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

MS Still Trying to Figure Out What to do With Yahoo!

Posted on May 01, 2008
I wasn't sure if I should have waited on that headline until after Microsoft buys Yahoo!. In spite of all the press accounts about the proposed Microsoft purchase, very little is new. Last Saturday was the deadline Microsoft gave Yahoo!...

Microsoft Has a New Forensic Device for Windows Computers

Posted on April 30, 2008
Microsoft is working with law enforcement by creating a USB jump drive that can extract forensic evidence from a computer at the scene of a crime. It's called COFEE, or Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. The item was distributed to...

XP and Vista Service Packs Pulled from Update

Posted on April 29, 2008
XP Service Pack 3 and Vista Service Pack 1 have been pulled from automatic updates because of a glitch with the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System. Customers of this software should not upgrade to either Service Pack for the time...

FBI Wants Power to Monitor Most Internet Traffic

Posted on April 28, 2008
FBI Director Robert Mueller is proposing legislation that would give the FBI the ability to monitor the content of Internet traffic. The Internet is a fertile place to facilitate crime, and monitoring it would prevent that. Crime takes many forms....

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So Many Books -- How Does Google Do It?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Ever wonder how Google digitizes all of those books available in Book Search? CNN spills some details about the process as it takes place at Michigan. As Google's methods are proprietary, the technical information is not disclosed. Still, it's fascinating...

Ninth Circuit OKs Laptop Searches at the Border

Posted on April 23, 2008
The Ninth Circuit ruled on Monday that border control officers can search laptops of passengers upon their arrival in the United States from foreign destinations. The case is United States v. Arnold. Arnold came into the United States at Los...

Meta-Tags of Trademarks can Violate Lanham Act When Used By Competitors

Posted on April 22, 2008
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a company who uses meta-tags of their competitor's trademarks in their web site violates the Lanham Act. The case is North American Medical Corp. v. Axiom Worldwide, Inc., ___F.3d___, 2008 WL...

XP SP3 Finally

Posted on April 21, 2008
XP Service Pack 3 is out on April 29th.

AT&T Says Internet Full By 2010

Posted on April 21, 2008
AT&T is estimating that the Internet will reach full capacity by 2010. They base this conclusion on the expected demand for high definition video and more user-generated content passing around. AT&T additionally offers high definition television services in selected markets,...

Inmate Sues Over Video Games

Posted on April 21, 2008
An inmate at a U.S. correctional institution has filed a hand written complaint against Rock Star and Take-Two. He says they put him in prison and show sex and violence in their games, which offends him. He wants a restraining...

Blockbuster Sued Over Video Disclosure to Facebook's Beacon

Posted on April 18, 2008
Blockbuster is being sued over providing Facebook with rental information for Facebook users as part of the Beacon marketing program. This allegedly violates the Video Tape Rental and Sale Records Act. Facebook and its partners track sales and other online...

OUP, Others, Sue Georgia State University Over eReserve Course Packs

Posted on April 17, 2008
Three publishers, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Sage Publications filed suit against Georgia State University over use of electronic materials in course reserve and online course sites such as Blackboard. The suit was filed on April 15...

AT&T Creating a New Browser

Posted on April 15, 2008
Ars Technica has a story on the first iteration of a browser from AT&T called Pogo. It's based on Mozilla rather than IE, and it requires a relatively beefed up graphics card to function. The browser is in private test...

Australia Wants to Give Employers Power to Snoop on Worker Email

Posted on April 14, 2008
Australia wants to give employers the right to scan employee emails without employee consent. Apparently employers in Oz don't have that right now, unlike here in the United States. The reason: to prevent terrorism. Who knows what the individual Bruce...

Mac Clone Maker Tempts Fate

Posted on April 14, 2008
Fortune asks the question, "What's wrong with a $399 Mac?" The answer is that it didn't come from Apple. Yet another company risks the wrath of Apple with a Mac clone. Psystar is offering a Mac mini with twice the...

