by mwueste | Apr 3, 2013 | Commentary |
Two stories in the past week have called attention once again to the growth of the service industry and a corresponding decline in the amount of products/property available to the public. Maxis, a video game developer and subsidiary of video game giant Electronic...
by mxliu | Mar 10, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
In an interesting twist to the ongoing saga between Apple and Samsung, Judge Lucy Koh cut the damage award to Apple by over four hundred million dollars, reducing total recovery from 1.05 billion to 599 million. As a quick background, Apple sued Samsung for patent...
by dazwick | Feb 24, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
While Facebook has had some recent success in Europe vis-à-vis its policies – this week winning a challenge in Germany against its “real names” policy – the EU currently has several proposals on the table that have the potential to seriously impact Facebook’s data...
by burnsce | Feb 24, 2013 | Commentary, Quick Links |
Microsoft has created a new ad campaign attacking Gmail. And for good reason: Gmail has 425 million active users as of June 2012. As of November 2012, the new Outlook has only 25 million users. Microsoft’s campaign is striking on the fact that Gmail...
by pkeros | Feb 12, 2013 | Commentary |
This past July, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that digital software distributions services, such as Steam and Origin, cannot prevent users from reselling their digital copies of games, regardless of the EULA they signed. Using what seems similar to...
by amalson | Feb 4, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, MTTLR Journal |
The University of Michigan just recently won a lawsuit in which the University was alleged of copyright infringement in its effort to digitize its library contents. On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines...
