Google Patents After a five-and-a-half-year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company’s iconic home page. We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it’s an innovative “graphical user interface.” Read More
AT&T : FCC investigation A few days after rampant criticism in blogs and other online sources about AT&T’s decision to reject Google’s voice app on the iPhone, the Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into the telco giant as well as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The reason for rejection offered by the two companies was Read more about AT&T : FCC investigation[…]
Pirate Bay Sale In a few days time Global Gaming Factory is supposed to have gathered millions of dollars in funding so they can acquire The Pirate Bay. But according to Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster who was involved with GGF recently, this is unlikely to happen. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is giving Read more about Pirate Bay Sale[…]
pirate bay A group of major film studios has taken court action in Sweden to have The Pirate Bay shut down. The site’s founders were found guilty on criminal charges of facilitating copyright infringement earlier this year but the site remains live
copyright infringment: ECJ The copying and reproduction of just 11 words of a news article can be copyright infringement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Europe’s highest court has said that a clippings service’s copying could be unlawful. Read More
TIM Italy: HSPA network Italy’s leading mobile operator by subscribers, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), has launched a HSPA+ network in Milan, providing peak download speeds of 28Mbps and upload speeds of up to 5.8Mbps.
facebook: violation of copyright Earlier this year, we had trouble understanding Facebook’s reasoning for suing Power.com, a site that tried to aggregate a variety of social network sites into a single interface (something that seems rather useful). However, Facebook insisted that it violated its copyright, and in a slightly troubling ruling in the case, the Read more about facebook: violation of copyright[…]
NYt: spamming Shortened URLs are great for character-conscious Tweeters, marketers who want to track Web site visitors, and even perhaps an opportunity fo r venture capitalists who are investing in companies such as Bit.ly. But they are also providing a boon to spammers. MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs Read more about NYt: spamming[…]
Privacy Vs Entertainment Norway Decides Privacy Is More Important Than Protecting The Entertainment Industry’s Business Model from the good-for-them dept It appears that Norway has decided that it’s sick of passing laws designed to prop up obsolete industry business models at the expense of individual privacy. Norway Decides Privacy Is More Important Than Protecting The Read more about Privacy Vs Entertainment[…]
Italian Court: IP evidence an Italian court is now recognizing that IP addresses alone are not enough to identify a file sharer, and even throwing out cases that don’t have much more in the way of evidence. Still, in most of the various cases, it’s never really about getting people to court. The industry prefers Read more about Italian Court: IP evidence[…]
