The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/29/2011

Tech: Lawyers Seek to Block Twitter Handover: “Lawyers on Friday asked a US judge to overturn a ruling from earlier this month, forcing Twitter…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/28/2011

Tech: Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum: “Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are actually being used…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/25/2011

Tech: Google Holds Honeycomb Tight: “Open-source purists often contend that projects should be developed from the ground up, in front of the public, with…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/24/2011

Tech: Half Of Used Phones Still Contain Personal Info: “More than half of second-hand mobile phones still contain personal information of the previous owner,…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/23/2011

Tech: Apple Sues Amazon Over App Store Trademark: “Apple Inc has sued Amazon.com Inc in a bid to stop the online retailer from…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/16/2011

Tech: Internet is world’s ‘greatest spying machine’: Assange: “Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has warned that the Internet was the "greatest…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/15/2011

Tech: TechCrunch Interview: Senator Al Franken Talks Net Neutrality ( And His Morning Workout Routine ): “If you care about the well-being of the…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/14/2011

Tech: Amazon Pressured on Sales Tax: “Across the country, state officials struggling with big budget shortfalls are trying to get Amazon.com to take on…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/11/2011

Tech: Herb Kohl vows Google probe: “Media consolidation, net neutrality and Google's dominance in Internet search are among the issues the Senate's leading…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/10/2011

Tech: Dearborn Republican sues Facebook for shutting down account during election, foiling his ‘attempt to overthrow the Dingell Dynasty’: “Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni says…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/09/2011

Tech: Facebook a top cause of relationship trouble, say US lawyers: “When Facebook gets involved, relationships can quickly fall apart – as Hosni Mubarak…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/08/2011

Tech: Google disables Android malware: “Google is remotely disabling malicious software that deceived more than a quarter of a million owners of Android smartphones,…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/07/2011

Tech: Hacked: “Earlier today, the site was maliciously attacked. Many of you were either unable to access the site or received an intrusion message.”…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/04/2011

Tech: Student Files Lawsuit Over FBI’s GPS tracking: Teenagers jailed for running “criminals equivalent of Facebook”: “Three teenagers in the UK have…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/03/2011

Tech: Malware decreases, Trojans still dominate: “According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with…

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/02/2011

Tech: New, more effective optical fibers have semiconductive core: “Fiber optic cables can transmit over a terabyte of information per second – but that…