The family of Martin Luther King Jr. has unfortunately done plenty to tarnish the great man's legacy over the last few decades, specifically in being overly aggressive claiming "ownership" of anything...
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Blu-ray "won" the next-generation DVD standards battle, but that victory has, thus far, been pretty hollow, as consumers haven't wholeheartedly embraced the new format (and the new DVD players they ne...
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Once again, we have a situation of unintended consequences due to politicians trying to make headlines for "protecting the children."As you probably know, the press and politicians have been pushing f...
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A few weeks ago, Amazon announced a program to push for more customer-friendly packaging -- specifically moving away from those impossible to open plastic clamshell bubble packs that have a way of enc...
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The latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says that while plenty of people are buying new gadgets and technology, an awful lot of them are having trouble getting or keeping it w...
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Each of the last, oh, 4 or 5 years has been heralded as "the year of mobile TV," despite plenty of questions over the real demand for a paid recreation of old-school broadcast television, a medium tha...
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Last month, we talked about how the financial crisis might impact the venture capital community, noting that many more limited partners (LPs, or the folks who put money into venture capital funds) wer...
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A couple months ago we covered the Chinese government's effort to create a crowdsourced version of their Internet censorship operation. Now, BusinessWeek is reporting on a variation of this trend in S...
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Last year, we pointed out how rather ironic it seemed that a company like Encyclopaedia Britannica, who is supposed to be in the business of spreading knowledge, would sue GPS makers for patent infrin...
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Reader Chris Gruel writes in to point out that at a recent conference various music industry execs seemed to embrace the concepts of free music, but the details aren't as encouraging as they might be....
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Eight years ago, we noted that newly elected President George W. Bush had given up email, in order to avoid problems with open records laws on Presidential communications.Not surprisingly, there's now...
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In continuing to try to understand the root causes of the financial crisis, we find that the whole story just keeps getting more interesting.While lots of folks are trying to blame one single thing (f...
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While the entire lawsuit against Lori Drew is a joke, the one good thing was that it appeared the judge was going to exclude any evidence related to Megan Meier's suicide -- as the fact that the girl ...
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Over the years, Mark Cuban has been quite open on his blog concerning various stock strategies that he has -- which have often gone against the grain.He's not a big fan of just buying a small amount o...
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An anonymous reader points us to some news concerning the latest skirmish in the battle over used goods in the video game industry.As we've noted, various execs have been freaking out over secondhand ...
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You may recall that Ford has been rather aggressive in telling fans of various Ford cars that they have no right to create things like calendars from photos they, themselves, have taken.Basically, For...
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How many times will situations like the following happen before people realize how badly trying to suppress information online backfires?Apparently, a German politician who was upset about some things...
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Michael Geist points us to the news that a Canadian court has told eBay Canada that it needs to cough up info on Canadian PowerSellers.The case involves attempts by the Canadian government to determin...
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It would appear that Socit civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF), a group that represents French record labels, is now trying to sue a bunch of non-French file sharing applications, ...
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Slate has an interesting article about someone (or a group of folks) under the name aXXo who is the "biggest name" in BitTorrent and consistently offers up high quality movies on a variety of BitTorre...
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