George Ou has some great analysis on why Jobs’ presentation on the iPhone 4 overinflated the display’s PPI improvement. Check out his analysis...
Massive Adwords Clas...
posted by Claude Aiken
Looks like all this Adwords litigation against Google isn’t going away anytime soon. And why should it: everyone wants a slice of the online advertising pie. Yesterday, a group of Texas plaintiffs filed a massive trademark infringement suit against Google, alleging that its practice...
Senate Migrates to X...
posted by Claude Aiken
Good news for those political techies who want to download, access, mash, and otherwise play around with Senate voting records. The Senate is migrating their voting roll calls to XML format.
FTC looks into ties between Apple and Google board...
posted by Claude Aiken
The NY Times yesterday posted a tidbit about a little-talked about facet of antitrust law: the Clayton Antitrust Act does not permit a person to sit on the board of two rival companies when the result is a reduction in competition between them. Why is this interesting? Because it involves the FTC opening an investigation on two of the giants in tech, Apple and Google. The section is rarely enforced, but it could lead to Eric Schmidt leaving Apple’s board if push comes to shove. The law only kicks in in the case of “interlocking directorates” when revenue from competing products is more than 2 percent of either company’s...
VA Court OKs Enforce...
posted by Claude Aiken
Much ink has been shed over clickwrap contracts, and more will continue to be shed as courts attempt to apply age-old principles of contract law in a new technological age. Contracts with minors are typically voidable, but the court makes an exception to this general rule in this case. In...