NEW YORK - A notorious "Spam King" and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ever.[...]
Marina Silva brought impeccable credentials to her post as Brazil's environment minister: The daughter of a poor Amazon rubber tapper, she was a colleague of slain rain forest defender Chico Mendes. But environmentalists said Wednesday that her sudden[...]
Overstock.com has terminated its contracts with affiliates based in New York in response to the state's recently enacted "Amazon Tax". The drastic move is likely the first of many, as online retailers display their objection to the new law. The backlash comes in response to New York's misguided attempt to [...]
Company will start telling people where it thinks Flickr photos were taken, but people can correct the photo-sharing site's misconceptions. Call it crowdsourced cartography.[...]
My kill count is reaching Jack Bauer status. I started by slaying four would-be Google killers. Then I targeted three more contenders before crowning just one. Today, I'll crush even more potential killers than that. Unlike other pundits who consider emerging search engines to be challengers to the Google throne, [...]
There was a story last week that got a lot of press about how the FBI discovered that the military was using a ton of counterfeit technology equipment, including thousands of fake Cisco routers. Dan Wallach has an excellent writeup looking at the security implications of what happened. From the [...]
