Archive for 2011/12/06
E-book substitutes paper book in Germany
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsAn advertising network has been found not guilty of copyright infringement for serving ads to a site offering links to unauthorized copies of ebooks
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Online advertisingThe case, brought by Elsevier and ‘For Dummies’ publisher Wiley & Sons, sought to find the Chitika ad network liable for contributory infringement, even though it produced no evidence of direct infringement, or that the network had knowledge of the e-book site’s allegedly infringing behavior
KPN, Vodafone and T-mobile in The Netherlands raided. Suspected of illegal price fixing
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / Awareness, EnforcementDutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2686359/invallen-bij-kpn-vodafone-en-t-mobile.html
The things that Carrier IQ can see
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection1. IMEI code
2. MSID number
3. Phone numbers ‘of things that are dialed’ (does this include codes and account numbers?)
I would say, as Carrier IQ, if we had direct relationships with consumers, if we were a normal application company, we’d have to build up trust and say “do you mind if we do A, do you mind if we do B, do you mind if we do C.” But in the service provider world, that question just hasn’t really come up… until recently
Much more:
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/5/2609662/carrier-iq-interview
Organizations and regulators across Europe, including Germany, have started looking into the use of Carrier IQ’s tracking software, to ensure that mobile phone vendors and operators are not violating users’ privacy
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / AwarenessCarrier IQ last week said its software is only used to diagnose operational problems on networks and mobile devices, and does not record, store or transmit the contents of SMS messages, email, photographs, audio or video.
Europe Warns ISPs and Businesses to Act Now and Adopt IPv6 ASAP
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / AwarenessDid the U.S. Create the Conficker Virus to Wipe Out Iran’s Nukes?
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / AwarenessDARPA recently laid down a challenge to computer scientists: work out how to reconstruct shredded pages of paper. The winning team has finished – two days ahead of schedule
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / AwarenessThough there isn’t much information available about the tools they used to solve the problems, it is known that their winning algorithm automatically pieced together matching scraps based on factors like the shape of the rip or the marks on the paper
Time Warner chief touts TV Everywhere; disses Netflix again
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsDutch movie industry supports ban on downloading from an illegal source. Also wants government to deal with businesses and criminal organizations engaging in large scale copyright infringement
Posted: 2011/12/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, EnforcementDutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/film/2685896/filmindustrie-steunt-downloadverbod-teeven.html
