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Joel Tenenbaum’s fate was probably already sealed before he went to trial for the copyright infringement of 30 songs by Nirvana, Green Day and the Smashing Pumpkins, but the 25-year-old college student made sure of it on Thursday when he admitted on the stand that he did in fact download and share the songs.
Alcatel-Lucent surprised its investors Thursday by posting its first profit since the company’s creation in a transatlantic merger in 2006, as gains on asset sales helped the telecommunications equipment maker’s bottom line. The Paris-based company reported a net profit of about $19.6 million for the April through June period, compared to a net loss of roughly $1.6 billion a year earlier.
A Dutch court ruled Thursday that three men connected with Web site The Pirate Bay must block traffic between the site and the Netherlands within 10 days. The written ruling concludes that the men have control over the site and ordered them “each separately and together, to stop and keep stopped the infringements on copyright and related rights of Stichting Brein in the Netherlands” or face fines.
The hour has come round at last for the birth of the beast known as Microhoo, a monster with the head of Steve Ballmer and the body of Carol Bartz. The two have been making kissy faces at each other for years — the two companies, figuratively; not the two people, literally … to the best of my knowledge, anyway. Now it seems Yahoo and Microsoft have finally done the deed.
A high school student is suing Amazon.com for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too. Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for remotely removing copies of the George Orwell novels “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from their e-reader devices.