Want to know when someone is preparing to take away your First Amendment rights? It's when they claim that they have a proposal that involves "balancing" those rights with other events (sent to (...)
Apparently Judy Estrin, a well-known Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and exec, is coming out with a new book warning that the infrastructure needed for innovation in Silicon Valley is going away(...)
One of the more well-publicized lawsuits involving the RIAA was the Howell case, which got a lot of press when some folks misread the RIAA's filings against Howell. Either way, that point became(...)
The 463 blog points us to an interview with Mitch Kapor of Lotus and EFF fame, in which he makes the case for a national Chief Technology Officer. The idea seems to be that technology policy in t(...)
The Associated Press has been having a hard time keeping up with the times. While there was the highly publicized situation where it threatened some bloggers with its own, highly questionable de(...)
After years of dispute and litigation, the patent infringement lawsuit between Sony, Microsoft, and Immersion has come to a close, as Immersion has agreed to pay Microsoft $21 million of Sony's d(...)
Is there really enough room for another local entertainment and review site? The Onion thinks there is, and has decided to launch a beta of its new site, Decider, to compete with the likes of Yel(...)
Portfolio reports: Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen sees the next battle—in the palm of your hand.Read More... (...)
A promising new protocol for securely and easily transferring data between websites is now ready for prime time. All contributors, including Google and Yahoo, have signed a covenant not to sue ov(...)
Hollywood has long called for YouTube to help copyright owners to scrub the site of unauthorized videos. Now, copyright owners are using YouTube's copyright filters to help generate ad revenue.