide broadband will fuel the debate over free enterprise versus government intervention. TAGS: government, Philadelphia, Internet service, broadband, fiber, agency, San Francisco

Oracle settles whistleblower suit for $8 million

May 13, 2005 Federal suit alleged the database giant had submitted false payment claims for computer training to government agencies. TAGS: Oracle Corp., training, database company, billing, government, payment, database

Out of touch with China

April 25, 2005 TAGS: China, Mr., government

U.K. government's lost data 'worth billions to criminals'

November 29, 2007 Politician attacks government over failure to use encryption technology to prevent breach that could impact millions of people. TAGS: encryption technology, chancellor, criminal, government, information technology, CD

Australia's porn-blocking plan unveiled

August 13, 2007 Program includes filtering software for home PCs, as well as an ISP-level plan being tested in Tasmania. TAGS: Helen Coonan, Tasmania, porn, children, government, home PC, trial, Australia, Internet Service Provider, PC

The Constitution, a la carte

May 22, 2007 The FCC might have good intentions, but Randolph J. May says the government could end up violating the First Amendment. TAGS: First Amendment, government, programming, cable company, violence, law, reader, TV

Learning the lessons of 9/11 for real

September 1, 2006 CNET News.com's Charles Cooper writes that the government's diffident approach to cybersecurity is a ticking time bomb. TAGS: cybersecurity, government, candidate, Sept. 11, 9/11 commission, lesson

Group wants encryption bans overturned

April 27, 2005 The Jericho Forum pledges to lobby countries such as China to relax restrictions on encryption, saying such controls hinder e-commerce. TAGS: restriction, China, e-commerce, government
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