A federal district court judge dismisses a suit by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, holding that the plaintiff’s do not have standing to bring suit.
A New York broker allegedly used spam to advertise and artificially inflate thinly-traded Chinese stocks, only to cash out once the price soared. This classic pump-and-dump scheme allegedly earned the broker and his co-conspirators $30 million.
US Customs’ Operation “In Our Sites” prevents a number of websites that stream live sporting events from using US domain names.
Nate Anderson at ARS Technica discusses the findings of a Telecom-financed study on “A Viable Future Model for the Internet.” Among the “Internet-protecting” measures suggested- allowing ISPs to charge Internet companies “per gigabyte to deliver traffic.”
Seth Weintraub at CNN’s Fortune Blog reports on efforts by Google and Twitter to support communications among cut-off Egyptians.
Earlier this week, Mozilla announced plans to incorporate a Do Not Track feature into their next browser release, Firefox 4.1.
The National Association of Broadcasters, looking to protect the spectrum currently reserved for broadcasters, is downplaying the likelihood of a “looming spectrum crisis,” wherein spectrum could be re-allocated to mobile broadband purposes.
Many Canadian ISPs are moving to “usage-based billing” (UBB) in an effort to reduce network traffic. Observers are waiting to see how this will affect consumption behavior.
A hacker who unlocked the PlayStation 3’s firmware is fighting a court order requiring him to turn over his computer gear to Sony.
I sometimes post some of my recent press and other stuff, for the few people who read my blog (mom, dad, my research assistants).
In the last few weeks, I was quoted in the New York Times about Keith Olbermann, in a story in section A of the Sunday Times. This resulted in a lot emails from strangers (the least friendly of which I read to my class). Also, on this issue, I was quoted in the Hollywood Reporter and The Hill.
I spoke at the State of the Net Conference about online video, and I was quoted in the National Journal and The Hill. Also quoted in PC World (somewhat misidentified by my previous job) on net neutrality stuff.
I wrote an analysis of Obama tech initiatives, which was front-paged on the Huffington Post, pointing out some of the State Department’s successes so far, and the challenges ahead of them. Was quoted briefly in Bloomberg Businessweek on the same issue.
I was interviewed on the Randi Rhodes show, a nationally syndicated radio show, on January 26.
Beyond that, the good folks at UCLA law school are organizing their annual entertainment law symposium, and are including my recent article on online TV in the program, republishing 700 copies of the article.
Otherwise, mainly working on a law review article and teaching. But will soon guest-blog for a month with the great folks over at Concurring Opinions.
Marvin Ammori 