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

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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)…

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

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Tyranny in Farmville

Two days ago, the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog filed an anti-trust complaint with the FTC seeking an investigation of Facebook’s allegedly anti-competitive practices. These…

Regulatory Reform

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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…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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Remembering Roger MacBride

The news of the passing of John Hospers brought renewed attention to his receiving an electoral vote in the 1972 presidential…

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Legal Lessons from Weinergate

There may be a silver lining to the sordid Anthony Weiner drama: The sext-happy congressman has drawn much-needed media attention to state legislative efforts to…

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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…