legal

Via the PRNewsChannel comes word that a website’s owner, who lives in France, is being sued by an Oregon man via the Oregon judicial system over what may have several implications for ‘freedom of speech’.
Founded in 2002, Signs of The Times is an alternative news research resource and news analysis site. Its founder, Laura [...]

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I used to receive about one fake PayPal email per week, but lately they’ve been hitting one per day.
Here’s the latest, in case you also receive it and are tempted to click on the link in the middle of the email and inadvertently give your details away:

Tuesday, March 13, 2007PayPal Resolution Center: Your account is [...]

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In the wake of YouTube there is yet another video site I’ve come across.
Veoh (yes, in beta form, as is just about everything these days when developers are trying to get conversational traction) has a unique perspective — it offers long-form movies you can download.
I have no idea of the legality of this, as one [...]

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Ben Hamilton has just this minute forwarded me a stunning example of Customer Service the good ol’ Antipodean way.
Here’s the deal: A potential customer was informing a company “The Great Marquee Company” that they wouldn’t be using them for their wedding
From: Steve Hausman To: ‘Events Team’ Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:06 PM Subject: RE: [...]

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My good friend Shel Holtz is the latest in the long line-up of folks who are discovering that all that is Apple is not gold.
Like Ben, I was thinking of investing in an iPod (60gb for my music and video collection) but perhaps Creative might get my business after all — why support a company [...]

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Two incidents, reported in a cross-linking bloggy sort of way by IT BlogWatch, highlight how flimsy is our delusion that the defeat of the Clipper chip was the start of us regaining a sense of privacy

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I just can see the lawyers biting their fingernails down to their knuckles at the reminder that unofficial, unsanctioned, un risk-assessed statements might escape into the great unwashed public domain.

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