If you don’t think threats to private data are a problem, you’re not paying attention. Breaches occur seemingly by the day, although we often don’t always hear about them in real… Read more »
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether AT&T misled its customers over its throttling policies, which restrict network speeds on unlimited data customers after they’ve hit a certain threshold each month… Read more »
The White House will not act on a petition filed to fire the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and crusader for a free-and-open internet. Swartz died, of an… Read more »
Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative that… Read more »
While not exactly a tech heavy speech, the President’s 6th State of the Union touched on high-tech manufacturing, broadband in schools and the need to reform the patent system. Read more »
The launch of the new exchanges marks a big shift in how consumers and small businesses purchase health insurance. For tech startups across the country, that means new opportunities for all… Read more »
While the proposed Unlocking Technology Act would certainly address the controversy of cellphone unlocking it would quite a bit farther than previous bills to deal will phone locks, and farther than… Read more »
A defense contractor faced repeated hacks from Chinese spies who gained access to terabytes of confidential data, Bloomberg reports. More security tools could help, and the government could do more to… Read more »
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount… Read more »