Obama Fills Administration With RIAA Lawyers

April 24, 2009

The content industry, including the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, are applauding President Barack Obama’s appointments of at least five RIAA lawyers to the Justice Department. They urged him to continue the trend.

More →

End of an Era: 12 People Left on Geocities Have to Find New Digs

April 24, 2009

Yahoo is closing its GeoCities personal home page service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the Web that’s largely been replaced by social networks and blogs. GeoCities rose to power during an era when publishing on the Internet meant setting up your own Web site. GeoCities simplified the process by helping […]

More →

Goss: Obama Decision "Crossed a Red Line"

April 24, 2009

Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques. “For the first time in my experience we’ve crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage,” Goss said in an […]

More →

Pirate Bay Case Judge Was Member of Copyright Group All Along: Calls for Retrial Abound

April 24, 2009

One of the biggest cases in file-sharing history ended last week with The Pirate Bay Four sentenced to huge fines and jail time. Today it is revealed that far from being impartial, the judge in the case is a member of pro-copyright groups – along with Henrik Pontén, Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky. There are […]

More →

Hefty Bonuses To New York Times Execs Under Fire

April 24, 2009

At a time when New York Times managers are forcing all employees to take a five percent pay cut, and demanding even larger sacrifices from the NYT-owned Boston Globe, top executives of the beleaguered newspaper received substantial bonus and fringe benefit payments over and above their salaries, according to a proxy statement released on March […]

More →

Lloyd Austin: A Hero You Should Know

April 24, 2009

An unsung hero and great soldier by the name of Lloyd Austin has just finished his tour in Iraq as the No. 2 U.S. commander. The lieutenant general’s story deserves attention to honor his service, to understand the situation in Iraq today, and not least to garner key lessons for Afghanistan about the importance of […]

More →

McCullagh: The Republican Party Has Lost Its Way

April 24, 2009

(CBS) At last week’s Tea Party rally in San Francisco, protesters waved signs with slogans including “Overtaxation is Tyranny,” “A Debt We Can Never Clear,” and “No More Bailouts.” Some signs blamed President Obama, saying “ObamaNomics: Chains We Can Believe In.”

More →

Current TV Reporters to be Tried in North Korea

April 24, 2009

(CNN) — North Korea has concluded an investigation of two detained American journalists, and they will stand trial, according to the nation’s state-run news service, KCNA.

More →

Former Facebook Exec Hired as MySpace CEO: But They're From Two Different Worlds!

April 24, 2009

News Corp. plans to announce as early as Friday that it has hired former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as chief executive of MySpace, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company accelerates efforts to reinvigorate its social networking site.

More →

Worse Than Expected New Data on Jobs, Housing Signal No Quick Recovery

April 23, 2009

WASHINGTON – Worse-than-expected news on unemployment and home sales Thursday dampened optimism that a broad economic recovery might be near.

More →