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Stories from the Week that Was – 6/3/12-6/9/12

10 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments, Trademark

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Purdue, Twitter

New reasons to protect trademarks through registration

Tech-Savvy Seniors: Half of U.S. Adults Over 65 Are Online

Purdue Professor Claims Free Speech Rights Violated Over Facebook Post

Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists

Got another big story from this week that should make the list? Leave a comment below.

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” -John F. Kennedy

Twitter’s first commercial:

 

Stories from the Week that Was – 5/27/12-6/2/12

03 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Bloggers, Branding, Copyright, Litigation, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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Cookies, DHS, FTC, Google, MySpace, NLRB

China tightens grip on social media with new rules

TV Networks Say You’re Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials

Germany sets new solar power record, institute says

Got Compliance? The EU Cookie Law & What You Need to Do

Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube

Target on your cyber back: DHS has a list of words deemed ‘suspicious’

Man sues to have ‘Google’ declared a generic word

Privacy practices: how the FTC MySpace settlement affects your business

2012 Logo Trends

Google Obliges Website Copyright Takedown Requests 97% of the Time

NLRB Issues Third Social Media Report

From David Elliott’s Complaint for Cancellation of Trademark and Declaratory Relief:

“3. The term “GOOGLE” is, or has become, a generic term universally used to describe the action of internet searching with any search engine, which cannot serve as a trademark to the exclusion of others.”

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Stories from the Week that Was – 5/20/12-5/26/12

27 Sunday May 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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BitTorrent, Cookies, Drones, Facebook, NDAA, Twitter

Pakistan Blocks Twitter

The Failures of the Facebook Generation in the Arab Spring

IP-Address Can’t Even Identify a State, BitTorrent Judge Rules

Drones Take Flight For Civilian Use

7 Ways To Get Yourself Detained Indefinitely

UK ‘cookie law’ takes effect: What you need to know

“A patent is property carried to the highest degree of abstraction—a right in rem to exclude, without a physical object or content.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stories from the Week that Was – 5/13/12-5/19/12

20 Sunday May 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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ACTA, Google, Kodak, TPP

Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium Hidden In a Basement

Google revamps search, tries to think more like a person

McDonald’s tries to rebrand itself, in Berkeley, of all places

“No backroom deals to regulate the Internet. Speak out now against TPP, the new ACTA.” – Electronic Frontier Foundation

Stories from the Week that Was – 5/6/12-5/12/12

13 Sunday May 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Copyright, Defamation, Federal Initiatives, Intellectual Property, Legislation, Privacy, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments, Trademark

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Facebook, Grooveshark, NDAA, Opportunity, Twitter

A mid-week election saw Richard Mourdock topple long-standing Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Has anybody bothered to ask Mourdock or (Democrat rival) Joe Donnelly’s thoughts on legislation like CISPA and SNOPA? Not this week, when all the talk was about Zuckerberg’s hoodie and President Obama’s evolution on same-sex marriage.

Why the New gTLDs Don’t Matter

Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules

Property rights in the cloud: Your data or theirs?

Twitter Defends User In Court Over Occupy Tweets

Think That Email Isn’t a Contract? Think Again

Facebook bans Grooveshark over copyright complaint

How Should We Measure Damages for Defamation Over Social Media?

Mars Rover Opportunity Rolling Again After Winter Break

New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers

“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.” – Mark Zuckerberg

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