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Written by professors of Business, Law & Technology and Legal Methods.
By Jonathan Ezor anad Michelle Zakarin

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Last Entry: August 16, 2009 at 15:36:18

Facebook Connect Going Live

Posted on December 03, 2008
The New York Times focuses on the new Facebook Connect program. Now that the web is social and it's not Microsoft managing all the connected site logins, I guess it's ok now. [MG]

Apple Changes its Mind, Macs Are Safe

Posted on December 03, 2008
Apple fudges its antivirus recommendation and removes the article from its knowledge base. The company says Macs are safe out of the box. Apostasy renounced. Details in CNET. [MG]

Apple Promotes Antvirus Software, Send Users into Tizzy

Posted on December 02, 2008
Whenever Apple suggests a practice that is contra to the Mac user orthodoxy, the press pounces on it. In this case it's the suggestion that Mac users add antivirus software to their systems. The reaction was swift from the user...

Beatle Recordings in Digital Download Limbo for Now

Posted on November 25, 2008
The Beatles and their various estates and representatives have not come to any agreement with EMI to release the band's catalog as a digital download. Paul McCartney would like to see this happen, "because I think it should," as he's...

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SCO Owes Novell $2.5 Million Plus in Final Judgment Order From Linux Copyright Case

Posted on November 25, 2008
The last chapter in the SCO suit against Novell, IBM, and the Linux operating system (figuratively, not a defendant), has been written. Judge Dale Kimball reiterated the terms of his July, 2008 order that effectively ended the case. SCO's copyright...

Microsoft Emails Show Disorganized Vista Effort

Posted on November 24, 2008
The recent release of corporate emails in the class action suit against Microsoft over its "Vista Capable program is drawing reactions ranging from move along, nothing to see here, to this is a corporate train wreck. At issue is the...

MacArthur Study Says Teen Tech A Good Thing

Posted on November 20, 2008
It seems that the embrace of technology by youth to communicate and learn is something positive and not the decline of the world as we know it. The MacArthur Foundation commissioned a two year study called Living and Learning With...

Founder Jerry Yang Giving Up CEO Position at Yahoo!

Posted on November 18, 2008
So Jerry Yang is leaving his CEO role at Yahoo, staying as a board member and "Chief Yahoo." Speculation leads to another Microsoft deal? Steve Ballmer was pretty clear that Yang was an impediment in doing a deal. The price...

Classmate.com Marketing Spawns Class Action Suit

Posted on November 17, 2008
Consider Classmates.com and their latest marketing effort. Last year they told at least one free user (and probably more) that he had email messages from former classmates who were trying to get hold of him. However, they only way to...

Net Neutrality Back in the Spotlight

Posted on November 14, 2008
The latest question related to tech due to the Obama election is concerning net neutrality legislation. The telco and cable providers are wary because the Republican legislative ability to shield them is diminished. Obama and his team understand the Internet...

Google Adds Video to Chat

Posted on November 11, 2008
It's not necessarily revolutionary. Microsoft, Yahoo, and just about everyone else has some form of video for their IM clients. But for GoogleTalk users, it's welcome and it works. Details are in the Google Blog announcing the feature, which becomes....

AVG Thinks Windows is a Virus

Posted on November 11, 2008
Oops. AVG anti-virus software is telling users that user32.dll on Windows XP systems are infected and should be deleted. Problem is, the result is a false positive and deleting the file cripples an XP system. The problem is fixed with...

Longhorn Loses Roster Spot Over Facebook Obama Comment

Posted on November 11, 2008
Here's another sad tale of Facebook coming back to bite someone in the backside. A sophomore offensive lineman at the University of Texas-Austin posted a derogatory message to his Facebook page concerning the election of Barack Obama, using racist terms...

Everyone Agrees Obama Knows How To Leverage Tech

Posted on November 10, 2008
Follow the Obama transition team via change.gov, the official site of the President-elect. Many commentators note that Obama's successful campaign and election was due in part to a proactive use of the Internet to reach out to the electorate. Aside...

