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Apple gets kicked in the teeth by German patent lawsuit decisions

February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments

I like Apple products. God knows I own and use enough of them. But, I hate their out-sourcing business practices and their world-wide anti-Android lawsuits. So, when I learned this morning that Motorola Mobility had won a permanent injunction against Apple’s iCloud service in Germany because of a patent violation and Motorola had followed that [...]

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Tags: Apple · Business · Google · Infrastructure · Legal · Motorola · SmartPhone · Tablet

Closing Megaupload unlikely to even slow piracy down

January 24th, 2012 · No Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice working in conjunction with New Zealand’s law enforcement agencies has taken down the popular file-storage and sharing site Megaupload. So, since Megaupload has been shut down, Internet piracy has gone down significantly, right? Right? Well, probably not, NPD market researcher Russ Crupnick said, “Only about 3 percent of the U.S. [...]

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Tags: Business · Internet · Legal · Network · Network Services · Peer to Peer · Web Services

How Anonymous took down the DoJ, RIAA, MPAA and Universal Music Websites

January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off

When the U.S. Department of Justice working in conjunction with New Zealand’s law enforcement agencies took down the popular file-storage and sharing site Megaupload and arrested its executives, they never counted on the Internet-based hacker and protest group, Anonymous, attacking the Department of Justice (DoJ), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of [...]

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Tags: Business · Legal · Network · Network Services · Security · Web browser · Web Services

Who, besides Wikipedia, is going dark and why

January 17th, 2012 · Comments Off

There is nothing wrong with your Internet. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. The reason you won’t be able to use Wikipedia, Reddit, or numerous other Web sites on January 18th is that these Web sites have decided to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Here’s my [...]

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Tags: Business · Internet · Legal · Management · Network · Web Services

SOPA Derailed

January 16th, 2012 · Comments Off

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Member Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) opponent has announced that he has been assured by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has promised him that he will not bring the bill to the floor. That mean, for all practical intents and purposes, that SOPA is dead. In [...]

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Tags: Internet · Legal · Network