USPTO Jumps in Line to Provide “Green” Initiatives, Ignores Climate Gate
by Jason Fischer “Awe! Come ON! I made a movie about it. That proves it’s true.” Director Kappos, of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), writes on his blog this week about how...
View ArticleFinally! Is explicit content coming to the iPhone?
By J. DeVoy From the Telegraph: Several developers have reported seeing a new category appearing in the drop-down menus of iTunes Connect, the platform they use to distribute apps through the App...
View ArticleCybersecurity bill gives executive branch new powers over the internet
By J. DeVoy From The Hill: The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with...
View ArticleOnline “dating” catches on among newlyweds
By J. DeVoy Via Roissy (I don’t care what he’s calling himself these days), Ashley Madison – the online dating service specializing in matching married men and married women – has had a membership...
View ArticleWhat Apple Should Have Launched Instead of the iPad (Or why Apple should beg...
Okay, fine, the iPad is neat. I’m not even going to bash it here. But, if Apple really wanted a killer device, it would have launched my idea — the iPhone power keyboard. Lets face it, the two worst...
View ArticleNASA photographs reveal extent of BP oil leak
By J. DeVoy Discussing the environment normally isn’t our schtick, but technology is another matter. NASA’s imaging technology has captured the following images of the growing Gulf spill, helping...
View ArticleSuck it, El Jobso
by Jason Fischer A while back, attorneys for Apple concocted a creative argument for why jailbreaking your iPhone constituted an infringement of the copyrights in the device’s software, based on the...
View ArticleSynth Porn
By J. DeVoy Readers interested in electronic music and the technology behind it will love this: Subconscious studios, spearheaded by Cevin Key, has been remarkably prolific. The studio’s equipment...
View Article9th Circuit Allows Copyright Holders’ Rights To Go On… and On… and On…
By J. DeVoy On September 10, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software producers can forbid the transfer or resale of their products in their shrink-wrap or click-wrap licenses. The...
View ArticleGoogle to Internet Users: “All Your Angry Comments Are Belong to Us”
by Jason Fischer Google, allegedly in an effort to improve the civility of user comments, has determined that the “caps lock” key should not be a part of laptops that will be made to support its...
View Article9th Circuit: Consumer Sophistication is an important determinant for AdWord...
by Jason Fischer For some time now, it has been a legal gray area whether bidding on a competitor’s trademarks as Google AdWords constituted infringement. Google has taken a neutral stance on the...
View ArticleData Encryption and the Fifth Amendment
By J. DeVoy If you have encrypted data that is seized during an investigation, and law enforcement officers are incapable of decrypting it, can you refuse to provide the codes to remove encryption?...
View ArticleNews Flash Update: Counterfeit Goods Come From China
Guess what? 1,800 cases of electronic parts from China were sold to the Pentagon for their fancy high-end weapons systems! Neat-O! But made in China? Are we sure that’s safe? Psha- no big deal-people...
View ArticleUK judge allows service via Facebook
Facebook users in the UK might start thinking twice before accepting friend requests from people they absolutely don’t know. An English High Court judge allowed two lawyers to serve a defendant they...
View ArticleDrones and Privacy Rights
By Jay Wolman Shameless plug: I appeared on Fox 25 Boston last night discussing issues relating to privacy rights and personal use drones that take surveillance video. Link to the article, with video,...
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