Can't wait till one of these get stolen

"Chip giant Intel and tablet computer maker Motion Computing unveiled a notepad-like device Tuesday for nurses and hospital workers to improve patient care, reduce workload and improve the way medical providers deal with electronic medical records."Talk about identity theft...

Lawsuit challenges government's right to read your e-mail

A seller of "natural male enhancement" products sued after a fraud indictment based on evidence gleaned from his electronic mail. The government needs a search warrant if it wants to read the U.S. mail that arrives at your home. But federal prosecutors say they don't need a...

McCain Legislation Out To Destroy Blogs

Think Progress Thursday, December 14, 2006 - John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere. Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold...

CA Court Protects Free Speech Rights for Internet

"The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers and participants in Internet bulletin board groups cannot be sued for posting defamatory statements made by others. In deciding a case closely watched by free speech groups, the court said a federal law gives immunity...

The seven strategies for mobile ads, and which ones will work

"The seven strategies for mobile ads, and which ones will work By Ken Elefant 11.12.06 Ken Elefant The past few years haven’t been easy for wireless service providers. With 3G and fee-based data services a flop and a sagging voice business, not much seems to be going...

Health & Safety on Team Building Events

"less than 10% of companies so much as enquire about Health & Safety and the vast majority do not even check whether event providers carry adequate insurance. This is a shocking fact and I believe that it is caused by that dangerous adversary of risk management; assumption"

More Internet users may be taking 'phishing' bait than thought

"A higher-than-expected percentage of Internet users are likely to fall victim to scam artists masquerading as trusted service providers, report researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics. "Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of eBay Query...

Satellite TV providers exit FCC auction

"Satellite TV providers DirecTV Group and EchoStar Communications on Wednesday pulled out of the Federal Communications Commission auction for licenses to deliver advanced wireless services. The joint venture formed by the two companies, called Wireless DBS, was expected to...

Satellite TV giants retire from U.S. wireless sale

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A joint venture of rival satellite television providers DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. bowed out on Wednesday of a multi-billion-dollar auction of U.S. licenses for advanced wireless services. Analysts said the bidding likely got...

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Skype to be banned too?

"BlogSpot isn’t the only one to fall. According to this article in the Hindu BusinessLine, The ISP Association of India is urging DoT to ban Skype and related voice messengers:"

Indian Web users decry the "gag" on blogs

"Throughout Monday, angry customers of almost all major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country exchanged mails and flooded user group sites with postings to report that blogs, created using the free space provided by Web services like Geocities, Typepad and Blogspot...

Are Internet Service Providers blocking blogs?

"Bloggers in India are getting together to protest against the sudden blocking of popular Google-owned blog-hosting site Blogger by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Spectranet, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), Reliance Powersurfer, Airtel Broadband and...