Archive for November 6, 2009
Droid Launch: Is This The Start of The Android Revolution?
Nov 6th
With its large, vibrant 3.7 inch WVGA (854 x 480 pixels), the Motorola Droid hits the shelves today, ready for the Android-hungry masses. Beyond its sharp display, the Droid comes with free turn-by-turn GPS, a fast Web browser, 5.0 megapixel camera — the Droid may just yet live up to its buzz and hype.
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/motorola-droid-android-revolution/
Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
Nov 6th
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well.
We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing the world to require ISPs to adopt “graduated response” policies that amounted to terminating internet service of repeat, copyright offenders.
MSNBC's Twitter Account Hacked [NSFW]
Nov 6th
As you may know, many companies these days are running live twitter feeds to let people know what is happening on a day to day basis. One such company, MSBNC, runs a live feed of all news updates.
All things were going well, until recently when it seemed to be hacked.
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IFPI Loses: Telenor Will Not Block The Pirate Bay
Nov 6th
Earlier this year, the IFPI gave Norwegian ISP Telenor an ultimatum – block access to The Pirate Bay within days or get taken to court. Telenor refused, IFPI followed through with its threat and the case was heard earlier this month. The decision was announced today. IFPI lost the case and Telenor will not have to block The Pirate Bay.
http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-loses-telenor-will-not-block-the-pirate-bay-091106/
Big cable: move millions from phone subsidies to broadband
Nov 6th
The cable industry is proposing a sweeping measure to simplify the nation’s subsidy system for rural phone service providers. Make it tougher for providers to get Universal Service Fund High Cost program subsidy money, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association recommends, in areas where an unsubsidized wireline service is available via a cable company or similar provider.
Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace
Nov 6th
DG News Service – Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users’ data and photos.
The simple coding errors are alarming considering the extent to which social networks have gone to reassure their users that their data will be safe. The problem involved the way the sites handle requests for data from other domains, known as the “cross-domain policy.”
Judge Halts Online Sale of Beatles Songs
Nov 6th
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online site, setting aside a preposterous argument that it had copyrights on songs via a process called “psycho-acoustic simulation.”
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/bluebeat-claims-to-own-new-copyrights-to-old-beatles-songs/
New York's Attorney General files an antitrust suit against Intel.
Nov 6th
“Intel has engaged in a systematic worldwide campaign of illegal, exclusionary conduct to maintain its monopoly power and prices in the market for x86 microprocessors,” the suit asserts. “By exacting exclusive or near-exclusive agreements from large computer makers in exchange for payments totaling billions of dollars, and threatening retaliation against any company that did not heed its wishes, Intel robbed its competitors of the opportunity to challenge Intel’s dominance in key segments of the market. This illegal behavior was highly detrimental to consumers, competition, and innovation.”
MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million
Nov 6th
The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most popular social network.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/myspace-traffic-drop-costs-news-corp-about-100-million/
