http://www.stlr.org Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.stlr.org/2010/01/stlr-link-roundup-january-1-2010/ http://www.stlr.org/2010/01/stlr-link-roundup-january-1-2010/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:27:50 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=760 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.

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