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180Solutions - Adware Company at it Again

We have written before about the adware maker, 180Solutions suing an online security company in order to save their reputation.
Well these days, it seems that 180 are up to their old tricks in enhancing their online “reputation,” despite a promise that they were altering their business practices.
A recent article by Ben Edelman has detailed many […]

Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogger

The major search engine companies, in their efforts to whore themselves off to the Chinese government, have not exactly been kind to dissident Chinese bloggers lately.
In another unashamedly anti-free-speech
move, Microsoft has removed the blog of Zhao Jing from their MSN Spaces site.
Zhao has built a reputation for being very close to the edge of […]

Music Industry Suing Lyrics Site

It has been reported that the music industry is now going to be going after webmasters who publish the lyrics to copyright songs on their sites.
The Music Publisher’s Association which represents various sheet music companies said it plans to begin pursuing action against sites in early 2006 with the intention that site owners be jailed.
A […]

The Day the Online Music Died

The problems of online filesharing company, Sharman, have been pretty constant news on the internet for quite some time now. The owners of the Kazaa filesharing program, lost a court ruling in Australia several months ago, meaning they basically had to pack up shop.
Well today was d-day for Kazaa’s user’s down under. Their website in […]

Philly vs. the Telco Giants

Philadelphia’s city government is setting up free wi-fi across the city for the benefit of the people. Unfortunately, telcos are gonna make it difficult for this to happen in the rest of the state and ultimately across the country.
Apparently, telcos led by Verizon are upset that a government has stepped on their turf, especially […]