Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman takes a look at what happens when Google enters its own ad auctions – and doesn’t like what he finds. A version of this article originally appeared at Search Engine Land. More »
$US1.30 barely gets vending machine soda, but it’s enough to leave a NY lawyer without unemployment benefits. Her total Adsense earning of $US238.75 was enough to trigger that response because there aren’t proper guidelines in place for such residual earnings. More »
• The FBI wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 US cities in the next few weeks to show fugitives, missing people and gadget bloggers. [Network World] • Oft-discussed Radiohead will have a live webcast concert at midnight on January 1. It’s almost cool to stay home on New Year’s Eve now. [Pitchfork] • Google is stuck in patent troll hell with Hyperphase Technologies, LLC. The company claims it holds patents on certain parts of AdSense technology. [The Register] • Yahoo filed a patent for “smart drag-and-drop” technology, which means “displaying drop targets in proximity to a drag-able selected object.” Too bad everything from MS Excel to Apple Mail to Adobe Flash all use similar technology already. [Ars Technica] • Vonage finalised their settlement with AT&T over the former infringing on the latter’s VoIP patents. The settlement is believed to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of $US39 million. [CRN]
