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Remember the Pennsylvania school district that was accused of remotely flipping on the webcams of students’ laptops? As if the civil suit filed on behalf of those students wasn’t going to be enough trouble for the Lower Merion representatives, now it seems the FBI wants to know just what’s going on, launching an investigation into the practice. For its ..Read More

Google today said it is willing to hear a privacy group’s concerns about its Google Buzz social media platform, even after the group filed a complaint with the FTC over the controversial service. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed the complaint Tuesday in Washington, arguing that Buzz, which builds a network of friends for Gmail users from the ..Read More

As Foursquare makes deals with major media companies, competitor Loopt is continuing to partner with with content companies to offer fresh news and reviews of restaurants, bars, businesses and events. Loopt’s mobile apps incorporates local content, deals and reviews about restaurants, bars and events from Zagat, Citysearch, Bing, and most recently Mobile Spinach. Today, Loopt is announcing a partnership ..Read More

Antitrust lawyer and Open Book Alliance leader Gary Reback has been called the “antitrust champion” and the “protector of the marketplace” by the National Law Journal, and has been at the forefront of many of the most important antitrust cases of the last three decades. He is one of the most vocal opponents of the Google Books settlement. I ..Read More

As you may or may not have heard, the USTR has been accepting public comments for its Special 301 report, which comes out every year in an attempt to name and shame countries that the USTR does not believe does enough to protect US copyrights abroad. Typically, this process is driven very much by the entertainment industry, to the extent ..Read More

If the latest numbers from online ad network Chitika are anything to go by, then we may well be on our way to the world of Idiocracy . According to the study, which compared click through rates to college education, the less educated your audience, the more likely they are to click through on an advertisement. While this may ..Read More

Late last week, tech biz bloggers were shocked — and a few were cruelly happy — to read that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington had fired 17-year-old intern, entrepreneur and Internet fameball Daniel Brusilovsky . Arrington said the teenage overachiever had accepted a computer from a company in exchange for coverage on TechCrunch. Brusilovsky also admitted, Arrington said, to asking ..Read More

Six venues from baseball’s halcyon days will be offered as downloadable content for preorders of MLB 10: The Show, through GameStop and Amazon. Interestingly, Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, perhaps the most pined-for, long-since-demolished stadium in baseball lore, is not on the list. Nor are more recent casualties such as Tiger Stadium or Comiskey Park, which would have plenty more fans ..Read More

The good folks at UK open government consultancy Delib have just released a short documentary about the United States’ first year since President Obama’s Open Government memorandum. The documentary was shot by Delib founder Chris Quigley over two months last year, both on location in Washington DC and via Skype. Sponsor “On a visit to Washington to see our ..Read More

Whether it’s due to companies downsizing, former corporate workers receiving buyout packages or someone simply deciding that now is the right time, increasingly more individuals are deciding to go into business for themselves. And one of the early challenges these small business owners and entrepreneurs will face is establishing a professional image to help get their burgeoning business off ..Read More