Regardless of the political spin surrounding the “Innocence of Muslims,” a legal battle continues in the United States.
In an interesting twist, Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who appeared in the anti-Muslim film that led to protests around the world, sought an emergency injunction. Garcia’s request to have the video removed from [...]
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Tim Tebow, the New York Jets back-up quarterback, has moved one step closer to trademarking his signature move of “Tebowing.” On October 9, the trademark was published for opposition, meaning that anyone who wants to oppose the registration has 30 days to file a substantiated claim. If no one does, then Tim [...]
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Since the advent of social media, the specter of online censorship has loomed. Last week, Twitter dove headlong into the fray with a swift one-two punch that has some celebrating and others crying foul. Nine months ago Twitter unveiled plans that would allow the company to block access to certain Twitter accounts [...]
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Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets. Motorola scales back its ITC case against Xbox. ITC rules that Samsung infringes four Apple patents. AMD, Intel, and RSA team up, form the Cyber Security Research Alliance. Patent office [...]
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The United Nations office on Drugs and Crime released a report titled: “The use of the Internet for terrorist purposes.” Part of this 148 page report is to document how terrorists utilize the internet to further [...]
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Just last month, a federal judge fined AU Optronics $500 million for its role in a massive price-fixing scheme to raise the prices of LCD screens sold in the US. Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California also sentenced two executives of the company to three years [...]
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I am guilty… of wanting my news quickly, in short, digestible snippets. That is why PBS’s News Hour with Jim Leher is difficult for me to get through. But every so often, I find myself wondering about the others. When the news media does a segment on the Holocaust, I question why the Continue Reading →
The National Hockey League (“NHL”) owners officially locked out the National Hockey League’s Players’ Association (NHLPA) about a month ago, on Sept. 15, 2012 when the parties’ collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) expired. This lockout has delayed the start of the season thus far, and may go on to prevent the entire season. Thus [...]
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It wasn’t long after the inception of AOL when email scammers fired up their own computers and began preying on unsuspecting recipients. Back then we all thought that any piece of email which found its way into our cyber mailbox must be legitimate and meant for our eyes only. Little did we know that the [...]
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The public outcry concerning legislation like SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and CISPA was unprecedented and, as far as some legislators and business interests were concerned, insurmountable. It seemed, for a moment at least, that the general public distrusted the legislature when it came to [...]
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