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Anyone who believes that the recent political maneuvers to keep the net neutrality issue out of the legislative agenda this year have been successful is sadly mistaken, promise backers of the concept. After a recent defeat, the Democrats have introduced a new bill that seeks to ban phone and cable c...

Making yet another attempt to curb online gambling, a House Judiciary subcommittee unanimously approved the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, sponsored by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) The bill, which expands the ban on interstate gambling to include Internet gambling, crimin...

The Bush Administration is seeking to intervene in a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The suit concerns the telecom's collaboration with the National Security Agency in carrying out its once-secret surveillance of communications within the U.S. by peop...

The Bush Administration is seeking to intervene in a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The suit concerns the telecom's collaboration with the National Security Agency in carrying out its once-secret surveillance of communications within the U.S. by peop...

The Bush Administration is seeking to intervene in a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The suit concerns the telecom's collaboration with the National Security Agency in carrying out its once-secret surveillance of communications within the U.S. by peop...

In a party line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives Commerce committee rejected a proposal to include so-called net neutrality regulations in a bill that would permit telecoms to offer pay-TV services. Such regulations would prohibit Internet service providers from slowing or blocking consumers'...

Microsoft has taken the unusual step -- for Microsoft, that is -- of spinning off technology developed by a research subsidiary with the aim of entering the social networking space. The new startup is called Wallop. Its aim, according to Microsoft, is to roll out a next generation social networking ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a lawsuit filed by Reverend Jerry Falwell that touched upon issues key to business concerns, such as commercial versus noncommercial speech, and addressed a concept described as "initial interest confusion." At least, those topics are indicat...

Google continues to tinker with the concept of monetizing its popular maps feature through advertising. What is new about its latest initiative is that icons for advertisers are embedded in the maps. When clicked, a pop-up ad appears with additional information about the advertiser, including its lo...

The U.S. Supreme Court is now hearing arguments in eBay v. MercExchange. It is not examining the underlying dispute between the two firms -- indeed, MercExchange has successfully challenged eBay's use of its buy now technology. Rather, the court is examining whether issuing an injunction against the...

Microsoft is restructuring its Platforms & Services Division ostensibly to better align Windows and MSN assets with its overall Live strategy. News of the reorganization closely follows another recent announcement from the company -- that its forthcoming operating system, Vista, will be delayed ...

Oracle reported a 42 percent increase in Q3 fiscal 2006 profits, the first quarter following the completion of its acquisition of Siebel Systems. New application license revenues were up 77 percent, compared to an anemic 5 percent rate of growth for database and middleware new license revenues. Orac...

Last Friday -- essentially the eleventh hour of a years-long lawsuit -- Research In Motion reached a US$612.5 million settlement with NTP, relieving legions of customers who have come to feel they cannot possibly last very long without their BlackBerries. In this suit, NTP successfully challenged RI...

Amazon is getting ready to sell the one consumer product it doesn't already offer: digital music. The company is said to be in advanced talks with four major music companies to set up a digital music service that could rival iTunes. Amazon reportedly is negotiating with Vivendi's Universal Music Gro...

The links on your site work. Your corporate information is up to date. Your Web price special is there, flashing wildly, for all to see. You believe you've done all the right things, but for some reason your customers hate your Web site. With Web site design, an old adage often applies: You can't de...

Research In Motion has alleviated -- just a little -- the worries of 2 million or so BlackBerry users who would be affected if the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., should levy an injunction against the service later this month. RIM said on Thursday that it has developed and tested software wor...

AOL and Yahoo are planning to launch a certified e-mail program in the coming months in conjunction with partner company Goodmail Systems. The two Web giants are positioning the service as an additional perk for trusted marketers that want to ensure their e-mails reach their intended recipients. Con...

The news that AOL and Yahoo are planning to roll out a certified e-mail delivery service based on partner company Goodmail Systems' CertifiedEmail methodology is leading some e-mail marketers and related providers of e-commerce services to conclude that a sea-change -- largely unwelcome -- is underw...

The Faustian bargains that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft felt compelled to make with the Chinese government in order to maintain access to its vaunted market are not likely to be broken on grounds they qualify as trade barriers. In recent weeks, the Internet giants have come under fire from irate user...

A lawsuit against eBay filed two years ago by Tiffany -- a high-end jeweler whose prices are based as much on its brand name as on quality and craftsmanship -- is moving forward and is expected to go to trial by the end of this year. The Tiffany suit joins a number of earlier legal filings against t...