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FBI Celebrates That It Prevented FBI’s Own Bomb Plot

With all of the new security procedures we keep hearing about, it’s important for the government to keep convincing us that we’re under a very real immediate threat that could put us at risk at any moment. Along those lines, you may have heard over th… Continue reading

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If Newly Seized Domains Were Purely Dedicated To Infringement, Why Was Kanye West Using One?

The details of Homeland Security’s domain name seizures keeps looking more and more questionable. Early on, people were scratching their heads over the seizure of torrent-finder.com, which was a pure search engine, but the deeper that people are looki… Continue reading

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Kim Kardashian dominates Bing searches in 2010

There should be few surprises in this year’s top Bing searches. People continue to search for celebrity news, political figures, and apparently even free stuff from Walmart. Originally posted at News – Microsoft

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Publicity Rights Gone Mad: Facebook Sued For Showing You Pictures Of Friends Without Paying Them

We’ve been talking a lot about the rise of “publicity rights,” a new form of law often lumped into the “intellectual property” grouping. There are all sorts of problems with the concept of publicity rights and a bunch of them are highlighted in this n… Continue reading

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High court rejects Tiffany’s appeal in eBay suit

The U.S. Supreme Court dismisses the jewelry maker’s appeal of a 2008 ruling in favor of eBay in a trademark infringement suit. Originally posted at News – Digital Media

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ImageOptim

Maybe you’ve heard of things like Pngcrush before which supposedly does an amazing job at optimizing png files, but then when you go check it out it turns out it’s this nerdy command line tool with crappy documentation and it just doesn’t look like it’s worth the hassle. Enter ImageOptim, which is a Mac app with a super simple user interface for using Pngcrush as well as a bunch of other similar awesome compression tools. Literally just drag and…

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Justice Department Trying To Figure Out How To Twist US Laws To Charge Julian Assange

Yesterday, we noted that the Obama administration was considering legal action against Julian Assange of Wikileaks for the release of various government documents. The latest on that front is that the Justice Department is wasting valuable resources s… Continue reading

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Mobile game revenue to top $11 billion by 2015

Mobile games are becoming an important revenue source for companies. By 2015, Juniper predicts, they will be even bigger with $11 billion in annual revenue. Originally posted at The Digital Home

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Homeland Security’s Domain Name Seizure May Stretch The Law Past The Breaking Point

We had a bunch of questions concerning the legality of Homeland Security’s seizure of domain names via its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group. The whole thing seemed of extremely dubious legality. And it appears we’re not the only one… Continue reading

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EC launches antitrust probe against Google

Regulators to probe whether Google abused its dominant position as a search engine by unfairly favoring its own services in search results over those from competitors. Originally posted at News – Digital Media

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