NRVToday.com – Tech and University of Richmond unite on law degree: Virginia Tech and the University of Richmond joined forces today and announced a new joint degree program that will enable students to earn both a bachelor of science and…

: n about two months from now, one of the largest selling drugs in the world Zocor (Simvastatin) will go off-patent, allowing companies to sell generic copies of the $4-billion Merck-owned cholesterol-lowering drug. This is just one of the $20 billion…

Macworld UK – Apple patents hint at future ‘iUber’ iPod: Apple patents hint at future ‘iUber’ iPodBy Jonny Evans A pair of Apple patent applications show the company is constantly working to keep the iPod ahead of the evolving digital…

TiVo shares rise after jury rules in its favor: found 2006-04-19 02:10:21

Patent Baristas: FDA Outlines Critical Path Opportunities List: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an initial list of priority research projects that could advance innovation in medical products. The announcement of the Critical Path Opportunities List signals the next…

The Politics of Email Authentication, 2006 Edition: A student at a well-known US university wrote me and asked whether, given the huge national interest in getting the industry to unite behind (at least) one format, did I think that the…

What’s in a Name?: Internet domain names are truly bizarre. There is nothing especially remarkable about them from a technical perspective, but from a social and political perspective they are all sorts of fun. We can have arguments over control…

Lawsuits Filed Against ICANN-VeriSign Settlement: The new organization called Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) has filed a lawsuit against ICANN and VeriSign in order to stop implementation of the proposed .com registry agreement. According to its description, “CFIT is a…

Watch what you Google for…. (Tom Mighell): If you’re planning on committing murder, make sure you research your crime anonymously. In a murder trial going on in Raleigh-Durham, an inspection of the defendant’s computer revealed that he had searched the…

CNN.com – FBI agents bust ‘Botmaster’ – Nov 4, 2005: LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of hijacked computers, or “bot nets,” to damage systems and send massive amounts of spam across the Internet was…