by houckr | Oct 31, 2010 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations |
I had not thought about email Spam mail in ages. It used to be that whenever I logged into my email, including my school email accounts, the vast majority of my emails were unsolicited junk—advertisements for Viagra or other drugs available on the cheap through...
by fqin | Oct 31, 2010 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
In the past year, there has been an increase in the number of hack attacks on U.S. companies. In one particularly worrisome case, the attacks were targeted against Google and 33 other companies, including financial institutions and defense contractors. In light of...
by seidmand | Oct 30, 2010 | Commentary |
In the wake of the HITECH Act, which encourages healthcare providers to use Electronic Health Records (EHR) through subsidies and reduced Medicare payments, patients may know that providers routinely store and transmit electronically their personal health-related...
by amyhw | Oct 18, 2010 | Commentary |
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided last week to allow federally funded human embryonic stem cell research to continue, extending a temporary stay of a lower court’s injunction barring the funding. A district court ruled in August...
by dicksona | Oct 18, 2010 | Commentary |
On Friday, September 24, 2010, The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had reached a settlement with six prominent technology companies (Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar) relating to a probe on corporate recruiting policies that potentially...
by anickow | Sep 30, 2010 | Commentary |
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration held a workshop Wednesday to address the ongoing (slow) transition to IPv6. Guests included executives from VeriSign, Comcast, Akamai, Verizon, and Google. This is the first time the Obama administration...
