Not much in the way of details, but a week after EU negotiators briefed the EU Parliament on ACTA, the head EU negotiator, Luc Devigne, is apparently out of that role. There’s some speculation that perhaps (hopefully?) this means that the European Com…

Last year, we wrote about the somewhat bizarre class action lawsuit filed against Scribd for copyright infringement. It was bizarre on multiple levels. First, the lawyers filing the lawsuit against Scribd were the same lawyers, Joe Sibley and Kiwi Ca…

Last week, we wrote about Michael Wolff’s report that the new paywall for Rupert Murdoch’s The Times in London wasn’t doing so well. However, we wondered if we’d ever see actual numbers. While some publications have been analyzing the traffic drop, n…

Last week, we were confused as to why 73,000 blogs from Blogetery were taken offline due to some unnamed government agency, and now details are starting to come out. Greg Sandoval at News.com, has the latest, noting that the FBI told Blogetery’s ISP, …

Visa has released guidelines on tokenization to help merchants and card processors better protect customer credit card data and potentially reduce the burden of complying with PCI rules. Tokenization transforms a credit card number into a random number…

Lots of folks are submitting the big interactive investigative report put out by the Washington Post, detailing the massive bureaucratic mess that has become the US’s anti-terrorism operations. Basically, since September 11, 2001, when the government …

Hosting provider Rackspace announced Monday that it’s opening the software code for its cloud infrastructure. “Cloud technology will never look back,” the company proclaimed on its web site, adding that the OpenStack open-source cloud platform will cre…

Apple’s iPad is slated to become available in nine more countries around the world later this week. The gadget maker said Monday that buyers in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore will b…

Want a collector’s item? Consider a Nexus One smartphone, while supplies last. Once the search giant sells out its most recent shipment of the critically praised but sales-challenged handset, it will become a rare find for American consumers.

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I remember a few decades back, when I was in high school, our principal announced that her biggest concern and top focus was stopping kids from bringing walkmen cassette players to school. This was in a school where there were all of the more typical …