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Internet is a 'lawless space', says expert
News Former U.K. government offical warns of the increasing threat from cyberterrorism, and calls for a coordinated international response from governments.
Tags: Web sites, Viruses and worms, Hacking, IT Governance, Threat, Google Earth, violence, Business World, NATO, Internet Activity
News.com honored for excellence in Internet journalism
News CNET News.com on Friday won first place for breaking news in the inaugural Online Journalism Awards and was a finalist in two other categories.
Developer interest in Bluetooth decays
News With the first bits of Bluetooth hardware trickling to market, proponents of the much-heralded short-range wireless protocol are turning their attention to software developers for much-needed application support.
Obama names science and technology team
News U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
Tags: R&D, Defense/military, Federal Government, Politics, Science, Human Genome Project, Oregon State University, John Holdren, Eric Lander, Lubchenco
More tech executives join Obama transition team
News President-elect Barack Obama is enlisting more veterans of the tech industry to help his transition team evaluate federal agencies.
Tags: Government, Transition Team, Leave, McKinsey & Co., chairman, FCC, Cellular Telecommunications, Reed Hundt, co-chair, vice president
Apple gets higher profile in HTML standardization
News Group standardizing the fast-changing language of Web pages now has three leaders, and an Apple manager occupies the new seat.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Browser Company, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, Web Application, co-chair, Web
Google adjusts to life with trustbusters
News In less time than it takes for some government investigations, the search company has gone from start-up to accused menacer of Internet competition. Fair or not, this is Google 2.0.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Operating systems, Internet Search Advertising, U.S. Department Of Justice, AT&T Corp., antitrust, Wharton School, Internet, Web browsers
US cybersecurity review stepping up on privacy
News Melissa Hathaway, who is conducting a government-wide, 60-day cybersecurity review for U.S. President Barack Obama, is meeting with privacy and civil liberties groups.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Rep., cybersecurity strategy, U.S. Senate, White House, Microsoft Office, strategy
Google: We're good for journalism
News Under fire for being a 'parasite' that's hurting the media business, Google offers a rebuttal in Senate testimony.
Tags: Internet advertising, News, Site, Google Inc., Search Engine, Tool, Article, Advertisement, Google News, Google Search
Gates gives US$100m to fight AIDS
News The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged US$100 million to a UN-organized global fund to combat AIDS.
Gates gives RM380m to fight AIDS
News The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged RM380 million to a UN-organized global fund to combat AIDS.
W3C looks at next-gen voice technologies
News The World Wide Web Consortium says next-gen VoiceXML will include specs for speaker verification.
Tags: Standards, VoIP/IP telephony, Security, Biometrics, Mobile commerce
Open standards 'essential to Europe's IT future'
News A senior French government official has called for the pan-European adoption of the OpenDocument format.
Tags: Software integration, Open source
Microsoft-backed antispam spec gets filtered out
News Proposal for verifying the source of e-mail is shelved by the engineers working to turn it from specification to standard.
Tags: Spam and phishing, E-mail servers
IT services market to grow despite recession
News Despite talk of a recession, the IT services market is doing just fine, according to an upcoming Gartner conference and report.
Tags: Web 2.0, IT outsourcing, Sales force automation, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Outsourcing, Google Inc., IT Services, Survey, Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc.
