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Written by professors of Business, Law & Technology and Legal Methods.
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Last Entry: August 16, 2009 at 15:36:18

Trade Association Lobbies Against Google

Posted on June 11, 2008
Why do corn growers care if Google hooks up with Yahoo! for an ad deal? Apparently "they" do. The puzzling details are at CNET.

Carbon Belch Day Coming Tomorrow

Posted on June 11, 2008
June 12 is the very politically uncorrect Carbon Belch Day. No, really. I plan to celebrate by using a lead pencil. Read about it in the Huffington Post and follow the links.

A New iPhone Is Revealed

Posted on June 10, 2008
An Apple 3G phone at $199? It must suck to be an early adopter, unless waving the thing in other people's faces was worth the money. How will it be special if more people can afford one? The unit's features...

Yahoo! and Icahn: Letters, We've Got Letters

Posted on June 10, 2008
Yahoo! and Carl Icahn keep sending nasty letters to each other. Icahn accuses the Yahoo!'s Board of mismanagement, especially in regard to the employee compensation plan that Icahn (and other commentators) characterize as a poison pill. No sense in recounting...

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Mighty Mouse Suit Targets Apple Product

Posted on June 10, 2008
Here he comes to clog the courts. It's Mighty Mouse and he/it is part of a lawsuit involving Apple, CBS, and the company that brought the suit, Man & Machine. It seems as if CBS licensed the cartoon character name...

Sony Settles Blu-Ray Infringement Suit

Posted on June 09, 2008
Blu-Ray is safe again as Sony settles the lawsuit brought by Columbia Professor Gurtrude Rothschild. The suit involved underlying technology that makes blue lasers blue and able to read high density discs. Terms weren't disclosed, but Professor Rotschild is said...

Lessons in e-Discovery

Posted on June 09, 2008
Remember the scandal over text messages sent by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick? Those were messages sent to a paramour, another city employee, via city-owned hand held. Aside from being personally dangerous to a career, the lessons were repeated recently at...

AT&T Says BitTorrent Users Are Fine With Us

Posted on June 09, 2008
John Donovan, AT&T's chief technology officer, says the company does not block or slow down BitTorrent users or discriminate against any other applications. But he says that the company will be testing usage-based pricing this fall. Money quote: "I don't...

Ars Interviews FCC Commissioner

Posted on June 06, 2008
There's an interesting interview with FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adlestein on the Ars Technica web site. Public comments do affect the Commission's decisions. Who knew?

PDF Format to Host Flash Files in Acrobat Version 9

Posted on June 05, 2008
Adobe has announced that the upcoming release of Acrobat 9 will include the capability to embed Flash animation and videos. An article in PC World wonders whether this "weakens" the PDF format. Most of the article comments agree that this...

Icahn is Miffed at Yahoo!

Posted on June 04, 2008
Carl Icahn is angry at Yahoo! and Jerry Yang in particular. He says that the employee escape plan implemented by the Yahoo! board without telling the shareholders is what really scuttled the proposed merger with Microsoft. The plan essentially gives....

Time Warner Goes Ahead With Bandwidth Cap Test

Posted on June 03, 2008
Time Warner Cable is going ahead with its test of metered Internet services, using Beaumont, Texas as the test market. As noted in several stories on this, Time Warner doesn't have much competition in Beaumont. The company can put the...

Fanatasy Baseball Lives Despite MLB's best Efforts

Posted on June 02, 2008
Fantasy baseball, as spawned by the Internet, is safe thanks to the Supreme Court deciding not to get involved. Major League Baseball wanted to restrict the use of players names and statistics, but the pesky First Amendment got in the...

MS Signs Search Deal with HP

Posted on June 02, 2008
Microsoft strategy for search becomes a bit clearer as the company signs a deal with HP to make Microsoft Live Search the default on HP computers sold in the U.S. and Canada starting in January. It's not available in Europe,...

A Note on Privacy in Electronics and the Border

Posted on June 02, 2008
Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP has a nice discussion of the law of searching electronic devices at the border, including a survey of applicable U.S. precedents. Find it here.

