Stories by Grant Gross

IP theft commission: US needs to take strong action

The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended.

By Grant Gross | 22 May, 2013 20:20

Tags: intellectual property, legal, Dennis Blair, craig barrett, government, intel, trade, Jon Huntsman, U.S. International Trade Commission, Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property

Apple defends offshore decisions that result in low taxes

Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company is ducking taxes by shifting profits to subsidiaries that the company does not consider tax residents of any nation.

By Grant Gross | 21 May, 2013 19:40

Tags: U.S. Senate, business issues, tim cook, John McCain, Carl Levin, business management, legislation, Richard Harvey, Rand Paul, Apple, Stephen Shay, Villanova University School of Law School, Harvard Law School, government, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee.

By Grant Gross | 20 May, 2013 21:35

Tags: business issues, tim cook, Information Technology Industry Council, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, regulation, John McCain, Carl Levin, business management, Hewlett-Packard, Dean Garfield, Apple, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Microsoft, accounting, government

T-Mobile drops challenge to FCC's net neutrality rules

T-Mobile USA has dropped a pending challenge to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

By Grant Gross | 17 May, 2013 20:02

Tags: 4g, telecommunication, 3g, U.S. Federal Communications, regulation, Julius Genachowski, mobile, government, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, T-Mobile USA

Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges

Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

By Grant Gross | 17 May, 2013 18:28

Tags: Sanjay Agarwalla, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, regulation, security, Civil lawsuits, legal, Desktop security, Conquest Audit, government, Mikael Marczak, Virtual PC Solutions

Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers

The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday.

By Grant Gross | 16 May, 2013 21:05

Tags: Jon Baumgarten, U.S. Copyright Office, Mel Watt, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, University of California at Berkeley Law School, legislation, government, Pam Samuelson, intellectual property, copyright, Microsoft, Jule Sigall, legal

NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.

By Grant Gross | 16 May, 2013 16:55

Tags: Steve DelBianco, NetChoice, U.S. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, legislation, Aaron Swartz, government, internet, World Wide Web Consortium, Facebook, U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Yahoo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ebay

Syrian Internet service comes back online

Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts.

By Grant Gross | 15 May, 2013 18:16

Tags: James Cowie, Google, security, Syrian Ministry of Communications and Technology, internet, Renesys

US agencies can't track savings from data center closings

The U.S. government's effort to close 1,253 of its data centers is falling short of its goal, and agencies haven't been able to track projected cost savings for the initiative, a government auditor told lawmakers.

By Grant Gross | 14 May, 2013 20:58

Tags: U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Government use of IT, Bernard Mazer, MeriTalk, Steve O'Keeffe, U.S. General Services Administration, government, David Powner, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Gerry Connolly

TechAmerica: US tech employment grows slightly in 2012

The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1 percent increase from a year earlier, according to a new report from the TechAmerica Foundation.

By Grant Gross | 14 May, 2013 18:15

Tags: business issues, TechAmerica Foundation

Survey: US residents oppose Internet sales tax

The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public.

By Grant Gross | 13 May, 2013 20:43

Tags: Endicia, e-commerce, legislation, government, internet

Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents.

By Grant Gross | 10 May, 2013 19:33

Tags: Julie Samuels, Kimberly Moore, Adam Perlman, Alice, Alan Lourie, patent, CLS Bank, legal, U.S. Supreme Court, Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, intellectual property

US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill

New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect.

By Grant Gross | 09 May, 2013 19:53

Tags: Consumer Watchdog, U.S. House of Representatives, security, Hank Johnson, mobile, legislation, John Simpson, government, privacy, mobile applications

FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voting Thursday to explore using new spectrum for air-to-ground broadband service.

By Grant Gross | 09 May, 2013 19:15

Tags: Julius Genachowski, regulation, Networking, wireless, qualcomm, Dean Brenner, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, government, WLANs / Wi-Fi, Mignon Clyburn

Obama administration expands open data access

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration.

By Grant Gross | 09 May, 2013 17:05

Tags: Government use of IT, Sunlight Foundation, U.S. White House, Ellen Miller, government, Barack Obama, TechAmerica, Kevin Richards

Twitter Feed

Whitepapers

- + c

Latest News

- + c
more