Security Concerns Holding Back Data Archiving- June 26, 2008 Despite the benefits and increasing popularity of the Software as a Service model, companies are still wary about the idea of farming out data archiving to a partner. Just 24 percent of enterprises are using hosted archiving solutions, compared to 76 percent using on-premise technologies, according to a new study by the Radicati Group, a research firm.Read the article: internetnews.comhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/security-concerns-holding-back-data.html ABC to Pay Staffers for Some After-Hours BlackBerry Use- June 25, 2008 ABC staffers had been feuding with management for weeks over whether they should get paid for the time they spend on their BlackBerrys while out of the office. ABC said it would pay its news writers and producers for using their BlackBerrys after hours -- but only in specific, work-related situations.Read the article: New York Posthttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/abc-to-pay-staffers-for-some-after.html Student Visa Extension Won't Hurt Tech Workers, U.S. Says- June 25, 2008 In papers filed in court, the Bush administration says its student visa extension won't hurt U.S. tech workers and argues that it's not a backdoor H-1B increase. The administration was responding to a lawsuit filed in May by the Immigration Reform Institute, The Programmers Guild, and other groups challenging the extension of the Optional Practical Training provision from one year to 29 months.Read the article: InfoWorldhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/student-visa-extension-wont-hurt-tech.html Security Firm Finds Flaws in 80% of Corporate PCs- June 25, 2008 Security firm Sophos ran a 40-day test of visiting computers from corporate users, and the results aren't pretty. Four in five of the machines checked were lacking in at least one area of security.Read the article: internetnews.comhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/security-firm-finds-flaws-in-80-of.html Man Ordered to Pay $15,000 for Redirecting Website- June 25, 2008 A man has been ordered to pay $15,000 in damages after he set up a shadow website for a Canmore bicycle shop that re-routed Internet users to a gay pornography website. In 2004, Ryan Draper bought the domain name InformCycle.com, according to a decision by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Scott Brooker.Read the article: Calgary Heraldhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/man-ordered-to-pay-15000-for.html Charter Drops Plan to Track ISP Customers- June 25, 2008 Charter Communications is dropping plans to track the Web use of some high-speed Internet subscribers, citing concerns raised by customers, the company said. In May, Charter, which is based in St. Louis, announced a pilot program in four markets intended to produce enough information for advertisers to aim online ads at individual customers based on their viewing habits.Read the article: The New York Timeshttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/charter-drops-plan-to-track-isp.html Supreme Court to Consider ISPs' AT&T Antitrust Case- June 24, 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review an antitrust lawsuit brought by several Internet service providers alleging a unit of AT&T Corp. charged unreasonably high prices for access to the company's extensive phone networks. The AT&T unit, Pacific Bell Telephone Co., was sued by several Internet services providers in 2003, including Linkline Communications Inc., Notelog Inc. and In-Reach Internet Inc.Read the article: The Wall Street Journalhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/supreme-court-to-consider-isps-at.html Group Pushes for Affordable National Broadband Policy- June 24, 2008 In response to concerns that cable and telecom companies aren't doing enough to build out broadband access in the U.S., public interest and business groups have formed a new initiative to push for a national broadband policy. The new InternetforEveryone.org organization aims to ensure that all Americans have affordable access to high-speed Internet service.Read the article: internetnews.comhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/group-pushes-for-affordable-national.html Software Company Accuses Google of Using Trade Secrets- June 24, 2008 LimitNone, a small software development company, is seeking nearly $1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the small company and misappropriating its trade secrets for its Google Apps online service. Specifically, the suit concerns LimitNone software called gMove designed to let people move e-mail, contacts, and calendar information stored in Microsoft Outlook to Google's online service.Read the article: CNET News.comhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/software-company-accuses-google-of.html Judge Wants Microsoft to Disclose More Documents- June 24, 2008 A federal judge told Microsoft Corp. that she expects it to make technical documents available that describe how its various applications interact with one another as part of its antitrust consent decree. At a status hearing on the company's compliance with the antitrust order, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the technical documents are "integral to inter-operability" for other software programmers to create applications that work on the Windows platform.Read the article: The Wall Street...http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/judge-wants-microsoft-to-disclose-more.html |