Congress

If the courts keep ruling that Aereo doesn’t violate copyright laws, it could affect other services that stream content, and might prompt Congress to step in

Recent rulings in the ReDigi and Aereo cases highlight what we already know: it’s high time for Congress to overhaul the copyright laws

In contrast to current trends, the developers (and patent holders) of a closed captioning system for movie theaters are now offering it for no licensing fee

The only review of the week’s top tech stories you’ll read that will include Google, the Pope and Larry King all together

In the U.S. the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program is accused of waste while in the U.K. the grassroots B4RN community broadband network is a success. Is either approach the ultimate solution to bringing high-speed Internet access to rural areas?

Making fun of some of the top - or goofiest - tech stories of the past seven days, this week featuring the latest in Cuban underwater cable-laying technology, what Twitter and Beyonce had in common during the presidential inauguration and John Boehner’s new look

Computer Science Education Week and the Computer Science Education Act aim to make computer science a core subject in American schools

Two proposed bills aim to make royalty payments more fair for internet radio - but only one has musicians' best interests in mind

When it comes to bills like SOPA and CISPA, money talks. A new site called SopaTrack shines the light on whose votes are for sale, and for how much.

iPhone's "unwanted online tracking" prompts demand from Energy and Commerce Committee.

Unlike most successful factions in American politics, on the heels of success in opposing the Internet-censoring SOPA and PIPA bills, members of Reddit are developing a solution they can propose to address the content piracy problem without SOPA's no-rights-for-pirates approach to enforcement.

The CEOs of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's parent company were back in Washington to defend their proposed merger and fine-tune their stand-up acts.