House Democrats' Record-Keeping Bill Criticized more similar news »
Citing "significant deficiencies" in the preservation of e-mail by the White House and federal agencies, House Democrats today introduced legislation to strengthen and modernize electronic record-keeping requirements. But a private watchdog group called the bill inadequate and issued a report des...
Hawaii Working to Link Its Food Chain more similar news »
HONOLULU -- A technology used to track everything from cattle and bottles of Viagra to U.S. military weapons will soon be tested on an unlikely candidate for surveillance: tomatoes.
Lawmakers Want FBI Access to Data Curbed more similar news »
Bipartisan groups in Congress are pressing to place new controls on the FBI's ability to demand troves of sensitive personal information from telephone providers and credit card companies, over the opposition of agency officials who say they deserve more time to clean up past abuses.
Blockbuster Offers to Buy Circuit City more similar news »
Blockbuster said yesterday that it has made an unsolicited offer to buy the struggling Circuit City for more than $1 billion and create a new type of store that would merge multimedia content and consumer electronics.
Bethesda Start-Up Makes Writing a Little Less Lonely more similar news »
On the Web, everyone can be a published author. Amateur and professional writers alike have found voices in blogs and social-networking profiles, bypassing the cut-throat competition of old-line publishing. Now a Bethesda start-up is trying to leverage that community of would-be authors to help w...
A Call for Action On Tax Scams more similar news »
The scam goes like this: A bogus tax return using a stolen Social Security number is submitted to the Internal Revenue Service early in the tax-filing season. Because the IRS does not know the return involved identity theft, it sends a refund.
