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Joe Hodnicki Google Some Thoughts on the Google Chrome OS Announcement tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571dc839f970b 2009-07-08T15:11:58-04:00 2009-07-08T19:12:19Z 2009-07-08T19:11:58Z The announcement by Google of the Chrome OS penetrated well beyond the tech press into the mainstream. The news penetrated the stock market as well. Google was up and Microsoft was down. This is a development that catches the attention... Joe Hodnicki Google New Tech Papers From Bepress tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571d48984970b 2009-07-07T16:22:04-04:00 2009-07-07T20:22:04Z 2009-07-07T20:22:04Z From the announcement: Announcing the Law and Technology Scholarship (Selected by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology), part of the bepress Legal Repository found at http://law.bepress.com/repository PUBLISHER: The Berkeley Electronic Press TABLE OF CONTENTS: Molly S. Van Houweling "Author... Joe Hodnicki Papers and Scholarship Fire Disrupts Bing Travel - Did Anyone Notice? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570d6f222970c 2009-07-06T14:55:27-04:00 2009-07-06T18:55:27Z 2009-07-06T18:55:27Z I note that a fire in Seattle last week took down the Bing Travel Site. It took more than a day to get the site back up. What I missed were stories that suggested that Microsoft was unreliable, or could... Joe Hodnicki Search Engines ASCAP Says Cell Ringtones are Public Performances - Pay Up! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571cbb254970b 2009-07-06T14:41:09-04:00 2009-07-06T18:41:09Z 2009-07-06T18:41:09Z One of the more outrageous attempts of a dying music industry to squeeze money from consumers is coming from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). The royalty collection agency represents song writers, among others, and has sued... Joe Hodnicki Lawsuits Apple Gift Card Suit Filed tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571653538970b 2009-06-26T13:55:20-04:00 2009-06-26T17:55:20Z 2009-06-26T17:55:20Z Apple is being sued over gift cards. The claim, filed in federal district court in Illinois says Apple markets the cards saying that songs are available for 99 cents. Low and behold, with variable pricing, songs may cost more that... Joe Hodnicki Lawsuits Windows 7 Pricing Announced tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115706588db970c 2009-06-25T17:31:22-04:00 2009-06-25T21:31:22Z 2009-06-25T21:31:22Z Microsoft announced pricing for Windows 7. It gets a bit complicated given the different versions and upgrade possibilities. Ars Technica has it all in a matrix that makes sense (compared to other published reports). Cost is a bit less expensive... Joe Hodnicki Microsoft 7th Circuit Upholds Mass Market Sentencing Enhancement for Internet Auction Fraud tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68462123 2009-06-24T17:58:32-04:00 2009-06-24T21:58:32Z 2009-06-24T21:58:32Z The Seventh Circuit on Monday affirmed the enhanced sentencing of Jeffrey Heckel for mail fraud by using the Internet to conduct mass marketing. Heckel conducted Internet auctions for items, cashed checks by winning bidders, and sent inferior items from those... Joe Hodnicki Court Opinions Microsoft's Free Virus Beta Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68411493 2009-06-23T13:13:00-04:00 2009-06-23T17:13:00Z 2009-06-23T17:13:00Z Microsoft's free real time virus program is available as a beta download. It's available here. Computerworld and PC World have reviews, generally positive . One feature that stands out is the minimal use of resources for background scanning. That's something... Joe Hodnicki Software What Were They Thinking? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68411381 2009-06-23T13:09:45-04:00 2009-06-23T17:09:45Z 2009-06-23T17:09:45Z Bozeman, Montana, has eliminated the practice of requiring job applicants to supply their usernames and passwords to their social networking sites. Yes, it is crazy for them to ask for that information at all. Plenty of investigations take place that... Joe Hodnicki Current Affairs Netbooks Disappoint Consumers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68411299 2009-06-23T13:07:32-04:00 2009-06-23T17:07:32Z 2009-06-23T17:07:32Z What a surprise. Consumers confuse netbooks for laptops. Netbooks are light, inexpensive machines geared for web and email. Laptops have the power to run productivity and entertainment applications and do the web stuff. A significant price difference of say, $300,... Joe Hodnicki Hardware Microsoft May Do To Antivirus What It Did To Browsers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68171207 2009-06-16T14:43:41-04:00 2009-06-16T18:43:41Z 2009-06-16T18:43:41Z Microsoft will unveil a new free antivirus app. The big players in the antivirus market have some concern. Will they complain to the European Union as everyone else does when Microsoft offers something free for which others pay? Details in... Joe Hodnicki Amazon May Open Up Kindle, e-Book Business To Other Formats tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68171085 2009-06-16T14:41:07-04:00 2009-06-16T18:41:07Z 2009-06-16T18:41:07Z Amazon is willing to separate the the e-book business from the Kindle business. Jeff Bezos is quoted in Information Week saying e-book content from Amazon will be available on a variety of platforms for the same $9.99 price point. He... Joe Hodnicki Books Are Lawyers Competent to Construct Keyword Searches? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68132545 2009-06-15T14:28:20-04:00 2009-06-15T18:28:32Z 2009-06-15T18:28:20Z This issue raises its head every now and then in the context of electronic discovery. One of the latest opinions on this comes from Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck in the Southern District of New York. The case is William... Joe Hodnicki e-Discovery No IE? Europe Reacts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68035879 2009-06-12T14:20:38-04:00 2009-06-12T18:20:38Z 2009-06-12T18:20:38Z The European Union is none too happy with Microsoft's announcement to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7. That's not what it wanted, they essentially said. No, no, (as best said in 27 languages), we want Microsoft to offer a range... Joe Hodnicki Browsers The Day Analog TV Went Dark tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68033747 2009-06-12T13:53:15-04:00 2009-06-12T17:53:15Z 2009-06-12T17:53:15Z Finally, it's happened. Today is the day that televison stations nationwide are broadcasting in digital form, shutting down their analog transmitters forever. Instead of the old rabbit ears, consumers must get their broadcasts using a digital television with a digital... Joe Hodnicki Television WIndows 7 Will Not Have IE in European Editions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68003023 2009-06-11T18:00:22-04:00 2009-06-11T22:00:30Z 2009-06-11T22:00:22Z Microsoft has announced that it will ship European copies of Windows 7 without Internet Explorer. This is an attempt to calm down European regulators who are investigating the company for abusing the browser market with pre-installed copies of Explorer. Computer... Joe Hodnicki Browsers French 3 Strikes Law Struck Down tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67960675 2009-06-10T18:10:30-04:00 2009-06-10T22:11:17Z 2009-06-10T22:10:30Z The French law Création et Internet, also known as the three strikes law, is struck down by the French Constitutional Council. Ironically, it only took two strikes, it's parliamentary defeat on initial consideration, and this decision, to be disconnected from... Joe Hodnicki Free Upgrades to Windows 7 if Purchased at the Right Time tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67853535 2009-06-08T14:49:34-04:00 2009-06-08T18:49:34Z 2009-06-08T18:49:34Z Consumers who purchase computer with the Vista operating system can get an upgrade to Windows 7 if purchased between June 26th and October 22nd of this year. This comes from a leaked Best Buy memo giving the retailer's understanding of... Joe Hodnicki Microsoft