AT&T this morning released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011. [......]
The second of two GPS trackers found recently on the vehicle of a young man in California. All nine justices of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment rule against unreasonable search and seizure when they attached a GPS device to a suspect's car and tracked it for 28 days without a warrant[......]
Acer is in a bit of trouble. [......]
AT&T sure isn’t wasting any time on shoring up their LTE lineup: just a few weeks after the HTC Vivid and Samsung GSII Skyrocket hit the scene, AT&T has announced that the LG Nitro HD will hit the streets on December 4 for $249.99. Better known as the Optimus LTE outside of the United States, the Nitro HD sports a pretty impressive spec sheet[......]
Last Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution ahead of a forthcoming summit between Europe and the United States. It included a section on "the need to protect the integrity of the global Internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names." That provision was added at the urging of the civil liberties organization European Digital Rights (EDRi). In a presentation to the Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee, EDRi's Joe McNamee noted that "the United States has, up until recently, never sought to exploit its theoretical jurisdiction over the companies and infrastructure that are at the core of the Internet." Obviously, that is changing[......]
The entertainment giant Viacom is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn last year's ruling that Google is not liable for copyright-infringing Viacom content uploaded to its YouTube site. Speaking Tuesday before a three-judge panel, a Viacom lawyer argued that the lower court erred in holding that YouTube was eligible for the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read the comments on this post [......]
It was January 1982. Despite a nasty recession, the personal computer revolution was in full swing. [......]
The United States Senator who fiercely opposed Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal is back in the trenches again, this time inveighing against AT&T's proposed buyout of T-Mobile USA. [......]
Printer and digital camera maker Canon today posted consolidated results for the second quarter and first half ended June 30, 2011, and blamed the March 11 earthquake and tsunami for its drop in profits. [......]
Google continued to demonstrate its commitment to transparency on Monday by releasing fresh statistics on the number of times it has disclosed private user data to a government, or removed content at government request. The country-by-country report covers the second half of 2010. [......]
As part of a $500 million package aimed at funding homegrown innovation and high-tech jobs, the National Robotics Initiative is $70 million intended for "the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people." Sounds good to me! We’ve already got enough hunter-killers and such . President Obama announced the initiative and the rest of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership at CMU’s National Robotics Engineering Center. We see a lot of bots coming out of Carnegie Mellon, so it’s no surprise the announcement would take place there[......]
Earlier this month we covered a UN report that argued that "three strikes" laws that deprive alleged copyright infringers of Internet access violate human rights. The report was delivered by an independent UN investigator, and so didn't represent the view of any UN member governments. Michael Geist notes that on Friday, Sweden made remarks at the UN Human Rights Council that endorsed many of the report's findings, including the criticism of "three strikes" rules. [......]
Earlier this month we covered a UN report that argued that "three strikes" laws that deprive alleged copyright infringers of Internet access violate human rights. The report was delivered by an independent UN investigator, and so didn't represent the view of any UN member governments[......]
The United States government's National Broadband Map has been out for three months and hasn't generated much heat—until now. Suddenly advocates from the New America Foundation are posting commentaries calling the project a big disappointment. [......]
Registration for QuakeCon 2011 , the annual PC gaming convention and LAN party is now open, and seats are filling up quickly. QuakeCon is considered one of the United States' largest bring-your-own-computer (BYOC) PC gaming festivals and it grew from an event with fewer than one hundred attendees to one with just under ten thousand[......]
