Facebook has filed suit against Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses Teachbook of “misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook’s trademark” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New York Times is reporting that a pastor in my hometown of Gainesville, Florida is planning to “commemorate” 11 September 2001 by publicly burning the Qur’an — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Die Regierung will nach Zeitungsberichten die heimliche Videoüberwachung von Arbeitnehmern verbieten. Das Ausspähen von Toiletten, Umkleiden und Schlafräumen soll tabu sein. Personaler dürfen Bewerber zwar googeln, aber nicht auf Facebook ausspähen.
[via Google Translate: The government wants to newspaper reports, the secret surveillance of workers forbid.The obtaining of toilets, changing rooms and bedrooms should be taboo. Googling applicants, although HR may, on Facebook, but not spy.] — via redwolf.newsvine.comA Roman Catholic adoption charity’s appeal to be allowed to discriminate against gay people wanting it to place children with them has been rejected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The parent company of Gloria Jeans Coffee, co-owned by the Hillsong Church elder Nabi Saleh, is in ”financial dire straits” and should be put into liquidation and an investigation held into its affairs, the NSW Supreme Court has been told — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries to download stories from blocked sites while visiting seemingly uncontroversial sites such as Flickr — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australians will be allowed to enrol to vote online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s hopes of getting its internet filter plan through federal parliament look destined to fail, with the Greens calling for a PC-based approach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Greens are demanding to know how many children will be held in ‘prison-like’ detention centres following next weekend’s federal election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A tangible consequence of India’s shift to a neo-liberal economic model has been the flood of suicides among farmers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family — via redwolf.newsvine.com
IT is the name of Scotland’s oldest shopping mall, where generations of couples have sealed their love with diamonds, silver and gold.
Yet an ugly split over who owns the name of the Argyll Arcade has finally been resolved after an expensive legal battle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The real power of Wikileaks is not so much the technology (it helps, but there are millions of websites out there) but the trust readers have in the authenticity of what they are reading; they believe that those working at Wikileaks stand behind the veracity of the material.
Senate candidate for Family First Wendy Francis today stood by comments she made then deleted on social networking website Twitter, on which she compared legitimising gay marriage to “legalising child abuse” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
THE MAIN adoption agency for infants in Sydney, Anglicare, has written to state MPs urging them to vote against a bill that would allow same-sex couples to adopt when it is debated in Parliament later this month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Saying that it unfairly targets gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, handing supporters of such unions a temporary victory in a legal battle that seems all but certain to be settled by …
This week Ottawa will try once again to update Canada’s copyright law that Industry Minister Tony Clement says has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through
. The Copyright Act of Canada has not had a significant rewrite since 1988, at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy and an iPad was just a twinkle in some inventor’s eye. The trick — one the Conservatives and Liberals before them couldn’t master — is to find a balance between right of consumers’ and the rights of the artists or creators to not have their work ripped off
Blizzard founder, Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for the biggest videogame of all time, the worryingly-addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release Starcraft 2 on 27 July and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won’t be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes which have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late
The National Identity Card scheme will be abolished within 100 days with all cards becoming invalid, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. Legislation to axe the scheme will be the first put before parliament by the new government — with a target of it becoming law by August
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says he plans to introduce legislation for the Federal Government’s internet filter in the second half of the year. Senator Conroy had intended to introduce the legislation in the first half of 2010
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