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China slams US bias in cyberspying row
News Chinese officials hit back at report by U.S.-China body that claimed the Asian giant has stepped up espionage activities directed at the United States.
Tags: International governments, Defense/military, Commission, USCC, USCC Web Site, Republican, U.S., Nancy Pelosi, America, China
More redundancy needed for global links
News Ongoing and planned network upgrades between Asia and U.S. sufficient for bandwidth demands, but ISPs need redundancy to better manage outages.
Tags: Bandwidth, Ethernet, Pacnet Ltd., BGP, Asia, network, Broadband, Cable, Internet Service Provider, network provider
China solar panel maker sets first US plant
News Suntech Power aims to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Suntech Power Holdings, U.S., mW, Green IT, Manufacturing, Sales, solar panel, China
Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?
News RIM's BlackBerry may not be certified by the National Security Agency to handle top-secret material, but a PDA-phone called the Sectera Edge has been. Its operating system: Microsoft Windows Mobile.
Tags: BlackBerry, Mobile/Wireless, Wireless e-mail devices, Politics, RIM BlackBerry, Security, Sectera, Flexispy.com, e-mail, aide
Obama's search for a CTO
News As President-elect Barack Obama's transition team assembles an administration, it could look to one of its own to fill the role of chief technology officer.
Tags: Government, Executive recruiting, Human resources, Cybersecurity, Google Inc., Transition Team, Policy, Al Gore, Washington, CTO
Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars
News news analysis The Obama administration's chief technology officer could be one of those bureaucratic positions that ends up consumed by turf battles rather than making real progress against initiatives.
Tags: Executive recruiting, Government, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, chief technology officer, White House, Eric Schmidt, job, human capital, Internet
Time for U.S. to stop saying ICANN
Blogs This week marks the first time Barack Obama stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In his in...
Telcos: Don't mess up the Internet with regulation
News A congressional staffer said Net neutrality and broadband legislation will surely be reintroduced in the next Congress, but representatives of the telecom industry say there are better ways to keep the Internet open.
Tags: Regulations, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Web sites, Verizon Communications Inc., Telecommunications, Regulation, Wireless, Net Neutrality, Comcast Corp.
Obama's security adviser calls for energy action
News James Jones, incoming national security adviser, is a retired general who advocates for a diverse energy supply and clean-energy technologies in the name of national security.
Tags: Clean Technology, Energy Policy, Security, National Security, Renewable Energy, energy efficiency, nuclear energy, security adviser, financial, America
Yahoo joins the real-time search parade
News Three Twitter posts related to a specific query will begin popping up on Yahoo later on Thursday, although they won't appear as quickly as in Google's approach for real-time search.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Tiger Woods, Twitter Inc., search engine, Conference, Web sites
Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site
News Regardless of your political leanings it's unwise to fall for the spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Malware, Spam, Attack, computer, e-mail, denial of service, DOS, Web Site, Web
US White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports
News Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.
Tags: Data security, E-mail servers, Security Management, E-mail Address, Republican, e-mail, aide, White House, health care, Sen.
Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'
News When it comes to the tricky balance between providing comprehensive information and freaking people out, Google says it tries to stay on the good side of the "creepy line".
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., Dashboard, U.S. Government, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Internet search, Eric Schmidt, Privacy, satellite
US Justice Dept defends massive file-swapping fine
News In move that echoes Bush administration arguments, U.S. President Barack Obama's Justice Department says Jammie Thomas' US$1.92 million fine for infringement of 24 songs is constitutional.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web sites, RIAA, file-swapping, U.S. Department Of Justice, attorney, P2P, Kazaa, Bush Administration, U.S. Congress
US on hunt for 1,000 cybersecurity experts
News US Department of Homeland Security has been given the go-ahead to hire the staff in a push to improve the country's response to cyber incidents.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Security, Network security, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Expert, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, network, Internet Attack, Information Security
