When the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was enshrined into law with the passage of the historic Telecommunications Act of 1996, it contained a number of controversial provisions that covered "obscene or indecent" online content.

Part of Apple's Tuesday surprise, in which the firm refreshed its entire desktop computing line, was about a lack of things: how much less the products weighed than pr

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has accused RealNetworks of destroying evidence relevant to a lawsuit over the company's DVD-copying software.

The $5.1 million sale of Toys.com to ToyRUS last Friday continues to draw mainstream media attention to domain names. Yesterday it was The BBC, today it is ABC News. I was interviewed for both stories and have some comments on how the media spotlight is helping raise domain awareness on Main Street.

I'll confess, I was a little perplexed by news this morning that Vivek Kundra had been officially named federal Chief Information Officer (the White House press release is

Back in the dim, dark days of 2005 or so, laptop users with external peripherals typically attached them to their notebooks via an interface called CardBus. CardBus

had debuted in 1995, relied on the PCI bus for system communication, and was aptly named.

Lovers of parental control capabilities will be pleased as punch at the Federal Communications Commission's latest Notice of Inquiry, which asks for public comment on ways to disperse "advanced blockin

Over 50 years after its last major overhaul, there's a widespread sense that the US patent system has gone off the rails.

The first quarter of 2009 hasn't exactly been defined by joyful tidings from the semiconductor industry, but there are still signs of life among the

thunderheads.

The RIAA has filed tens of thousands of lawsuits against suspected file-sharers—and that's just the US total.