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Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
Three from BNA News:
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SPAMMER SUE MAN FOR REPORTING SPAMMING ACTIVITY
A man who claims he has been receiving unsolicited emails
from a US company for two years is now being sued by them,
for branding them spammers and reporting their actions to
ISPs. Jay Stuler is now on the receiving end of a lawsuit
from New Hampshire firm Atriks, which alleges Stuler caused
financial harm to the firm and caused it to lose contracts.
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ACCC AVOIDS REGULATING ISP
PEERING
Despite ongoing industry concern, Australia's competition
watchdog has elected not to regulate peering arrangements
between ISPs. The ACCC found that there was insufficient
case for regulating interconnection at the present time,
backing the finding of a draft report published in October.
- FRENCH COURT RULES AGAINST GOOGLE IN TRADEMARK CASE
A French court has ruled against Google in a trademark
infringement dispute with Le Meridien, a global hotel chain.
The dispute centered on the use of the trademarked terms
within the Google Adwords program. French version of the
decision at
[or, since that will break in transit: http://tinyurl.com/5vaqh ]
The first of these is a long-running offline trick ("Sue me? Sue you!")
The second of these harkens back to the early days of the commercial
Internet and the peering wars that broke out then, and the third is a
chapter in the ongoing saga of one of the older, prominent,
jurisdictional travails on the InterWeb.
9:37:59 AM 
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Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs. Blogging can be powerful, akin to free-market capitalism, with information as its currency. And not only do we all get to watch, we can join in. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. [Wired News]
7:17:58 AM
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MovieGallery: Organize, Watch & Share all your movies in a snap.
MovieGallery takes care of all your movies in a powerful and easy way. Just drag and drop to organize. Create playlists and watch movies in full-screen. Publish and share your movies on the web and on mobile phones with playlists, preview thumbnails, information and everything intact, in just a few simple steps. You can even work with multiple galleries simultaneously. In contradiction to almost all other shoe-box applications MovieGallery is designed as a document-based application.
[unmediated]
7:14:36 AM
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Andrew Odlyzko: Finding a voice: Learning from history. In particular, there is an abiding, widely held, and damaging misconception that clouds people's thinking about communications, and especially broadband. Companies that continue to hold onto this myth risk losing the race to build the connected home. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:11:45 AM
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Panix.com hijack - worse than we thought.
I've never been one for conspiracy theories, but it is a startling coincidence that last weekend's hijacking of the primary domain of New York ISP Panix.com should have coincided with ICANN's transfers comment period. Now Computerworld reports that Melbourne IT, to whom the domain was moved, has accepted some blame - recognising that a "loophole" at MIT allowed the unauthorised transfer to take place seemingly without the knowledge of anyone at Panix, Dotster (the "losing registrar") or MIT. The nature of the loophole has not been explained, and has now reportedly been closed. Melbourne IT is a very well-established registrar, having originated from within the University of Melbourne in 1996 as the administrator of Australia's commercial domain space (.com.au), and was ICANN ...
[Jottings.com]
7:11:14 AM
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Experiment In Telephonic Democracy.
Not specifically related to cell phones, but interesting. Régine from near near future reports on TellBush, an Experiment In Telephonic Democracy.
Call 1.800.734.1463 and leave GWB a voice message. The message gets emailed at the White House and a flag gradually builds on the web site with people's messages to him. [Smart Mobs]
7:10:08 AM
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