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

New Postal Code Allows Tracking for Ordinary Mail

Posted on February 18, 2008
Learn about the Post Office's new 31 digit code to allow users to track ordinary pieces of mail from mail drop to delivery. You say you mailed that check when? That's not what the tracking says. Details in the Washington...

It (SCO) Lives!

Posted on February 14, 2008
SCO, the company that refuses to die, is getting a cash transfusion from venture capitalists and unnamed Arab funding. This is somewhere around $100 million. This will either pay the legal bills and the money SCO owes Novell in royalties,...

New Game All About the Shooting

Posted on February 14, 2008
There's an interesting story about the game The Club on CNET. Apparently points are racked up for shooting everyone and everything, and as fast a possible. That, apparently, is the only point of the game. Where is Jack Thompson when...

Yahoo! and News Corp. Getting Squishy?

Posted on February 14, 2008
The Yahoo!/Microsoft soap opera continues. In our last episode, Yahoo! had turned down Microsoft's offer of $44.6 billion offer to buy the company. Yahoo!'s stock rose and Microsoft's fell, affecting the real value of the deal. Google swooped in to...

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Microsoft Won't Give Up Pursuit of Yahoo!

Posted on February 12, 2008
And why should it? Investors will likely sell Yahoo! out to Microsoft if the price were better. Consider this article for that point of view. Speculation on Microsoft's next step is here. Oh, and 1,100 or so Yahoo! employees were...

Senate Supports Telecom Immunity in Spy Suits

Posted on February 12, 2008
The Senate voted to deny an amendment to the revision of the intelligence laws that would prevent the telecoms from receiving retroactive immunity for cooperating with the government for spying. Obama votes for the amendment. Clinton and McCain vote against...

Patch Tuesday

Posted on February 12, 2008
It's patch Tuesday from Microsoft. There are 11 patches covering 17 vulnerabilities. More details are here.

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Offer

Posted on February 11, 2008
Yahoo! has formally rejected Microsoft's unsolicited offer for the company. The board basically thought the offer of $44.6 billion undervalued the company. This will either prompt Microsoft to raise their offer, or pursue a host of other tactics to get...

California Court Quashes Subpoena to Name Web Forum Critic

Posted on February 07, 2008
There is a First Amendment right to say terrible things about someone anonymously on the Internet as long as they are not assertions of fact, or at least rise to the level of establishing a prima faciae case of defamation....

West Virginia Assessor Fighting Online Tax Maps by Private Company

Posted on February 07, 2008
West Virginia doesn't want you to have it's tax assessment maps unless you pay the state for them. The are fighting one company who successfully challenged the state in court to get the maps in a FOIA case by asking...

Vista SP1 Coming: Some Early First Looks

Posted on February 07, 2008
Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing and will be available for download some time in April. Here are some previews of good and bad reactions to the final code. Two are from ZDNET, here and here, and one from...

Ballmer: Yahoo! Brand Survives

Posted on February 07, 2008
All other bets are off. Steve Ballmer says that the Yahoo! brand will live (his words) past the merger. But a "powered by Microsoft" label may not exactly thrill users or Yahoo! employees, or even resemble Yahoo! as people know...

Some Thoughts on the Microsoft Proposal to Buy Yahoo!

Posted on February 04, 2008
Friday's announcement of Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! shook the tech world. Not so much because it was unthinkable. Pundits have worked that one out from time to time in the last year. The surprise was that Microsoft finally...

Yahoo! Still at Crossroads

Posted on January 30, 2008
Everyone is dumping on Yahoo! due to its lack of financial performance in line with analysts' estimates. No matter how much money the company makes (or doesn't), they are not in Google earnings territory. The stock values are light years...

European Cases On Copyright and the Internet

Posted on January 30, 2008
Two cases of interest come out of Europe. The first comes from the European Court of Justice in the case of Promusicae v. Telef�nica de Espa�a. The music association brought suit against the ISP to determine the identity of P2P...

Microsoft Consent Decree Extended

Posted on January 30, 2008
The federal court overseeing Microsoft's consent decree has extended oversight to November of 2009 due to the fact that certain protocols and specifications have not been fully published by Microsoft. The states wanted an extension of five years. More on...

Yahoo Working on a Major DRM Free Music Store

Posted on January 28, 2008
Yahoo is working on a DRM free music store. Don't expect anything imminent, but that end would be welcome on the competition front. One of the problems with the brave new world of legal music downloads is that outside of...

The Computer In Your Eyes

Posted on January 28, 2008
Imagine contact lenses as your next computer monitor or high definition television. Something like it is in development now. Read about it here.

Are Text Messages Private?

Posted on January 26, 2008
In some cases yes, and some cases no. An article in the Chicago Tribune surveys various wireless carrier policies in light of the scandal over romantic messages exchanged between the Mayor of Detroit and an aide. The Detroit Free Press...

Florida School Officer on Hot Seat For Indirectly Linking to Porn on MySpace Page

Posted on January 26, 2008
There's a great story on what appears to be an investigation getting out of hand. Officer John Nohejl is the Gulf Middle School resource officer. He put up a MySpace page in order to communicate with students. Now he's being...

Spectrum Auction News

Posted on January 26, 2008
The spectrum auction has gone three rounds now. Read the latest at PC World.

Can the Police Search Your Electronics In Public

Posted on January 26, 2008
Can your smartphone or laptop be searched incident to a traffic stop? Sounds unreasonable, but given Fourth Amendment law, it may not. Read the sticky details here.

Computer Can Identity Faces With 100% Accuracy

Posted on January 24, 2008
Being a face in the crowd usually confers some type of anonymity, but with technological developments that is changing. Face recognition software has the power to reduce that anonymity, though getting a computer to match a moving face in a...

AT&T To Offer Free Wi-Fi to New and Existing Broadband Subscribers

Posted on January 24, 2008
AT&T is offering free Wi-Fi access to all but the lowest tier subscribers to an AT&T broadband subscriptions. The announcement came yesterday with details yet to come for subscribers as to how to access the AT&T hot spots. The press...

How Much Tax Do You Pay on Your Cell Phone Bill?

Posted on January 22, 2008
Here's another one of those stupid things in life. Some states are prohibiting wireless carriers from disclosing the amount of state taxes paid on cell phone service. The net effect is hiding charges in a bill. Wireless carriers would like...

FBI Warns of New Cyberscam

Posted on January 22, 2008
There's a new twist to getting personal information out of people these days. Emails that claim to be a bank or other institution give phone numbers for the unwary to call and resolve whatever "problem" was stated in the email....

Fights Staged for YouTube Videos

Posted on January 21, 2008
Who would have thought that fight videos posted to YouTube are the rage among teenagers and young adults? Who would have thought that some of these video are actually staged by some individuals to promote a their own bravado for...

TWC To Test Bandwidth Caps for Heavy Users

Posted on January 17, 2008
Time Warner Cable has confirmed that it is planning to test bandwidth caps for residential Internet access customers. From Time Warner's perspective, the cap will affect only 5% of customers. These individuals are most likely to use P2P services at...

RIAA Faces Potential Class Action Over Tactics

Posted on January 17, 2008
The RIAA wins some (Jammie Thomas) and sometimes loses, though their legal strategy is to walk away from cases where it looks as if they are going to lose. They tried that with one Tanya Andersen, a disabled Oregon mother...

Enycryption In Child Porn Case Raises Constitutional Issues

Posted on January 16, 2008
The Washington Post is reporting on the Case of In Re Boucher, 2007 WL 4246473, decided November 29th 2007. Approximately a year before, on December 17, 2006, Boucher and his father crossed from Canada into the United States at a...

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