Mr. Smith is going to Washington
Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp.’s general counsel, took a group of journalists to dinner at Campton Place in San Francisco Thursday night, myself included. He outlined some of the key legal issues facing...
View ArticleLawsuit: Copying your DVDs on a hard drive
Kaleidescape Kaleidescape lets you copy and store your CDs and DVDs on a single machine, but it faces a lawsuit that could shut the machine down. YouTube and Google aren’t the only Silicon Valley...
View ArticleFreeh on technology
Technology is one of four key ingredients — and possibly the most critical — in ensuring U.S. success in the so-called war on terror, former FBI Director Louis Freeh said in a lunchtime speech in San...
View ArticleThe ongoing saga between TiVo and Dish
Is the TiVo fight against Dish Network heading to the Supreme Court? Dish said it plans to bring its case before the Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals denied its appeal for a re-hearing...
View ArticleProjections Conference to talk green & clean
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group will hold its Projections 2009 conference at Santa Clara University Wednesday around the theme of using greener technology and cleaner transportation to boost the...
View ArticleMicrosoft goes after software pirates
Microsoft filed 63 lawsuits in 12 countries against software pirates, the company said today. Most of the cases involve counterfeit versions of Windows XP or its components, an operating system that...
View ArticleAn interview with Napster’s Shawn Fanning
Photo Courtesy of Electronic Arts Shawn Fanning Ten years ago, Shawn Fanning made his MP3-sharing program Napster widely available on the Internet. “It was something that came to me as a result of...
View ArticleAn online Terms of Service watchdog
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today launched a new online tool that tracks changes in the Terms of Service agreements of 44 Web sites like Google, eBay, Amazon, Craigslist and Facebook. The...
View ArticleHollywood studios haul movie streaming service Zediva into court
The nation’s biggest Hollywood movie studies filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Monday against Zediva Inc., a Sunnyvale start up that rents newly-released DVDs by streaming the video online. In the...
View ArticleZuckerberg reveals details of new Fwd.us political action committee
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today revealed the name – Fwd.us – and focus – immigration reform – of a new political action committee that is backed by a galaxy of Silicon Valley tech stars. As reported...
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