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The U.S. Senate rejected two Democratic efforts Wednesday to amend a corporate tax bill containing key provisions favored by tech companies with international operations. The amendments sought to eliminate or severely limit a one-year proposal to reduce foreign dividend taxes from 35 percent to 5.25 percent. If ultimately passed by Congress, proponents say the tax […]

WASHINGTON — Wireless broadband is currently allocated to the wrong spectrum and the result is hampering the growth of the technology, according to former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Reed Hundt. Hundt, who presided over a major overhaul of U.S. telecommunications policy in 1996, said wireless broadband should be put in the same spectrum swath […]

UPDATED: Internet tax legislation in the U.S. Senate veered into bitter partisan politics Tuesday afternoon, bringing a sharp rebuke from Arizona Republican John McCain as a deadline for compromise looms. Attempting to broker a deal on the suddenly sputtering Internet access tax ban legislation, McCain was angered when Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) introduced a […]

The United States Senate voted Monday night to revive debate on legislation to permanently exempt Internet connections from federal, state and local taxes. The moratorium on access taxes aimed at dial-up connections, first passed by Congress in 1998 and extended in 2000, expired last November. The renewed Senate interest in the long-stalled measure came on […]

Three weeks ago, dozens of CEOs visited Capitol Hill to push an economic agenda underscoring free trade and an ambitious tax cut on foreign dividends for U.S. IT companies. A key stop was the office of U.S. Senator George Allen, a member of the influential Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee who has been behind a […]

The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States’ first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail. Since the Can Spam Act became effective on Jan. 1, it has been criticized as ineffective in slowing junk e-mail. But […]

While Internet telephony has become a hot topic in Washington over the last two months, the FBI has had the technology in its sights for more than a year. It doesn’t like what it sees, or more to the point, what it can’t hear. The agency’s electronic surveillance experts worry that Voice over Internet Protocol […]

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s proposed $60 billion IT spending plan for 2005 looks to deliver a “service-centered” government, said Karen Evans, chief administrator for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology. “We’re trying to make sure investment is not being driven by the technology or the bureaucracy,” Evans said Tuesday in a keynote address […]

After two years of retrenchment, IT industries are showing some signs of resuming the “dynamic role” they played from 1996-2000, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Employment growth in IT industries and IT occupations, however, have yet to recover. Digital Economy 2003 is Commerce’s fifth annual report on the […]

President George W. Bush signed a landmark anti-spam bill into law Tuesday, setting into motion the first national standards for sending bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). Bush signed the bill ahead of a planned event with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris, who was slated to appear in a “Ask the White House” online discussion […]