Grant Gross

ULH network will also allow Verizon Business to extend the network signal reach without regeneration equipment, reducing operational expenses as well as the number of active components in the network

Six men are charged with illegally distributing drugs over the Internet, and the U.S. Department of Justice wants to confiscate the proceeds.

For some privacy advocates, Google's proposed US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick represents a major threat.

According to a recent survey, more than half of all U.S. government executives have rolled out open-source software at their agencies, and 71 per cent believe their agency can benefit from open-source software.

Panelists at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission workshop on targeted online advertising said that online privacy policies need to be easier to understand and more conspicuous because few people now actually read them.

More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released this week. Twenty-nine per cent of those surveyed said Internet video should be regulated just like television content, according to the poll, commissioned by 463 Communications, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm that specializes in high-tech issues.

Customers of mobile-phone carriers shouldn't have to pay early termination fees if they're called to overseas military service or have their contracts automatically extended every time they call customer support, critics said Wednesday.

Judge Victor Marrero, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled that the Patriot Act provision that allows the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to obtain ISP and telecom subscribers' billing, calling and Web surfing records without court approval violates the U.S. Constitution.