By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 26 Aug, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit demanding that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) release details of its policy that allows the agency to search travelers' laptops at U.S. borders without suspicion of wrongdoing. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 13 Aug, 2009
Microsoft's decision to make Internet Explorer 8 the default browser on computers where the user elected an express installation raises questions about the software giant's compliance with a 6-year-old antitrust settlement, a lawyer for some of the plaintiffs in the case said Thursday. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 11 Aug, 2009
A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors that would allow the tech giant to digitize and sell millions of books raises no serious antitrust concerns and, in fact, should blaze a trail that allows other companies to do the same thing, a former U.S. antitrust enforcer said Tuesday. read more »
By James Niccolai, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 24 Jul, 2009
Microsoft has offered to provide a choice of Web browsers with its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to ease concerns of competition regulators in the European Union, the EU's competition authority confirmed Friday. read more »
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service\Seattle Bureau 20 Jul, 2009
Imagine downloading a two-hour HD movie in three minutes to your new cell phone, then plugging the phone into your TV to watch the film. Make unlimited phone calls, surf online as much as you like and send unlimited text messaging for US$70 a month, without a contract. Sign up to sell the same service to other people and get $10 a month for each person you sell to. read more »
By Michael Malakata , Computerworld Zambia 10 Jul, 2009
Tanzania has joined a group of African countries using mobile-phone SIM card registrations to both track down criminals using mobile phones to commit crimes and to reduce handset theft. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 10 Jul, 2009
A fourth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to illegally accessing confidential electronic passport records, the U.S. Department of Justice said. read more »
By Michael Malakata , Computerworld Zambia 9 Jul, 2009
Siemens has lost the right to bid for the World Bank-funded communication project for two years following corruption allegations surrounding the company in the acquisition of supply contracts. read more »
By IDG News Service staff, IDG News Service 9 Jul, 2009
Due to a reporting error, the story, "Google's new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns," posted on the wire Wednesday, includes an incorrect characterization of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's view on Google's new operating system. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
