How do you create a social network to compete with Facebook? Easy, just make a crude clone of it and call it Youface. That’s what Ayub Abdulloh did in Uzbekistan.
According to Radio Free Europe, he didn’t seem too bothered by …
Politics & Law
Should the FBI Be Allowed to Wiretap Facebook?
The crime-fighting agency seeks new powers to “listen in” on the Internet and social media.
via Should the FBI Be Allowed to Wiretap Facebook? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com.
The New York Bill that Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech
Watching faceless online passerby troll bloggers or mock fellow scribblers can be a drag, but what if legislators’ answer to online ne’er-do-wells was to ban anonymous comments from websites entirely? That’s what the state of New …
Facebook, Wall Street Banks Sued Over Pre-IPO Financial Forecasts
Just days after its controversial IPO, Facebook and its Wall Street bankers have been hit by shareholder lawsuits alleging that the social networking giant and its underwriters concealed the company’s decelerating revenue growth from investors.
via Facebook, Wall Street Banks Sued Over Pre-IPO Financial Forecasts | Business | TIME.com.
Xbox 360 Should Be Banned from U.S. for Violating Patents, Judge Says
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 should be banned from import and sales in the United States for violating Motorola patents, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled.
The Xbox 360 violates four Motorola patents, according to ITC …
Facebook IPO Furor: Feds Probing Deal over Insider Bank Warnings
Facebook’s Wall Street investment banks warned top clients of new doubts about the social network’s financial prospects just days before the company’s IPO, according to a series of reports that emerged Tuesday.
via Facebook IPO Furor: Feds Probing Deal Over Insider Bank Warnings | Business | TIME.com.
No Supreme Court Relief for Joel Tenenbaum’s $675K Piracy Fine
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, who illegally downloaded music during college and now faces a $675,000 fine.
Tenenbaum’s been battling the music industry since 2007, over charges that …
After Facebook’s $16 Billion IPO, Company Sued for $15 Billion
And just like that, Facebook is officially a publicly tradable stock after the company sold over 420 million shares at $38 a pop yesterday to raise $16 billion for its IPO. Also “just like that,” the company’s been sued by some …
New HTC Android Phones Tweaked to Evade Apple Patents
When a judge found HTC guilty of infringing two Apple patents last year, HTC said it would modify its phones to get around the infringement. Now we’re seeing exactly how that will affect users.
The patents deal with how the …
Anonymous Sabotages Virgin Media Site in Retaliation for Pirate Bay Block
It looks like Virgin Media may be the latest victim of a site takedown by Anonymous: The hacktivist group is claiming that it targeted the Internet service provider’s website in response to Virgin Media’s block of popular torrent …
You Are Not an IP Address, Rules Judge
An IP address is not a Social Security number or a fingerprint. It, in the words of Judge Gary Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, “provides only the location at which one of any number of …
Xbox 360, Windows 7 Banned in Germany: Motorola Wins Patent Injunction
Crazy as it sounds, Motorola Mobility — the mobile devices division of Motorola purchased by Google — just secured an injunction to prohibit the sale of major Microsoft products in Germany, including Windows 7 and the Xbox 360.