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Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks
Microsoft Brings Back DRM
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs
Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World
EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney
Should Apple Open Source the iPhone?
Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails
CNN Uses P2P Video & Adds Terrible EULA
Australia To Block BitTorrent
New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"
Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos
Broadband Access Without the Pork?
Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers [updated]
Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet"
Academics To Predict Next Twitter and Its Pitfalls
Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs
Lexus To Start Spamming Car Buyers In Their Cars
Congressman Wants Health Warnings On Video Games
Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites"
Sun Releases JavaFX
BBC's iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs
Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day
Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have?
Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab
China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn
Do We Need a New Internet?
Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords
FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access
South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity
Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy
New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads
Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source
European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives
Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy
AP Considers Making Content Require Payment
News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites
Wisconsin Passes Digital Download Tax
Oprah Sued For Infringing "Touch and Feel" Patent
Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content
Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality
20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent
Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems
Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut
Best Buy + Windows Guru = Apple Store Experience?
Dell Tries To Trademark "Cloud Computing"
3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine
Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons
Knights Templar Sue the Pope
UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship
GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding
Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVDs by Year End
Tax Write-Offs For Free (As In Speech) Work?
Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model
MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music
Time to Get Good At Functional Programming?
Presidential Inauguration Hardware and Other Challenges
Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction
G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy
South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals
Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites
The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud?
First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced
Google Is Taking Spoken Questions
Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission
P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet
Send the ISS To the Moon
Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan
Copyright and Patent Laws Hurt the Economy
Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule
World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip
Hulu May Begin Charging For Content Next Year
Nvidia Rumored To Be Readying X86 Chip Release
Inside the AP's Plan To Security-Wrap Its News Content
Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers
EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity
US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids
Psystar Will Countersue Apple
UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another
Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price
Kazaa To Return As a Legal Subscription Service
DMCA Exemptions Desired To Hack iPhones, Remix DVDs
Pushing Linux Adoption Through Gaming
Is Microsoft Improving Its Image?
Psion Accuses Intel of Cybersquatting
Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes
Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans
Towards an Exercise Pill
Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites
CA Senator Pushing For Tightened Data Breach Notification
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online
NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free
Linux As a Model For a New Government?
DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
EMI Says Online File Storage Is Illegal
For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library
Guitarist Hopes To Play Again With The Help of Bionic Hand
Apple Hints At Future Liquid-Cooled Laptops
BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020
Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed
Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts
RealNetworks To Introduce a Simple DVD Copier
French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models
Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy
Lessig Bets On the Net To Clean Up Government
Chrome OS Designed To Start Microsoft Death Spiral
Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College
Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M
Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori?
Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use
Toshiba Going After Blu-ray?
Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites
Kernel Builders Appeal For Open Source Drivers
MD Appellate Ct. Sets "New Standard" For Anonymous Posting
Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist
RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM
Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use
Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing?
IsoHunt Petitions Canadian Court For Copyright Blessing
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015
Study Suggests Music Industry Embrace Piracy
Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
Facebook's New Terms of Service
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions
PhD Research On Software Design Principles?
Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute"
Kaspersky CEO Wants End To Online Anonymity
Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable
Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help
EFF Lawyer Calls YouTube ContentID Worse Than DMCA
Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food?
Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering
Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System
China Bans Gold Farming
IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem
New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy
China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City
Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files
30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging
EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban
Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal
The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009
CRTC Mulls Canadian Content On the Internet
Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot
Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only
Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film
China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air
Toward the Open Company
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change
TechCrunch Wants To Create an Open Source Tablet
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator
Rugged Linux Server For Rural, Tropical Environment?
Artificial Brain '10 Years Away'
FTC States Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Reviews
Lala Invents Network DRM
AMD Wants to Standardize PC Gaming
Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car
"Magnetic Tornadoes" Could Offer New Data Storage Tech
Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court
Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet
Microsoft To Open Retail Stores
Time To Abolish Software Patents?
IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web
Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal
DRM Group Set To Phase Out "Analog Hole"
PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy"
MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates
Google's Android To Challenge Windows?
How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized
The Gamer's Bill of Rights
EU Commissioner Wants Standard For Mobile Phone Connectors
Getting The Public To Listen To Good Science
Microsoft Tries a New Ad Agency
No Social Media In These College Stadiums
Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction
NZ Judge Bans Online Publishing of Accuseds' Names
Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight
DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer
MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX
New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google
Ubisoft Working On a New Anti-Piracy Tool