May 2007
EMI and Google Announce YouTube Partnership
May 31, 2007 | According to News.com, EMI Group announced a licensing deal with Google that will allow YouTube to show videos and performances Read More
DRM-free Songs Debut on iTunes
May 30, 2007 | In an update to this post from last month, the Associated Press reports that Apple's iTunes Store has started selling Read More
Calculating the R&D Tax Break
May 30, 2007 | According to The Wall Street Journal (sub required), Sen. Max Baucus (D - MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Read More
NYT: FTC Opens Investigation of Google-DoubleClick Deal
May 29, 2007 | The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened a "preliminary antitrust investigation" into Read More
Does Silicon Valley Need More H-1B Visas?
May 25, 2007 | Mercury News writer Dean Takahashi weighed in on the H-1B visa issue yesterday in this column called "We need more Read More
"Star Wars" Taking the Mash-Up Plunge
May 24, 2007 | "Star Wars" creator George Lucas is once again breaking new ground -- this time in cyberspace. According to The Wall Read More
Rural Telecon '07 - Call for Speakers
May 23, 2007 | The Rural Telecommunications Congress, in cooperation with the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs and the Office of Lt. Governor Pat Read More
News.com Podcast: Internet Taxation
May 22, 2007 | In their latest podcast, News.com's Charlie Cooper and Declan McCullagh talk with former House Majority Leader Dick Armey about the Read More
Backlash Against RFID?
May 22, 2007 | In a recent CNNMoney.com article called "Backlash against RFID is growing," writer Chris Zappone takes a look at the concerns Read More
MySpace To Provide AGs with Data on Sex Offenders
May 21, 2007 | News.com and the Associated Press are reporting that MySpace has announced that it will in fact turn over data it Read More
Congress Gets More Proposals for H-1B Increase
May 17, 2007 | As we blogged about last month, the U.S. government received a record number of applications for H-1B visas this year Read More
Subcommittee Votes on Patent Reform Bill
May 16, 2007 | According to News.com's Anne Broache, the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, chaired by Rep. Howard Berman Read More
Measuring Your Footprint
May 15, 2007 | The New York Times' Steve Lohr writes about a new Web-based tool called the GoZero Footprint City Calculator that is Read More
DOD Bans YouTube, MySpace
May 14, 2007 | According to an Associated Press report in Yahoo! News, the Department of Defense (DOD) is implementing a new policy -- Read More
Video on the Future of Video
May 11, 2007 | The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, led by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), held its hearing yesterday on the Read More
Are Trade Agreements Exporting IP?
May 8, 2007 | In his latest "The Financial Page" column, The New Yorker's James Surowiecki doesn't pull any punches in describing what he Read More
Merger Mania, Part Two
May 7, 2007 | As a follow-up to our Friday post about recent merger talks in the tech and media sectors (including the rumor Read More
Digg's DMCA Woes
May 4, 2007 | Digg is the latest, but unlikely the last, social media company to find itself walking the thin line between enabling Read More
Merger Mania?
May 4, 2007 | News abounds this week about a spate of possibile acquisitions in the technology and media industries... Following Google's agreement last Read More
Vonage Seeks New Patent Trial
May 2, 2007 | Reuters reports that VoIP provider Vonage has a filed motion requesting a retrial in the recent patent infringement case brought Read More
