by jmorga | Nov 29, 2010 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Last week, Google entered the fashion world with their announcement of Boutiques.com, a fashion e-commerce site. Recognizing that the Web is not as suited to finding and buying soft goods like clothing and accessories as it is to hard goods, Google created a fashion...
by jimhunt | Nov 16, 2010 | Commentary |
The National Labor Relations Act gives employees the right to “engage in … concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.” The rise of social networking is now asking a new question: should employees be allowed...
by emajchrz | Nov 9, 2010 | Cases, Commentary |
Last Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted an amicus curiae brief in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office case (the “Myriad genes case”), which is currently before the Federal Circuit. Commentators,...
by marysw | Nov 3, 2010 | Commentary |
The Federal Communications Commission announced on Thursday, October 28, 2010 that it had reached a record settlement with Verizon Wireless over the telecommunications giant’s so-called “mystery fees.” Verizon has agreed to pay a staggering $25 million to the U.S....
by anickow | Nov 3, 2010 | Commentary |
File-sharing on the internet was dealt a huge blow when a federal judge issued an injunction that shut down the file-sharing program LimeWire. LimeWire was a free, peer-to-peer file-sharing program that allowed users to share music, videos, and other files over the...
by houckr | Oct 31, 2010 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations |
I had not thought about email Spam mail in ages. It used to be that whenever I logged into my email, including my school email accounts, the vast majority of my emails were unsolicited junk—advertisements for Viagra or other drugs available on the cheap through...
