By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – June 2, 2010 In what appears to be an escalating war of who paid what to whom, or who didn’t pay what to whom, some believe Apple is coming out looking a tad inferior for wear in the lawsuit Nokia launched against it for patent infringement. What’s at [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – May 4, 2010 This story has some interesting twists and turns, but primarily, it’s about being able to take some risks in trusting others on eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) . You read the descriptions of items, look at the pictures, and perhaps even check out the seller’s record. Most [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – April 20, 2010 This case is about a $1.3 million default judgment against Powerpostings.com (owned by Naturemarket) and a man named Igor Gasov. Powerpostings decided to sell software, referred to as an autoposting facilitator, which let customers automatically post listings on Craigslist. On the surface that may sound [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – April 13, 2010 If you really want to get people riled up about things that invade their privacy, this latest attempt to target consumer behavior will certainly do just that. In fact, just one mention of behavioral ad targeting will send regulators and lawmakers climbing the walls. On [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – March 18, 2010 This may be a bit of a tempest in a teapot, but it does raise some interesting questions about privacy and freedom of speech in the Facebook age. Florida student Katherine Evans had her knuckles rapped for creating a Facebook page full of – not-so-nice [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – March 9, 2010 While it’s nice to have a privacy policy, those who hold contests should really pay attention to just what they’re doing when they release private customer information. You knew this had to happen, didn’t you? Everywhere you look, every site you surf, every doctor, dentist, [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – January 27, 2010 It was ever thus, the Amazon Kindle gurus developed a superbly smashing device that would make ebooks easier to read. They forgot one little thing that came back to bite them later. Ebooks are taking the marketplace by storm. There isn’t any question about that. [...]