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EU Redo: Microsoft antitrust case back to square 2?

OK. So, the European Union's antitrust case hasn't gone quite back to square one. In fact, it's not even clear what square it has gone back to. But, in what appears to be a case of history repeating itself, it has definitely gone back. Reminiscent...

Tags: Legal, JUDGE

Blog posts 2005-06-20

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Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America

I recently blogged about the EPA's move against major greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. Well, the utilities, industrial air polluters, fossil fuel industry and their allies are fighting another, equally crucial war to maintain their current business models. This attack on Big Energy is led by a...

Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Kivalina, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Word saved? Microsoft gets stay of injunction in i4i patent battle

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave Microsoft a win in its patent battle with i4i: A stay of an injunction that would prevent the software giant from selling Word. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Patent, Stay, Injunction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Court lifts FCC limits on cable ownership

Look out, here comes Comcast. The cable giant's ambitions have long been stymied by a 1993 FCC rule that limited any one cable company's business to 30 percent of the U.S. market. Friday, the D.C. Circuit threw out that rule as "arbitrary and capricious" (the standard for...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, Video, Corporate Communications, Cable, Network Technology, Marketing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-30

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional

Are there no restraints built into the constitution ...... concerning punishments fitting the crime when it comes to statutary law? Does this mean that it is perfectly legal for Congress to pass a law stating that it is e.g. okay to amputate a man's hands or even hang him, if...

Tags: Financial accounting, RIAA, activist judge, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges

So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....

Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you

Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon,  for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Once more on SCO

From this blog for January 8 2008: What's worst about [the hate mail I get when ever I comment on SCO] , however, is that the "groklaw effect" has become a significant component in the overall Linux "gestalt" - and just about everything most of that mob has been...

Tags: Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., Unix, IBM Corp., Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-21

Patent wars: EchoStar cheers reexamination of Tivo patent; Tivo scoffs

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will reexamine the claims of Tivo's "Time Warp" patent--again--at EchoStar’s request. EchoStar, which recently lost a lawsuit against Tivo over the patent, requested the reexamination. Tivo won an injunction against EchoStar and asked the U.S. District Court to hold the satellite...

Tags: Patent, TiVo Inc., U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, EchoStar Communications Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up

RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...

Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Circuit City in talks for sale; Best Buy narrows its fiscal 2009 targets

Circuit City said Friday that it is in talks with "two highly motivated and interested parties" about selling the company as a going concern. Meanwhile, Best Buy, the largest electronics retailer in the U.S., reckons it continues to take market share. Circuit City asked the bankruptcy court...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market

Wireless watchers may have noticed that Buffalo Technology disappeared from the router game some time back, due to a successful suit brought against it by an Australian company organization. But Buffalo may be getting back in the market, due to a new court decision that stayed the injunction against it...

Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Games, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who’s buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iPhone, Enterprise Software, Intel Corp., Larry Dignan, Management, Middleware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Strategy, Web Services

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional

The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....

Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-13

Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise

Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...

Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise

It's a big day for open source software as a U.S. District Appeals Court ruled that just because a developer gave code away for free doesn't mean it's not copyright protected. The win, which stemmed from a railroad hobbyist spat, was praised by Stanford's Lawrence Lessig. The...

Tags: Eleventh Circuit, Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Cablevision, part 2: Is RS-DVR like a VCR or a copy shop?

(See Part 1: Buffering is not copying) Direct liability for creating playback copies The plaintiffs charged that Cablevision violated its reproduction right by creating copies for playback to customers. The question here is who made the copies. "If it is Cablevision, plaintiffs’ theory of...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VCR, Netcom, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Kozinski's porn site: Nobody's business if he do?

Granted, it's got to be embarrassing for Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski to have his private porn stash exposed â€" especially when presiding over an obscenity trial. But in an editorial, the L.A. Times, which broke the story, asks this question: So what? ...

Tags: Porn Site, Judge, Kozinski, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Patent reform dead for 2008

Patent reform dead for 2008Patent "REFORM"What annoys me about pundits who write about patents is that invariably they have never filed for or prosecuted a patent. Thus, they inveigh for things that they have no clue about. Most of the patent legislation is a balancing of special interests....

Tags: patent, Patent Reform

Discussion threads 2008-05-15