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News The US Department of Defense is to invest $1.4m into protecting the backbone of the Internet against hacker attacks. She added that Network Associates would need to get approval from US authorities... [28 Aug 1998]
US security restrictions lifted
News The US government has permitted RSA Security to export strong encryption products to foreign governments, without a licence. The company will be able to sell its RSA Keon range of digital certificates to any commercial... [23 Aug 2000]
US Senate proposes Net filtering for schools
News The US Senate has proposed compulsory Web filtering for all state-funded school computers. The US proposal expects each school to define for itself which content is "harmful" for children, and to set up... [27 Jul 1998]
US government forces European nations into encryption retreat
News The US government has won a victory in the international battle over encryption exports. Until now, the US's strong export controls were criticised by much of Europe, on the grounds that they were a... [06 Dec 1998]
US Federal Reserve chairman slams online trading
News Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve has slammed Internet stock trading as a 'lottery'. Silicon.com reported yesterday on the allegations made by Arthur Levitt, US Securities and Exchange... [29 Jan 1999]
US Army gags blog-o-soldier for "classified" info breach
News The US military has demoted and fined a soldier for publishing "classified" information on his personal blog, an Army spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. Leonard Clark, a 40-year-old Arizona National Guardsman who is... [03 Aug 2005]
US spectrum ownership - restrictions revised
News The main telecoms watchdog in the US has cleared the way for mergers in the US cellular market by promising to lift limits on the amount of wireless spectrum any one operator can own. The Federal... [09 Nov 2001]
Mobiles to Iraq: US wages anti-European patent row
News A US Republican has called for the adoption of CDMA mobile phone technology in post-war Iraq - claiming it's the least the American people are owed, and arguing against using the European standard GSM because of Europe's... [28 Mar 2003]
US embraces secure mobile technology it cannot use
News A German company has launched a military-grade secure mobile in the US - the one country where it will not yet work, according to reports. But it operates only on GSM standard networks, which makes it unusable in large... [05 Jun 2001]
US Election 2004: Kerry takes on offshoring
News Software programmers and other professionals hurt by outsourcing should get federal assistance, Democratic US presidential candidate John Kerry said on Tuesday in a new position paper. There are conflicting signs about... [27 Oct 2004]
US Crisis: NYSE to stay closed today
News The New York stock exchange will stay closed today, scotching rumours that the US financial machine would start to resume normal trading. The US bond market will reopen, following the terrorist attack on... [13 Sep 2001]
US consumers unaware of spyware
News Although as many as 90 per cent of US home computers have been infected with spyware at some time, a majority of PC owners don't know how to solve the problem, according to a new poll. The new initiative hopes to reach... [18 Oct 2004]
US keeps faith in cold superconductors
News The US government still holds out some hope for room temperature superconductors - at least enough to continue investing in them. The US Defense Department has put nearly half a million dollars into a... [23 Jul 1998]
US Senator stands by PC-destroying approach
News US Senator Orrin Hatch on Wednesday back-pedalled slightly from his suggestion a day earlier that copyright holders should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music pirates. I think that industry is not doing... [19 Jun 2003]
US IT industry looking up
News The US IT sector is bouncing back - but minus a lot of jobs. A new study from the US Commerce Department has found IT industries are growing more quickly and that increased use of IT throughout the... [18 Dec 2003]
