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Experts say Americans will find more reliable and secure voting systems in this election than in 2000 and 2004.Some states and counties readjusted their electronic systems and this year counties in 24 states will vote with electronic voting or lever machines. But many dumped electronic machines and went back to paper, while investing in optical scanning devices for counting ballots.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation fights tirelessly for free speech and privacy rights, but it is also a big proponent for free innovation. The following legal cases are some of the most important the EFF has participated in over the years.
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A lower court jury in San Diego found in February 2007 that Microsoft had infringed two MP3 digital music patents and ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5 billion. In August 2007, U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster disagreed with that jury, saying Microsoft had not violated one of the patents and had a license for the other one. The judge threw out the jury's award. That assessment was held up today.
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A newspaper group, which represents 18,000 publications worldwide, criticized a deal struck in June in which Google will supply Yahoo with advertising services to run alongside Yahoo's own Web search system. Together the two companies have more than 80 percent of the search market.
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The ruling requires Comcast to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
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Travelers carrying smart cell phones, blackberries or laptop computers to China could be offering up sensitive personal or business information to state-controlled telecommunications carriers.
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Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, seizures of devices like laptops and phones may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the Washington Post reported.
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A computer hacker from England lost his appeal against extradition to the United States where he could face up to 70 years in prison.
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The United States will launch a pilot scheme to require travelers covered by its visa waiver program to be authourized over the Internet before boarding flights to the country.
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In an amended court filing that cited internal SAP documents, Oracle said four SAP board members, including current co-chief executive Henning Kagermann, received a confidential document that "made clear TomorrowNow did not operate legally."
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After years of progress in disaster recovery and business continuity, advances are beginning to unravel in planning, communication and will. Is your company's risk management plan in line with the best practices in disaster recovery?
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in an effort to forward democracy, orders his ministers to improve online public access to the government.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that new charges from regulators in Europe would allege that Intel gave major European retailers inducements not to sell computers that use chips from smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices.
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Samsung executive Lee Jun-hee gets a suspended sentence for tax evasion.
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Yahoo speaks its mind to a Senate Judiciary Committee that it doesn't wish to be bought up by Microsoft.
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