STLR Link Roundup – January 1, 2010
Happy New Year! We bring you the last links from the second half of December 2009 on the first day of 2010.
- Clever or illegal? How online retailer Amazon escapes paying sales tax (and saves you from it as well), from Gizmodo.
- South Korea pardons former chairman of Samsung… a second time. From the Wall Street Journal.
- Your text messages just got a little safer: The Times reports the Ohio Supreme Court has decided a warrant is needed to search a cell phone.
- Obama picks Howard Schmidt as the Chief of Cybersecurity, from the New York Times.
- A modern day Catch Me If You Can: An escaped criminal taunts police with Facebook updates, from Gizmodo. (Also see this updated link.)
- The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds an injunction against Microsoft, requiring it to stop selling certain versions of Word. From the IT World of Canada.
- Verizon defends its $350 smartphone early termination fee to the FCC. From Gizmodo.
- Microsoft sued over “Bing” name for trademark infringement… by a tiny business in St. Louis. CNet’s Technically Incorrect reports.
- Against all odds, Psystar claims it will be back, Gizmodo reports.
- An in-the-closet lesbian mother of two sues Netflix for releasing her movie preferences, reports Wired’s Threat Level.
- Google’s controversial Google Book Search program runs into more legal trouble, this time in France. From the New York Times.