The NY Times is now charging for its content except for bloggers and Social Media users (including Facebook & Twitter) who are not charged for NY Times content at all. Under the new system for charging, visitors to the NY Times enjoy 20 free articles each month and otherwise the NY Times has a charging…
Continue Reading NY Times Now Charges for Content , Except for Social Media Access
Not only was Google’s roll out of Buzz in 2010 badly received by the user community, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a Complaint for Google’s violation of its own Privacy Policies:
…Google launched its Buzz social network through its Gmail web-based email product. Although Google led Gmail users…
Continue Reading Google Agrees to 20 Years Privacy Policy Oversight by FTC
The US Supreme Court will hear argument on April 18 in the patent infringement case in which Microsoft has been enjoined from selling Word with XML features. The US Solicitor General filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court against Microsoft and endorsing the US Patent & Trademark Office who…
Continue Reading Software Patents – US Government vs. Microsoft
My March column for eCommerceTimes discusses how Social Media has become a gold mine for eDiscovery since the volume of ESI (Electronically Stored Information) in Social Media is staggering. Today every lawsuit has ESI which is obvious to everyone, but the unprecedented proliferation of Social Media has expanded the sources of ESI so…
Continue Reading New Rules: Social Media and Electronic Evidence
Forbes released its annual list of billionaires and 6 were people involved with Facebook including Mark Zuckerberg ($13.5 billion), and Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. Hardly a surprise rather just a confirmation of the value of Social Media innovation as portrayed in the Social Network movie.
My February 2011 Social Media video is now available so you can get my 30 minute legal perspective without having to take my Law of eCommerce class at the Dedman School of Law (which I have taught since 2000). Since 2001 I have been creating IT legal videos to training…
Continue Reading VIDEO – Revolution in Social Media: How It Affects You
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is trying desperately to keep up with Google and its approximate 70% of the US search market. Bing recently added links to Facebook and Twitter from search results with the hope that these Social Media links will impact search traffic. Since Microsoft does not have its…
Continue Reading Bing Now Offers Links from Search to Facebook & Twitter
President Obama privately met to discuss eCommerce, entrepreneurship, job creation, the economy with Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Google), Steve Jobs (Apple), Carol Bartz (Yahoo), Dick Costolo (Twitter), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Larry Elison (Oracle), John Chambers (Cisco), among others unidentified. IDG reported that role of Social Media in recent protests across Egypt…
Continue Reading President Met with Zuckerberg & Internet Leaders
After devoting my February column in eCommerceTimes to Internet sales tax issues there was an interesting turn of events over the dispute between Amazon.com and the Texas Comptroller over a $269 million Internet sales tax bill. Amazon.com announced it was shutting down its Texas operations on April 12…
Continue Reading Amazon.com Shutting Texas Operations Over Internet Sales Tax Squabble
GUEST BLOG FROM BARRY BARNETT
I welcome Barry Barnett as a Guest Blogger with his blog concerning a law firm that fell for a email that sounded too good to be true and which was really Phishing. Barry’s Blawgletter provides great thoughts, and insights. I read his blogs regularly. Over…
Continue Reading GUEST BLOG: Sucker Law Firm Loses Claim to Undo Wire Transfers
