Then, while I was in our 10 a.m. news meeting, someone posted in reply a single word, a vulgar expression for a part of a woman's anatomy. It was there only a minute before a colleague deleted it.

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Yesterday a U.S. Federal judge ruled that Google must turn over the name of an anonymous blogger who took a severe disliking to aging supermodel Liskula Cohen.

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Trademark holders have already had first dibs when new domain suffixes are created, but many companies fear that if ICANN suddenly adds 500 suffixes to the domain-name system, they'd have to register their brands in each domain.

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Crack teams of volunteers keep the net online and functioning, according to leading internet lawyer Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard University.

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Novelist Mark Helprin couldn't have made up what happened after an op-ed article he wrote for the New York Times in 2007 urging stronger protection for copyright. He thought this was a topic of interest only to publishing houses, authors and copyright lawyers.

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As I've mentioned in a previous Linux Line post, I am not a programmer. Yet Linux is built on the philosophical principle of freely sharing source code. This is how those who create Linux frequently advocate it.

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In the suit, Uniloc alleged that Microsoft used its patented technology as part of the software giant's product activation methods. A federal jury in Rhode Island found that Windows XP, Office XP, and Windows Server 2003 infringed on a Uniloc patent.

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Hey, let's give the copyright industry more influence in our government! Way to go, Pres O!When President Barack Obama appointed two lawyers who had previously defended the Recording Industry Association of America to near-the-top posts at the Department of Justice, copyright pun …

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A place where the future of the mobile Internet is being explored. A portal to understand 4G broadband wireless, and to see that it's really all about IP

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The timing of the 'Pirates of the Amazon' launch could not have been more (un)fortunate.

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Google has been checking to see who's using IPv6. According to the company's tracking, half of all IPv6-capable systems seen by Google are Macs, helping the US land in fifth place in percentage of IPv6 users world wide, ahead of China and Japan.

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Convicted counterfeiters will now be subject to increased fines and the forfeiture of their property, under a new law that took effect yesterday. And the size of government just got bigger, with the creation of one more office.

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President Bush on Monday signed into law legislation creating a copyright czar, a cabinet-level position on par with the nation's drug czar.

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I'm happy to give credit where credit is due: the Bush Administration is on the correct side of this issue.pThe Bush administration has announced its strong opposition to a bill backed by the recording industry that would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against peer-t …

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The world is about to run out of the internet addresses that allow computers to identify each other and communicate, the man who invented the system has told The Times.

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Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

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Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.

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PRESSURE is mounting on governments to resolve the internet address crisis amid fears the internet economy will stall as numbers run out in 2010-11.

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Cisco, has just issued a report that backs up claims by many Internet service providers, that video viewing over the Web is gobbling up huge quantities of network capacity and the problem is only going to get worse.

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THE world will run out of internet addresses by 2010, with only 700 million separate addresses remaining for allocation out of the 4.3 billion available on the present network. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

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Slow progress on the net's new addressing system risks breaking it into regional blocks, warns the OECD. The problem may come as nations move to the new scheme at different paces, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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Late last week, the US named and shamed its list of the worst offenders when it comes to protecting intellectual property; China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela topped the "Special 301 Report" and earned the dubious distinction of being …

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Why the AX4-5 matters....

In my previous post, I discussed the reasons why EMC needed to spent a little more quality time with the SMB market at large. Today, in the course of several back-to-back design calls with various level SMB customers, I was struck by a couple of things.

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The New Jersey Supreme Court has confirmed privacy expectations for IP addresses. The ruling was based on a deficient subpoena and an expanded definition of privacy in the New Jersey constitution. While the U.S.

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"We've seen a problem with quality," [Jon Dudas, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office] said, adding that U.S. patent approvals have slipped from a high of 72 percent of all applications to the current level of about 42 percent.

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