Yahoo! and Microsoft -- The Beat Goes On

Posted on April 10, 2008
There seems to be some life in Yahoo! after all, although the jury's out as to what end. Microsoft gave the company a three week deadline to accept its buyout offer otherwise face a proxy fight and a lower offer....

Yawn, Adobe Releases AMP to the Public

Posted on April 09, 2008
Adobe released its Adobe Media Player (AMP) to the public today. It plays local and streaming flash, H.264 videos, and not much more. No DVDs, no other standard formats, and no audio. The interface is nice, with a clean black...

Yahoo! and Microsoft Continue their "Talks"

Posted on April 07, 2008
Yahoo! and Microsoft are getting closer but the sniping continues. Yahoo! seems reconciled to the idea of becoming a Microsoft property as long as the price is right. So far, the Yahoo! board seems to think it's not. Microsoft offered...

Ninth Circuit Says No to CDA Safe Harbour to Roommates.con in Housing Case

Posted on April 04, 2008
Roommates.com has lost an appeal in the Ninth Circuit over whether questions asked in creating a profile of its users violates the Fair Housing Act. The case was brought by the Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley and the...

Congress Meets Second Life

Posted on April 02, 2008
As if it had a first life. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has a Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The members held a virtual hearing yesterday online in Second Life. The hearing's subject is Online Virtual Worlds:...

April 1st Pranks on the Web, and Some That are Not

Posted on April 01, 2008
April 1st is marked across the web with little practical jokes. Google gets into it in a big way and gets a lot of publicity out of their good humor. This year's edition has the links to the Gmail custom...

Earliest Recorded Sound Available as Free MP3

Posted on March 30, 2008
The news of recovery of what is now the first recorded sounds in history, dating from April 9, 1860, is short of remarkable given the methodology of recording sound waves etched on smoky paper. In a historical perspective, U.S. President...

Vista Capable Suit Updates

Posted on March 30, 2008
A good source for news on the Vista Capable lawsuit and other news Microsoft is Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. There are interesting and provocative notes on the suit, and links to documents when available. There are....

Comcast and BitTorrent Work Out a Deal on Net Management

Posted on March 27, 2008
Comcast and BitTorrent have decided to work things out for themselves. Their corporate personas have probably decided that a pending decision from the FCC on Comcast's network management practices would not be in anyone's interest. The FCC had said a...

TorrentSpy Gone, Next Up, IsoHunt

Posted on March 27, 2008
In other Torrent news, TorrentSpy shut down, beaten down by litigation by the MPAA. The issue of whether search engines can be held responsible for copyright infringement will come in the MPAA's litigation against IsoHunt, another Torrent search engine...

Attorney's Fee Award in RIAA Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on March 25, 2008
One man's tangle with the RIAA is on appeal to the United States Supreme Court over whether he is entitled to attorney fees. Cliff Thompson was sued by the RIAA for file sharing, but later dismissed the suit when they...

Sirius-XM Merger Clears Justice Department

Posted on March 24, 2008
From the Press Release: ?The Division?s investigation indicated that the parties are not likely to compete with respect to many segments of the satellite radio business even in the absence of the merger. Because customers must acquire equipment that is...

FBI Fake Links Snare Would-Be Child Porn Downloaders

Posted on March 24, 2008
Declan McCullagh posts a sad story of Roderick Vosburgh, who is about to be sentenced for attempting to download child pornography. Vosburgh clicked on a link that purported to lead to child pornography. The link which did not contain any...

Patent Problems May Limit Imports of Cell Phones, Blu-Ray Players

Posted on March 24, 2008
The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating whether certain imports violate patents by Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, Professor Emerita of Material Science and Engineering and Professor Emerita of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University...

Vista SP1 Has An Ooops Moment

Posted on March 20, 2008
Vista Service Pack 1 won't work with certain drivers for commonly available components such as the Intel 945G chip set, or the Realtek High Definition audio driver. The complete list is here. Microsoft recommends updating drivers before installing SP1...

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