Law… Price-Fixing Pleas 12 Nov 2008 Antitrust lawyers working for the government seem to be on something of a little roll lately. In addition to recently causing the proposed venture between Google and Yahoo to get…
Law… Interesting Turn of Events 7 Nov 2008 Normally, stories about Houston's "massage" parlors (and I'm not talking Massage Envy, here) involve undercover police officers posing as civilians in sting operations. So this is an interesting "man bites…
Law… Extradition from Canada 7 Nov 2008 International extradition is one of those processes that always generates a lot of interest. Part of this, I suspect, is the word "international," but it can't be denied that there's…
Law… Theft of Trade Secrets and Wire Fraud 7 Nov 2008 Patents always seem to get the bulk of attention when it comes to intellectual property law, which is pretty interesting to me, considering the protections available to copyrights and trademarks…
Law… Probably a Smart Move 5 Nov 2008 Google's walking away from Yahoo "to avoid a legal battle with federal antitrust regulators who had notified the companies that they were planning to file a lawsuit to block the…
Entertainment… Censorship Before the SCOTUS 4 Nov 2008 Well, today the Supreme Court of the United States is going to tackle one of those juicy cases. You know, the type of case that will probably end up in…
Law… Table of Authorities and OpenOffice–How-To 29 Oct 2008 This morning I was griping about operating systems, and I mentioned that I would like to use Linux, but OpenOffice seemed a limiting factor in that decision, because of the…
Law… Oil-for-Food Sentence Over 28 Oct 2008 Back in the run-up to the Iraq war, and in the period following it, one of the minor rallying cries on Fox (and elsewhere, especially the White House, which drew…
Law… Senator Stevens Convicted 27 Oct 2008 The New York Times, and at least 1,400 other news sources, are reporting that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaskan (and Bridge-to-Nowhere and "The Internet is a series of tubes") fame,…
Law… Azure Not Registered 27 Oct 2008 A little glee out there in the world, as it appears that Microsoft hadn't gotten 'round to registering "Azure" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. "According to searches…
