For years now, we’ve put up with absolutely ridiculous security theater in airports around the globe, and while almost everyone who flies knows it’s a joke, you never seem to hear anyone who actually works in the airliner business point this out. Howe… Continue reading →

A guy named Charles Harris, who wrote a political booklet about the process by which America elects Presidents, is apparently suing Oprah Winfrey for copyright infringement, saying that she “plagiarized” his work, when she quoted it on her TV show, wit… Continue reading →

Levinsohn, who was key in the MySpace acquisition, will take over Yahoo’s Americas region, running the media group, advertising sales, and partnerships. Originally posted at The Digital Home

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Opera Software introduces some changes that are going to make the Opera Mini 5.1 beta browser significantly more user-friendly for some Nokia Symbian S60 smartphone owners. Originally posted at The Download Blog

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You know those silly elastic wristbands that kids wear? Yeah, well, apparently the company BCP Imports makes the (apparently?) popular brand of them called Silly Bandz, and has somehow copyrighted some aspect of the bands.

Anyway, that company is n… Continue reading →

Web storage company boosts capacity on both its free and paid plans, offering five times as much space to free users, and no limits to enterprise users. Originally posted at Web Crawler

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In another win for free speech rights over an overly aggressive gov’t attempt to censor, a federal judge issued an injunction barring a Massacusetts law that tried to ban certain works from the internet for being “harmful to minors.” The judge noted t… Continue reading →

Someone, who prefers to remain anonymous, sent over the news that a company named Everglades Interactive has sued basically all of the big “social gaming” providers for patent infringement. Among those sued are EA, Playdom, Disney (which just bought P… Continue reading →

We’ve written a few times about the Parents Television Council, the infamous nonprofit group that sends out alerts any time anything it considers indecent is aired on TV or shows up elsewhere that the PTC doesn’t like. Back when Kevin Martin was at th… Continue reading →

We’ve written a few times about the Parents Television Council, the infamous nonprofit group that sends out alerts any time anything it considers indecent is aired on TV or shows up elsewhere that the PTC doesn’t like. Back when Kevin Martin was at th… Continue reading →