Intel v. Jesus, via The Register.

Announcing The Blawg Channel.  Blawgers wanted.  Press Release here.

Cablenewser.com article about MoveOn’s request that the FTC investigate Fox’ use of FAIR AND BALANCED on false advertising grounds.  MoveOn’s letter to the FTC (link in the article) is quite interesting.  I’m quoted as to why MoveOn has an uphill fight proving its case.

Microsoft will reportedly settle its longtime trademark dispute with Lindows by purchasing the trademark and domain name from Lindows for $20 million.  Via Marketwatch.com.

DM News.com on:  “Will Paid Inclusion Be Banished?”, reporting moves by MSN and Ask Jeeves away from practice of entities paying for incusion in search engine results (as opposed to payment for advertisments alongside search engines results).

Background FTC paper on paid inclusion

Here is a press release announcing the auction of the domain name KERRYEDWARDS.COM.  Bidding starts at $150,000.  We are told that the current registrant is really named Kerry Edwards, which would be a complete defense to cyber-squatting with regard to his registration and use of the domain name. 

Google has introduced a feature in its toolbar that appears to by-pass the ‘fill-in’ function in the address bar of Internet Explorer,  and allows you to type in a name (no www. or TLD) and it takes you to where it guessed you wanted to go.  You have to have downloaded Google toolbar, but you…

The Register reports on a dispute between the licensees of the LOTR property and an email service at shiremail.com.  The article’s discussion of the 1000+ year history of the word SHIRE is interesting, but it downplays a bit too much the fact that the proprietor of shiremail.com appeared at one time to operate under  the name PLANET