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A public advocacy group won another legal round Feb. 11 in its efforts to force the White House to reveal the whereabouts of millions of missing Bush administration e-mails. Rejecting the White House Office of Administration’s contention that it is not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the […]

The U.S. Senate rejected two efforts Feb. 12 to hold telecommunications carriers legally liable for their roles in President Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program. The carriers allegedly provided customer telephone and e-mail records-often without a warrant or subpoena-to the government. On a 31-67 vote, the Senate defeated an amendment to the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]

BlackBerry users were without service Feb. 11 as a widespread outage hit the users of Research in Motion’s popular smart phone. The cause of the outage is still unknown, as is how long it will continue. According to the Associated Press, AT&T claims the outage has hit all U.S. wireless carriers and that the problem […]

The International Intellectual Property Alliance urged the U.S. government on Feb. 11 to add Canada to its list of bad actors when it comes to protecting intellectual property. If the U.S. Trade Representative agrees, Canada would join such perennial mainstays as China and Russia on its annual Priority Watch List. The IIPA recommendations are part […]

After a six-year run with T-Mobile providing Wi-Fi access to its 7,000 coffee shops, Starbucks said Feb. 11 that AT&T will be its new carrier for wireless service. The ubiquitous chain is also brewing up a new deal for Wi-Fi customers: up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day. In addition, all Starbucks […]

It was a busy day for Motorola at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb. 11, with a raft of WiMax announcements and rumors swirling that Motorola and Nortel are considering combining their wireless infrastructures. In what Motorola calls a “significant milestone” for the still struggling WiMax take-up rate, the company said it plans to […]

Congress’ headlong rush to investigate the privacy and antitrust implications of Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion for Yahoo hit a bump Feb. 7 when the House Judiciary Committee canceled a hearing on the matter. Just a day after news of the proposed deal broke Feb. 1, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., announced the panel’s […]

WASHINGTON — Not so long ago, any sort of “green” discussion on Capitol Hill between the IT industry and lawmakers would have meant only one thing: the size of the political donation. But members of the Technology CEO Council, an IT lobbying group, were pitching a different green message this week: an energy initiative that […]

WASHINGTON – Key players in the nation’s transition to digital television rallied Feb. 7 to tout efforts to make sure the 11 percent (about 13.5 million people) of Americans who receive over-the-air broadcasts via analog sets will not be left with a snowy screen in 376 days. The only things missing were balloons and a […]

On Super Tuesday, tech was everywhere: twittering away on Google, powering get-out-the-vote SMS campaigns, leveraging mobile political apps, furiously posting at blogging parties, ginning up barrels of money and continuing to weave its political voice into the 2008 national election debate. However, at the end of the historic U.S. electoral day, nothing had changed, no […]