Caron Carlson

Before leaving for the Thanksgiving holiday, Senate panels approved bills on two data privacy issues that were debated all year—data breach notification and anti-spyware regulation—teeing them up for action next year. Data breaches have been foremost on the mind of this Congress following the high-profile disclosures from ChoicePoint Inc. and LexisNexis early in the year. […]

Starting next year, adware and software providers that want to continue placing ads on such prominent Web sites as AOL and Yahoo will have to obtain the consent of users before their applications are downloaded. Under the Trusted Download Program, TRUSTe will create a list of certified downloadable applications. The program is sponsored by TRUSTe, […]

The course that congressional leaders followed last week to extend controversial domestic spying powers of the USA Patriot Act was never animated on “Schoolhouse Rock” or taught in high school civics classes. A considerable stretch of the Patriot Act IIs path to law lay behind closed doors among a small group of lawmakers accompanied by […]

Before leaving for the Thanksgiving holiday, Senate panels approved bills on two data privacy issues that were debated all year—data breach notification and anti-spyware regulation—teeing them up for action next year. Data breaches have been foremost on the mind of this Congress following the high-profile disclosures earlier this year from ChoicePoint Inc. and LexisNexis, a […]

To hasten the telephone industrys migration to IP infrastructure, IBM today is heralding a new line of IMS-based offerings. The Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems products and services aim to speed the migration from legacy telephone facilities to converged infrastructure by using open standards to integrate components from the two environments, according to officials at the […]

The governments stance on VOIP is creating uncertainty for many network providers heading into 2006. Protesting that new federal wiretapping rules will stifle innovation and require the re-engineering of private IP networks at a huge expense, universities, ISPs, libraries and privacy organizations, along with Sun Microsystems Inc., are going to court to overturn the rules. […]

The course that congressional leaders are following this week to extend controversial domestic spying powers of the USA Patriot Act was never animated on Schoolhouse Rock or taught in high school civics classes. A considerable stretch of the Patriot Act IIs path to law lay behind closed doors among a small group of lawmakers accompanied […]

Starting next year, adware and software providers that want to continue placing ads on such prominent Web sites as AOL and Yahoo will have to obtain the consent of users before their applications are downloaded. Under the Trusted Download Program announced today, TRUSTe will create a list of certified downloadable applications. The program is sponsored […]

Democrats in Congress proclaimed an aggressive plan today to improve the nations standing in technological innovation, and many of the priorities outlined mirror recommendation long sought by the IT industry. Lamenting that federal funding for basic research peaked in 1987 and that the United States ranks 16th in the world in broadband penetration, House minority […]

To give network managers greater peace of mind when migrating to voice over IP, Xelor Software Inc. today launched service quality management software that automates quality of service tools provided with systems from Cisco Systems Inc. and Avaya Communications Inc. Many software makers offer QOS tools for IP, covering everything from testing to traffic management, […]