Obama won with roughly 5% popular vote margin and a 30%+ electoral vote margin. After Obama took the western seaboard, a number of media outlets announced the result and McCain conceded.
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The FCC opened up the wireless communications market with its approval of a plan to allow independent devices to operate in the spectrum between digital TV channels; it also OKd the merger of spectrum between Sprint and Clearwire as well as Verizon's $28.1 Billion deal to buy Alltel, creating two new wireless networks backed, in part, by Google.
Google has announced plans to release an innovative new open source web browser. It will offer some revolutionary new features, including a process manager that will run each individual tab in an isolated process, much like a conventional operating system. There will also be integration with Google Gears (the engine for Google Docs).
A complaint alleged that the entrepreneur sold stock in an Internet company based on nonpublic information about an impending stock offering.
Via 9 sources. 11.17.08 @5:35PM -0400
Another virus that targets a particular website has surfaced, with the recently-discovered "Koobface" virus trying to wreak havoc on Facebook users. While not completely new, this new iteration has found a way to extend its life.
Security researchers are reporting in-the-wild attacks targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in fully patched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. They surfaced on the same day that Microsoft released its biggest batch of security patches in five years.
A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of only three minor offenses for her role in a mean-spirited Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.
Following in the footsteps of Time Warner Cable, Frontier Communications and several U.K internet service providers, AT&T appears close to unveiling a tiered broadband service in Reno Nevada, sometime in November. According to a Friday filing with the Federal Communication Commission, AT&T executives met with the legal adviser to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to discuss "usage based pricing" as a form of network management.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable will inhibit access to certain sites and newsgroups providing child porn. The new policy will affect Internet users nationwide.
Spam marketing messages on Facebook have been getting worse over the last year as the site has grown - but maybe spamming is about to stop. On Friday, the company won a court battle against spam perpetrator Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital: An $873 million award it will likely never be able to fully.
Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, talks with Steve Inskeep about the "Global Network Initiative." It's a code of conduct for Internet companies that do business in countries where governments censor or interfere in the Internet and media.
After having several campaign videos removed from YouTube for falsely alleged copyright violations, Republican presidential candidate John McCain wants the video-sharing web site to consider special takedown privileges for politicians and their ilk. Both sides have had a number of videos ganked, and it seems the takedowns are coming from the TV networks over clips that are being used in the videos.
Via 5 sources. 10.15.08 @4:58AM -0400
A federal judge has granted a new trial to a Minnesota woman convicted of pirating music files, ruling that he made an error in his jury instructions that "substantially prejudiced" her rights. The judge also implored Congress to change copyright laws to prevent excessive awards against individuals in similar peer-to-peer file-sharing network cases. Jammie Thomas was convicted last October in the first-ever file-sharing trial and ordered to pay $222,000 to six record companies.
Via 7 sources. 9.25.08 @6:11PM -0400