Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Explorer: Benefit or Burden? - Government lawyers portray Microsoft's decision to bundle its browser with Windows 98 as having no consumer benefit -- an important point as the landmark antitrust trial moves forward. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   FCC Moves to Speed the Net - As regulators step in to relax local telco rules, the promise of high-speed data delivery to the home moves closer to reality, and has the fur flying. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   FCC Paper: Net Needs New Regs - A new FCC working paper says 20-year-old regulatory distinctions between telephone, data, and cable carriers no longer make sense in the Internet age. The answer? New regulations. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   FTC Cracking Down On Net Fraud - In testimony before the House Commerce Committee, a Federal Trade Commission director said that the agency was getting serious about prosecuting Internet scams. But one critic said it could be doing more. By James Glave. [Wired News]   FTC Exposes Spam Scams - The Federal Trade Commission has released its "Dirty Dozen Spam Scam" list, which shows that most junk email schemes are not very original. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   Feds Relax Encryption Rules - The Commerce Department finally eases its tight restrictions on the export of strong encryption. But is it too little, too late? By Niall McKay and James Glave. [Wired News]   Feds Slam GeoCities on Privacy - In a landmark case, the Federal Trade Commission says that the "largest community on the Web" misled its members about what it was doing with their personal information. GeoCities says it has done nothing wrong. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Feds Still Failing on Y2K - The departments of health and energy fared worst in the latest quarterly report card that grades government progress on fixing the Y2K problem. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   Feds Urged to Use Open Source - Open-source activists' online petition calls on the government to consider software like Linux when planning new technology purchases. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Feds: Let Industry Lead on E-Commerce - Speaking at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, a White House policy analyst said the federal government will let the industry take the first stab at regulating online business and commerce. [Wired News]   First Amendment? Not on the Job - The Constitution may protect your right to air unpopular opinions on the Net - but you leave your rights at the door when you enter the private sector, lawyers say. [Wired News]   Five Hundred Days and Counting - Come 1 January 2000, computers the world over will either tick in the new decade or shut down. Organizers of the Global Y2K Action Day conference are planning for the latter. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   Free Speech, But Whose? - A British Don Quixote seeks to use plaintiff-friendly English libel law to quell free speech online. By Jill Priluck. [Wired News]   Fuzzy Reception for Euro DigiTV - Stifling regulations, apathy, cost, and an abundance of free TV are just some of the factors slowing digital TV in Europe. By Mike Bracken. [Wired News]   Game Companies: We Protect Kids - Washington is pressuring technology companies to watch out for the privacy of children on the Internet. The joystick brigade weighs in with its own ideas. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Gamers Raise Senate's Bet - After the Senate passed legislation that would effectively outlaw Internet gambling, US companies continue to find offshore havens and plenty of loopholes in the bill itself. By Moira Muldoon. [Wired News]   Gates Testimony Goes Thunk - Java? What's Java? The world's richest man is evasive in videotaped testimony played during the Microsoft antitrust trial. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Gates Won't Open to the Press - Microsoft has won the latest round in the battle to bar the press from Bill Gates' eagerly anticipated deposition. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   Georgia Spampaign Backfires - A gubernatorial candidate in the Peach State found out the hard way that spam is unfit for the campaign trail. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   Germans Plan 'Internet Strike' - It worked in Spain. Now a band of German activists is organizing a one-day boycott to force lower Internet access fees. By James Glave. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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