Canadian model taking Google to court

March 27th, 2009 TORONTO - IBM Canada, which has 19,600 employees on its rolls, announced Thursday that it is axing a number of jobs to contain costs. The US software giant, which is reportedly in the process of laying off 5,000 staff in America and transferring a lot of them to India, said the Canadian cuts will affect the staff from customer care positions to executives.

August 31st, 2009 German court rules against Google's termsBERLIN — A German court has ruled that Google Inc. must change terms of service that could be interpreted to compromise a user's rights, a decision the consumer advocacy group that brought the suit welcomed Monday as a victory for online transparency.

October 6th, 2009 Canada's Canwest to seek court protectionTORONTO — Canwest Global Communications Corp. said Tuesday it will file for bankruptcy protection under a deal with a key group of lenders as Canada's biggest media company seeks court approval to restructure its debt after months of negotiations.

January 15th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Satyam Computer Services' disgraced founder B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother B.

August 30th, 2007 I came across an interesting project in RentACoder which is obviously taking advantage of RentACoder to do its dirty job - pushing its critic / competitor to page 2 of Google. The project specification is as belows: THE SOLUTION: We NEED this persons website to be "pushed down" to page 2 on google when our company name is googled.

February 27th, 2006 Google has newly introduced Google Pages which allows you to create your webpages with AJAX interface (Web 2.0?). It is quite a slick product, provides 100MB of space, file uploading etc.

July 24th, 2009 Maine court upholds IBM heir's adoption of loverPORTLAND, Maine — Maine's highest court has given a legal victory to a woman who stands to stake a claim to a share of one of America's premier business fortunes thanks to her adoption by her lesbian partner. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday overturned a 2008 lower court decision that annulled the adoption.

May 2nd, 2009 TORONTO - Seventeen new cases of human swine flu took the Canadian total to 51 Friday even as the government launched a Citizen Readiness Campaign to check the spread of the virus. As part of the nation-wide campaign, the government is putting advertisements in dailies and weeklies May 2 and May 4 to raise public awareness about flu infection.

March 7th, 2009 TORONTO - After the Gandhi memorabilia, love letters written by Prince Charles to a Canadian woman 30 years ago are now on sale. Up on eBay, the six love letters open their auction with a minimum bid of $30,000.

July 16th, 2009 Watchdog: Facebook violates Canadian privacy lawTORONTO — Canada's privacy commissioner accused Facebook on Thursday of breaching Canadian law by keeping users' personal information indefinitely after members close their accounts. Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart released a report that also accuses Facebook of disclosing personal information about users to the nearly 1 million third-party developers worldwide who create Facebook applications such as games and quizzes.

September 22nd, 2009 EU advisor: Google ads don't infringe trademarksBRUSSELS — A European Union court advisor said Tuesday that Google Inc. does not violate luxury goods makers' trademarks when it sells brand names as advertising keywords triggered by Internet searches.

July 18th, 2006 L.A. News Service, a Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage on YouTube, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.

February 15th, 2005 Apple's move to issue subpoenas to PowerPage and Apple Insider brings up the thorny issue of applying the first amendment right to online publications aka blogs. Either way this will be a ground-breaking ruling to look forward to.

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

June 2nd, 2009 ACLU defends girl's lewd MySpace principal parody PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia must decide whether a Pennsylvania middle school had the right to suspend a student who, on her own time, created a lewd MySpace page about her principal. The case raises broad issues about the limits of school discipline for off-campus behavior that affects the atmosphere at school.