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Written by professors of Business, Law & Technology and Legal Methods.
By Jonathan Ezor anad Michelle Zakarin

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

Tuesday In The News

Posted on February 03, 2009
Opera is poised to grab market share in the mobile browser market, according to this article in the Washington Post. Their 0.7% in the standard market is even below Google's Chrome browser. AT&T is in trouble with local officials in...

Google Makes A Mistake, Scares Pundits

Posted on February 02, 2009
Google had an error on Saturday morning that flagged every website in search results as being malicious. Google caught the error and everything was back to normal after about 40 minutes. The cause was a stray slash in a definition...

Yahoo Results Better Than Expected

Posted on January 28, 2009
Yahoo beat analyst estimates on earnings though the company wound up with a net loss for the last quarter of 2008. Speculation is rising over a potential deal with Microsoft. New CEO Carol Bartz said she didn't come to Yahoo...

Offline Gmail

Posted on January 28, 2009
Gmail finally allows offline access. TG Daily has the details on how it works.

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Quick Takes

Posted on January 27, 2009
The flu is a terrible thing. Even though you stop, the world around you does not. Let's catch up with what's been going on. The Senate approved a delay in the DTV transition from the current date of February 17th...

As for COPA, There Was No Hopa

Posted on January 21, 2009
COPA is finally dead. Ten years of no enforcement, a ride up and down the court system several times, controversial attempts to grab data from search engines to prove the case, and it's come to this. Filters may not be...

FCC Blasts Comcast Over VoIP Practices

Posted on January 21, 2009
Kevin Martin's last gasp at the FCC had the agency question Comcast's VoIP practices. It seems that users who consume more than 70% of their alloted bandwidth for more than 15 minutes will hear choppy VoIP calls. Not so if...

Circuit City Not Dying Fast Enough to Lower Prices in Liquidation

Posted on January 21, 2009
Circuit City is starting to liquidate its inventory. The so-called sale prices have not impressed consumers and aren't competitive with what's online, if this story is to be believed. Other than going out of business, has anything changed?

Circuit City, We Hardly Knew Ye

Posted on January 19, 2009
Because every time we ventured into a store to comparison shop we were confronted with older technology stickered with a premium price. It didn't help that popular DVDs priced at $14.95 to $18.95 at other stores sold for $24.99 at...

Fair Use Isn't Fair Sometimes, and the Linux Desktop

Posted on January 16, 2009
There are a couple of news stories floating on the tech news sites that struck me. One is this tale of DMCA takedown notices and YouTube. Kevin Lee blogs about films. He also created video essays using film clips and...

Genachowski To Be Nominated as Head of FCC

Posted on January 13, 2009
Julius Genachowski will be nominated to be FCC Chairman. His nomination is praised by public advocacy groups. Industry associations seem a bit muted on the development. Genachowski is credited with the Obama campaign's deft use of the Internet to get...

Rambus Loses Patent Case Due to Spoliation

Posted on January 13, 2009
Rambus lost a patent case against Micron litigated in federal district court in Delaware on a spoliation issue. The judge accused the company of destroying relevant evidence when it should have known the documents could have been used in litigation.....

Will Searching Google Destroy the Planet?

Posted on January 12, 2009
News appeared yesterday taking Google to task over how much CO2 is produced by searching Google. Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist of Harvard, claims two Google searches are enough to produce the same amount of CO2 as boiling a kettle. Google...

Windows 7 Beta and Cheap MS Office for Students

Posted on January 12, 2009
Microsoft released the Windows 7 Beta on Friday to frustrated customers. Frustrated because the traffic caused the servers to crash resulting in few or no one getting one of the 2.5 million download and keys to run the software. Microsoft...

Windows 7 Beta To Be Generally Available Tomorrow

Posted on January 08, 2009
Windows 7 beta will be available to the general public for ISO image download on Friday. More here. Most of the pre-release testing sounds positive compared to Vista. Aside from quibbles about the interface, Windows 7 doesn't consume nearly as...

