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Sen. Arlen Specter Demands Investigation of Spying... In The NFL - 14 minutes ago
Sometimes, no amount of snark can top the real world. Threat Level notes that "Arlen Specter, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday demanded an independent investigation into 'Spygate.'" Not the...
While Charter Communications is out defending its efforts to inject ads into your surfing activities by collecting data on where you surf, it appears that some powerful Congressional Representatives are suggesting that Charter might want to think twice...
Is The Copyright Royalty Board Unconstitutional? - 2 hours ago
Last month, we wrote about a Constitutional challenge to the patent appeals board . It was based on the theory that the Constitution clearly says that certain appointments can only be made by the President, the courts or the heads of a department. A... 
Unbundling The Newspaper Could Be A Good Thing - 4 hours ago
A lot of the discussion at the Future of News conference has focused on the supposedly dire consequences of the newspaper's decline. Newspaper readership is falling, and advertising revenues are dropping even faster. A lot of people here (especially.. 
Inforworld reports that Facebook has cut off Google's Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook's APIs. Facebook claims that Google Friend Connect "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’...




























