After a little bit of suspense, Comcast today filed suit in federal court challenging the FCC’s authority to sanction it for “unreasonable network practices.” I say suspense because there was speculation that Comcast might have decided to look the other way and live with a decision that didn’t really force it to do much that the market hadn’t already made it do. I’m happy to see that they’re not standing for Kevin Martin’s blatant overreach. As I’ve said many times before , the FCC has no authority to punish a company for behaving “unreasonably” when it has never established a criteria for what is reasonable

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Comcast to FCC: We’re not gonna take it

Dell’s product debuted five months after HP released the Mini-Note, whose starting price is almost $150 more than the Dell device.

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Dell to sell mini PC to compete with Hewlett-Packard

Most debates–from privacy to net neutrality–about consumer protection in Internet policy come down to the following increasingly-cliched exchange: 1. Advocate of Regulation : “The government must intervene to protect users against Companies who want to [___________] by writing new laws or regulations!” 2. Regulatory Skeptic: “Why don’t we rely on the FTC’s enforcement of End User License Agreements (EULAs), privacy policies and other terms of service (TOS) under existing law?  If companies spell out their policies clearly and then are required to stick to them, those policies will become part of competition:  Companies will compete for consumers by offering attractive policies the same way they compete for consumers by offering attractive products & prices.” 3.

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Market Forces At Work: The PR Backlash Against Google Chrome’s EULA

Neo’s entry to the world of netbook is the ViVid V110. I was able to have a look and feel of this netbook during the launch of Intel Atom yesterday at the Manila Ocean Park and I must say that it’s not that bad looking at all

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Neo ViVid V1100 doesn’t look that bad

Recently for DRMWatch I commented on the Court of Appeals ruling that Cablevision’s remote digital video recorder service did not directly violated copyright. The Court, however, did raise the possibility of indirect liability

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The Cablevision Case and Others

Shortly after I wrote my review of Google Chrome on Wednesday, several commenters posted excerpts from the End User License Agreement, or EULA. They were concerned about language that appears to give Google rights to any content you upload using the company’s new Web browser: By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services

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Google screws up Chrome’s license, then fixes it

Oracle executives either destroyed or knowingly failed to preserve evidence sought by attorneys who have accused Chief Executive Larry Ellison of misleading investors and trading on inside knowledge. Latest market news Market summary | More business

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Judge says Oracle mishandled evidence

Updated 10:23 a.m. • BREAKING: Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops — Defective parts may overheat

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