Archive for 2011/03/26
Facebook Deals will be all about “social experiences”
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsWIPO Wants Service Providers To Act As Trademark Spies And Police
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / AwarenessThe word is that the US Department of Justice may sue Google over its proposed $700m acquisition of flight data outfit ITA Software. And we can only hope that the feds have far more than flight data on the brain
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Google, Litigation, New Business Models, Public PolicyAs it investigates whether Google could use its web search monopoly to erect a second monopoly in the flight search market, the DoJ must also ask whether the company could do much the same thing in who knows how many other markets
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/google_and_the_feds/
The security provided by HTTPS is dependent on trust. Without that trust, HTTPS can no longer be regarded as effective protection against eavesdropping. But is that trust deserved? A recent incident suggests not
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionAn advocate general to the European Court of Justice has recommended that restrictions be placed on the use of trademarked keywords in Google’s AdWords
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, New Business ModelsGoogle has so far avoided liability, but the companies buying the keywords may not get off so easy
Both the Swedish Pirate Party and The Pirate Bay disappeared from the Internet causing concern among their users. While they have both now returned, it appears that the Party downtime was caused by the unauthorized use of their servers “for commercial purposes”, something which is expressly forbidden
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / Awareness2011 UK Budget Speech Triggered Business Broadband ISP Traffic Surge
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionBusiness ISP Star reported that network traffic from its 3,500 business customers increased by +18.52% above normal during the speech, as employees logged on during work hours to watch the event unfold
Rights Holders Expect UK ISPs to Launch New Music Services this Summer
Posted: 2011/03/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionThe aim has, as always, been to facilitate the development of new legal ways for people to access music without resorting to “illegal“ internet copyright infringement (p2p piracy) activity.
