Yahoo!News reports that “[m]ore than 10 dot-coms have recently sought buyers on […] popular auction site [eBay]. Search engine DigForIt.com sold for $25,400 this month after promising bidders ‘great revenue potential.’ SynapseLife, an online calendar and organizational site, sold for $60,000 despite warning it had ‘no advertising revenue.’” According to the article, entrepreneurs are turning to eBay “because deals are simple, fast and cheap.”
The Register warns that “[m]alware profiteers have created a trio of smartphone Trojans that send out premium-rate SMS messages from infected Symbian S60 devices.”
Networkworld.com writes that “[a] technology used by the U.S. Department of Defense to protect software from piracy and tampering has been released to the commercial sector to help software companies avoid loss of intellectual property,” Arxan Technologies, the makers of the product, announced Monday.
The Los Angeles Times points out that “[t]he Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers has invited public comment on procedures for creating domain names, the first expansion for general use since 2000.”
The New York Times had a great article yesterday on the practice of stripping away copyrights seventy years after the copyright owner’s death. The article’s author, Mark Halperin, asks whether it would “not be just and fair for those who try to extract a living from the uncertain arts of writing and composing to be freed from a form of confiscation not visited upon anyone else?”