Archive for the ‘Websites’ Category
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
RateMyCop is a new site that allows you to rate police officers that you deal with, similar to sites for teachers, doctors, restaurants, etc. However, the police aren't happy about it at all. A few sites (Wired, TechDirt) call the fears of the police unnecessary, because the site doesn't post ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
After discovering that their public, unsecured streaming URL was posted on HowardForums, MobiTV decided to sue. HowardForums came back and essentially said "bring it on".
Now comes word that MobiTV is wisely giving up this fight. The president of MobiTV spoke with Howard Chui (the "Howard" in HowardForums) and said they'd ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Howard Chui, owner of HowardForums, has decided to defy MobiTV's cease and desist to take down the "illegal" post that is on his site.
I think Howard will find a lot of people on his side. While I'm quite sure he'll win the battle, I hope it doesn't cost him too ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
MobiTV provides a paid service that allows you to stream TV to mobile phones. However, the data stream is sent using a completely open URL that anyone can access.
Someone over at HowardForums noticed this and posted the URL of the feed. MobiTV has responded; not by securing the feed, but ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Traffic Power is a company that offers to help improve the ranking of your site in the search engines.
A customer of theirs had a bad experience and created a site to express his displeasure. The Wall Street Journal, who had already written about the case before, decided to dig a ...
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