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Microsoft Buys Multimap

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Steal More Wifi!

The Communications Decency Act Is Dead; Long Live The Communications Decency Act! :: Zango V. Kaspersky Labs :: Good Samaritans
The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was Congress’ first attempt to censor the Internet. This new law plummeted to earth in a flame of glory, struck down as unconstitutional by a unanimous Supreme Court. And by struck down, we mean, of course, the legislation is alive and well, having tremendous impact over the evolution of the Internet, and who gets sued for what. The CDA was tremendously

Microsoft Buys Multimap
Congratulations to Multimap and in particular its founder, Sean. Twelve years of hard work, sensible management and innovation has come to fruition. I’m pretty sure this will be good for Multimap – it would be great to see its excellent geospatial capabilities and fully-featured API combined with some of the cool aerial stuff in Virtual Earth (whose API is terrible by all accounts). On a cautious note, I hope Microsoft treat their new employees well and with the respect they deserve. Multimap was a great place to work, especially in the early days and once the teething problems of expansion were overcome. I made many good friends there and I still believe Multimap is the best out there for hard core mapping requirements. Good luck all! Read or add comments

Steal More Wifi!
So what about all those folk who have been busted for stealing Wifi. You know, those nefarious dudes in long black trench coats that congregate outside coffee houses, checking their emails and whether their tech stocks have tanked. Misconception for today: “You can steal Wifi.” This misconception has been repeated numerous times in the media and popular culture. See Mark Rasch, WiFi High

Broadband What The Doctor Ordered
Business-focused telco Pacific Internet has retained the business of around 90 general practitioners (GPs) as part of the government’s subsidised AU$35 million Broadband for Health (BFH) program. The telco today announced it would also deliver managed security services to the group of doctors, known as the Hunter Urban Division of General Practice (HUDGP). “Pacific Internet has provided [...]

In Which It Is Asked, Is It Possible To Be Online And Not Be âCommercialâť? Aitken V. Communications Workers Of America
Pop quiz: What does the word “commercial” mean on the Internet? Chose one: [A] Whatever a judge chooses it to mean – neither more nor less. [B] The sale of goods or services. [C] A link to someone elses’s website, with whom you have no relationship, which happens to sell t-shirts. [D] A protest by a Union against a corporation where the Union impersonates officers of the corporation.

Stealth Trademarks: Pop-Up Ads
Another neat trick is the use of trademarks as trigger-terms that result in pop-up ads (I understand that Cerberus, the dog that guards the gates of Hades, has been reassigned to guard a special room where resides the inventors of pop-up advertising, spam, spyware and telemarketers). According to court accounts, some firms have created adware with databases of trigger-terms. When computer users

Proceeds From Cybertelecom
Proceeds from Cybertelecom go to support different stuff :: October's Proceeds went to support the Humane Society of America.

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