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About eight months ago, the owners of a sporting goods company contacted their attorney, Doug Wolf, a partner at Wolf Greenfield. It seemed a company was using the firm’s logo and trademark without proper authorization. Setting the matter right should have been a straightforward task for Wolf — except for the fact that the intellectual property theft was happening online, specifically in Second Life.
Apple is facing two more legal challenges against the iPhone. Los Angeles-based
EMG Technology filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Texas claiming that the iPhone infringes on a patent approved last month by the Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is for an “apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling Internet content.”
From its beginnings in 2006, when the online video advertising industry had little revenue, to an estimated revenue of over US$900 million this year, the industry has exploded. Amir Ashkenazi, CEO of Adap.TV, a San Mateo, Calif.-based online video advertising platform provider, shares those thoughts in an exclusive interview with ECT News Network.
Once seen as immune to economic slowdowns, the online advertising sector has now become the downturn’s latest victim. In August, New York City-based eMarketer predicted that online advertising would grow by 14.5 percent in 2009. Based on new data, the firm now says that it will grow by only 8.9 percent in 2009.
Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.