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

Novell Gets $2.5 Million From SCO

Posted on July 25, 2008
SCO owes Novell $2.5 million in licensing fees for Unix, which is less than the $20 million or so that Novell sought. Federal Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO was entitled to make some licensing deals, but one to Sun...

Another Mac Cloner With a Twist

Posted on July 25, 2008
Another company will potentially fall on Apple's bad list by creating a Mac clone. The last company, Psystar, got hit with a lawsuit that demanded that all machines sold by the company be recalled. The latest attempt to clone the...

New York governor signs law designed to restrict video games

Posted on July 23, 2008
Building on the 2007 initiative of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, current Governor David Paterson signed into law New York Senate bill s.6401-A. The bill's stated purpose is to "take steps to crack down on video game violence and...

At the COPA, No Constitutional Hope-A

Posted on July 23, 2008
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the District Court's determination that the Child Online Protection Act, COPA, is impermissibly overbroad in attempting to limit a child's access to commercial pornography. This is the third time the Appellate Court...

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Viacom and Google Settle Discovery Request

Posted on July 22, 2008
In an update to Viacom's YouTube discovery request, and subsequent whirlwind of publicity regarding the private information of YouTube viewer's usernames and IP addressses, Viacom and other parties to the copyright infringement lawsuit, have formally agreed to allow Google to...

TiVo and Amazon Team Up to Pump Impulse Shopping

Posted on July 22, 2008
TiVo in partnership with Amazon has announced a "feature" where customers can use their remote controls to purchase items featured on selected television shows. Unlike past interactive television efforts, a viewer can buy something on the fly without missing any...

Third Circuit Sends Janet Jackson Nipple Case Back to the FCC

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the FCC's $550,000 fine against CBS for displaying Janet Jackson's nipple for nine-sixteenths of a second during the Superbowl broadcast of February 1, 2004. The commercials didn't cost that much. From...

Yahoo! and Icahn Settle Proxy Fight, Questions Linger

Posted on July 21, 2008
Carl Icahn has settled his proxy fight with the Yahoo! board. The settlement calls for the board to expand from nine to eleven members, and Icahn to get three seats. Eight of the existing nine members will run for re-election...

Google Ad Revenue Share Up, and Spam is Most of Your Email

Posted on July 17, 2008
Statistics, we've got statistics. Google's share of online ad market revenue is 77%. Google really knows how to monetize search, but we all knew that. Yahoo! comes in at 17.8% and Microsoft at 4.8%. Microsoft is trying to buy the...

Google Search Share Up, Microsoft and Yahoo! Squabble

Posted on July 15, 2008
Google's share of search is just about 70% according to the latest figures from Hitwise. Yahoo! and Microsoft dropped fractions of a percent to 19.62 and 5.46 respectively. That cash bribe rebate program announced a while back for Live Search...

Tiffany Loses Infringement Suit Against eBay

Posted on July 14, 2008
eBay has successfully defended a suit brought by Tiffany for trademark infringement and sale of counterfeit Tiffany goods on the auction site. The Court describes the issues and its conclusions in a series of paragraphs prior to the analysis. From...

No "iPod" Tax for Japan

Posted on July 10, 2008
Legislation in Japan that would attach a tax on portable media players to benefit artists is dead. Seems they have a pretty good electronics manufacturer lobby over there. Will this development make Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi sad? CNNMoney has...

Bush Signs FISA Bill, ACLU Files Suit

Posted on July 10, 2008
The Senate passed the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 yesterday. It's controversial in that it includes the telecom immunity provision that the President said was crucial to the law. He signed it today. For the record, Obama voted for...

Google Government

Posted on July 09, 2008
A little note on the CNET site goes into some detail of predicting what Google services may be in the offing. The analysis come from looking at the traffic generated from Google searches and broken into 20 industrial categories. The...

