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Public health experts lobbied for including more public health goals into the "meaningful use" incentive plan, including ways to make it easier for public health minders to measure population health trends in chronic and virus-borne diseases. read more

On Thursday, July 30th, the federal government indicated it's in the market for a rigorous examination of its investment in broadband. read more

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase). read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:The UK government has published its roadmap to introduce national universal access to a minimum 2Mbps broadband service. The broadband commitment is to "deliver universal broadband at speed of 2Mbps and stimulate private sector investment to deliver the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015". read more

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating agreements between the country's largest e-book publishers and two of the largest sellers -- Amazon.com, Inc. and Apple, Inc. -- that may block competitors from offering cheaper e-book prices. read more

Vermont's rugged terrain and low population density leave an estimated 15-20 percent of the population without access to high-speed Internet. Last month, the Obama administration promised $795 million in stimulus money to increase rural broadband access. But some tech experts and rural residents aren't sure that's enough -- and some wonder if broadband development will slow down once stimulus money dries up. read more

Washington is under siege over Network Neutrality. read more

There was much hope when President Obama was inaugurated that the United States finally had a president who supported and understood media policies that would foster an independent press and ensure an open, creative Internet. Unfortunately that has not been the case. President Obama appears to be no different from his two immediate predecessors. read more

Recent foreign-based intrusions on the computer systems of U.S. federal agencies and commercial companies highlight the vulnerabilities of the interconnected networks that comprise the Internet, as well as the need to adequately address the global security and governance of cyberspace. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:The practice adopted by some operators of requiring broadband subscribers to also take a phone line is now officially prohibited in Brazil. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:The Australian Communications and Media Authority has finalized the licensing arrangements to permit the use of mobile phones on aircraft. read more

Google has spent $1.1 billion during the first half of the year buying up 22 companies, with more than half of the amount ($681 million) going toward its recently completed acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob. read more

Professors used to deal with plagiarism by admonishing students to give credit to others and to follow the style guide for citations, and pretty much left it at that. But recent cases suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed. read more

The United Arab Emirates, citing security concerns, said Sunday that it would suspend BlackBerry mobile services like e-mail and text messaging beginning in October. read more

The online habits of most people who use the world's dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. read more

Major media companies have finally learned something about whether consumers will pay for content on the Internet, and it's this: The answer won't be found through endless debate. read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued 192,499 national security letter requests from 2003 to 2006. Since then, the bureau has continued its reliance on the letters to gather information from telephone companies, banks, credit bureaus and Internet service providers. That last source is the focus of the Justice Department as it presses Congress to clarify the Electronic Communications Privacy Act so that the FBI can continue to gather some electronic records without a warrant from a judge. read more

According to the latest data provided to the U.S. House of Representatives' Office of the Clerk, during the second quarter of this year, Verizon forked over $4,440,000 to its team of crack buttonholers, who talked up every issue from network neutrality to the proposed Distracted Driving Prevention Act. read more

The National Association of Black Journalists is calling on television group owners to do a better job of reflecting the ethnic makeup of the communities they serve when it comes to naming executives in their local newsrooms. read more

Reps. Gene Green (D-TX) and Fred Upton (R-MI) have introduced a concurrent resolution asking the Federal Communications Commission to hold off on reclassifying broadband or clarifying and expanding network neutrality regulations and let the Congress weigh in first. read more