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High speed lines to home and businesses increased by 55 percent last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Broadband connections increased by 23 percent during the second half of 2002, from 16.2 million to 19.9 million lines, compared to a 27 percent increase, from 12.8 million to 16.2 million […]

Financial losses from computer crime are down significantly from last year according to the latest Computer Crime and Security Survey conducted by the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the FBI. According to the survey, overall financial losses totaled $201.7 million, a sharp drop from the previous survey total of $455.8 million. Overall, the number of […]

According to a new report, the CIA’s view of high tech tools for intelligence analysis is based on “risk exclusion” instead of “risk management” and the policy has resulted in an implicit message to analysts: technology is a threat, not a benefit. The report, Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution, was written by […]

The House and the Senate are $1.7 billion apart in their IT spending plans for the Department of Defense (DoD). Last week, the House slashed that amount from the 2004 National Defense Authorization Act while the Senate approved the request backed by the Bush Administration. Overall, both chambers approved more than $400 billion in budget […]

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is helping to build the infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory, a project the agency says will make astronomy research based on archival data easier and more efficient by use of grid services and NCSA computing resources. According to the NCSA, the Digital Virtual Observatory will make heavy […]

The market for unlicensed wireless communications devices is experiencing unprecedented, double-digit growth and is expected to reach $5.2 billion of revenue by 2005 for wireless computer networking alone, according to a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report. Written by the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis (OSP) and Office of Engineering and Technology […]

WASHINGTON — A legislative “silver bullet” to curb spam was all the talk Wednesday at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail. More specifically, there was consensus opinion that there was no such thing. Since the 108th Congress convened in January, there have been more than a half dozen proposals for federal […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee lined up the usual suspects for its Wednesday hearing on possible spam legislation. There was Ted Leonsis of America Online, Brightmail’s Enrique Salem and Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), all urging immediate federal laws to curb the onslaught of unsolicited bulk e-mail. Not so […]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed its first major technology legislation Wednesday, authorizing $2.36 billion over three years for nanotechnology research and development programs. The bill, the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2002 (HR 766), provides a formal structure for coordination of research across a number of federal agencies. Nanotechnology refers to the ability […]

Predicted demand for hiring IT workers has reached an historic low of only 493,000 positions over the next 12 months, according to research released by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). The hiring prediction is down from 1.6 million at the start of 2000 and less than one-half of the predicted 1.1 million positions […]