Slashdot points us to a troubling report out of Canada, concerning a scientist who appears to have been given something of a gag order concerning her research about depleted salmon stocks. I have to admit that the article in the Vancouver Sun is not p… Continue reading →

A new video spoof from Microsoft takes a crack at Google’s use of contextual advertising in Gmail, equating the practice to a real-life delivery person called the “Gmail Man.” Originally posted at News – Microsoft

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A whole bunch of you have been submitting the recent story from Variety, that picks up on the silly takedown of Peanutweeter, and notes that at least some brands have realized that it’s good to embrace such parody accounts even if they’re technically i… Continue reading →

It’s been quite a week for UK copyright law, hasn’t it? Today alone we’ve reported on UK courts deciding that they’re qualified to rule on US copyright law and that merely clicking a link to open a web page can be infringement. To top it all off, the… Continue reading →

The social network’s promoted tweets ad platform is getting a higher profile today with a new program that puts those paid tweets from companies into user streams. Originally posted at News – Digital Media

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Rock Paper Shotgun brings us the unfortunate (but rather unsurprising) news that Ubisoft will be (once again) requiring an online connection to play their upcoming title, Driver: San Francisco. As far as DRM options go, this is by far the worst one, es… Continue reading →

We were just reporting on how Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was tap dancing around some specific questions about how much warrantless spying on Americans US federal intelligence agencies do. Much of that discussion revolved around th… Continue reading →

We’ve been covering Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall’s attempts to get folks working in national intelligence to explain their secret interpretation of certain provisions of the PATRIOT Act. It hasn’t been too difficult to piece together the implicat… Continue reading →

Late last year there was a ridiculous ruling against news aggregator Meltwater in the UK. Meltwater, like a number of other news aggregators, pulls together headlines from various online news stories, along with brief snippets of the articles, and lin… Continue reading →

Hello Spotify. Welcome to America, where if you do anything even remotely innovative, you get sued for patent infringement. Indeed, just a couple weeks after entering the US market (finally), Spotify is being sued by PacketVideo for patent infringeme… Continue reading →