When a Chinese reporter was imprisoned due to Yahoo’s loose lips, the reporter’s mother filed a lawsuit on his behalf. Now, although he is still in jail, Shi Tao’s name has been added to the suit.
Google Board Votes Down Proposal Against Censorship
Recently, a number of groups that own shares in Google put forth a shareholder proposal that would require Google to resist government censorship efforts, and to notify users when consorship had occured despite Google’s best efforts. Wenesday, Google’s board of directors issued a recommendation that the proposal be voted down, ensuring the proposal will never have a chance, since the big three of Page, Brin and Schmidt hold 66.2% of all voting power.
The Best Defense Against Bad Word of Mouth
Uber customer service snafus like Jet Blue aside, a business is bound to catch a customer on a bad day – or vice versa. This can spawn a fiery blog post which, in plain view of Google, can morph into an issue with “negative fiscal ramifications” for the business in question.
UK Telecom Comes Down Against Traffic Shaping
It’s often considered lazy writing to start a piece with a quote, but I think that, in this case, it might be necessary.
Wikipedia calls traffic shaping “an attempt to control computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, low latency, and/or bandwidth.”
And now that you know that, know this: a major British telecom does not favor traffic shaping.
Writing For Online Readers Goes Against The Book
It pains me to suggest this, but we must ignore (one of) the teachings of Strunk and White. We must turn our backs on a number of other writing guides. And we must break our own habit of writing out numbers as words.
Instead, we should represent numbers with numerals – a recent eye-tracking study suggests that they’re much more likely to capture online readers’ interest.
KinderStart Case Against Google Dismissed
Almost a year after KinderStart sued Google for dropping it from the search engine’s index, the presiding judge has put an end to the case by siding with Google’s requests.
Yahoo To File Trademark Complaint Against AOL?
Yahoo may be set to file opposition to AOL’s use of Instant Messenger at the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Belgian Newspapers Score Victory Against Google
It’s beginning to look like 2007 could be a very long year for Google in the legal department.
In a court ruling early Tuesday, a judge ruled in favor of Belgian newspapers in their dispute with Google, citing that the Internet company was guilty of copyright infringement.
The Brussels court ruled in favor of Copiepresse, a consortium that represents the eighteen newspapers that brought complaints against Google.
Telecoms To Unite Against Google, Yahoo?
In what could be viewed as an “enemy of my enemy”-style situation, a number of telecommunications companies are reportedly banding together to challenge Google and Yahoo in the field of mobile search.
Local Publishers Can Hold Against Craigslist
Somewhere at the top of the Silicon Valley, Craigslist has upset the status quo of publishing; only the most dedicated websites can survive the hazardous venture into the Valley and face down the Colonel Kurtz of online classifieds.