On June 10, the Associated Press sent Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown orders to Rogers Cadenhead's site The Drudge Retort for seven different articles the news service claims violated copyright.
Drudge Retort is painted as a liberal alternative to the Drudge Report and receives editorial content from about 25 writers. The Associated Press found six instances of bloggers recycling AP copyrighted material, and one instance of a commenter doing the same.
A sweeping copyright reform bill officially introduced in the Canadian Parliament yesterday would impose stiff penalties on individuals circumventing DRM protection, including on TV programming, and would illegalize DRM-breaking tools.
Canada's Industry Minister Jim Prentice (Con. - Alberta) and Heritage Minister Josee Verner (Con. - Quebec) have introduced a copyright reform bill that updates regulations on digital rights management, file sharing, and penalties associated with trading copyrighted materials.
A senior Republican US Senator has accused Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin of misleading Congress and the Justice Dept. about the XM + Sirius merger deal. But this round of opposition has a familiar flavor to it.
Sen. Sam Brownback (R - Kansas), ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, has long opposed the XM + Sirius merger, saying in April that the Department of Justice had "made a mistake" last March when it found nothing anti-competitive about the combination of the two satellite radio companies.
Building upon technology from Sigma Designs Inc., renowned cabling company Monster has announced the upcoming availability of its Wireless Digital Express HD wireless HD and ultra-wideband-over coaxial system.
The system will require two boxes: a transmitter that connects to the media components (DVD, Blu-ray, and set top boxes), and a receiver that connects to the TV's HDMI port.
Yesterday, a high-ranking congressman issued a belated clarion call for procedurally improving the US' data security, citing data breaches that took place two years ago believed to have been perpetrated by China.
Back in August 2006, Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R - Va.) -- ranking member on the House State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee -- noted that four of his office's computers had been hacked: his chief of staff's, his legislative director's, a foreign policy and human rights staff member's, and one belonging to a member of his judiciary staff. Rep. Wolf believed whoever was responsible was seeking information about casework on behalf of political dissidents and human rights activists.
Comcast announced today that it has increased the upstream speeds nationwide for customers of two of its residential Internet packages, from 384 and 768 Kbps to 1 and 2 Mbps, respectively.
The nation's number two broadband service provider in 2007, behind AT&T, announced this morning it is tripling the upstream speed of its Performance and Performance Plus residential high-speed Internet packages that range from $42.95-$67.95 a month were announced to have "nearly tripled" in speed.
Originally signing a deal in February of this year, Symantec has completed its acquisition of online backup and storage service SwapDrive and related properties for a reported $125 million.
Online backup service Swapdrive is now labeled with a prominent Symantec logo and states "Now part of Symantec!" along with SwapDrive affiliates (and former acquisition targets themselves) backup.com and whalemail.com.
Glassdoor.com, a site that allows users to anonymously share workplace information -- including salary, job satisfaction, and workplace and protocol reviews -- has opened in beta.
With currently around 3,300 reviews and salary reports of almost 250 companies, Glassdoor seeks to, in the company's words, "become the TripAdvisor of the workplace." To do this, the site asks users to first submit an anonymous profile containing information about their current or former employer (from two years prior or less) before they can access anyone else's in-depth information.
Andrew Cuomo, New York's high-profile Attorney General, announced yesterday his office has made agreements with Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint to block child pornography newsgroups and known sites.
The statement issued from the Attorney General's office contains the following passage: "An undercover investigation...uncovered a major source of online child pornography known as 'Newsgroups.'"
Microsoft has released a public beta of the first Windows Home Server update in order to show the world it has finally fixed an embarrassing data corruption bug it discovered six months ago and has been trying to correct since.
The public beta of Home Server Power Pack 1 is intended to help the Windows Home Server team "prove we fixed 'the bug'" that plagued the product's initial launch last year. The "bug" in question was a data corruption issue that occurred when certain programs were used to edit or transfer files stored on a Windows Home Server-based computer that has more than one hard drive.
Disney Entertainment has begun streaming full-length movies on its Web site immediately following their airing on ABC television this summer
ABC is a part of Disney's entertainment and news television properties, and will air a different Disney film every Saturday night during the summer, on "The Wonderful World of Disney." That's nice for slumber parties and kids who get to stay up late, but as some parents have noted, even 11:00 pm Eastern time is past many young viewers' bedtimes.
EMI has withdrawn from the RIAA complaint against XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer Inno, an XM receiver that allows users to record the satellite service directly to MP3 or WMA.
The RIAA's suit, filed in May 2006, alleged the Pioneer Inno was a device built for the express purpose of copyright infringement, and asked for huge reparations for every song that users copied.
Today AOL opened a new version of radio.aol.com, with CBS terrestrial radio stations now available through a dramatically revised front console.
AOL Radio offers over 200 free online radio stations and 150 local CBS Radio affiliate stations. When users tune into an AOL Radio station, an "album view" image is shown in the main window, offering more information on the artist, song, and album on AOL Music. Certain tracks have "Buy" icons that link to download shops such as iTunes for purchase.
HP has announced that its Blackbird 002 will be made available for the first time through select retail channels beginning June 29.
Offering in an "exclusive configuration" for retail, the Blackbird 002 will be sold through Amazon.com and Newegg.com, as well as through Best Buy, Circuit City, J&R, and Micro Center both in brick-and-mortar stores and online shops.
Engaged in patent-infringement lawsuits in three federal courts, and under two US International Trade Commission investigations for well over a year, HP and Acer summarily ended their battle on Sunday.
HP threw the first punch in March 2007 in the US District court of the Eastern District of Texas, calling for monetary compensation for- and an injunction upon Acer's computers which supposedly infringed on five patents (referred to in the original suit as "the '721, '697, '211, '933, and '759 patents") held by HP, three of which it obtained when it acquired Compaq.