We Really Can Say Podcast?

Previously on the Internet, Apple put the fear of lawyers into podcasters over use of the term "podcast," sending out cease and desist orders claiming the term was a violation of Apple's iPod trademark. But one snarky Australian podcaster may have won this battle, and it only cost him a dollar.

Google Answers Is Closing

Google has announced that Google Answers, the very first non-search project from Google, is closing down forever. Come the end of the year, Answers will stop accepting new questions, although the old pages will remain up as archives.

Court Tells Gov’t 4th Amdt.Goes For Email Too

A landmark court decision found that the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) violated Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable search and seizure by allowing the government to search and seize email from email service providers.