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

Verizon Wins FCC Aution - Google Gets Nothing

Posted on March 20, 2008
Verizon is the big winner in the FCC spectrum auction, along with AT&T. Google does not have a successful bid. Was that the strategy all along? They got rules associated with parts of the spectrum that allows for open access...

Win on Appeal for Craigslist Over Housing Discrimination Case

Posted on March 17, 2008
Craigslist won an appeal at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a suit that charged the company with housing discrimination by allowing posters to submit ads for housing that were illegal under section 804(a) of the Fair Housing Act....

Plaintiff in AT&T Spying Case Profiled

Posted on March 13, 2008
Who is this Hepting fellow, who is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly cooperating with the government illegally in domestic spying. Wired profiles the guy and has a short interview with him. Unlike the government, he...

Steve Ballmer Speaks

Posted on March 13, 2008
For those follow such things, Steve Ballmer's keynote speech at Microsoft's Convergence Conference is online here.

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Another Patent Suit Against (Yawn) Apple and iTunes

Posted on March 13, 2008
It covers transport for songs between us and them (cue Pink Floyd). Macworld covers it.

Digital Content is Greater Than Storage Capacity

Posted on March 13, 2008
That's the conclusion of an IDC study sponsored by EMC. We hit about 281 billion Gigabytes in 2007. IDC thinks that only half of digital created content will be stored by 2011. I wonder if they are including the data...

YouTube's Big Deal

Posted on March 12, 2008
The big YouTube announcement that everyone anticipated for today was not that Google finally figured out how to make money from the site, or that copyright holders stopped suing the site (not as if that's going to happen soon). Instead,...

Cops Don't Like Rate My Cop

Posted on March 12, 2008
The "Rate My..." trend in web sites can get to be a little ridiculous at times, what with sites such as Rate My Mullet, Rate My Fish Tank, and Rate My Kitten (no wait, kittens are cute). There are even...

Microsoft Appeals Vista Class Action Certification

Posted on March 11, 2008
Microsoft is appealing the class action certification in the Vista Capable lawsuit. The company is asking the judge to delay the suit until the 9th Circuit can decide whether class plaintiffs from around the country can sue under Washington State...

EU Clears Google-DoubleClick, Privacy Out In the Cold

Posted on March 11, 2008
The European Union cleared the merger between Google and DoubleClick today without any particular conditions attached. The U.S Department of Justice cleared the deal some months ago. Now all that remains is for Google to take possession and integrate DoubleClick...

IE 8, Firefox 3 Betas Out

Posted on March 10, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is available here. It passes the Acid2 test. So far. And not to be left out, Firefox 4 beta 4 for Vista is also available, here. Is any of this destined to get market share...

EMI Keeps Membership in IFPI

Posted on March 10, 2008
EMI has struck a deal withe the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for reduced membership rates. The organization represents music labels on an international basis. Venture capitalists took over the label some time back and threatened to leave...

New at SSRN

Posted on March 05, 2008
Online Satellite and Aerial Images: Issues and Analysis by BRIAN J. CRAIG University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law North Dakota Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 547, 2007 Link to SSRN. Abstract: Online satellite and aerial imagery...

RIAA Investigation Methods Subpoenaed

Posted on March 05, 2008
There's an interesting story over at Ars Technica about the latest move from a file-sharing defendant that the RIAA is furiously fighting. The defendant in UMG v. Lindor has subpoenaed information about the software and techniques used by MediaSentry, the...

Apple is Most Admired Company According to Fortune Magazine

Posted on March 03, 2008
Fortune has published its list of America's Most Admired Companies. Apple ranks number 1 overall. For tech related companies in the top 20, Google comes in at number 4, and Microsoft rounds out the bottom of the list at number...

MS Cuts Vista Prices for XP Upgrade Versions

Posted on February 29, 2008
I posted a comment on the blog yesterday about Microsoft's record fine by the European Union and suggested they raise Vista prices to pay it off. In one day after that bit of sarcasm over the price of Vista, Microsoft...

MS Emails Concerning Vista Capable Emerge

Posted on February 28, 2008
Microsoft internal emails have come out in the "Vista Capable" litigation, and they aren't pretty. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer posts PDFs of the texts and has a story highlighting the content. Among those highlights are Microsoft employees confused and disappointed about...

eBay Settles With MercExchange Over Patents

Posted on February 28, 2008
In a somewhat anticlimactic move, eBay and MercExchange have settled their litigation over the use of three MercExchange patents involving the "But It Now" feature on eBay. The settlement has eBay buying the patents from MercExchange and MercExchange dismissing all...

Microsoft Fined $1.3B by the EU Over Antitrust Non-Compliance

Posted on February 27, 2008
Microsoft gets fined to the tune of ?899 million for failing to charge a reasonable rate for licensing communication protocol information to third parties. The EU required Microsoft to open up their licensing of these protocols as part of the...

Comcast Appeared Before the FCC on Monday

Posted on February 27, 2008
The Comcast hearing yesterday at the Harvard Law School over Comcast's network management practices proved interesting, if for no other reason Chairman Kevin Martin's aggressive questions to Comcast executives. The Commission has stayed away from overt statements of network neutrality,...

Do Utilities Safeguard Your Information?

Posted on February 23, 2008
Another story on privacy or lack of it in customer relations databases maintained by public utilities. One report suggests that this is one of those areas where utility employees may be dipping into to customer information without a business reason.....

What Happens to Old Personal Data on Facebook?

Posted on February 23, 2008
Privacy at Facebook may not be what it appears. One commentator in the Washington Post is concerned about profile data that is retained by the company even after it is revised or deleted by the user. Just what do they...

MS "Vista Capable" Suit Is a Class Action

Posted on February 23, 2008
The suit against Microsoft's labels of some computers as "Vista Capable" even though they could only run the most basic version of Vista has been certified as a class action suit. More in CNN Money.

Computer Tech Repair Questionable Practices

Posted on February 21, 2008
For those individuals who may require "professional" help in restoring order on a wayward computer, consider the lesson of the Geek Squad staff who harvest porn from customer hard drives. There's a sad story about this on the SFGate web...

Encryption Not What It's Cracked Up To Be

Posted on February 21, 2008
Disk encryption is one of those darlings that businesses, the prudent, and the paranoid turn to as a matter of preserving confidentiality in digital content. Law enforcement tend to disfavor encryption as it is an impediment in their work of...

Another Legal Research Site

Posted on February 20, 2008
Meet the Public Library of Law. Newsweek has a nice story on them along with Fastcase, which is not free.

Wikileaks Lives

Posted on February 20, 2008
Use the IP address rather than the name. Go to 88.80.13.160 and you'll find stories about the shut down and the correspondence between the site and the Swiss bank, among other items of interest. A nice analysis of where everything...

Microsoft to Go Hostile on Yahoo! Bid

Posted on February 19, 2008
The latest chapter in our soap opera involving Microsoft and Yahoo! finds Microsoft peeved at being spurned and will likely go the route of a proxy fight to get a board of directors sympathetic to its offer. Maybe it will...

Wikileaks Access Barred by Federal Court

Posted on February 19, 2008
Wikileaks.org is offline thanks to an order by a federal judge in the United States that commands Dynadot, the registrar for Wikileaks, to lock the domain name and disable it's use in the DNS system. Dynadot complied. The struggle is...

HD-DVD on Death's Door

Posted on February 18, 2008
The last official act to end the high definition DVD format war is expected when Toshiba announces that they are pulling the plug on HD-DVD. The writing's been on the wall with Warner Brothers moving to Blu-Ray exclusively, and the...

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