Grant Gross

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined three whistleblower lawsuits alleging that Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems ., and Accenture LLP paid and received kickbacks from IT partners in exchange for preferential treatment on government contracts, the DOJ said Thursday.

Wireless security must be the top priority for providers doing business with the U.S. government, Research In Motion Ltd.

The U.S. government should explore new incentives for companies to invest in cybersecurity instead of focusing on regulation, a cybersecurity trade group said

A wide-ranging government policy on broadband and healthy competition among providers gives Japanese customers greater speeds at a much cheaper price than U.S. customers pay, a Japanese telecom executive said recently.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations during flights.

IBM will donate 10,000 copies of its speech translation software to the U.S. government for use in humanitarian settings in Iraq, the company announced.

Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Google Inc. and other tech companies called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to move forward with a proceeding to make unused television spectrum available for wireless networking technologies

Broadcom officials called on the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban the import of mobile phones containing high-speed Qualcomm processors because of patent infringement.