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Why The Lori Drew Ruling Could Put More Kids At Risk
Date : 17 Dec 2008
TechdirtWe have some serious problems with the implications of the ruling in the Lori Drew case, where Drew was found guilty of computer h read more »
One More Thing: Jobs Isn't Coming To Macworld
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtMac fanboys cried themselves to sleep Tuesday night with the news that Steve Jobs won't be giving any more Macworld keynotes, whil read more »
Can You Own The Idea Of A Reality Show For Moms Picking Brides For Their Sons?
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtI have to admit that I don't watch reality TV or follow what's the latest in reality TV shows. I hear people talking about them, read more »
Isn't There An Easier Way To Tax Online Gambling?
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtOne of the founders of British online gambling site PartyGaming yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of transmitting bets across s read more »
No Joke: National Lampoon Exec Faces 25 Years In Jail Over Stock Manipulation
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtI have to be honest and admit that I had no clue that National Lampoon was even a public company, but apparently it is. Either wa read more »
Pennsylvania Actually Realizes That Video Game Legislation Is A Bad Idea
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe've seen so many states with grandstanding politicians trying to ban the sale of certain video games to kids -- despite the fact read more »
New York The Latest To Propose Taxing iTunes Downloads
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtEarlier this year, some politicians in California, which is struggling with massive budgetary problems, proposed adding a tax to i read more »
Cop Caught Slamming Cyclist To The Ground On YouTube Indicted
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtOver the summer, you may have seen the video that got passed around quite a bit of a NYC police officer going out of his way to sl read more »
Gowers Slams Out Of Touch UK Cultural Secretary Over Copyright Extension Plan
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtLast week, UK Cultural Secretary Andy Burnham laid out a highly questionable argument in favor of copyright extension on performan read more »
Oil up more than $1 before expected OPEC supply cut (Reuters)
Date : 17 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Oil rose by more than a dollar to nearly $45 on Wednesday ahead of an OPEC meeting in Algeria widely expected to announc read more »
Fed-inspired rally fades in Europe (Reuters)
Date : 17 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - European stocks failed on Wednesday to extend strong gains Asia on Wall Street as initial optimism from the Federal Rese read more »
More And More Students Choosing Journalism As A Major, Even As Newspapers Face Troubles
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtThanks to all the fretting and worrying about the financial trouble and potential demise of many mainstream newspapers, it's becom read more »
OPEC ready for deepest oil cut to rescue prices (Reuters)
Date : 17 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - OPEC oil ministers meet on Wednesday to remove a record 2 million barrels per day from oil markets as they race to balan read more »
Auto rescue being worked on quickly: Paulson (Reuters)
Date : 17 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A government bailout for automakers was being assembled as quickly and carefully as possible, Treasury Secretary Henry P read more »
Ford CEO expects lots of interest in Volvo (Reuters)
Date : 17 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Ford Motor Co is considering strategic options for its Swedish luxury Volvo brand "right now" and expects lots of inter read more »
Subsidized Laptops With Locked In Wireless Broadband Contracts
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtA few years back, after noting the trend of laptop companies to start building in cellular data modems into their laptops, we wond read more »
Mobile Operators Say Inauguration Will Tax Systems, Provide PR Fodder
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtApparently there are going to be a lot of people in Washington, DC, next month, for Barack Obama's inauguration. With up to 4 mill read more »
France Requires Online Publication Of Certain Laws To Be Valid
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtLaurent GUERBY writes in to point us to some news of a new decree from the French government, supposedly saying that all laws must read more »
SEC launches investigation into massive Madoff fraud (AFP)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US financial regulatory body, said it would launch an in-house investigati read more »
Court Limits, But Doesn't Eliminate, Secrecy Of National Security Letters
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe Patriot Act, among other things, allows law enforcement to issue "National Security Letters" to ISPs and telcos to obtain cert read more »
Meltdown 101: Pros and cons of employee buyouts (AP)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - When Best Buy Co. Inc. announced Tuesday it would offer buyout packages to about 4,000 employees, the retailer joined a long read more »
UK DVD, CD Retailers Give More Bogus Predictions About Lost Jobs Due To Piracy
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt appears that the latest group to whine and complain about totally bogus "losses" from piracy are CD and DVD retailers in the UK read more »
Record Labels Disobey Court Order On How Student Info Can Be Used
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtRay Beckermann points us to the news that in a lawsuit involving various record labels against some USC students, the record label read more »
Is Google Squandering Its Biggest Asset?
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtOne of Google's biggest assets is trust. The company's founder has admitted that adopting the "Do No Evil" mantra purposely set a read more »
U.S.-backed banks could be mortgage aid tool: sources (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A network of government-backed lenders could become conduits for fresh mortgage financing under a plan being mulled by U read more »