Sarah Palin and her husband Todd will testify in the federal case against a Tennessee man who allegedly accessed Palin’s private e-mail account during the 2008 presidential race, Palin’s attorney said. The case involves University of Tennessee student David C. Kernell, the 22-year old son of a Democratic state representative.
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Although Google, Facebook and their rivals have enjoyed a relatively “safe harbor” from prosecution over user-generated content in the United States and Europe, they face a public that increasingly is more inclined to blame them for cyber-bullying and other online transgressions.
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Many governments have used the Internet to curtail freedom of expression at home, the U.S. state department says in its latest annual human rights report. In many cases new forms of electronic communications are restricted to control domestic dissent, it says.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. Located at the site www.broadband.gov, the test is aimed at allowing consumers to compare their actual speeds with the speeds advertised by their providers.
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The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury’s verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i. The verdict, which the appeals court first affirmed in December, required Microsoft to pay more than $240 million in damages and forced it to remove a feature in versions of Microsoft Word 2007 starting in January.
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