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RSS senatorFormer eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Whitman served as an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain's presidential campaign and endorsed him during a speech at the party's convention in St Paul, Minnesota, last year. Likely contenders for the Democratic... [22 Sep 2009]
INVOICES 5-5 and SOX Compliance Support
White Paper The act was sponsored by US Senator Paul Sarbanes and US Representative Michael Oxley. The acronym SOX is often encountered in meetings and in requests for information or proposals. It is an important topic today, and... [30 Aug 2009]
Hanjin Shipping Improves Financial and HR Management With New Business System
White Paper The Seoul-based enterprise has a number of subsidiaries, including Keoyang Shipping, Senator Lines (based in Germany), and CyberLogitec, an IT services company. Since its foundation in 1977, Hanjin Shipping has grown... [12 Jun 2009]
Linux open source Silverlight is live
News Also on Wednesday, a related project called Moonshine - formally known as 'Pornilus', in reference to a Roman senator - was announced by developer Aaron Bockover. Moonlight 1.0, the first open-source implementation of... [13 Feb 2009]
"We'll find ET within two dozen years," says Seti
News He explained it had originally been a Nasa project but that it had been cancelled in the 1990s by a Nevada senator unhappy with its lack of success. A senior Seti astronomer believes advances in computing power could... [12 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.09.08
Round-Up So just how did a US Senator come up with the technical specifications for one of the most popular personal technology devices of the last decade? Senator John McCain is many things: respected... [19 Sep 2008]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Don't let sleeping data dogs lie
Comment Californian state senator Joe Simitian, one of the architects of the state's data breach notification law told me recently: "What you don't know can hurt you and ignorance is not bliss. Californian law obliges companies... [04 Sep 2007]
Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'
Comment Californian state senator Joe Simitian, co-author of the Californian data breach law, said it gives consumers the power to protect themselves. California's data breach law has forced organisations to take data security... [03 Sep 2007]
Net neutrality back on the agenda in the US
News As expected - albeit perhaps not quite so soon - Maine Republican senator Olympia Snowe and North Dakota Democrat senator Byron Dorgan teamed up again to introduce what appears to be an identical version... [10 Jan 2007]
Fresh calls for ISP data retention laws
News Senator John McCain, who presided over the afternoon hearing, scolded internet companies who "were invited to participate and chose not to. He said he would talk to senator Ted Stevens, chairman of the... [20 Sep 2006]
Web smut labelling plan still on cards
News Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, was the first politician to latch onto the Justice Department's plan, introducing a bill in June that mirrored its demands but upped the possible prison sentence to a 15-year maximum. [19 Sep 2006]
Net neutrality rift threatens comms bill
News The less-than-sunny prognosis from senator Ted Stevens at a committee event in Washington indicates a departure from the position he held before Congress left town for its August recess. Senator Jim... [13 Sep 2006]
Big Blue scores bid to build world's fastest PC
News The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be the world's fastest machine and is designed to sustain a performance level of a "petaflop" or one quadrillion calculations per second, said US senator... [06 Sep 2006]
Net neutrality supporters take fight to senators
News The activities were designed to ramp up momentum for the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, sponsored by senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, and senator Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican.... [01 Sep 2006]
FTC chief slams net neutrality
News Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has said he'll try to block a floor vote on the measure unless that amendment is adopted. The head of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday expressed sharp scepticism... [22 Aug 2006]
