Nicholas Carlson

Analysis: You better figure out what the Semantic Web is and soon, because its concepts have graduated from academia and are starting to contribute to your competitor’s bottom line. But don’t worry; you’re covered. If anyone is capable of explaining how the Semantic Web is going to work it’s Eric Miller. Not long ago, Miller […]

Enough with the bright red FBI warnings at the beginning of movies and legal disclaimers from announcers at the end of ballgames, an organization including members such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo declared today. That organization, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), today announced it filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint on behalf of […]

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has subpoenaed MySpace, again, for the names and addresses of sex offenders using the social network, David Wald, a spokesman for Milgram’s office, told internetnews.com. Wald told internetnews.com that the 29,000 sex offenders MySpace deleted last week was enough to make Milgram curious, and Wald said her office subsequently […]

Digital rights management (DRM) software, the code tucked into the ones and zeros of your digital music and movies that to prevent piracy, isn’t going away anytime soon. At least, that’s the word from In-Stat. In a report called “Digital Rights Management Update,” In-Stat analyst Mike Paxton writes that DRM is likely to proliferate due […]

OK, so Apple’s iPhone is a big deal and it’s supposed to change everything, but AT&T is ready to move on with business. Today, the company, which is also the exclusive service provider for the iPhone, launched an over-the-air music download service with eMusic. The service will give AT&T customers the ability to preview and […]

Despite MercExchange LLC’s long-time contention that eBay’s Buy It Now function violates a MercExchange patent, eBay shoppers can still “buy it now.” Judge Jerome Friedman of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia Friday denied a MercExchange motion that would have forced eBay  to remove the option, which allows customers to quickly […]

In the consumer space, Google Earth and Google Maps go hand-in-hand. Now the same goes for Google Earth for the enterprise. Business and government users of Google Earth for the enterprise can now view their organizations’ geospatial data in 2-D on a browser behind the firewall. As a part of the product upgrade, Google opened […]

Microsoft wants a major piece of online advertising and it’s willing to pay to get it. Today, the company announced it bought advertising exchange platform company AdECN, adding to its growing portfolio of online advertising businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft said AdECN’s technology serves as a hub for advertising networks […]

In its copyright infringement suit against Facebook, social network ConnectU has two weeks to come back with a better case. That was the gist of Judge Woodlock’s comments yesterday after hearing Facebook’s motion to dismiss the suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In a statement e-mailed to internetnews.com, Facebook […]

Now it’s the copyright holders getting taken to court. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), asking a federal court to protect the fair use and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler son on the Internet. In February, Stephanie Lenz […]

MySpace has deleted another 29,000 sex offender member profiles from its network, Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam confirmed today. The announcement follows MySpace’s July 11 decision to hand over information on the very latest sex offenders that have joined the service to New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram. The social network did so in response […]

Facebook tomorrow will be in court to address copyright infringement accusations from ConnectU, another social network founded by Harvard students in 2004. According to a copy of ConnectU’s complaint obtained by internetnews.com, Facebook founders, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will answer to claims of copyright infringement, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary […]