Google and Yahoo fight with the feds

Yahoo’s ad alliance with Google seems like a great deal to Messrs. Brin, Page, and Yang. Now they just have to win over the Justice Department.

Google and Yahoo had hoped to have it all up and running by now. As you may recall, the two Internet giants announced an alliance last June in which Google would supply Yahoo with search ads to supplement Yahoo’s own. Google would get a big new customer for its ad-delivery service, while Yahoo would get a new source of revenue - and best of all, they’d keep Microsoft from swallowing Yahoo.

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Apple Agrees to Make iTunes Fully Accessible to Blind

The National Law Journal

10-01-2008

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and the National Federation of the Blind have negotiated a deal with Apple to make its online services iTunes and iTunes U fully accessible to the blind. Apple has reportedly agreed to make iTunes U, which provides educational content, fully accessible by the end of the year and to make the remaining iTunes and the iTunes Store accessible by June 30, 2009. The company also agreed to donate $250,000 to the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind.

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Amicus Groups Oppose Feds' Use of Computer Fraud Act in Myspace Case

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen and more than a dozen law professors have filed an amicus brief to dismiss the federal government's criminal case against a Missouri woman who used a false identity on a MySpace page to bully a teenager who ultimately committed suicide. Federal prosecutors contend that the woman, Lori Drew, created a MySpace account under the name "Josh Evans" and, using that false identity, developed an online relationship with Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide.

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