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Twitter makes its way into the federal courtroom

by Jodie Andrefski on Mar 7, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Journalism isn’t like it was in the good ‘ole days where the reporter woke up, moseyed on down to the office for a cup of coffee and typed out his story on an old black Corona typewriter.  No, now instead of a Corona, we’ve got Tweets. While reporters have been… Continue Reading »

MySpace suicide court case begins

by Christian Milsom on Nov 19, 2008 at 07:33 PM

This story has all the makings of a tragic soap: a vulnerable love sick teenager, a sick vengeful adult and death.  Unfortunately this story is not confined to the pages of a book, but is a reality that took place in October 2006 and resulted in Megan Meier, aged 13… Continue Reading »

San Francisco scrambles to rebound after being held cyber-hostage

by Jodie Andrefski on Jul 17, 2008 at 05:48 PM

The alleged takeover of the City by the Bay may sound totally rare, but, unfortunately, it has happened before that disgruntled employees take to modern technology as a means for revenge. City tech employee Terry Childs, allegedly modified the city system so that he was the only one with top… Continue Reading »

You can have contempt for this email

by Maffie Rafferty on Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06 PM

It doesn’t look like the participants in the McAfee S.P.A.M. Experiment have received grand jury summonses in their inboxes yet, but it’s something they can look out for. According to the FBI’s press release about the email, “At first glance, the e-mail appears authentic. It contains a court case number,… Continue Reading »

Pirates from the Bay back in Court

by Chris Marshall on Feb 5, 2008 at 02:35 PM

Swedish prosecutors have charged the founders of one of the most popular file-sharing torrent sites - Pirate Bay - with conspiracy to break copyright law. On the basis that Pirate Bay does not host the ‘illegal’ material, just offering links a la Google to material that already exists on the… Continue Reading »

Google back in court

by Chris Marshall on Dec 29, 2007 at 01:41 PM

I am sure you will all remember back in 2006 when Hyperphrase Technologies issued a patent claim against Google. Truth be told it had somehow slipped my mind that they were claiming “that Google’s AdSense and the AutoLink function of its toolbar infringed claims in four Hyperphrase patents relating to… Continue Reading »

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