The Open Market Blog

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/13/2011

Tech: Amazon seeks ballot measure to undo California tax: “The attorney general's office received the petition on Friday and will prepare a title and…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/12/2011

Tech: Study: Fair use drives large part of US economy: “Industries that rely on fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright law have weathered the…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/11/2011

Tech: Privacy experts praise Google+ rollout so far: “After major privacy failures in its Buzz and Street View services, Google has hit the right…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/08/2011

Tech: Changes to [Dropbox] policies: “Today we revised our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Security Overview. We’re in the process of emailing every…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/07/2011

Tech: Hackers expose flaw in Apple iPad, iPhone software: “The security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system came to light on Wednesday as…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/06/2011

Tech: White House uses Twitter to bully critics: President Obama’s director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee’s duties…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/05/2011

Tech: And Speaking of the Inalienable Right to Pursuit of Happiness…: “. . Happy Fourth to you all! Along with 90 (and still…

• By: Lee Doren
• 07/01/2011

Tech: As DOJ reviews legality of merger, it’s AT&T versus Sprint: “Staff attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/30/2011

Tech: The Cloud Darkens: “The Internet is getting scary. In recent weeks, hackers known as Lulz Security attacked the Web sites of Sony, the…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/29/2011

Tech: Survey: Consumers want government to protect their privacy online: “Two-thirds of consumers want the government to safeguard their privacy online and 81 percent…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/28/2011

Tech: Google’s Schmidt unfazed by antitrust probes: “Google is co-operating with a US antitrust investigation but is confident it has done nothing illegal to…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/27/2011

Tech: Google Boots Transdroid Torrent Manager From Android Market: “For many Android users Transdroid is the perfect remote access app for managing their BitTorrent…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/24/2011

Tech: Hacker Cops Felony Pleas In “Brute Force” AT&T iPad Attack: “A California man today pleaded guilty to federal charges for participating in…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/23/2011

Tech: Winklevoss Twins Won’t Take Facebook Case To Supreme Court: “It appears the lengthy legal dispute between Facebook and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/22/2011

Tech: F.B.I. seizes web servers, knocks sites offline: “The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/21/2011

Tech: Dropbox was accessible with no password, Oops: “Dropbox confirmed today that for some time yesterday, any users account was accessible without a password.

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/20/2011

Tech: 3G vs. 4G: What You Should Know Before You Switch: “Those are some of the ways Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint are describing…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/17/2011

Tech: Identify Vancouver rioters: Facebook and Tumblr groups set up: “After the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in Game 7, some people…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/15/2011

Tech: China’s Cyberassault on America: “In justifying U.S. involvement in Libya, the Obama administration cited the "responsibility to protect" citizens of other countries when…

• By: Lee Doren
• 06/14/2011

Tech: Google’s Android ambitions go beyond mobile: “Andy Rubin, Google's (GOOG) top mobile-phone executive, likes to talk about everything being "Android-ized." Android has…

• 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…