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- Judge: Viacom gets 12TB of YouTube user data
- A federal judge ordered PDF Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user data to Viacom, finding that the list of "login IDs" does not qualify as personally identifying information. In opposing Viacom's request for the information, Google had asserted users' privacy rights: "Plaintiffs would...
- Tags: Google Inc., Personally Identifiable Information, YouTube Inc., IP, IP Address, User Data, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
- It's getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, more than...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Richard Stiennon, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to know
- The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Justice Dept. Tuesday for information regarding the use of cellphones as tracking devices. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU had filed, back in November, a Freedom of Information Act request for documents, memos and guidelines on tracking cellphone users. ...
- Tags: Court, Cell Phone, Law Enforcement, Government, Cellular Phones, Vertical Industries, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Torrent admin is 'felony infringer'
- There are copyright infringers -- and then there are felony copyright infringers. That's a really bad copyright infringer. That's Daniel Dove, 26, the administrator of a group of "uploaders" at EliteTorrents.org a page which shows up as merely parked at GoDaddy, reports IDG. He was convicted of...
- Tags: Administrator, U.S. Department Of Justice, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs
- On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam – and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trollsa larger problemThe laws concerning patents, copyrights, and trademarks have spiralled out of control. What was once protection for a short period of time for something truly inventive has become indefinite protection for any casually obvious concept.The "intellectual property" experiment has failed. We...
- Tags: E-mail, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
- Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...
- Tags: Patent, Troll, NTP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Why your text messages are not private
- The media, including your correspondent, reported last week that the Ninth Circuit decision in Quon v Arch clearly established an employee's right of privacy in his text messages, even on an employer-issued pager. The court said that a police department that looked through an officer's text message...
- Tags: Text Message, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- ICANN to OK custom TLDs
- ICANN will dramatically expand the world of top-level domains by essentially letting companies and organizations buy their own TLDs, the Journal reports. As the article points out, .ibm and .ebay make handy TLDs, as do .nyc, .sf, and .aclu. it's not just for anyone though – it...
- Tags: ICANN, Internet, Real Estate, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...
- Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- MPAA says proof isn't necessary to convict Thomas
- PC World columnist Scott Nichols summarizes the MPAA's arguments in Capitol Records v. Thomas as saying that proof is not required in a trial. The issue, you will recall, is whether mere proof that someone "made available" content is as good as proving that they actually distributed. Says the MPAA:...
- Tags: MPAA, Evidence, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...
- Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- News to Know: Googlenomics; Windows Mobile 7 phones; Broadband hell
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Free Sourcefire tool pinpoints hostile MS Office files Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby Google using invalid security certificate Dancho Danchev: Phishers targeting Facebook users, fake logins...
- Tags: Security, Google Inc., Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Information Technology, Broadband, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Virtualization, Telecom & Utilities, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'
- Congressional leaders reached a compromise on a telecom immunity bill and the House passed it handily 293-129, AP reports. Compromise hardly seems like the word it, though. Listen to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), the lead Republican negotiator, quoted in the Wall Street Journal: ...
- Tags: Immunity, Telephony, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- AP backs down on blogging policy
- Looks like the AP has completely backed off on its idea of holding bloggers to account for quoting their news articles. AP now appears content to have "provided information" to Drudge Retort. Full statement, via PaidContent: "In response to questions about the use of Associated Press content on the...
- Tags: Associated Press, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- 9th Circuit: Employees' text messages are private
- In a major case marking out the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment in the electronic age, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that employers can't read employees' text messages if they're sent through an outside service. They can't even read email unless it's stored on the employers' servers....
- Tags: Electronic Communication, Arch Wireless, Online Communications, E-mail, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
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