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July 29, 2010

14:59
Students bring objects to life
This headline is presented in partnership with:A look at the Animation Explosion summer camp. read more
14:58
New Hummelstown library is example of changing face of libraries
This headline is presented in partnership with:Libraries could become the new "village green" of the future. read more
07:49
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. read more
07:46
Rep Dingell tells FCC to drop move for broadband regulations
Rep John Dingell (D-MI), former head of the House Commerce Committee, said July 28 that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission should drop his push to re-regulate broadband service. read more
07:45
Congress Rethinks Its Ban on Internet Gambling
With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling. read more
07:43
How to Fill a Stadium? Offer Video Better Than TV
How do you keep football fans as regular visitors to stadiums when the television coverage of every play is so good? For the Giants and the Jets, the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is more and better video than people can get at home. read more
07:41
E-Books Fly Beyond Mere Text
E-books of the latest generation are so brand new that publishers can't agree on what to call them. read more
07:40
Wikileaks busts myth about the irrelevance of mainstream media
By releasing 92,000 pages of intelligence documents relating to the Afghanistan war onto the laptops of an unsuspecting public, the proprietor of WikiLeaks has made an iron-clad case for the mainstream media. read more
07:39
Online privacy and building reputations
A Q&A with Joseph Turow, a professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in online privacy. read more
07:37
Tech Firms Lobby EU on Privacy
Microsoft, Google and other US tech giants are pushing to streamline Europe's privacy rules in order to offer more remote computing and data-storage services. read more
07:36
Amazon writes new chapter in its strategy
Last November, Amazon, the online retailer, flew a dozen of the top US literary agents to a day-long meeting at the company's Seattle headquarters to try to tone down its... read more
07:35
Justifiable 'jailbreaks' on the Apple iPhone
Apple needs to accept that its consumers are as smart as it is. read more
07:33
2010 likely to bring more negative campaign ads than ever
TV ad spending is running about $100 million ahead of 2006 levels. read more
07:32
Money spoke against Disclose Act
Senate Republicans made sure this fall's elections will be drenched in corporate money. read more
07:31
Some senators expected to block Postal Service's proposal to limit mail delivery
Sen Jon Tester (D-MT) said that senators who oversee the US Postal Service's budget will block a proposal by the head of that agency to drop Saturday mail delivery. read more

July 28, 2010

18:01
Japanese Antitrust Official Defends Approval Of Google Deal
This headline is presented in partnership with:Japan's antitrust authority defended its decision Wednesday to approve Yahoo Japan's deal with Google to use its search services after critics such as rival Microsoft criticized the agreement as anticompetitive. read more
17:24
OPASTCO members unmoved by Genachowski address
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies in Seattle on July 28. read more
17:22
A peek inside the "secret, backroom" network neutrality meetings
Free Press is still up in arms over what the reform group calls the Federal Communications Commission's "back room" meetings with big corporations to cut a deal on network neutrality rules. But for "secret," "closed," "back room" meetings, these have been remarkably open affairs. read more
17:17
US Telecom, FCC square off on broadband
Rick Kaplan, chief counsel to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, and Walter McCormick, president of USTelecom, squared off on July 27 on whether the FCC was right to tell Congress this month that broadband is not being deployed in a timely and reasonable way to all U.S. residents. read more
17:16
GSA, union negotiate on rules for workers' posts on Facebook, other social media
The General Services Administration is attempting to become the first civilian federal agency to codify how workers should behave on Facebook and Twitter, but it faces resistance from one of its unions over the use of social media Web sites. read more