Viacom Discovery Request Troubling

Posted on July 08, 2008
The announcement that Viacom got a court to bless its discovery request for YouTube user data was a little troubling for some. Viacom gets a database of what videos were watched, the IP addresses that access them, and the user...

Microsoft Buyout of Yahoo! Heating Up

Posted on July 07, 2008
This Yahoo! proxy fight is going to be a real mess now that Carl Icahn and Microsoft have both issued letters suggesting that Microsoft is ready to do a deal if a new board is elected. No one knows whether...

Is Google Our Mirror? No Answer Yet

Posted on July 03, 2008
The obscenity case that attempted to use Google searches as a measure of community values has been settled out of court. More in the Washington Post.

New Tool Allows Flash Files to be Indexed in Search Engines

Posted on July 01, 2008
Flash files will be indexed a bit better in Google, Yahoo! and other search engines thanks to Adobe. The company is creating a search engine optimized version of the Flash player. The functionality allows it to read and index text...

Google Taps Family Guy Creator McFarlane for Content, Ads

Posted on June 30, 2008
Is there any serious doubt that the Internet is commercial in the sense that just about everything service or site seems to be a vehicle for ads? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Why, even these words are...

New rumblings About ACTA

Posted on June 30, 2008
There are reports popping up every now an then about the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement(ACTA) that's being negotiated in secret. The latest sheds some light on the RIAA's (and presumably other content trade groups) desired provisions. The highlights, if you...

Charter Calls Off Deep Packet Advertising Scheme, For Now

Posted on June 26, 2008
Charter Communications has suspended the controversial program where partner NebuAd would deep-scan packets to send targeted advertising to Charter customers. While some reports consider the program dead, that may not be the case. There were some rumblings that Charter would...

New Top Level Domains on the Way

Posted on June 26, 2008
ICANN voted to create any number of top-level domains as the imagination could conceive. It will only cost between $100,000 and $500,000 and the expense of being responsible for everything running on that domain. Does this mean there will be...

Defining Obscenity By Search Terms Within a Community

Posted on June 24, 2008
Obscenity is always one of those conundrums for the courts, what with contemporary community standards as the measuring stick. But how is the measuring stick measured? Usually it's by testimony and the biases of the jurors trying the case. As...

ICANN Holds Conference on Globalizing Domain System

Posted on June 24, 2008
Globalizing the domain name system isn't going to be easy. It's not just a matter of non-roman alphabets. There are dialects within a language and the politics associated with those dialects. The issues are being discussed at an ICANN conference...

XP: Soon To Be Gone, But Hardly Forgotten

Posted on June 23, 2008
Microsoft cuts off XP to the world on June 30, and Dell is willing to sell you a machine with XP through June 26th. After that, you can buy Vista with an XP downgrade. The difference is that you will...

Statistics, We Have Statistics: Apple and Firefox

Posted on June 19, 2008
Apple announced today that song sales on the iTunes store topped 5 billion tracks. Reports are that the labels get around 70% of that. Of course, they want more as the price of gas has gone up for all those...

Harvard Journal of Law & Techonology (JOLT)

Posted on June 18, 2008
The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology is proud to announce that its new online companion, the JOLT Digest, is up and running after a short administrative hiatus. The Digest will continue to post law and technology news over the...

Introduction to Information Retrieval

Posted on June 18, 2008
The pre-publication text and companion PowerPoint slides to Introduction to Information Retrieval (Cambridge, 2008) by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Sch�tze is available here. From the web page: The book aims to provide a modern approach to information...

Another View of the Judge Kozinski Story

Posted on June 18, 2008
Computerworld has a good summary of of the developments in the story about Judge Kozinski and the case of the porn on his home server that was misconfigured to allow access from the web. You can read it here.

UMG Loses Promo CD Sale Suit

Posted on June 12, 2008
A federal judge handed a loss to Universal Music Group yesterday over the issue of whether promotional items given out may be resold. Universal said they were licensed and the First Sale Doctrine does not apply. The judge said they...

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