Under fire over anonymous comments reportedly made from her private e-mail account about defendants and at least one lawyer in cases she is overseeing, an Ohio judge has blasted back by filing suit against the Cleveland newspaper that broke the story.
Federal Communications Commission officials said they will push ahead to implement their recently released National Broadband Plan despite an appeals-court decision that struck down some of the agency's authority over Internet regulation. In a statement, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the court's decision "does not change our broadband policy goals, or the ultimate authority of the FCC to act to achieve those goals."
The British government forced through the controversial digital economy bill with the aid of the Conservative party last night, attaining a crucial third reading -- which means it will get royal assent and become law -- after just two hours of debate in the Commons. However, it was forced to drop clause 43 of the bill, a proposal on orphan works which had been opposed by photographers.
Federal Communications Commission members began the work of relaunching their broadband strategy after a court threw out their earlier effort to police broadband traffic and even as Internet providers said no action at all would be best. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the FCC has limited authority under current law to tell Internet providers how to manage their networks has put portions of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's National Broadband Plan at risk.
Verizon CommunicationsChief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said he is concerned the proposed National Broadband Plan could lead to an "overreach" of regulation that could cut into private investment. Still, he added, it's early in the game and Verizon is working with other players such as Google to find a more reasonable position on hot-button issues such as net neutrality, which is intended to create open and equal access to the Internet.
Wi-Lan Inc, the Canadian technology licensing company, has filed a lawsuit accusing 19 computer and phone companies of infringing a patent by selling laptops and cellular handsets enabled with Bluetooth technology. Among the defendants are some of the world's best-known technology providers, including Apple Inc, Dell Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and Intel Corp.
A group of public interest groups urged the FTC to investigate two emerging trends in online advertising that the groups say pose growing threats to consumer privacy involving the auction of individual Internet users for targeted advertising opportunities and the combining of online and other sources of data about Internet users.
Google has won another round in a patent fight with a company called Bid for Position, which had accused Google of infringing a patent with its AdWords advertising system.
The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she shut him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 95 mph one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse.
Google is expected to be sued by photographers, illustrators and other visual artists who claim the company is infringing their rights by scanning and displaying their work without compensation. The American Society of Media Photographers and others who were not permitted to join a pending class-action settlement over digitized books are filing a lawsuit, said the plaintiffs' law firm.
Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, was sued over claims that its Buzz social-networking service violated the privacy rights of those who use the company's Gmail service. The case, which seeks class action, or group, status was filed by Barry Feldman of New York, who claims Google automatically activated the Buzz program from his e-mail account.
The Federal Trade Commission appears to be laying the groundwork for an antitrust challenge to Google's proposed purchase of mobile-advertising company AdMob. The FTC has assembled an internal litigation team to prepare for a possible effort to block the deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Better Business Bureau has warned consumers to be wary of e-mail and Facebook offers to get free iPads in exchange for being a researcher or tester or buying items first. “What’s past is prologue, and it was inevitable that scammers would take advantage of the excitement over the iPad to rip people off, just like they did with the iPod and the iPhone,” said Alison Southwick, a spokeswoman for the bureau.
In the wake of a lawsuit that accused Yelp of extortion, the reviews site said it will revamp the way it displays reviews and eliminate its "favorite review" feature. The "favorite review" feature allowed companies to pay for the right to select their favorite user review and have that review prominently featured on their Yelp page.
Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing while the intruders pilfered classified and restricted documents from the highest levels of the Indian Defense Ministry. In a report, the researchers, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, provide a detailed account of how a spy operation it called the Shadow Network systematically hacked into personal computers in government offices on several continents.
The Vietnam government dismissed what it called "groundless" accusations that it was involved in recent cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. Malware disguised as a popular Vietnamese-language keyboard driver was used to create a botnet that targeted blogs rallying against a bauxite mining project in Vietman, according to blog posts from Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz.
A federal appeals court dealt a sharp blow to the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission to set the rules of the road for the Internet, ruling that the agency lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. The decision, by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, specifically concerned the efforts of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, to slow down customers’ access to a service called BitTorrent, which is used to exchange large video files, most often pirated copies of movies.
Google started rolling out a privacy upgrade to its Buzz social networking tool, which includes a settings confirmation screen for all users. Amid concern over how much personal information was being made public, Google tweaked Buzz several days after its debut, making it more clear how information was shared, and simplifying the process for blocking or following other users.
With a looming court case that could derail his broadband agenda, Julius Genachowski, the top U.S. communications regulator, and his circle of advisers are weighing options to put the centerpiece of his administration on a solid footing. His alternatives appear limited if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decides that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacks sufficient authority to regulate broadband services.
EMG Technology LLC said it would move to add Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet to a patent infringement suit filed by EMG against Apple in 2008. EMG originally sued Apple in November 2008 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, claiming that Apple's iPhone infringes on a patent held by EMG covering technology used to help mobile devices access the Internet.
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