Back in November 2008, a venture-backed startup called Power Ventures launched Power.com in an effort to establish a one-stop shop social networking hub, enabling its users to aggregate and access data and activity streams from a variety of social networking sites via one single user interface. Before the year ended, Facebook, one of the social [...]

In a small Hamburg court room, something special has happened – at least when it comes to the legal parameters of people search applications on the web. The ligitator, a young woman, sued 123people. Specifically its German web property 123people.de, which has recently been sold to Pages Jaunes Groupe, for showing a photo of herself [...]

Amazon and other holders of business method patents can breathe easy for now. (One of the most famous business method patents is Amazon’s One-Click shopping cart patent). In a ruling today, the Supreme Court basically punted on whether or not business method patents, in general, should be upheld. Instead, it ruled narrowly on the business [...]

On Monday, a Pakistani court ordered authorities to restore access to social networking site Facebook after company officials reportedly apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents. The Lahore High Court imposed the nationwide ban almost two weeks ago amid outrage over the page, which encouraged users to post drawings of [...]

A Pakistani court this morning ordered authorities to temporarily block social networking service Facebook over a competition encouraging users to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the site. Pakistani muslims stepped up to condemn the user-generated contest for blasphemy, as the depiction of any prophet is strictly prohibited in Islam (favorable or not). The [...]

Court documents in the case of the lost iPhone prototype have been unsealed, revealing that Apple itself asked for the search warrant of an online journalist’s home. The documents, including the search warrant and detective’s affidavit, were made public by a San Mateo judge at the request of CNET and other media organizations. The documents [...]

This morning, the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dealt the FCC a major blow in its drive to impose net neutrality on the nation’s broadband providers. A panel of three judges ruled that the FCC did not have the authority to order Comcast to slow down BitTorrent traffic, and, more, broadly, [...]

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the FCC doesn’t have the right to enforce net neutrality principles for ISPs. In this specific case, the FCC wanted to stop Comcast from controlling user traffic in instances of peer-to-peer downloading. The judge’s decision, which deals a blow to the net neutrality movement, states that the FCC [...]

Keyword advertising using the trademark of others without their permission is illegal and services providers such as Google are also liable for any infringement. That’s the ruling given today by the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) today, in a move that will likely shake up the search-based online industry. The [...]

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