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Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers

Software titans Mozilla and Skype have thrown their support behind the EFF and the iPhone jailbreaking community. A new filling with the US Copyright Office seeks an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DCMA related to iPhone jailbreaking. The exemption would strip Apple of its ability to charge...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Exemption, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Mozilla Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Facebook scores SEC exemption

Facebook has been granted an exemption by the Securities and Exchange Commission that allows the company to not comply with the same law that pushed Google into becoming a public company. The exemption, reported by Business Week today, was granted on October 14 and allows the company to continue to...

Tags: Facebook, Exemption, SEC, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Who owns public employees' emails when they're about 'private' subjects?

Who owns public employees' emails when they're about 'private' subjects?This one is easyThe emails are the property of the county if the county's computers were used to store them, or write them. If there's an issue about privacy, then it should be taken up on a personal computer that the...

Tags: e-mail, exemption

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

Copyright Office provides exemptions to DMCA

The new copyright laws this week issued by the Library of Congress Copyright Office is welcome news for film professors and cell phone users alike, as the new laws exempt certain groups from copyright restrictions, reports the The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Library of Congress relaxed some aspects of the...

Tags: exemption, Copyright Office, Government technology, Regulations, Congress

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Unlocking your mobile phone is no longer prohibited

Last week the U.S. Copyright Office issued a ruling that states cell phone owners are allowed to break their software locks on their devices. There has been quite bit of talk about this on the internet, but the ruling doesnt state anything about requiring wireless carriers to unlock your phone....

Tags: Smartphone, Wireless carriers, wireless, telephone

Blog posts 2006-11-29

Private sector: government BlackBerry exemption is unfair

Private sector: government BlackBerry exemption is unfairMission CriticalThe government needs the exemption so high officials can thumb out dog sitting needs, talk about their shirt and tie buying trips to Nordstroms, or tell each other how great they looked on TV.I wondered why "No Comment" and "Get me more information...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, exemption, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2006-01-30

Is anyone standing up for bloggers?

Is anyone standing up for bloggers?Good question"Wouldn't it have been something if CEO John Chambers had shown more interest in how his company's technology was going to be used?"Does a company have a responsibility, in the absence of government restrictions, to determine how its products will be used, and refuse...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., exemption, McCain-Feingold

Discussion threads 2005-01-21

Can technology close journalism's credibility gap?

Can technology close journalism's credibility gap?Campaign Reform? / I Call It Fraud!Section 431(9)Bi makes a distinction where there is no real difference: the media is extremely powerful by any measure, a "special interest" by any definition, and heavily engaged in the "issue advocacy" and "independent expenditure" realms of political persuasion...

Tags: First Amendment, exemption, finance

Discussion threads 2005-01-18

How to keep a secret

How to keep a secretObvious to none...The vast majority of the people do not care let alone understand how they have lost their privacy.Funding for TIA is killed by the Senate yet they start implementing it on the State level. No matter there are a few agencies whose actions are...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Financial accounting, SECURITY, press exemption, exemption, Political Accountability, privacy

Discussion threads 2004-03-01

Level 3 wants access charge exemption

Level 3 wants access charge exemptionless reliable to"Carriers are already embracing VoIP as a way to cut traffic costs on international and long-distance calls"but how like the ol reliable land lines anyways

Tags: Level 3 Communications Inc., exemption

Discussion threads 2004-01-07

Additional Resources

Federal forms themed blackhat SEO campaign serving scareware

An ongoing blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign is actively hijacking a variety of U.S Federal Forms keywords in an attempt to serve the Personal Antivirus (Trojan.Win32.FakeXPA) scareware. Due to the automated and sophisticated PageRank boosting tools cybercriminals use in these campaigns, the hijacked keywords are always...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., HTTP, Malware, Cybercriminal, Keyword, Http Referrer, Search, Marketing Research, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Marketing, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towers

It's good to know not every scare tactic from the Bush Administration has been eradicated. Things like companies yelling "terrorism" to protect their bottom lines are still in good stead. Everyone who still gets warm fuzzies when they think of Steve Jobs should take a good long read of David...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Kravets, Smart Phones, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Should radio have to pay royalties? Pandora, labels say yes

For 80 years, radio has not had to pay for the privilege of playing records over the air. In legal terms, it has not had to pay royalties for the "performance right." Stations still have to pay composer royalties to ASCAP. Web radio, satellite and all...

Tags: Performance, Radio, Royalty, Pandora, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Amazon vs. tax happy states: E-tailer could nuke Associates program and still win

Updated: Amazon is in a high-profile tax showdown with states over its Associates referral program and is likely to come out a winner either way. Amazon has pulled its Associates program, which allows Web site operators to drive sales to the e-tailer in exchange for commissions of...

Tags: Tax, Amazon.com Inc., State, States, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Open source shrugs at EU liability plans

Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI've said it beforeFOSS companies should not worry.Having liabilities for the free speach makes no sense and would violate the constitution.Only propietary companies need to worry about it.RE: Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI agree with Dana; the current "exemption" by many software...

Tags: OSS Developer, liability plan, open source, precaution, OSS, F/OSS

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

(Gallery: $2,000 Tata Nano to go on sale)

(Gallery: $2,000 Tata Nano to go on sale)Can't wait to see it on Top Gear. :) [nt][nt]RE: (Gallery: $2,000 Tata Nano to go on sale)I say get US automakers to produce similar cars and have a middle slow lane on all our highways so that people can drive...

Tags: Benefits, Tata, Nano, Gallery, car

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Apple Warning: Water and iPhones don't mix

Apple Warning: Water and iPhones don't mixWET ?? when did cars became water reservoirs??I placed the phone in a bag, and left the bag in the car.Every cell phone has liquid sensors. Apple has moisture sensors, for apple sensors to activate all you have to do is leave it...

Tags: Apple Inc., car, sensor, Apple iPhone, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

Did Amazon intentionally cripple the iKindle?

Did Amazon intentionally cripple the iKindle?You're missing the point of the iPhone appThe point of the iPhone iKindle app is not to replace the Kindle or any other reader - the point it is to generate more interest in digital book. Amazon has released this software to create customer association...

Tags: E-books, Sales strategy, Digital music, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone, iPhone iKindle, e-book, Apple Inc., Stanza

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Is Mozilla after Apple's halo?

Yesterday I came across an interesting piece on AppleInsider which mentioned how Mozilla and Skype now supports the EFF's request for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to iPhone jailbreaking. Is Mozilla after Apple's halo? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple Inc., Mozilla Corp., Public Relations, Web Browsers, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Apple, threatening customers isn

Apple, threatening customers isnApple is making me glad I'm not a customerOne could say that all companies behave, to some degree, as badly as Apple has been behaving the last few years but what makes it even worse is that Apple sells itself as "the little guy who cares about...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Apple Inc., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-02-13