After years of patent pending actions for the mainstream social media networking company, Twitter finally gets a patent for… Twitter. Unbelievable to many, the company and its broad patent can finally take full ownership over tweeting, and perhaps much more, in the future.

Google’s latest revolutionary invention, Google Glass, is set to hit the market starting this week.  The part-smartphone, part-mini-computer device looks like a pair of sunglasses, with a small glass box in the upper right-hand corner that will display information to a user without obstructing his line of vision.  Google Glass’s wearable technology and patented design displays information [...]

Following ICANN’s 46th meeting in Beijing, the President of ICANN told the Wall Street Journal that the private, U.S.-based Internet administrator will roll out Chinese character options for top-level domains (TLDs) later this year. In addition to allowing companies to apply for their own TLDs (think www.shop.nike without that pesky .com getting in the way), ICANN is working [...]

Twitter is being sued in a French court for refusing to reveal the identity of those using a controversial hashtag, #unbonjuif (“a good Jew”), in October 2012.  The plaintiff in the case is the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF).  The current suit stems from an earlier case, where a French court ruled that Twitter [...]

Facebook Inc. is embroiled in a legal battle with Timelines Inc. over the trademark “Timeline.” Timelines claims that Facebook has infringed on its mark; a jury will decide on April 22. 

At the end of February, Google and Spain’s data protection authority, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), came head-to-head in the European Court of Justice. As European data protection efforts continue to zero in on search engines, this will be one of the most hotly anticipated decisions around the world (for those of us interested [...]

On March 22, 2013 the Senate voted 75-to-24 in favor of an amendment to a Democratic budget resolution that would allow states to “collect taxes on remote sales.”  Although this vote was non-binding, some argue that the vote indicates Senate support for the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, which will be voted on later this [...]

New Hampshire and other states are trying to decide whether or not to give the executor of an estate control over the deceased person’s social networking pages such as Facebook and Twitter.  One former Oklahoma state legislator, Ryan Kiesel, argues that the solution should come from the federal government so an estate can look to [...]

Will instructional videos and Internet slowdowns stop you from downloading illegally?  After the demise of the SOPA/PIPA legislation, Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) and media groups are counting on it.  Put in to place this week, the new “Six Strikes” anti-piracy program, officially known as the Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a multi-step warning program designed [...]

Now that we’ve lost count of the many lawsuits Facebook has faced in its 10 years of existence, the newest suit filed against the social media giant, a patent infringement claim filed in Virginia earlier this month, might catch our attention.  Patent infringement, you might say? Facebook laughs in the face of patent infringement!  This [...]