A study released today by Fordham University, "Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Schools," underscores the importance of online educational resources. Remarkable achievements are being made with the assistance of cloud services and applications are helping to modernize classrooms with interactive learning environments. Innovation is occurring right now that can profoundly improve [...]
ACT, the largest association of startups and mobile app companies, praised today’s congressional action to protect small business innovation from predatory patent litigation. Today’s House Judiciary Committee passage of the Innovation Act addresses the growing threat of patent trolls. These entities threaten small technology companies with patent litigation without identifying [...]
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that addresses many of the concerns of industry. In response to the new rules, Association for Competitive Technology Executive Director Morgan Reed made the following statement: Final Rule Makes Important Changes for Large Companies [...]
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a new report entitled “Mobile Apps for Kids” that highlighted a persistent privacy transparency gap on mobile apps for children. During their press conference, the FTC highlighted the Association for Competitive Technology's education and transparency efforts as "promising." In response to the report, [...]
The Washington Post reported today about RIM’s announced January 30 launch date for BlackBerry 10. The new operating system will be accompanied by two new devices signaling that the Canadian manufacturer plans an aggressive push to reclaim lost marketshare. Further groundwork has been laid for a big splash with the BB10 launch [...]