In the past couple of years, Silicon Valley companies have been increasing their Washington presence and expanding lobbying staffs. But they are doing this at risk to themselves and their companies, and stand to undermine the very free-market impulses that have made them successful, warns T. J. Rodgers, president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Somehow, someone got the credit-card number and Social Security number of Maureen Mitchell's husband. She first learned about the problem when a bank called her to report unusual credit-card activity.
The fate of a recommendation by the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce as to whether the federal government should impose taxes on the sale of goods and services over the Internet may rest with a pivotal bloc of six members representing businesses, who are being urged to support a policy that would lead to the collection of sales taxes from remote Internet sellers, according to the commission's chairman, Gov. James Gilmore of Virginia.
Virginia will become the first state to approve the controversial Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) when Gov. James Gilmore signs the bill on Tuesday.
American Management Systems Inc. (AMS) and business-to-business online auctioneer FreeMarkets Inc. have formed an alliance to encourage state and federal government agencies to purchase goods via reverse auctions over the Internet.
Drugstore.com Inc. uses e-mail to inform customers of prescription refills and new products. It's an important means of customer contact. But Congress and most states are considering privacy laws that could make that harder to do.
The U.S. Department of Justice last week asked for more money to catch crackers, a request that drew support from one Web business that has firsthand knowledge of the government's needs.
Somehow, someone got credit-card numbers and the social security number of Maureen Mitchell's husband. She first learned about the problem when a bank called her to report unusual credit-card activity. But the problems didn't stop for the Madison, Ohio, family. A department store and car dealers were issuing credit to people claiming to be Mitchell's husband.
Government and political leaders are being advised to take a hands-on approach to information technology projects and avoid efforts that merely entrench old work processes, according to a report released today by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, "Eight Imperatives for Leaders in a Networked World."
John Rudin, CIO at Reynolds Metals Co. in Richmond, Va., is in the vanguard of a high-stakes political battle against a controversial law that's pitting users against software vendors, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act.
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials on Tuesday told a joint congressional committee that the law has to be changed to make it easier to pursue hackers. They also want more money to hire prosecutors and analysts, as well as improve research capabilities of federal, state and local law enforcers investigating cybercrime.
Few leap-year date problems at public agencies and private companies were reported today by the U.S. White House's Y2k coordination center. That doesn't mean that there weren't numerous minor leap-year date glitches, but none were apparently big enough to produce noticeable problems.
For Roger Baker, CIO at the Department of Commerce, the denial-of-service attacks that hit Yahoo, eBay and others have given him a tool for improving his department's security practices. It's called leverage.
The most difficult problem of the Microsoft Corp. case has always been the question of remedies. Now that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is nearing a verdict, and is almost certain to find the software giant guilty of some violations, he must decide what remedy to impose.
With closing arguments over, it is now up to Microsoft antitrust trial Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to issue a verdict, and he did little yesterday to dispel the expectation that he will come down hard on the software giant.