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Silicon Valley golden boy Mike Volpi caught in eBay Skype legal battle Mercury News
Not that long ago, Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi, 42, was one of the most important people in Silicon Valley. At Cisco Systems, he was the golden boy who was instrumental in the company’s acquisition strategy and rumored to be in line to eventually succeed John Chambers as CEO. Volpi surprised the tech world by walking away in December 2007, falling off the valley’s radar. Until now. In early September, he helped orchestrate the winning bid to acquire Skype from eBay. But his triumphant return to the valley’s dealmaking spotlight took an ugly turn. Volpi is now enmeshed in a legal swamp over his role in assembling a consortium of private investors to buy Skype in a deal worth $2.75 billion. It turns out that while Volpi was putting together this bid, he was working as CEO for another startup called Joost, whose founders were also interested in buying Skype. And who were those Joost founders? Why, that would be Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the two people who founded Skype, sold it to eBay in 2005, and now want to buy it back. Joost has sued Volpi and his venture capital firm, Index Ventures, in a Delaware federal court, one of three separate but related lawsuits plaguing the Skype deal.

Court ruling ‘clarifies law on user-generated content’ Hold The Front Page
A regional press publisher has obtained a potentially significant court ruling on the issue of how far they are protected from legal action over user-generated web content. Newsquest says the High Court judgement clarifies for the first time that newspaper websites hosting user-generated content are, subject to certain conditions, protected from liability. The ruling suggests that publishers cannot be held responsible for potentially libellous material posted by website users so long as it is removed as soon as possible. Although this has been a general assumption made by publishers, Newsquest law experts say the precise legal position has remained “frustratingly unclear” until now.

How ’sex’ brings you the gospels Sydney Morning Herald
Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service. When the sermon is done, it’s time for Communion, and the pastor guides worshippers through the ritual. There is nothing remarkable about this encounter, which is replicated each weekend at churches around the world. Except, it’s all happening online. The web has become the hottest place to build a church. A growing number of congregations are creating internet offshoots that go far beyond streaming weekly services. The sites are fully interactive, with a dedicated internet pastor, live chat in an online ”lobby”, Bible study, and one-on-one prayer through instant messaging and Communion.

The golden age of infinite music BBC
Not long ago, if you wanted music, you had to save up your pocket money, take a trip to the local record shop and lovingly leaf through its racks. Now, it’s almost all free, instant and infinite. And our relationship with music has changed forever.

DVR, Once TV’s Mortal Foe, Helps Ratings New York Times
In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder. The reason is not simply that more households own DVRs — 33 percent compared with 28 percent at this point in 2008 — helping some marginal shows become hits. It is also that more people seem content to sit through the commercials than networks once thought. These factors combined mean DVR ratings now add significantly to live ratings and thus to ad revenue.

Gmail users howl over Halloween outage The Register
Some Gmail users say they’ve been unable to access to the service for long stretches today and yesterday, though Google has not acknowledged any problem on its “Apps Status Dashboard.” Australia-based user Jason Reed says he’s been without access for at least 12 hours today, and others posting to Google’s support forums here and here say they’ve had trouble logging into the service for 24 hours or more. “More than 30 hours without email…totally unacceptable. I’ll definitely have to reconsider my selection of gmail for my primary email account. It may be I have to pay for an account but hell will freeze over before I pay one penny to Google after this debacle,” says one poster. According to these users – and others posting to Twitter – Gmail returns the error code “502″ when they attempt to log in.

US cyber center opens to battle computer attacks Associated Press
The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday, as Homeland Security officials opened a $9 million operations center to better coordinate the government’s response to cyberattacks. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said legislation being drafted by his committee will require federal agencies and private companies to set up a system to share information on cyber threats. And Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said the Homeland Security Department must identify weaknesses in the systems that run power plants and other critical infrastructure.

Battle Over Face Veil Brewing In Egypt Reuters
Rokaya Mohamed, an elementary school teacher, would rather die than take off her face veil, or niqab, thrusting her to the forefront of a battle by government-backed clerics to limit Islamism in Egypt. Egypt’s state-run religious establishment wants teachers like Mohamed to remove their veils in front of female students, sparking a backlash by Islamists who say women should be able to choose to cover their faces in line with their Islamic faith. “I have put on the niqab because it is a Sunna (a tradition of the Muslim prophet Muhammad). It is something that brings me closer to religion and closer to the wives of the Prophet who used to wear it,” she said. “I know what makes God and his prophet love me, and no sheikh is going to convince me otherwise. I would rather die than take it off, even inside class,” she added.

US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study Associated Press
An American-owned rubber company is disputing claims by the Liberian government that the company’s waste products are polluting creeks. The Liberian government says a three-month investigation found high levels of orthophosphate being released into the water. But Firestone said in a statement released late Thursday that it has conducted its own extensive testing of discharge water and found it was not harmful to human health. [So that's OK, then.]

Couple in their nineties ‘too healthy’ for nursing home The Local
A 99-year-old Swedish woman and her 97-year-old husband have been denied a place at a local living facility for the elderly. According to officials with Mjölby municipality in south central Sweden and the county administrative court, the couple are too healthy to move into the facility, Sveriges Radio (SR) reports.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

November, 2009

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