Category «Internet»

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal on Child Online Protective Act

CDT news release: “The Supreme Court Wednesday dealt the final blow to the government’s 10-year campaign to place onerous restrictions on Internet content. The Court declined to hear the government’s appeal of lower court rulings [3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in COPA February 22, 2008] that declared the Child Online Protection Act as …

Subjects: Courts, Free Speech, Internet, Legal Research, PC Security

Watch the Swearing-in Ceremony on the Web

Presidential Inaugural Committee: “Don’t miss it when Barack Obama takes the Oath of Office next Tuesday, January 20th. As part of our commitment to making this the most open inauguration in history, we’ll be streaming the swearing-in ceremony on our site using Microsoft’s Silverlight. You can view high quality Silverlight streams, in full screen, and …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet

Online Viewing along with Viewpoints – of Obama Inagural

Where to watch Obama’s presidential inauguration online: Links to more than a dozen sources, from news and social media sites as well as bloggers. Of course, the networks will also be “televising” the inaugural, live. See also: Links to selected clips of previous inaugural addresses Washington Post: Get Inauguration Survival Alerts on Your Mobile Device

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Wireless Web

Report: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies

Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States, Published January 14, 2009: “The Internet Safety Technical Task Force was created in February 2008 in accordance with the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced in …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy

Pew Survey: Post-Election Voter Engagement

Those Active in the Obama Campaign Expect to be Involved in Promoting the Administration, by Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project, December 30, 2008: “Voters expect that the level of public engagement they experienced with Barack Obama during the campaign, much of it occurring online, will continue into the early period …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management

OECD Information Technology Outlook 2008

“Information technology (IT) and broadband are major drivers of research, innovation, economic growth and social change. The 2008 edition of the OECD Information Technology Outlook analyses recent developments in the IT goods and services industries, and suggests that the outlook is for continued long-term growth, constrained by the currently very uncertain macroeconomic environment in OECD …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Gartner Says 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs

News release: “The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to Gartner. Gartner said that reliance on revenue from the sale of prerecorded CDs is hindering the music industry from fully embracing online distribution opportunities…Enabling the transition away from retail music CDs toward online …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Wireless Web