The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling that not only threw out other cases, but has more broadly set a limit upon the use of data seized in a computer search.

The ruling has to do...

As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, states were required to set up websites in a specific format to explain to citizens how the money...

President Barack Obama's administration made two announcements Monday about improved transparency in government: one about IT projects in general, and one about improving broadband access.

The...

It's said that the Internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack. Maybe, but it barely survived the death of Michael Jackson.

A series of web sites fell like dominoes as Boomers and GenXers...

The Department of Agriculture's Office of the Inspector General has issued a report (http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/09601-8-TE.pdf) finding that the Rural Utilities Service continues to grant loans...

"Most Americans can easily find videos of water skiing squirrels on the Internet, but they’ll have less luck finding out whether their children's school buses and classrooms are safe, or if...

A recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Broadband%20Barriers.pdf) suggests that even if broadband Internet is made more widely available in...

Yet another nebulous set of organizations are exhorting people to help "save the Internet!" by making high-speed Internet more broadly available but where it's not altogether clear just how the...

Well, I don't fault them for setting up the lobbying arm. That's the way the law is written, and lots of organizations do it that way. The redacting of the contributors is more problematic.

oh, thanks! I didn't know you could do that!

sigh. don't know why but most of the links ended up with an extra http: in front of them.

'Internet for Everyone' sounds like a laudable goal. Very Mom and apple pie. Who could be against that?

The problem is that the name of an organization doesn't necessarily accurately depict what...

It seemed too good to be true: A Britax Marathon child car seat, the top rated seat from Consumer Reports, usually with a price tag of nearly $300, on sale at Target for $43, with free shipping.
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In recent weeks, both American Airlines (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/technology/internet/08air.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin) and Delta Airlines have announced that their in-flight...

No sooner had the echoes of “Sarah *who*?” faded than the blogosphere was on the job, showing that even for an unknown person from a remote area, there was plenty of readily accessible information...

If you were one of the just seven people in the first half of the year who went to the Washington State Department of Transportation web page using free wifi from the rest areas along its highways,...

Wups. In my test, the first speed is my download speed, not my upload.

Yes, here's a more detailed story on what the two Presidential campaigns have been doing with new social media: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2689.html

A website purporting to encourage improved broadband Internet access in the U.S. runs the risk of undercutting its argument by playing games with statistics.

www.speedmatters.org...

Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions -- scheduled for next week and the following week, respectively -- will feature major roles for bloggers, giving them the same access as...

It's been a long-running joke that Republicans don't understand technology, what with United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) trying to describe the Internet as a "series of tubes"...

If you sent out a Twitter or email message after Tuesday's Southern California earthquake, you had a lot of company. As is typical in technology-heavy California, the moderate earthquake generated a...

Just weeks after EarthLink pulled out of a project to provide wireless Internet throughout the city of Philadelphia after the city refused to take over management of the network, a group of investors...

Lee Chubb was ticked off.

As a year-round, 15-year resident of Ketchum, Idaho – the city associated with the tony Sun Valley ski resort, Chubb has watched a lot of efforts to over-develop the area...

The city of Santa Fe, N.M., is finding itself fighting a group (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/allergic-to-wif.html)that wants the city to ban wireless Internet signals from public...

It had such promise -- a wifi network, treated like a city utility such as water or sewer, providing broadband Internet to everyone in the city, anywhere in the city, for a low monthly price.

Yet...