More Background on U.S. Electronic Surveillance; Lawful Access

December 24, 2005

The NYT runs a story today on deepening concerns over the scale of recently disclosed large scale electronic surveillance operations run by the NSA. Gist: The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that […]

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Spitzer Investigating Music Industry

December 23, 2005

Eliot Spitzer is reported to have subpoenaed Warner Music on Tuesday “in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital music downloads”. Music industry sources said the current probe appeared to center on whether the Big Four music studios — Warner, Sony Corp’s (6758.T) Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Group (EMI.L) and […]

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Whither Yellow Pages?

December 23, 2005

Mark Evans wrote recently about Yellow Pages Group’s acquisition of Trader Media. For my part, the yellow pages long-term plan has been a mystery for a while – at least with local search developing so quickly among the Googles and Yahoos of the world (sure, it’s early, but they’re coming and they never sleep), and […]

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Metadata and PDF

December 22, 2005

The new blog “Acrobat for Legal Professionals” has a recent post with useful tips on metadata in pdf files and how to manage it.

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Protecting Yourself from Phishing

December 22, 2005

Dave Pollard writes about phishing, and how to protect yourself.

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Deconstructing Louisiana’s MuniWiFi Laws

December 22, 2005

Ernie deconstructs Louisiana’s antimuniwifi legislation, and casts a hopeful eye at Senate Bill 1294, the anti-anti-muniwifi bill.

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More Broadband Over Powerlines

December 21, 2005

TXU, a power company based in Texas, has announced a substantial broadband over powerlines initiative: TXU Electric Delivery, the nation’s sixth largest electric transmission and distribution company and a subsidiary of TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU), and CURRENT Communications Group, LLC, the nation’s leading provider of broadband over power line (BPL) solutions, today announced an agreement […]

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CRTC Accelerates Schedule for Wireless Number Portability

December 20, 2005

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. The CRTC has ordered Canadian cel providers to accelerate their plan for wireless number portability. From the CRTC’s press release: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today issued a decision requiring all Canadian wireless telephone companies to implement wireless number portability (WNP) by March 14, 2007, in […]

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NYT – All NTP Patents Likely to be Rejected by USPTO

December 20, 2005

Ian Austen reports that the USPTO has informed RIM and NTP that the non-final office action is likely to result in a rejection of all remaining NTP patents. Don Stout’s choice of language seems decidedly less confident now: Mr. Balsillie said that his lawyers believed that any hearings for an injunction halting BlackBerry service will […]

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The Pro Forma Mistake

December 20, 2005

Daniel Taylor has a long post today titled “RIM: The Pro Forma Mistake” that takes a 50,000 foot view of the RIM-NTP litigation. I don’t agree with everything in it, but it is one of the most lucid and thoughtful pieces I’ve seen on the customer implications of the litigation.

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The Google-Borg

December 19, 2005

Greg Lastowka writes at Concurring Opinions about why Google is like the Borg, from the perspective of being an auxiliary brain. Interesting enough, but I thought its assimilative nature in tech M&A, particularly in light of recent events that suggest it and others are cutting out VC’s as an exit for startup entrepreneurs, was all […]

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Growing Opposition to U.S. ‘Net Wiretapping Plans?

December 19, 2005

Earlier this year the U.S. F.C.C. ruled that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act provisions that require telephone networks to be designed to facilitate eavesdropping by law enforcement extend to broadband wireless as well – VoIP, essentially. The requirement is similar in some respects to provisions of the Canadian lawful access bill – the […]

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