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Ironic, isn’t it? Almost four years ago, Google was pilloried before Congress for doing business with China. The search giant had agreed to Chinese censorship requirements in return for being allowed to operate a local Chinese search engine, Google.cn. Google’s famous credo of “Do no evil” had seemingly dissolved into “Do no evil unless there’s […]

Call it the ultimate wireless connection. NASA announced Jan. 22 the ISS (International Space Station) received a software upgrade this week that allows astronauts personal access to the Internet. Called the Crew Support LAN, the system leverages existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the ability to browse and use the […]

The Chinese government took little time rejecting U.S. Secretary of State’s Hillary Clinton’s Jan. 21 global call for an uncensored Internet free from cyber-attacks and intellectual property theft. China, in particular, Clinton said, should conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber-intrusions that led Google to threaten to close its operations in China.The speech came a […]

Faced with concerns over the growing demands for commercial spectrum, the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet Jan. 21 approved legislation to create a comprehensive survey of the nation’s wireless airwaves and develop an inventory of each spectrum band. The inventory would include the identity of federal and non-federal users and the types […]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced Jan. 21 countries that use information technology to deny their citizens the free flow of information over the Internet and outlined what she called America’s five key freedoms of the Internet age that will inform U.S. foreign policy.In a major policy speech at Washington’s Newseum, Clinton said the United […]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to put forward Internet freedom as a major facet of U.S. foreign policy in a Jan. 21 major address at Washington’s Newseum. The 9:30 a.m. EST speech will also be streamed live at http://www.state.gov.According to State Department officials, no secretary of state has ever given a major policy speech […]

Microsoft called for modernizing existing statutes and new federal laws Jan. 19 to provide privacy, security and transparency for consumers, businesses and government migrating to cloud computing. In addition to strengthened U.S. laws, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith said cloud computing regulations should be driven by commitments from other governments to ensure data sovereignty.Delivering a […]

The U.S. government plans to formally protest to the Chinese government the network attacks on Google and other companies doing business in China that Google claims originated in China. Google said Jan. 12 it will stop censoring searches on its Google.cn and reconsider the feasibility of even doing business there after the search giant reported […]

Riding the massive publicity wave generated by Google’s current censorship dispute with China, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Jan. 14 urged his fellow lawmakers to take up his legislation that would make it a crime for U.S. companies to share personal user information with “Internet-restricting” countries.According to Smith, without a strong U.S. law restricting the sharing […]

They are apparently using more than space to get high at NASA.NASA officials are reviewing the preparation work done for the March 18 launch of space shuttle Discovery after a small amount of cocaine was discovered in a restricted shuttle hangar. A Kennedy Space Center employee found the small bag of cocaine outside a bathroom […]