May 18, 2012
The FBI is currently in the process of trying to amend the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to cover Web companies as well as telecommunications providers. The bureau is hoping to work with companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook in order to incorporate backdoors for wiretapping their services.
In the past, the FBI has worked to develop independent solutions for these firms, but, as...
April 25, 2012
Who knew some funky capitalization could cause so much trouble? Proview -- the purveyor of that 90s-era all-in-one called the iPAD -- hasn't let up in its fight to wrestle the rights to the iPad name from iPad...
April 22, 2012
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is more commonly known as CISPA, is expected to receive a House vote this week. The Internet community, with the exception of tech giants such as Google and Facebook, has been raising concerns about the bill claiming that...
April 19, 2012
The labor conditions in Asia have long been a controversial topic, but they have recently come into the spotlight due to concerns over Apple’s working practices in China. Back in January, The New York Times exposed new details involving what takes place in the factories of Apple’s largest supplier...
April 17, 2012
The time is quickly approaching for the Internet to be introduced to a whole new array of generic top-level domains (gTLD). Last year, ICANN made its historic decision to allow companies and individuals to purchase their own gTLD.
Although the decision was met with much criticism, especially from the...
April 12, 2012
The JOBS Act was signed into law last week in an effort to boost the economy. The law, which in long form is the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, is designed to help startups and small businesses raise capital and avoid cumbersome regulatory hurdles.
Michael McGeary of Hattery Labs worked directly with lawmakers on this bill and spoke with WebProNews about it. According to...
April 2, 2012
- As regular readers of this site are well aware, Google and Oracle have had an ongoing...
April 1, 2012
Cyber security has been getting a lot of attention in recent years after a number of corporations and government websites have undergone security breaches. In fact, Congress is even weighing the idea of cyber security legislation in an effort to prevent against cyber warfare.
Jerry Brito, however, who is the Director of the...
March 28, 2012
- Tim Cook's visit to China this week marks his first as Apple's CEO, but what originally appeared to be a casual jaunt to Beijing with possible carrier meetings on the agenda, has turned out to be a carefully orchestrated...
March 16, 2012
The issue of antitrust concerns is on the rise in the tech industry as Google, Apple, and others are being investigated by U.S. agencies. But, are the claims about these companies valid?
WebProNews spoke with the Honorable James Miller III, a senior advisor with the Husch Blackwell law firm and former director of the U.S. Office of Management & Budget as...