Tag: WASHINGTON
Google preparing for Senate hearing
September 19th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google’s Eric Schmidt, the online search giant’s point man for all things Washington, goes before a Senate panel this week to argue the company is not a rival-abusing bully, but in fact is struggling to stay on top. Google Inc controls more than two-thirds of the global search market. But Web technologies [...]
Blogger says FBI wiretapped Israeli Embassy (AP)
September 8th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – A blogger told The New York Times that an FBI translator has given a transcript of conversations were recorded by FBI wiretaps on the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The translator, Shamai Leibowitz, was sentenced last year to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to the leak of classified documents. FBI officials did [...]
Wave of 40,000 tweets followed East Coast earthquake (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Only a minute after the magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Tuesday in Virginia and shook much of the east coast, an online copy of 40,000 tweets frames online. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center has an additional 15,000 "likes" on Facebook before the advance of Hurricane Irene. Social networks are becoming increasingly important to [...]
Google to pay $500 million over online drug ads (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
One of the activities of Internet search engine Google Inc. is displayed on a computer in Encinitas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google Inc. has agreed to pay $ 500 million to settle a criminal probe into the accepted advertising for Canadian online pharmacies selling drugs in the United States, said the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday. [...]
Reid’s debt plan could speed wireless auctions (Reuters)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The efforts to offer to auction U.S. regulators the power to some TV-ether for mobile broadband gets a boost in the debt brake, as the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested. The auctions have the potential to increase 15000000000 $ turnover, according to Reid's plan, with a portion of the proceeds to [...]
Internet privacy controls challenge tech industry (AP)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web — or face regulation. Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the technology industry has yet to agree on a simple, meaningful solution to [...]
ISPs, movie, music, TV groups in copyright deal (AFP)
July 8th, 2011, No Comments
ISPs, movie, music, TV groups in copyright deal WASHINGTON (AFP) – Major US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and music, movie and television industry associations unveiled a long-awaited agreement on Thursday aimed at curbing online copyright infringement. The Copyright Alert System calls for ISPs to send a series of email notices to Internet subscribers whose accounts [...]
Washington Post website jobs section hacked (AFP)
July 8th, 2011, No Comments
Washington Post website jobs section hacked WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Washington Post said Thursday that a hacker had access to almost 1.3 million e-mail addresses and user names from online jobs section. The Post said no passwords or other personal data was compromised in the attack on the jobs section of WashingtonPost.com, which took place [...]
Alert system to notify consumers of online piracy (AP)
July 8th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – Hollywood studios, record labels, artists, and ISPs have created a program to alert subscribers when their Internet accounts used to access movies, music and other content that the entertainment companies do not take into account permitted. The new "copyright warnings" of the system is designed to educate consumers about piracy, to send up [...]
Turning Obama’s answers into 140 characters (AP)
July 7th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – President spoken responses on Twitter Barack Obama Town Hall on Wednesday exceeded the 140 character limit social service, the media for news. A look at how the White House official Twitter account condenses long answers of the President of the online audience. ___ Obama was asked what could be done to make the [...]
