Petition tells Apple: We want an 'ethical' iPhone 5

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:46 PM EST (CNET.com)

A new online petition is demanding that Apple clean up its act overseas in time to make its next iPhone "the first ethical iPhone."

business, apple, aapl, ethical, iphone, iphones, iphone-5

Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:24 AM EST (Stanford Knowledgebase)

Seeded by Buddha-Dude (Clipped by Michael Sautter)

An excellent read from Stanford Law: The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective.

technology, intellectual-property, cybercrime

ACTA 2.0 is like a backdoor way to enact SOPA

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:21 AM EST (GigaOM)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (or ACTA 2.0): The TPP is currently being negotiated in Los Angles as a wide-reaching trade agreement between Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Australia, Peru, Vietnam, and the United States.

technology, peru, trade, australia, agreement, singapore, new-zealand, chile, united-states, vietnam

The Sky Is Rising.

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:17 AM EST (Techdirt)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

What we found is that not only is the sky not falling, as some would have us believe, but it appears that we're living through an incredible period of abundance and opportunity, with more people producing more content and more money being made than ever before.

technology, books, music, pirates, piracy, internet, movies, video-games, content

Are we living in a post-PC and a post-Mac world?

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:57 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

Apple posted its Q4 earnings last week and reports of its imminent demise have been greatly exaggerated.

technology, apple, jean-louis-gass-e

Google, Facebook Join Forces to Kill Phishing Email With New Email Framework

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:57 PM EST (ThreatPost)

Seeded by cwmccabe

Google, Yahoo, AOL and a group of other large email senders and receivers have banded together to develop a new framework for sending and receiving email that is designed to stop phishing attacks and other email-borne scams.

google, technology, aol, email, scam, phishing, facebook, authentication, dmarc, spf

Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:09 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

US writers attack conditions at Foxconn plant and call for consumers to act.

business, china, apple, aapl, boycott, foxconn

Angry Birds chief: piracy is good for business

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:05 PM EST (Telegraph)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

The chief executive of the company behind mobile gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds, has said that piracy helps companies attract more business.

business, piracy, rovio, angry-birds, mikael-hed

ACTA: "Would Usurp Congressional Authority", "Threatens Numerous Public Interests", a "Backroom Special Interest Deal", a "Masquerade"

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:12 AM EST ( naked capitalism)

Seeded by GOZO-unlimited (Clipped by Michael Sautter)

Unless we understand the rotten, anti-democratic process which is causing these bad bills to be introduced, we will be caught off-guard by the introduction of one draconian bill after another … and we will lose the fight for Internet freedom. (The problem is that powerf …

technology, acta, pipa, sopa, trans-pacific-partnership-agreement