Roy Mark

The White House released additional details Wednesday about President Bush’s new initiative to create a data mining Terrorist Threat Integration Center under the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to close the “seam” between analysis of foreign and domestic intelligence on terrorism. The center will have access to all intelligence information from raw reports […]

Computer scientist Edward Stritter has been nominated to serve as the third and final person to serve on the overview committee charged with enforcing Microsoft’s 2001 court-ordered antitrust compliance. The committee’s primary responsibility is to deal with complaints from competitors that Microsoft isn’t complying with the terms of the settlement. Along with Stritter, the Justice […]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) moved Wednesday to block all funding for the controversial Defense Department program known as Total Information Awareness (TIA). The program aims to capture the “information signature” of people in order to track potential terrorists and has been sharply criticized by privacy and civil liberties groups. The TIA program is a project […]

Senators George Allen (R.-Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) introduced legislation Tuesday night to promote a wireless approach to broadband deployment. Known as the Jumpstart Broadband Act, the bill calls for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allocate not less than 255 megahertz of contiguous spectrum in the 5 gigahertz band for unlicensed use by wireless […]

Federal government spending on IT outsourcing services will more than double from 2002’s $6.6 billion to nearly $15 billion by 2007, according to a new study by Input, a Chantilly, Va.-based sales and marketing firm for government technology vendors. The report says a combination of administrative pressures to compete with non-governmental activities and difficulty in […]

When the final gavel fell on the 107th Congress in November, literally dozens of technology-related bills were left unresolved with the House of Representatives and the Senate rarely in agreement over issues ranging from spam to spectrum. As a result, when the Republican-led 108th Congress convenes Tuesday, old issues will be facing the new leadership. […]

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) assumed control Jan. 1 of the .org top-level domain registry from VeriSign Global Registry Services to begin the largest transfer of data from one registry to another in the history of the Internet. In April of last year, the ICANN Board of Directors selected PIR, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the […]

Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick, sentenced to five years in federal prison after a 3-year manhunt, can resume using the Internet in January. Since being released from prison in 2000, Mitnick has been prohibited from using a computer connected to the Internet. The terms of that probation expire Jan. 20 and according to Dept. of Justice […]

The White House scrambled over the weekend to alleviate privacy violation fears raised by its proposal to build a monitoring system as an “early warning center” to track Internet use in the U.S. The proposal is part of the final version of “The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace,” expected to be released in early 2003. […]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a new version of legislation Tuesday night that will create a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security combining 22 federal agencies with an estimated budget of $37.4 billion, including $2.12 billion for IT. The Senate is expected to pass the same legislation as early as next week and send the […]