A recent settlement over the Google Books program will limit the scope of out-of-print works to English-speaking countries. The settlement will also limit the way Google can make money from digitizing out-of-print works. This forces the registry to actively seek out copyright holders who do not initially come forward to gain permission. This settlement only [...]

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More objections to Google’s street view are forming in the European Union. The Swiss Government is suing Google because its Street View online service is too revealing they claim. The Swiss data protection authority filed a claim with the Federal Administrative Court over the way Google handles personal information–specifically for additional constraints to obscure the [...]

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A New York City robbery suspect was cleared of all charges because the defense showed that the suspect made a Facebook update from his father’s house, which was 13 miles away from the crime scene. The Facebook update (he wrote: “WHERE MY IHOP?”) took place one minute before the robbery. The suspect had been held [...]

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Cisco, EMC, and VMW have formed a partnership to create corporate-focused product called V-Block. Essentially the partnership will sell and provide maintenance for a new integrated data center that uses the capabilities of the three companies combined. The cloud infrastructure for the product will be built by all three companies. (Background information: EMC owns almost [...]

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