The Open Market Blog

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/13/2011

Tech: Apple sued over use of iCloud name: “I can’t say that I didn’t see this one coming. Apple keeps naming products very simple…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/10/2011

Tech: Google: Who cares where your data is: “Security professionals should not worry where their data is located in cloud computing models, according…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/09/2011

Tech: Court: Passwords + Secret Questions = ‘Reasonable’ eBanking Security: “A closely-watched court battle over how far commercial banks need to go to protect…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/08/2011

Tech: United Nations: Disconnecting People From the Internet Is a Violation of Human Rights: “The United Nations has declared Internet access a human right,…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/07/2011

Tech: Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright: “Well, this is getting interesting. Last week, we noted that Russian President Dmitry…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/02/2011

Tech: Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to ‘ensure our national security’: “Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns is demanding an investigation into…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/01/2011

Tech: Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to ‘ensure our national security’: “Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns is demanding an investigation into…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/31/2011

Tech: PBS Sites Hacked: Attackers Publish False News Story and Login Data: “Late Sunday night, hackers gained access to several areas of PBS Web…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/27/2011

Tech: EBay and PayPal sue Google over trade secrets: “EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/26/2011

Tech: Gagging orders: Twitter prepared to hand over user data: “A senior executive from Twitter yesterday admitted for the first time that the website…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/25/2011

Tech: Online political activists fret about Facebook bias: “Online political activists say they perceive a bias in the way Facebook administrators have distributed a…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/24/2011

Tech: Key Internet summit to discuss online: “The world's most powerful Internet and media barons gathered in Paris on Tuesday in a show of…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/23/2011

Tech: Sony BMG Greece the latest hacked Sony site: “In what seems to be a neverending nightmare it appears that the website of Sony…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/20/2011

Tech: Verizon: Say So Long to Unlimited Data: “Got a smartphone on Verizon Wireless? Get ready to wave goodbye to the days of unlimited…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/19/2011

Tech: D.C. schools investigate security breaches in 2011 tests: “D.C. school officials are investigating 14 security breaches by students and teachers during last month's…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/18/2011

Tech: Netflix proclaimed ‘King’ of North American Internet use: “Heralding the rapidly approaching Internet traffic jam, streaming video juggernaut Netflix Inc. is now the…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/17/2011

Tech: Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners: “The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/16/2011

Tech: New Privacy Laws in India and China Could Make IT Outsourcing Ugly: “Think privacy issues are a pain when they affect consumers? Get…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/13/2011

Tech: Google Near Deal in Drug Ad Crackdown: “Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/12/2011

Tech: Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars: “Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/11/2011

Tech: Why Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for skype, which is mostly free: “But in the business world, it's an unusual business model. Only about…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/10/2011

Tech: Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google: “Microsoft is in talks to buy Skype from eBay and the internet telephone services’s founders for between…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/09/2011

Tech: Pew Report Finds Facebook Influences What News Gets Read Online: “Facebook is influencing what news gets read online as people use the Internet's…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/06/2011

Tech: Red Hat CEO hates patent trolls, but says sometimes you just have to pay up: “With Red Hat on the verge of becoming…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/05/2011

Tech: On The Money: Internet Police: “With California deep in debt, a controversial plan has emerged that calls for private vendors to monitor what…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/04/2011

Tech: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rails against Facebook, says it’s a spy tool for US government: “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook "the most…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/03/2011

Tech: How Tweet it is: Twitter and the bin Laden Story: ““Last night saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 –…

• By: Lee Doren
• 05/02/2011

Tech: Sony Details Restoration Plans for Playstation Network: “Nearly two weeks after being the subject of one of the largest data breaches in business…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/29/2011

Tech: If You’re Going To Kill It, Open Source It!: “Another week, another company killing off a giant product after spending millions of dollars…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/28/2011

Tech: FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King’s Speech Uploader: “The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/27/2011

Tech: Sony Comes Clean: PlayStation Network Hackers Have Stolen Personal Data: “A security breach in the Playstation Network by still unidentified hackers resulted in…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/26/2011

Tech: Need IPv4 Addresses? Get ‘em here: “A vibrant market for buying and selling IPv4 addresses is emerging, and policymakers are clarifying the rules…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/25/2011

In 1958, Leonard Read published I, Pencil, an essay written in the first person from the point of view of a pencil. In the…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/25/2011

Tech: Sony “rebuilding” PlayStation Network after attack: “The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/20/2011

Tech: “At Dropbox, Even We Can’t See Your Dat – Er, Nevermind” [Update]: “Dropbox, the online backup and file sharing service claims to have…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/15/2011

Tech: Fujitsu plans 1Gbps fiber optic network for rural Britain: “Economies of scale mean that densely populated cities have generally been the ones to…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/14/2011

Tech: DOJ gets court permission to attack botnet: “The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have obtained a temporary restraining…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/13/2011

Tech: US Police increasingly peeping at email, instant messages: “Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/12/2011

Tech: Google Solar Project: Google Invests $168 Million In Mojave Power Plant: “Google is investing $168 million in an alternative power project that aims…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/11/2011

Tech: Copyright term extension will be voted this week: “Monday or Tuesday this upcoming week there will be another round in the fight against…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/08/2011

Tech: Federal Communications Commission passes new data roaming rule: “Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a new data roaming rule Thursday for…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/07/2011

Tech: Pandora Mobile App Transmits Gobs Of Personal Data: “A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/06/2011

Tech: U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction: study: “American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/05/2011

Tech: US launches smartphone privacy probe: “A criminal investigation has been launched in the US into suspected privacy lapses in the applications that run…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/04/2011

Over the last few years, New York City has started to force its citizens to become more health conscious. Whether it was a ban…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/04/2011

Tech: More customers exposed as big data breach grows: “The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies,…

• By: Lee Doren
• 04/01/2011

Tech: With IE judgment expiring, Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Google: “Nearly a decade after settling an antitrust case regarding the bundling of Internet…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/31/2011

Tech: Boston College Says Using WiFi is a Sign of Infringement: "Boston College has a funny idea of what constitutes copyright infringement. It has…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/30/2011

Tech: Netflix Lowers Streaming Video Qualify To Cut Data Use: “Online video rental company Netflix Inc has tweaked its Canadian streaming service to cut…