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The Bush administration has five business days to answer lingering questions about the backup copies of millions of missing White House e-mails. Covering more than a two-year period between 2003 and 2005, the missing e-mails came to light as part of congressional inquiries into the White House’s firing of U.S. attorneys. The White House contends […]

The Federal Communications Commission plans to investigate the network neutrality complaints filed against cable giant Comcast. The investigation will be the agency’s first major test of its network neutrality principles. The complaint, which was filed in November by public advocacy groups and legal scholars from Yale, Harvard and Stanford, charges Comcast with interfering with its […]

The pundits and pollsters were wrong. Again. So, again, was the Internet vote. After predicting a win for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses last week, Sen. Barack Obama won easily. In the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary, Obama was anointed the leader going into the vote thanks in part to Internet polling, but […]

The government continued its crackdown on Internet gambling Jan. 7 with the indictments of 12 people for operating a Costa Rica-based wagering Web site and telephone call center that catered to sports bookmakers in the United States. According to the indictments, Carmen “Buddy” Cicalese operated what is known as a wireroom in Costa Rica that […]

A buoyed Barack Obama, a bloodied Hillary Clinton and a battling John Edwards all head into the Jan. 8 New Hampshire Democratic primary with continuing questions about their Internet support translating into votes. For Obama, it’s a question of whether more of the same will deliver a victory in New Hampshire, which has decidedly different […]

Having suffered through a disastrous 2007 that included disappearing profits, management turmoil, massive layoffs and falling from second to third in global cell phone sales, Motorola Jan. 7 introduced two new handsets aimed at the consumer market. At least one of the devices, predicts one analyst, could be a breakout hit for Motorola. As part […]

Infamous spam king Alan M. Ralsky is on the run following the Jan. 3 indictment of Ralsky and 10 others for operating a sophisticated spam scam involving pump-and-dump Chinese stocks. The 41-count indictment, unsealed in a Detroit federal court, claims Ralsky, 52, and his fellow defendants operated a wide-ranging international fraud scheme involving millions of […]

It turns out the Internet vote was right, at least about the Democrats campaigning in the Iowa caucuses. Since the presidential campaigns lit their networks a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama quickly sparked as one of the hottest political properties on the Web. Despite trailing in the national polls to Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Illinois […]

Ohio’s secretary of state is ordering that paper ballots must be made available to voters using touch-screen voting machines in 57 of the state’s 88 counties. The Jan. 3 decision came after a Dec. 12 report concluded the touch-screen machines were vulnerable to “critical security failures.” Under the directive by Secretary of State Jennifer L. […]

Congress has allowed the research and development tax credit to expire, even though it appeared initially that lawmakers were set to renew it before recessing for the holidays. “It was a huge disappointment and thats a fairly vast understatement,” said Bartlett Cleland, senior director of tax policy for the ITAA (Information Technology Association of America). […]