Should you watch what you post on Facebook? Yes and no. A recent report from WMUR suggests that three men located around the town of Nashua, New Hampshire used Facebook updates from area residents to target homes to burglarize.
California Web impostors beware: You may soon be breaking the law, even if you aren't one of the perpetrators targeted by the state's "e-personation" bill. The measure, which is awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature, carries fines of as much as $1,000 and a year in jail for anyone who poses as another person online with malicious intent.
A federal appeals court said that software makers can use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares, an apparent gutting of the so-called first-sale doctrine. The court said that the first-sale doctrine -- an affirmative defense to copyright infringement that allows legitimate owners of copies of copyrighted works to resell those copies -- is "unavailable to those who are only licensed to use their copies of copyrighted works."
The chairman of a key House Judiciary subcommittee praised Apple's announcement that it is easing some restrictions on developers of applications for some Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad.
A judge reinstated eBay Inc's 28.4 percent stake in Craigslist, but allowed the classifieds site to keep eBay off its board. The mixed ruling in Delaware's Chancery Court gave no clear victory to either of the companies, whose relationship turned from cozy to competitive and ended up in court in 2008.
The obscure Christian pastor who planned to mark the ninth anniversary of September 11 attacks by burning copies of the Koran has had his website pulled from the Internet, the hosting company said. Dan Goodgame, a spokesman for popular web host Rackspace Hosting, said Dove World Outreach Center had violated "hate speech" provisions of its contract with Rackspace.
An e-mail virus swept through the Internet, snarling traffic and taking down servers at ABC, NASA, Comcast, and Google -- and possibly even affecting the Department of Homeland Security.
A congressional committee has asked Craigslist founder Craig Newmark to testify at a hearing in Washington, D.C. on the topic of "domestic minor sex trafficking."
A new report suggests that two-thirds of Web users have been hit by cybercrime, with the costs and time to resolve the crime varying widely around the world.
A nonprofit public advocacy group urged Craigslist to take down adult services ads outside the United States, where they say most such ads are placed and where regulators may be more lax about child and female exploitation. Members of the Polaris Project said the popular online classified Web site took an important first step toward stopping sex crimes and violence against women and children by removing erotic U.S. ads last weekend.
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 Internet addresses used to control "Waledac," a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down. The recommendation by Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia is a victory in Microsoft's experimental campaign to wrest control of one of the Net's biggest menaces.
Jack Thompson, a disbarred lawyer who has vocally decried violence in video games, said he will try to stop the release of Electronic Arts' upcoming video game, "Medal of Honor Limited Edition". Thompson said he sent a letter via fax outlining his opposition to the game to Robert Gates, the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Police have conducted a series of raids across Europe in one of its biggest crackdowns on file-sharing. Police targeted 48 sites in countries including the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Hungary.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wants Craigslist Inc. to confirm that it has permanently closed its controversial adult-services section after the company removed those ads from its Web site and replaced it with the word "censored." In a statement, Mr. Blumenthal said he sent a letter to the company seeking confirmation the section has been closed and asking the company to explain what other steps it has taken to block advertisements for prostitution in other parts of its Web site.
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is among the plaintiffs in a new lawsuit that seeks to restrict airport searches of laptops and other electronic devices. The association -- as well as a group of photographers and a doctoral student -- says the searches as they are done now violate the Fourth Amendment because customs officials are not required to have suspicion of wrongdoing before searching and copying electronic information.
Facebook said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users' walls. The flaw was the second in the past week that let spammers flood the service with messages promoting scams.
In a decision that could affect the financial relationships between record labels and performers, a federal appeals court in San Francisco on ruled that songs downloaded from Apple's iTunes store are not actually purchased, but are rather "licensed" by the ostensible buyer.
Hewlett-Packard filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara against its former chief executive, Mark V. Hurd. The suit accused Mr. Hurd of violating his severance agreement to protect HP's confidential information by taking a job as co-president of Oracle, an HP rival and partner.
The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, the first United States case to strike at the heart of the company’s main search business. The issue at hand -- referred to as search neutrality -- is whether Google manipulates results to thwart competitors and advance its own businesses.
Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said. "This step is very much in the right direction," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who spearheaded a letter from 17 attorneys general who recently banded together to urge Craigslist to discontinue its adult services section.
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