Grant Gross

The man often called the father of the Internet told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that the future of the Internet is at risk if Congress does not pass a law prohibiting broadband providers from discriminating against competing Web applications and computer devices.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Friday demanded that operators of Web sites that sell telephone records such as call logs detail how they obtain that information without the telephone customers' permission.n

A California man accused of managing the computer system used to send hundreds of thousands of pornography-related e-mail messages has pleaded guilty to violating a U.S. antispam law.

ChoicePoint Inc., the data broker that set off a national debate after disclosing a data breach early in 2005, will pay US$15 million in fines and other penalties for lax security standards, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday.n

Three consumer groups repeated their calls for a U.S. law to prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing customer access to some Internet content by saying the public wants government protection.n

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday proposed fining AT&T Inc. US$100,000 for failing to file an annual report detailing its compliance with the FCC's customer privacy-protection rules. rn

Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) manufacturer Elpida Memory Inc. has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$84 million fine for participating in an "international conspiracy" to fix DRAM prices, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.

Internet users looking for information at the U.S. government's Web portal will get more complete and relevant results using a new search engine unveiled Tuesday, according to officials with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).