Windows 7 News

Posted on May 29, 2008
Windows 7 is all over the news lately because of statements by Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and other Microsoft representatives. The biggest news is that it will have native touch screen capabilities and compatible with existing touch screens. Microsoft really...

Microsoft Dumps Book Scanning Project

Posted on May 27, 2008
Microsoft last Friday announced that it is closing the book scanning project it started in 2005. That leaves Google and Amazon with scanning projects. Microsoft has decided to crawl content rather than to host it. The company also closed its...

Durbin Decries Cooperation With Chinese Internet Censorship

Posted on May 21, 2008
Senator Richard Durbin (D-ILL) held a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 20th titled "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility and the Rule of Law." The witnesses included general counsel representatives from Google, Yahoo!, and Cisco, as well as various representatives...

Microsoft Search: It's Payback Time

Posted on May 21, 2008
Microsoft's latest foray into search and advertising comes in the form of rebates if a user shops through Windows Live Search. Certain products listed in search results will have symbols that indicate rebates from 2% to 30% if purchased through...

More Redacted Data Blues

Posted on May 20, 2008
There's another sensitive report issued by the Justice Department Office of Inspector General that had redacted data that actually wasn't too hard to unredact. The report concerning payments to telecoms to upgrade their switches to comply with CALEA had dollar...

Yahoo! No Longer Top Web Destination

Posted on May 15, 2008
Yahoo! certainly has its work cut out for it. Having dodged the Microsoft bullet it now finds itself on the other end of a proxy fight brought on by Carl Icahn to oust the current Yahoo! board and work a...

Charter Communications to Track its Subscriber Web Habits

Posted on May 14, 2008
Charter Communications is planning on mining customer web surfing habits as a way to raise revenues. The company will collect data against a range of product types and give that information to a company called NebuAd who will then send...

Facebook Sued To Reveal Identity of Fake Poster

Posted on May 12, 2008
A Dean of Students of a Roman Catholic school in Indianapolis is suing Facebook over a prank page depicting which depicts that individual as acting inappropriately for a person in that position. The issue for Tim Puntarelli is not to...

Microsoft to Make Zune More Useful by Adding...DRM

Posted on May 08, 2008
The New York Times is reporting that NBC Universal is adding television shows to the Zune Marketplace. NBC is in a snit with Apple, having pulled its content from the iTunes store over pricing. NBC wants to charge more for...

Speaking of safe harbor issues,

Posted on May 07, 2008
Speaking of safe harbor issues, here's a report of a lawsuit filed against the Sign of the Times web site by Eric Pepin and his company, the Higher Balance Institute. It seems that forum members criticized the HBI program. The...

Emails Ordered Destroyed by Missouri Governor May Survive

Posted on May 07, 2008
Ugly things are going on in Missouri over the preservation of email back-up tapes from the Missouri governor's office. The AP filed an open-records request for emails, and apparently the governor ordered the tapes destroyed. Lower level tech managers did...

TorrentSpy Order to Pay Big Bucks for Piracy

Posted on May 07, 2008
TorrentSpy's damages to the MPAA come in at a whopping $110 million. Trying to destroy evidence didn't help their case. More details here. Now on to the isoHunt case.

Another Jolt to the Music Labels

Posted on May 05, 2008
Verizon is doing something quite interesting in the mobile music market. It's sending a portable studio around the country to give musicians the opportunity to record tracks which it will distribute through it's V-Cast Music service. The company says it...

Microsoft Walks Away From Yahoo!

Posted on May 04, 2008
So, it's come to this. Microsoft negotiated with Yahoo!. It offered to raise the bid from $31 to $33 a share. That's $47.5 billion. Steve Ballmer earlier made the statement that he knew how much Yahoo! was worth to Microsoft...

MS Quietly Talks More to Yahoo!, Maybe

Posted on May 02, 2008
It's Friday and still nothing really on the Microsoft - Yahoo! front. One story in CNET notes that there are reports that the two sides are actively talking about what it takes to do an amicable deal. That's nice. Beyond...

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