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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• Judges and Facebook – Is it ok to be FB friends with lawyers?  The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee says no, reports the New York Times.

• Michael Arrington and Crunchpad sues JooJoo for the joint tablet venture that so publicly went wrong, says Gizmodo.

• The Environmental Protection Agency announces that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and environment.  New federal and possibly international regulation are expected to follow, according to the New York Times.

• Who will protect us from the robot invasion?  Maybe lawyers will, a pair of scholars at Stanford University tells the San Francisco Chronicle.

• The legal implications of new technology aren’t all covered in intellectual property classes – Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog looks at the possible use of eminent domain to take the “wind rights” of farmers and build green-friendly windmills.

• Text messages are the new “digital lipstick on the collar” and are increasingly showing up as critical evidence in divorce cases, writes the New York Times.

• The EU drops its antitrust case against memory-maker Rambus in exchange for concessions, according to the Associated Press.

• A federal judge finalizes a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student for sharing 30 copyrighted songs online, Wired’s Threat Level reports.

• Apple countersues Nokia for patent infringement – this is getting ugly, says All Things Digital’s Digital Daily.

• A payroll and credit card payment processing company’s failure to protect itself from massive data breach was not grounds for a securities fraud case by shareholders.  Law.com discusses the New Jersey District Court ruling.

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