Government & Regulation

Rebuilding the U.S. infrastructure means not only bridges and roads but the digital infrastructure also. Here are five digital infrastructure initiatives.

In today's podcast: Intel profits drop; Sony Ericsson makes a loss; and virus attacks the U.K. Ministry of Defence.

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Nortel in financial trouble. Not to mention another great executive mustache...

A relatively unknown law lets you decide who gets to access your credit report - and when. Too bad the industry makes it such a hassle to use.

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Despite the last forlorn whines of SCO apologists, there's nothing left of SCO's anti-Linux efforts except trash.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) being pushed by the major credit card companies has probably done a lot to stave off state and federally mandated controls for protecting customer credit and debit card data up to now. The big question as a new year begins, is for how much longer though?

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers say "bellwether" a lot, as they watch Intel warn of a weak Q4. Not to mention a groan-worthy sailing pun...
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Britain's Home Office has approved a plan that would expand warrantless searches of home PCs by police and M15 agents. The plan allows law enforcement to basically hack into a PC without a warrant. read more.

Please, please let this ground-breaking move by Apple be the beginning of the end for all digital rights management.

Answer: In both countries.

The District of Columbia's CTO is big on collaborative tools and data access and that's why he may be Obama's CTO.

In today's podcast: China jails 11 for software piracy; Zune 30GB can't handle leap year; and Wikipedia raises funds for operations.

A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan fooled the biometric fingerprint scanner by putting "special" tape over her fingers.

In New Year's eve's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch the MD5 hash algorithm get broken -- by a farm of PlayStations -- with worrying consequences for SSL digital certificates. Not to mention seasonal blinkenlights...

When President-elect Obama is inaugurated in the next few weeks, he'll have current and former Microsoft executives and their wives to thank for the bash --- they've donated in excess of $300,000. Google execs have dug deep into their pockets as well, and have given $150,000. I've got the list of donors and details in my blog.