Attackers brought down sites belonging to the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America and anti-piracy firm AiPlex Software. – A group of piracy advocates launched coordinated attacks on Websites belonging to the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and anti-piracy firm AiPlex Software.
The attacks, which occurred during the past few days, temporarily knocked the sites offl…
The FCC has presented its National Broadband Plan, which advocates bringing affordable broadband access to more Americans, and also suggests that more broadband can help boost health care IT in the United States. Specifically, the FCC is claiming that increased broadband to physicians and hospitals will help transmit increasingly larger files, such as medical imaging, and will help promote the development of tools such as smartphone applications for physicians and patients.
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The Federal Communications Commission is advocating
smartphone applications for physicians, along with increased broadband
connectivity to hospitals and physicians that currently lack the service, as
part of its just-revealed National Broadband Plan. The FCC cites the rising
need f…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation contends that recent New Jersey court rulings that shut down three H-1B protest sites are out of legal bounds. An EFF official calls the moves dangerous and wrong, and argues that the state’s court is failing to safeguard the right of anonymous speech.
– The December shutdown by a New
Jersey court of three H-1B protest sites accused of libel ITgrunt.com,
Endh1b.com and Guestworkerfraud.com has legal technology advocates up in arms.
The Electronic Frontier
Foundation has said the court is doing damage to the constitutional right of
anonymous fr…
The Federal Communications Commission’s initial outline of the National Broadband Plan to be presented to Congress in February draws sharp criticism for ignoring competition issues involving the duopoly of local cable and telephone companies.
– The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) released Dec. 16 an outline of its preliminary National Broadband Plan
to be delivered to Congress in 63 days. The initial plan calls for
opening up the marketplace for cable set-top boxes and expansion of the
Universal Service Fund.
The outline also…
Amazon.com executive Sharon Chiarella used a presentation at the Global Sourcing Forum and Expo in New York City to extol the benefits of crowdsourcing for organizations, citing the companies using Amazon.coms Mechanical Turk platform. Mechanical Turk enlists massive online crowds to help companies complete tasks.
– NEW YORK – A million strangers could benefit
a company more than a handful of highly trained employees, at least if you
subscribe to the concept of crowdsourcing. In the case of Amazon.com and its
Mechanical Turk, the online retailers vice president Sharon Chiarella told the
audience at the Glob…
Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft employ behavioral targeting, in which cookies collect information on users’ Web browsing habits, to better tailor online ad campaigns to consumers. This practice doesn’t sit well with consumer and privacy advocates, which are urging Congress to crack down on behavioral targeting and the Federal Trade Commission to set up a registry to help users opt out of such practices.
– Consumer advocates concerned about what they see as the erosion of Web
surfers’ online privacy urged Congress on Sept. 1 to crack down on behavioral targeting
and asked the Federal Trade Commission to set up a registry to let users opt
out of data collection.
Search engines such as Google, Yahoo…
The Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Watchdog urge the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to look closely to make sure the at the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo search deal does not violate antitrust laws or citizens’ privacy rights. Fearing too much meddling from antitrust regulators, The Competitive Enterprise Institute calls for the DOJ and FTC to bless the deal. One reader argues that Yahoo shareholders will turn tail and run from Microsoft.
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If Microsoft and Yahoo are to consummate their search and
search ad agreement by early 2010 to start chipping away at market leader
Google’s 65 percent market share, they are going to have to run through quite
the gauntlet of opposition.
Google hasn’t said much about the July 29 ag…
A heated argument is going on about the right health insurance model between those those who believe in a public option and those who believe…
Can Legitimate Small Business Groups be Funded by Fortune 500 Firms? Can an organization claim to represent the interests of small businesses and never lift…
