It's hardly the sort of Internet policy statement one hopes to hear from judges in major democracies. "Like China, we can block all such websites [who don't comply]," Justice Suresh Cait told Facebook and Google lawyers in India yesterday. "But let us not go to that situation." No, let's not. [......]
Richard O'Dwyer, the 23-year-old British college student who operated the TVShack link site, can be extradited to the United States, ruled Judge Quentin Purdy of the Westminster Magistrates Court today. O'Dwyer's attorney says he will appeal the ruling. [......]
As the saying goes, 'If at first you don't succeed, get your stuff together and roll out another hotfix already, it's 2012!' Maybe the saying doesn't go exactly like that, but it should if you're talking about the combination of Microsoft Windows and AMD's Bulldozer line. After pushing out a Bulldozer-boosting hotfix in mid-December, the Redmond software giant pulled it offline a few days later at the request of AMD, which called the patch "incomplete." Now it's back and it has the full blessing of the Santa Clara chip maker. "Currently, the CPU scheduling techniques used by Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 are not optimized for the module architecture of the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 Series processors," AMD said in a blog post [......]
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We may not have heard much about patent licensing firm Lodsys in recent months, but independent app developers are still working together to fight the patent bully. [......]
GoDaddy gained more domains than it lost on Move Your Domain Day, a reaction to the company's former support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. According to DailyChanges (via TechDirt ), the combined domain transfers in and new registrations outstripped transfers out by a large margin. Still, the numbers were big enough for GoDaddy: the company went on record as opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) midway through the day[......]
One sign of a good judge is being able to set aside his or her personal feelings to uphold the law when it conflicts. [......]
Year in tech: the highs and lows of 2011 It was clear back in January that 2011 was going to be the year of the tablet. [......]
The stratfor.com website, breached by members of Anonymous on December 24 The Antisec wing of Anonymous revealed on Saturday that it had compromised the servers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting Inc.—allegedly seizing millions of internal documents and thousands of credit card numbers from the company, more commonly known as Stratfor. That would be a major breach of private information from any firm. But this hack could prove particularly significant, because Stratfor serves as an information-gathering resource and open source intelligence analysis for both the US military and for major corporations[......]
If you take a look at Techmeme right now, you’ll notice that the top conversation in the tech blogosphere is about Windows Phone, and more specifically why it has failed to catch on compared to Android smartphones in particular (according to Charlie Kindel , former GM of the product division). I’ve read people’s different views on this with great interest, but I feel like something’s missing: the opinion of an actual Windows Phone owner and user with no real skin in this game. Enter, well, me[......]
Righthaven's domain name went up for auction on Monday in order to satisfy court judgments against the copyright trolling firm. The auction for righthaven.com is taking place at Snapnames and will remain open through 3:15pm EST on January 6, 2012. [......]
From the Better Than Nothing Department: Days after AT&T killed its bid to buy T-Mobile, the FCC approved the telecom's $1.9 billion 700MHz spectrum purchase from Qualcomm. Read More: Wall Street Journal Read the comments on this post [......]
On Monday, the City of New York formally announced that it had chosen the winning bids for a new science and technology incubator it wants to see built on Roosevelt Island, a sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. The winner was a joint effort by Cornell University and Israel's Technion Institute[......]
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) It is showdown time in the United States Senate for friends and foes of S.968, aka the IP Protect Act , which sets up a fast track system for removing websites that rightsholders deem to be "dedicated to infringing activities." On Saturday, senators filed a motion of cloture on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) motion to proceed to the bill. Cloture puts a time frame on deliberation of any Congressional action item. [......]
Megaupload filed another response in its dispute with Universal Music Group on Friday morning, charging that the label had withheld key information about UMG's takedowns of Megaupload's video. But in its rush to get the document out the door—it was responding to arguments UMG filed less than 18 hours earlier—Megaupload seems not to have done its homework. The locker site claims that UMG's YouTube takedown was part of a broader campaign to suppress Megaupload's video on other video sites, but its evidence for this broader campaign was noticeably flimsy[......]
