The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising and a driving simulator touring the country this summer. On Tuesday, Verizon, Sprint ...
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. Consumers should be protected ...
Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Global property and casualty insurer ACE Group has launched new ACE Express Private and ACE Express Not-For-Profit health care protection polices to provide comprehensive management liability coverage for health care organizations. ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that Judge Irma Gonzalez has consolidated its two lawsuits pending in US District ...
Tags: Consolidates Cases, RFMD, Electronics
The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB) has launched a new cyber risk insurance coverage to safeguard smaller commercial organizations from growing information security exposures threats. Providing broad coverage ...
Tags: HSB, Cyber Attacks
Microsoft has inked an agreement that adds China-based ZTE to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program. Financial details of deal were not disclosed. But the agreement gives ZTE access to Microsoft patents covering phones, ...
Tags: Android, Microsoft, Computer Products
April 23, 2013 - In a decision released late yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that while residents of Clearview Township cannot bring claims for a proposed industrial wind project at this time, the ruling is ...
Taiwan-based LED firms aim to expand share in the Japan market in 2013. Japan-based firms used to have strong competitive advantages due to patents. However, some of the lawsuits recently filed against Taiwan-based LED firms by Japan-based ...
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House and several privacy and digital rights groups. The House on Thursday voted 288-127 to ...
Tags: CISPA, Privacy Objections
The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share ...
Tags: Computer Products, CISPA
Fans of so-called social games devote hours of time—and often, real-life money—to building their personal alternate lives. There's definitely some emotional investment for many players, too. What recourse do they have when the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, webgame
On Wednesday the Reuters news service, citing unnamed sources, reported that Easton-Bell Sports owner Fenway Partners was getting ready to sell the company. Easton-Bell Sports executives at the Bicycle Leadership Conference in Monterey, ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The U.S. Congress should limit the ability of patent holders that don't make products to file infringement complaints at the U.S. International Trade Commission because of a huge increase in cases there, representatives of some companies ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, will be debated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, despite continued opposition from some privacy and ...
Tags: Computer Products, software