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Silverlight TextBox Numeric Validation
While conducting a Silverlight training at one of my clients who was migrating from ASP.NET AJAX to Silverlight 4.0. While discussing input validations, my students raised a question that in AJAX we have the FilteredTextExtender using which the TextBox… Continue reading
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Foursquare rolls out Groupon Now deals
Massage therapists rejoice! The biggest daily deals site is now reportedly offering savings for what’s going down near wherever Foursquare users are. Originally posted at News – Digital Media
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Jack Kirby Declared A Mere Marvel Workerbee… Heirs Can’t Reclaim Copyrights On Hulk Or X-Men
We’ve been covering the looming boatload of copyright termination cases because it’s going to make for an interesting spectacle in the copyright realm. As you may or may not know, current copyright law in the US allows the original creator of a work t… Continue reading
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The Very Basis Of Our Patent System… Is A Myth
DWG pointed us to what appears to be Mark Lemley’s latest (and I’ll caveat that with the point that Lemley is crazy prolific, so he may have written something else more recently) paper on the patent system, in which he explores “the myth of the sole in… Continue reading
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House Committee Approves ‘Keep Every American’s Digital Data for Submission to the Federal Government Without a Warrant Act of 2011′
A few weeks ago we wrote about a ridiculously cynical attempt by some in Congress (mainly, Reps Lamar Smith, Bill Flores, Randy Forbes, Dutch Ruppersberger and Debbie Wasserman Schultz) to sneak through a massive data retention bill by pretending it … Continue reading
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Skype update connects you deeper with Facebook
Now out of beta stage, the 5.5 version of Skype for Windows lets you IM your Facebook friends and even update your Facebook status and view your Facebook wall. Originally posted at News – Digital Media
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Misleading Scientific American Report On Traffic Cameras
Tom sent over a report saying that redlight cameras aren’t just about making money for local police (and the companies who sell redlight cameras), but that one study in Barcelona found that the city saved a ton of money due to fewer accidents. Now, wh… Continue reading
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Adam Wins… A Free Lesson In How Section 230 Protects Service Providers
800notes is one of those sites that gets even more bogus legal threats than we do. The site which lets its users track and discuss telemarketers recently received a threat from a lawyer, Joel Hirschhorn, representing a guy named Adam Meyer, who sells … Continue reading
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Spotify hit with patent-infringement lawsuit
The streaming-music service is preparing to defend itelf against PacketVideo, which says Spotify violates its patent. Originally posted at The Digital Home
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Anti-Piracy Lawyer John Steele Caught Copying Content From Other Anti-Piracy Lawyer
A year and a half ago, in writing about all the new law offices jumping into the mass “anti-piracy” shakedown lawsuit business, one of the early ones we covered was an operation called the Copyright Enforcement Group — or CEG. Oddly, we haven’t seen … Continue reading
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