The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) continues to withhold important details about a closely held copyright enforcement trade agreement involving New Zealand, despite promises from US President Barack Obama to release more information, two digital rights groups say.
At least 340 of the estimated 500 public companies required by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin filing financial data in the XBRL format in June have made the conversion, according to a survey from XBRL US, a nonprofit standards group.
A U.S. district court judge will extend portions of an antitrust decree governing Microsoft's actions for 18 months, the judge said Wednesday.
Network Appliance, a California computer storage and data management vendor, has agreed to pay the U.S. government US$128 million to settle contract fraud charges brought by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
Cyperspies from China, Russia and elsewhere have gained access to the U.S. electrical grid and have installed malware tools designed to shut down service, according to a news report Wednesday.
If the US$19 billion (NZ38 billion) for health IT in a recently passed US economic stimulus package goes only to driving up adoption of electronic health records, the US health care system will not improve, say some medical experts.
The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), part of President Barack Obama's office, has denied a company's request for information about a secretive anticounterfeiting trade agreement being negotiated, citing national security concerns.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided the office of the Washington, D.C., CTO and arrested two men there, the FBI said.
Paul Twomey, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) since March 2003, will step down at the end of the year, the organization announced Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint includes millions of new dollars for health IT and for technology research, according to the budget document.
Negotiators from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have reached agreement on a US$789 billion spending bill intended to improve the U.S. economy.
The US Senate has approved a US$838 billion economic stimulus package, including money for broadband and health IT deployments and for an Internet-based smart electricity grid.
Thirty-seven percent of technology industry chief financials officers expect their companies to experience decreased sales revenue in 2009 compared to last year, according to a survey by BDO Seidman.
U.S. lawmakers need to make sure privacy safeguards are in place before pushing electronic health records on the public, senators and witnesses at a hearing said.
Mobile phone networks around Washington, D.C., experienced periodic overload during inauguration ceremonies for U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday, but by mid-afternoon the congestion seemed to dissipate.