Law… Antitrust Workshops 22 Sep 2009 The last time the DOJ and the FTC devised guidelines governing horizontal mergers, it was 1992. Seventeen years later, the agencies are coming back to the guidelines, hosting a series…
Law… False Statements and Terrorism 20 Sep 2009 Well, it looks like three people in Denver were arrested for giving false statements in what is being called a terrorism investigation. (Source.) False Statements is one of those federal…
Law… Google Books and Antitrust Problems 19 Sep 2009 The Antitrust Division of the DOJ has weighed in on the Google Books settlement, and rejection of the settlement is urged. (See news articles on it here.) According to the…
Gizmos… Opera Mini 5 beta for BlackBerry 16 Sep 2009 I saw this morning that Opera has released a new version of its mini browser. (See this Gizmodo post and this PC Magazine post (via Yahoo!).) Being fond of Opera's…
Law… France’s Copyright Legislation 15 Sep 2009 France can be a strange country. (And in other news, cats can be aloof.) Well, perhaps it isn't so fair to single France out; all countries have their peculiarities. But…
Gizmos… Blackberry App Test 11 Sep 2009 Last night, after struggling to post something through my BlackBerry's web browser, and failing, I thought "wouldn't it be nice to have an app on this thing?" Turns out there…
Law… Even More on the Google Books Settlement 11 Sep 2009 Settlement agreements rarely get the amount of scrutiny as the proposed agreement in the Google Books controversy, and now the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, has testified to Congress about…
Law… ICE and Sex Tourism 10 Sep 2009 Not a lot of people realize it, but the United States exercises one of the most expansive concepts of extraterritorial jurisdiction in the entire world. In layman's terms, the United…
Law… ICE and Counterfeit Goods 10 Sep 2009 When the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) was disassembled and taken away from the DOJ, its dissolution created three new agencies, all housed under the Department of Homeland Security: USCIS…
Law… Child Pornography and Life Imprisonment 10 Sep 2009 According to a press release from the DOJ, a Philadelphia man has been sentenced to life in prison after having been convicted in May for "advertising, transporting, receiving and possessing…