Another Upgrade Coupon Program from Microsoft?

Posted on January 07, 2009
Another report suggests that Microsoft will introduce a program to offer free Windows 7 upgrades to those who purchase Vista machines after July 1. The economy is precarious enough without stifling computer sales in anticipation of a new operating system...

iTunes Going DRM-less

Posted on January 07, 2009
One announcement from MacWorld yesterday is that the iTunes store will remove DRM from the entire catalog. Apple will also introduce variable pricing, though the price points are fixed at 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29. As with any number...

RIAA Gets It's Man in the Justice Department

Posted on January 07, 2009
The new number three man in the Obama Justice Department is Tom Pirelli. His clients in private practice included the RIAA and he litigated several file sharing cases on behalf of the trade association. He also defended the Copyright Term...

FTC Interested in DRM Implementations

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission is requesting comment, due by January 30th, on DRM technology. This in in conjunction with an FTC Town Hall to Address Digital Rights Management Technologies. The comment form is here. From the press release: The Federal....

A Little Bit of Sony in Every Xbox, and Thoughts on Blu-Ray

Posted on January 06, 2009
Recent news is that Microsoft's XBox is outselling Sony's Playstation 3 by over 8 million units worldwide. That's a whole lot of XBoxes. What makes this competition ironic is an article in Ars Technica about the development of the chip...

News and Comments Now that the Holidays are Over

Posted on January 02, 2009
It's been a while, but sometimes a vacation is good. Over the holiday break we found out a few things: VHS is dead, but you probably knew that. Here's the official notice courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. Texting costs phone...

RIAA Changes Course on Piracy Strategy

Posted on December 22, 2008
The RIAA announced on Friday that it was going to drop its strategy of suing file sharers and focus on working with ISPs to identify and warn egregious users. Those who ignore the ISP warnings would likely lose their Internet...

Pew Report Predicts Life on the Interent in 2020

Posted on December 17, 2008
The Pew Internet American Life Project released its report called the Future of the Internet III. The report predicts how the Internet (and how we use it) will appear in 2020. From the summary of findings: The mobile device...

Yahoo Proposes Keeping Search Data for Only 90 Days

Posted on December 17, 2008
Yahoo has upped the ante, so to speak, on data retention of the information it collects on its users. The company proposes to anonymize search data after 90 days, unless there was fraud or security concerns. In that situation, the...

Is the Economic Downturn Affecting Facebook?

Posted on December 12, 2008
This story in Fortune suggests that Facebook is in short supply of cash. Hard to believe the site isn't overtly squeezing as many dollars as it can from its 130 million or so users. [MG]

Google Chrome Goes Into General Release

Posted on December 12, 2008
Google removed the "Beta" designation from Chrome, the new browser from Google. That must have been one of the shortest betas for Google. Gmail has been out for, what, years now and still has the beta tag. The announcement on...

A Used MP3 Store?

Posted on December 11, 2008
As ham fisted as the RIAA and labels can be about dealing with piracy issues, there are times when someone comes up with an idea to sell music that is so bad, it makes the labels' position look good. Enter...

Google Adds Magazines to the Mix

Posted on December 10, 2008
I was commenting to a friend and fellow staff member at the DePaul Law Library about Google's announcement that it would include magazine articles in its book search results. Some of the magazine titles highlighted on the Google Official Blog...

SF Street Cams Raise Eyebrows, Entertain

Posted on December 08, 2008
high crime areas. Commercial properties routinely place cameras on loading docks and in parking lots. Government monitors federal and state buildings to keep them safe. All of this seems uneasily normal to a population accounting for terrorism and other mayhem,...

Yahoo Rumors Abound

Posted on December 03, 2008
The other news buzz is the possibility of former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller looking to take Yahoo private. The stock is up on the news though few believe the deal is viable. Good luck getting the financing in these times....

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