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China was behind Google attacks, say Wikileaks leaks

Nov 29, 2010
251,287 US diplomatic cables were leaked in the latest round of Wikileaks documents and some of them point to China's politburo as being behind...

COICA gets out of committee

Nov 18, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed the Combating Online Infringement and Copyright Act. The bill would allow the US Attorney General to go...

Amazon.com removes controversial book but controversies may return

Nov 12, 2010
Amazon.com has removed an especially controversial title from its Kindle electronic book store. Amazon initially defended its own carrying of the book, saying that to remove it would be censorship, and then they yanked it anyway. But given the way Amazon stocks the virtual shelves of its online store, isn't this issue likely to come up again?

Wills prepared in case of deportation

Nov 11, 2010
Many illegal immigrants own homes and cars and have children who are U.S. citizens. With the rise of deportations, some immigrants are preparing wills to make sure their assets and children are taken care of in case they are deported.

The Oracle case gets personal

Nov 9, 2010
Oracle's co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is set to take the stand today in a trial where his firm is suing German company SAP for stealing software. SAP has already admitted wrongdoing, so what else is happening in this case? Steve Henn reports.

Labor Board says employees can talk about work on social media

Nov 9, 2010
So it's probably not the best idea to complain about your boss on Twitter or Facebook -- but the National Labor Relations Board argues that workers have the right to discuss working conditions on social media, positive or otherwise.

For public good, not for profit.

Supreme Court to rule on arbitration clauses, class-action lawsuits

Nov 8, 2010
Sometimes it's not worth hiring a lawyer over an unjustified $30 charge from your cell phone servicer -- so you band together with several other consumers to file a class-action lawsuits. Federal law states these lawsuits are not allowed if there was an arbitration clause in the contract, but state courts have been ruling otherwise.

30 months in jail for DDoS attacks on conservative websites

Nov 8, 2010
Mitchell L. Frost of Bellevue, Ohio is a 23-year-old former student at the University of Akron and he's going to jail for two and a half years in...

Minnesota mom fined $1.5 million for downloading music

Nov 4, 2010
The case of Jammie Thomas-Rassert of Brainerd, Minn. has been dragging on for years. She's the first person to take a lawsuit from the RIAA to a...