Google faces antitrust allegations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the European Union (EU), and in Texas that Google's search engine favors its own services in search results and charges rivals higher ad rates. So when asked to testify...
TechLaw10 hosts Jonathan Armstrong and Eric Sinrod discuss legal issues related to information technology. In this episode, Jonathan and Eric discuss a recent Android and iOS app that claimed to treat acne with colored lights emitted from the smartphone...
Senator Ron Wyden blocked a change to the Copyright Act which would have allowed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to order search engines and ISP to stop sending traffic of websites accused of infringing copyrights. The proposed law is called "...
Special Masters can help Judges and parties in eDiscovery disputes and also reduce the cost of litigation. Also managing eDiscovery can be improved by using eMediators who can help simply eDiscovery disputes and reduce motion practice. My recent article...
Google will not be accused of copyright infringement by posting the Dead Sea Scrolls unlike the current litigation about Google's Books Library Project where Google is scanning millions of books to be freely available. Although the litigation ...
With 2010 revenue of about $240 million LinkedIn's IPO $9.1 billion foreshadows an unbelievable value for Facebook when it has an IPO. Particularly since Facebook had 2010 revenue of about $2 billion, and that Hitwise most recent report of the...
New York, September 12 th - Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers LexisNexis' Janet Bartoli will speak at the NYC International Search Summit , next month in September - This presentation will be for SEO in-house professionals, discussing some...
Copyright protection extends to cloud music lockers based on a new federal court ruling. US District Judge William H. Pauley III in New York granted judgments in favor of MP3tunes and Michael Robertson on August 22, 2011 under the Digital Millennium...
Apparently eBay wants to spread the word that it opposes an Internet sales tax. I wrote my eCommerce Times Legal Column recently about Internet sales taxes entitled " Sales Taxes on the Internet: Is This the Year We'll Pay?" I suspect...
Today’s next-generation manufacturing is marked by speed and technology. However, technology can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, technological innovations and advancements have resulted in a manufacturing resurgence in the United States. On...
Apple claims 160 million iPhone, iPod, and iPad users world-wide and given the popularity of Apple apps- it's no surprise at Apple's announcement of 10 billion apps downloaded. The 10 billion apps comes on the heels of Steve Jobs' announcement...
China's dominant search engine Baidu announced a new licensing that will permit legal downloads and streaming music to millions of Chinese users . A recent NY Times report described the new deal that will change China's image for providing illegal...
My 30+ minute video about the 10 Commandments of IT Contracts is available for viewing thanks to my friends at Financial Management Network (& parent SmartPros Ltd .). For more than 30 years I've negotiated and litigated hundreds of IT contracts...
While a Michigan couple was married the husband and wife shared a computer and the husband had access to his wife's email password.... but according to the Detroit Free Press he ex-husband has now been charged with a felony for looking at his...
Purportedly Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the original web designer 84% of the company and a New York Judge issued the designer's TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) which has been challenged by Zuckerberg and Facebook . Paul Ceglia's lawsuit...
Apparently Microsoft did not learn its lesson hiring Jerry Seinfeld to help launch Vista in the fall of 2008, now apparently Tiger Woods will be Microsoft's spokesman for Windows 7! Is it possible that Steve Ballmer actually said ???: "This...
Wikipedia turned 10 years old in January 2011 with more than 3.5 million English articles and in more than 250 languages, but only about 15% of the articles have been posted by women. Actually based on a joint study in 2010 of Wikipedia of the contributor...
Not only was Google's roll out of Buzz in 2010 badly received by the user community, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a Complaint for Google's violation of its own Privacy Policies: ...Google launched its Buzz social network through...
Google settled a dispute about rejecting ads with the French Competition Authority including a 3 month notification period for the future when rejecting ads. Navx bought ads from Google to help drivers avoid speeding tickets by providing "online...
Google's Eric Schmidt said in a recent interview that Google+ users should be not be anonymous since it would be better "if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer." Schmidt's...
By Shabbi S. Khan Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by the year 2020. IoT has been a buzzword over the past couple of years. However, the buzz surrounding IoT in the year 2015...
Within 10 days of the riots in the UK a judge sentenced two young men, 20 and 22, to 4 years in jail for using Facebook. Without question Social Media has transformed communications and impacted the UK riots, but one might wonder if the courts may...
276 domain names maliciously used by Waledac botnets were transferred to Microsoft, even though Waledac never participated in the suit. Waledac sent more than 1.5 billion daily spam messages in 2009. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued the Order...
Check out this video discussion about Software as a Service (SaaS), just produced at LegalTech New York! Moderator Tom Mighell is joined by legal technology experts and nationally known legal blawgers, Carolyn Elefant , and Robert Ambrogi , and...
By the fall of 2011 BlackBerry mobile devices will use Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine (with Bing maps) in direct competition with Google and to try to capture location based marketing opportunities. This should not be a surprise...