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MySpace suicide conviction tentatively overturned

It looks like Lori Drew - the too-involved-in-her-daughter's-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself - will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. But on Thursday, the judge in the case tentatively threw out...

Tags: Computer Fraud, Computer, MySpace, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Green Dam's day not done

Chinese students were out partying in celebration of the news that China has delayed its mandate that PCs sold in the country must have intalled some spyware named Green Dam Youth Escort, according to Reuters. "We are very happy because we got what we wanted," a young artist said....

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Ed Black, PC, Manufacturer, Desktops, Manufacturing, Government, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Exclusive: Proof that Green Dam ripped off Solid Oak in 2006

Yesterday, I pointed out that China's Green Dam Youth Escort software purloins a 2006 version of Solid Oak's CyberSitter net-nanny software and that the developer - Jinhui- was involved in drafting specifications for "parental control software" also in 2006. It seems that this software has been around since '06. ...

Tags: Software, File, Datapth.exe, Datapth06, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Breaking news: Green Dam Day delayed

On the eve of destruction, China has delayed Green Dam Day. Reuters reports that China will delay an order that all PCs sold in the country come equipped with Green Dam-Youth Escort. The government had set July 1 as the day. [Add 1]...

Tags: Software, China, Agency, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Management, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-30

PC makers ask China Premier to stop Green Dam

Tech business organizations around the world have signed onto an extraordinary letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, asking for executive clemency from China's Green Dam-Youth Escort software, The Wall Street Journal reports. The letter says in part: [Green Dam] raises serious concerns for us and seems to...

Tags: China, Developer, Taiwan, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Green Dam Watch: Software dates from '06, Sony is shipping, vendors will uninstall.

Item: Green Dam Youth Escort - the Chinese net nanny software that must be installed on PCs sold in China starting Wednesday - is largely stolen from a 2006 version of Solid Oak's CyberSitter software. For proof, see this post. Item: Rebecca MacKinnon...

Tags: Software, Sony Corp., McKinnon, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-29

News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attack

Yesterday I posted that staff at Solid Oak were targeted with attack emails by sources unknown. Solid Oak is the maker of CyberSitter -- which was clearly purloined by the developers of Green Dam. At that point it wasn't clear that the questionable emails were definitely...

Tags: Software, Developer, Attack, Solid Oak, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-27

Swedish court: Pirate Bay judge not biased

Was the judge in The Pirate Bay trial biased? After all, it turned out after the trial, although he didn't disclose it at the time, that Judge Tomas Norstöm was a member of several pro-copyright organizations. Is that enough to earn TPB a retrial? ...

Tags: Court, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-26

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn ... if people want it,...

Tags: Google Inc., Pornography, Government, Vertical Industries, TVs, Benefits, Healthcare, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-26

News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Who is attacking Solid Oak, whose code was stolen for Green Dam?

Check out this document from Solid Oak Software, makers of CyberSitter. It's a comparison of CyberSitter with Green Dam-Youth Escort, the software China is insisting PC makers start installing on July 1. The file show just how similar CyberSitter's .dll files and Green...

Tags: China, CyberSitter, Solid Oak, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Britain hires hackers for intel squad

The hackers are coming, the hackers are coming. Britain is hiring ex-hackers as a security cadre to protect the country's computer systems from cyber attacks, AP reports. [Anti-terrorism minister] Alan West said the technology-savvy staff will join efforts to trace the source of â€"...

Tags: Britain, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-25

China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam

With less than a week until July 1 - the deadline for PC makers to start intalling the spyware called Green Dam Youth Escort - China appears to be cutting off access to Google after a bitter campaign accusing the American company of spreading porn. Meanwhile, U.S. officials have escalated...

Tags: U.S., China, Google Inc., Free Trade, Tools & Techniques, Network Security, Networking, Security, Finance, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Anonymous netizens offer a July 1 manifesto, posters

An anonymous manifesto making the rounds of the Internet promises a "worldwide" attack on China's censorship system, via Oiwan Lam. The document, issued in Chinese, and translated via Google Docs here, informs the Chinese government that the power they seek to consolidate is irrelevant to netizens:...

Tags: Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-24

July 1: Day for offline protest against Green Dam

While PC makers are saying nothing about the impending July 1 deadline to install Green Dam Youth Escort on machines sold in China, as The Wall Street Journal non-reports in a non-story, Beijing artist Ai Weiwei is agitating for Chinese citizens to protest by staying offline July 1. The Daily...

Tags: China, Protest, Citizen, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Search, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Could one bullet take down the Iranian regime? When that bullet kills an innocent young woman and her last minutes are captured on cellphone and played over and over again on YouTube, it's possible. Especially if the Iranian government continues to act with...

Tags: Web, Bullet, Video, Corporate Communications, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Payola bloggers, FTC is watching you

A few years back, the blogosphere was gnashing its teeth about blogger payola -- taking perks and payments from advertisers and PR firms. Many bloggers justified the practice with "I take their money and write what I want anyway!" and "Hey, this is my meal ticket and by the time...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, labels sue to force others to match policy

The RIAA recording industry is determined to rip Internet access away from illegal downloaders and it continued its campaign with legal action in Ireland. Check this one out, it's really jaw-dropping. The Irish Times reports reports that the Big Four are suing telco BT Ireland and cable company UPC Ireland...

Tags: RIAA, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-22

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam fray

The U.S. government is stepping into the outrage over Green Dam - Youth Escort - China's government-mandated spyware PC makers install on every computer sold in the country. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing released a "concerned" statement: The U.S. Government is...

Tags: China, Industry, Outrage, Computer, Government, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-21