The New York Times reported that a number of governments have banded together to combat Internet con artists. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was joined by “the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, and Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency. This multinational crackdown on so-called…

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Millions of bank customers were unable to access their bank accounts and bank online as reported by the New York Times. The bank customers “of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and PNC, …could not get access to their accounts or pay bills online.” The report…

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The New York Times reported that Internet sites waste huge amounts of energy and that worldwide “the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants.” The study reviewed “20,000 servers in about 70 large data centers spanning the commercial…

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The federal plan was that the use of EHRs would reduce health care costs, improve efficiency, and patient safety, however after spending more than $19 billion dollars on EHRs apparently health care costs have increased. Not everyone thought the increased use of EHRs would help, in 2009 a report in the…

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After trials, retrials, and years of appeal two defendants are now liable for fines of $675,000 and $222,000 for pirating 30 and 24 songs respectively. Joel Tenenbaum’s copyright infringement cost him $22,500 for each of the 30 songs, while Jamie Thomas-Rasset’s copyright infringement cost her $9,250 for each of…

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The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) claims that content theft cost America 373,000+ jobs, $16+ billion in lost wages, and $2.6+ billion in lost taxes, so the CCI proposes a new Copyright Alert System (CAS) with 6 alerts. CCI Member companies include:

• Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (“MPAA”) and

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Behind Apple’s huge verdict in the Samsung trial it’s likely that eMails may have caused the most damage to Samsung on two levels: first, Samsung destroyed eMails which led the Judge to instruct the jury that they should assume the destroyed emails were adverse to Samsung (the legal term is…

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