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New Product Review: Summify Can’t Replace Blog Reader, But Nice Touch

I confess.  I am not necessarily an early adopter.  I got my first iPhone about three months ago and my five-year-old son knows more about it than I do at this point.
But, focusing on internet law, I do have an excuse for playing around with new services and products.  I generally give a product about thirty … Continue Reading

This Week In Law: Sex, Death & Taxes

Yes, somehow it all made sense, blended together and related to internet law.  This Week In Law, hosted by Denise Howell and Evan Brown, invited Taxgirl Kelly Phillips Erb and me to join them for this Friday’s show.  

We covered taxes for ecommerce and its impact on behemoths like Amazon, the mom and pop e-retailers and the consumers.  We also … Continue Reading

My Own Tech Dilemna: IPhone coming to Verizon or go tablet?

Notwithstanding my area of practice, I have so far successfully avoided the iPhone craze.  In fact, I have managed to avoid the entire i-craze.  No iPhone, no iPad, no iPod. 
I’m not trying to make some social statement against the closed nature of Apple products.  I’ve just gotten by with other mp3 players.  On the phone, … Continue Reading

Quick Links – Vacation Style

While I love staying up with the online legal issues, I have been more focused on trying to conquer mountains, rocks and rapids this past week.
 
So, that means I will just send some links of some interesting things I’ve read while on the road.
Yelp! successfully defended its defamation and DTPA case from Evan Brown. 
Lawyers can Google … Continue Reading

Short Week – Brief Links

Are Yahoo’s cost-per-click prices falling?  From Domain Name Wire.
For my partner’s Texas Physician Law Blog by Darrell Armer, here is a story on using social media to recruit medical study participants.
Why competitor vs. competitor pay-per-click trademark litigation is so much hotter from Professor Goldman.  I’ll sue one of the search engines if you really want … Continue Reading

Book Questions Role of Technology, Government and the Law

In a slight deviation today, I will talk about the Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.  I wouldn’t call this a review of the book because not having written a book myself, I don’t have the temerity to “review” it.  You can find a ”review” here.  For the Amazon page on … Continue Reading

Catching Up

Because of a week long arbitration, I am still working on catching up on the interesting reading from the week. For the sake of expediency, I will simply list some items of interest from the last week.
From the Citizen’s Media Law Project, read here about a case where the judge ruled the Communications Decency … Continue Reading