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Post from the Search Engine Watch Blog about Google being sued for patent infringement over the VoIP portion of the Google Talk program.
Rates Technology says that two patents they hold (awarded in 1995, 2001) for minimizing the cost of long distance calls using the Internet are being infringed upon by Google Talk. Copies of these two patents along with one more mentioned in the filing are included in the complaint.
Good article from Law.com Legal Technology news about how Americans are hooked on high tech gadgets, including high speed Internet access.
The intense loyalty to high-speed Internet is a sign that people are getting hooked on newer technology. Almost four in 10 people with high-speed Internet say they consider it essential. About two in 10 feel that way about their DVD players, digital cable and CD players.
Reuters reports that Google will renew its partnership with AOL and that MSN is out.
Time Warner Inc. is in exclusive talks with Web search leader Google Inc. about broadening a partnership with Time Warner's AOL online unit, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Microsoft Corp., once considered the front-runner for a deal with AOL, is -- at least for now -- out of the running.
Press release from Infospace about the top search terms of 2005. These results are from Dogpile, a metasearch site that pulls results from all the top search engines including Google, Yahoo, Msn and Askjeeves.
A recent study found that only 1.1 percent of the first page results are the same across all four engines, making metasearch sites like Dogpile.com a more efficient way to find the best results across multiple search engines.
Dogpile.com, the metasearch engine that returns the top results from all the leading search engines, today announced its most popular Internet search terms of 2005, including "music lyrics" at No. 1. With an estimated 63% of the U.S. online population conducting at least one Internet search each day*, searches are revealing more insight into the nation's collective interests.
Nathan Weinberg has details of a handy little RSS ticker now available in Gmail.
Souce: Marketing Pilgrim blog
Report from CNNMoney.com that AOL and Microsoft are close to hammering out an online advertising alliance to challenge Google. MSN would replace Google's search results on AOL.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that under the deal now being discussed, Time Warner's America Online unit would switch to using Micosoft's search engine, and the two companies would set up a joint venture to sell online advertising across both AOL and Microsoft's MSN portal.
The newspaper reports that Google is still involved in talks about the possibility of its own alliance with AOL, although a person familiar with the talks told the newspaper a sticking point so far has been Google's reluctance to guarantee Time Warner a minimum amount of revenue, which Microsoft had agreed to do.
FULL STORY: CNN NEWS
Interesting article from EWEEK about a man convicted for murdering his wife and how police and prosecutors now are routinely making a supsect's search terms a witness for the prosecution.
Robert James Petrick, 51, didn't exactly point a Web browser to the Internet search engine Google and type in "how do you kill your wife?"
But he came pretty close, say prosecutors in Durham County, North Carolina.
Petrick used Google to search the Internet for references to "body decomposition," "rigor mortis," "neck" and "break" in the days before and after he murdered his wife, Janine Sutphen, then dumped her body in a lake, said Durham County assistant prosecutor Mitchell Garrell.
By "Googling" his wife's murder, Petrick was inadvertently supporting the prosecutor's time line of events.
"If search terms aren't part of the routine now for everybody in law enforcement, they soon will be," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which provides commentary on technology-related law.
"That raises questions about privacy and how far police can go. What you Google for defines you. Your search logs are the closest thing to a printout of your brain that we have."
Garrell defended his use of search terms as evidence; volunteering several times during a recent interview that his office and the law enforcers it works with always pay the utmost attention to privacy rights.
Continue reading "Killer Convicted Based On Google Search History" »
Firstgov.gov is the US Government's official web portal and they have a list of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds which are browsable by topics that include health, business and economics, and science.
WHAT IS RSS?
RSS has several meanings: Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, and RDF Site Summary. In any case, it's a method of summarizing the latest news and information from a website, that can be easily read by many news readers or news aggregators. ALL Lawyers should be aware of RSS feeds and they really are easy to use and a great way to follow a lot of different news stories in one location.
US GOVERNMENT PODCASTS
They also have a listing of Podcasts from the US Government and then also a link to the White House RSS feeds and podcasts.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet advertisers and marketing professionals have a message for television networks: get ready to change the way you work.
As Internet advertising grabs a bigger share of marketing budgets and ad agencies tailor spots to a new medium where attention spans can be measured in split seconds, television networks will have to adjust, executives told the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit this week.
"We believe the Web site will ultimately replace the 30-second commercial as the central expression of the brand ... The TV commercial over time will become more of a way to simply send people to your Web site," said Brian McAndrews, chief executive of Internet marketing company aQuantive Inc..
Source : Yahoo News
Daniel Brandt's been upset over the accuracy and presence of a page about him at Wikipedia, and now John Seigenthaler, the former assistant to US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, is upset as well over his Wikipedia biography, venting his frustration in a USA Today article.
A false Wikipedia 'biography' has Seigenthaler sounding out his complaint, the 78 year old declaring that only one sentence in his bio was true. He managed to get Wikipedia to remove the material he objected to removed, though with Wikipedia's community editing system, I don't see anything that prevents that from coming back.
Source : SEW Blog
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