Archive for ‘October, 2009’

Judge rejects RIAA sanction demands

Judge rejects RIAA sanction demands

RIAA:- One of the longest running battles between the Big 4 corporate record labels and the people who keep them alive centers on Marie Lindor (right) .She’s a New York health aid who literally didn’t know one end of the computer from the other until she was attacked by UMG Recordings, Warner Bros Records, Interscope [...]

FCC to Launch Inquiry Into Google Voice

FCC to Launch Inquiry Into Google Voice

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will launch an inquiry into Google Voice, the Web-based voice service, after complaints that the tech giant is blocking some calls.
The FCC action comes after AT&T, in a letter to the agency Sept. 25, complained that Google was pushing for net neutrality rules that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking [...]

FTC Guidelines Raise Big Blogging Questions

FTC Guidelines Raise Big Blogging Questions

Some See Guidelines as Free Speech Threat
 
Update 2:  Now Cleland says, "If people think that the FTC is going to issue them a citation for $11,000 because they failed to disclose that they got a free box of Pampers, that’s not true. That’s not going to happen today, not ever." (via)
Update: The FTC is now saying [...]

Miley quits Twitter, raps she’s “done tryin’ to please”

Miley quits Twitter, raps she’s “done tryin’ to please”

LOS ANGELES – Teen star Miley Cyrus used a rap video on Friday to tell a curious world just why she had abruptly deleted her popular Twitter account.

"I’m done tryin’ to please, I ain’t livin’ for tabloids, I am living for me," the 16 year-old Disney Channel actress and singer sang in a "Goodbye Twitter" [...]