Supreme Court Hears FCC Fleeting Expletive Case

Posted on November 04, 2008
The Supreme Court held oral arguments this morning in the case of FCC. Fox Television Stations, Inc. The case came via the Second Circuit, which threw out the FCC's fleeting expletive ban. The FCC changed its policy of some tolerance...

Ooops Sony Does It Again

Posted on November 03, 2008
And what would a year be without a battery recall by Sony, this time around 100,000 units. Details from the Wall Street Journal. Here's a little history from ChannelWeb. [MG]

Obama, McCain Tech Policies

Posted on November 03, 2008
Tech policies of the two presidential candidates are compared. See Rob Pegoraro's post in his blog at the Washington Post. [MG]

FiveThirtyEight.com

Posted on November 03, 2008
One of my favorite sites for following election polls is fivethirtyeight.com. CNET has an interview with site founder Nate Silver. For the record, Silver's site is predicting 340.2 electoral votes for Barack Obama to 197.8 votes to John McCain. Their...

Windows 7 Appears In Public

Posted on October 30, 2008
Microsoft is showing off Windows 7, in its pre-beta form, at the company's Professional Developer Conference. Everyone who attends the conference will walk away with a copy of the OS. Initial reports indicate that Microsoft learned its lesson from the...

Google Settles Author Suit

Posted on October 28, 2008
Google has made nice with book publishers upset over Google's book scanning project. They had sued over copyright concerns given that Google hadn't asked for permission to scan complete titles and place snippets of in-copyright titles in the search engine...

CSM to go Native on the Internet

Posted on October 28, 2008
People say that the Internet is killing newspapers. Poor Sam Zell, buying the Tribune Co. and discovering that cutting staff and a redesign of the flagship paper doesn't bring in the readers for the physical copy. The Tribune is not...

Army Fears Twitter As A Terrorist Tool

Posted on October 27, 2008
The army (ours) thinks that Twitter could be used by terrorists to coordinate attacks. The reason? Protesters at the Republican National Convention used Twitter to coordinate the protest. From the report (page 8): Twitter has also become a social activism...

Colbert on How Computers Helped Create The Current Economic Crisis

Posted on October 24, 2008
From the October 13th show, the one day the market went up significantly. [MG]

Vista SP2 and Windows 7 News

Posted on October 24, 2008
Hot on the heels of Service Pack 1, at least in computer terms, Vista Service Pack 2 is getting ready for beta testing. In the meantime, PC World takes a look in survey form what will be that creature known...

Turkey Finds A Way To Beat Encryption

Posted on October 24, 2008
It is sometimes frustrating to law enforcement agents in getting electronic evidence from a suspected wrong-doer when that evidence is encrypted. There are methods of breaking the encryption, but these may outlast the lives of those involved depending on the...

Virtual World Actions, Real World Consequences

Posted on October 23, 2008
One of the more fascinating issues that bubble to the surface from time to time are real world legal consequences for things that happen in the virtual world. A running story line that appears from time to time is about...

PACER Adds Audio to Docket

Posted on October 21, 2008
Pacer has added audio from selected District and Bankruptcy courts to the docket listings in the service. These recordings will be available for download for a fee of 8 cents aside from any fees associated with the docket reports. Some...

DARPA Builds Video Database To Be Analyzed By Computers

Posted on October 21, 2008
The federal government, DARPA specifically, is going to build a database of surveillance footage where computers can do the initial analysis and tagging. Biometrics will not be part of the organizing features of the collection. Rather, tagging videos will cover...

Google Makes Us Stupid While Keeping Us Smart

Posted on October 16, 2008
Scientists generally understand that as people age, their brains shrink to a degree. Many recommend doing ?brain exercises? which stimulate brain activity, keeping it sharp. A recent study concludes that Internet searching stimulates the brain in a better way than...

Windows 7 Will Be Called Windows 7

Posted on October 15, 2008
Microsoft has said that the replacement for Vista will simply be called Windows 7, the same name being used in the development phase. What, nothing trendy? I was expecting hoping for something like Windows Omnivore, coming in flavors such as...

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