Spammers hit for $1 billion+ lawsuit
Project Honeypot looks to take a bite out of spam.
Microsoft, Google tangle over copyright
Microsoft plans to blast Internet search giant Google for their “cavalier approach” to copyright at the Association of American Publishers.
Patent office looking at new “digg-like” system for patents
The USPTO, the agency in charge of patents, says it’s looking at opening up the process of reviewing patents to beyond each examiner’s desk, and instead use the crowd concept to open the process to every day users. No word on whether they’ll add a picture category, either.
[Via WashingtonPost]
Mid-day update
Today’s mid day update, we’ve got the Wii selling like gangbusters, Ashcroft selling out, Windows is probably cracked and conservatives convinced wikipedia is cracked in favor of liberals.
Ashcroft speaks out against XM-Sirius merger
John Ashcroft speaks out against Satellite radio merger after offering to help XM.