The New York Times reports that Disney and YouTube plans to enter into a video sharing (content) partnership agreement. The content partnership is estimated to be worth around $10 to $15 million dollars.
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Protection of whistleblowers and wiki leaks
Protection of whistle blowers has been one of the leading questions today. In today’s world we want to bring change and this change and for that we need to bring revolution and this revolution can be brought by the information and the same is being carried out in the world currently by wiki leaks. Wikileaks exposes cables from all over the world and as a result world politics has cropped for stopping the wiki leaks or banning its operation.
WikiLeaks to hold talks with VISA to end payment ban
WikiLeaks can resume releasing confidential files again if it solves its bitter dispute with Visa Europe over ban of payment to the controversial site. Earlier this year the site had stopped releasing confidential files due to lack of payments as the credit card companies such as Visa or MasterCard had stopped the donations towards the site under pressure from the US Government.
Michael Jackson doctor found guilty
Michael Jackson personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by the Los Angeles Superior Court after a six-week long trail that portrayed him as a negligent caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. This marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture’s most shocking tragedies – the death of the King of Pop on the eve of the singer’s heavily promoted comeback concerts. A few minutes later he was handcuffed and taken into custody without bail until sentencing on November 29. Murray showed no reaction towards the verdict as officials led him out of the courtroom.
NLSIU Alumni tops Oxford University’s postgraduate programme.
An alumnus of NLSIU (National Law School of India University) has topped the Oxford University’s postgraduate programme.
Niranjan V, who is a Rhodes Scholar, had opted for Bachelor of Civil Law course. He beat 150 classmates to top in the course with what he described as one of the most demanding programmes in the world He topped in three of the four courses, including Conflict of Law, Restitution, Personal Taxation and Law of Evidence.
New law regarding cocaine violations go into effect
For thousands of inmates in prisons in US convicted of cocaine charges, the prison doors will open early. According to the new rule passed by the Congress there will be sentencing changes easing the disparity between the penalties for possessing or distributing crack vs. powder cocaine. This would mean that those who would caught distributing cocaine would serve less prison time that those who would be possessing it. This would mean that more than 12,000 current inmates are eligible to request reduced sentences. The retroactivity took effect Tuesday. The Sentencing Commission estimates that inmates will have an average of three years chopped off their sentences. An estimated 1,800 inmates became eligible for release immediately because they had already served enough time, and prosecutors did not object to their release. Attorneys have noted that under the old guidelines someone who had just 5 grams of crack cocaine would receive a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. But someone would have to have 500 grams of powdered cocaine to receive a similar sentence.
William Johnson, a Virginia man convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 1997, was one of those released Tuesday. Under the terms of his original sentence, he would have been eligible for release in October 2018, and that sentence was reduced a few years ago so that his revised release date was June 2014.
MF Global Under FBI Scrutiny
MF Global, (MF) a Wall Street brokerage firm led by former New Jersey governor and Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine, is under the investigation of FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and other federal regulators including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. The investigators are investigating how $600 million of MF Global Customers money had gone missing. Later this weekend, MF Global had tried selling the firm to Interactive Brokers. However this move failed, due to the missing of funds and led the firm into bankruptcy. MF Global has broken the governmental and CME rules which clearly direct firms not to mix the firm’s assets and the customers funds. Craig Donohue, CEO of CME Group said that CME is still investigating into the matter to check the extend of the violation. He also announced that floor brokers and traders guaranteed by MF Global have been banned from the CME Trading Platform. It is hinted that MF Global got involved in some risky bets owing huge amounts of money to the European Government. When the bets went sour, MF Global had tapped its client’s money to elevate its financial position. This is in clear violation of CME rules and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission rules on such bets.
Apple And Google Controversy Over Android
Recently apple equipped its I phones with faster chips and better cameras seeking to set its hand set apart from the Googles android smart phones with weather predictions and voice recognition technology. There has also been problem regarding patents claims over the android technology. Google claims that Microsoft and apple have joined hands against it and but Android on fire. More than 550,000 Android devices are activated everyday through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers. Android and other platforms are competing hard against each other, and that’s yielding cool new devices and amazing mobile apps for consumers. But Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents. They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents and Nortel’s old patents , to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; making it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android than Windows Phone 7; Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it. A smart phone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and the competitors want to impose a tax for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers. They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation.