SeeqPod files for bankruptcy protection
SeeqPod, the popular 'playable media' search service that many music sites use as the foundation for their core offering, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 yesterday with the US Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of California, reports The Washington Post.
The company, which has raised $7 million in venture capital to date from undisclosed investors, is evidently doing this out of fear about the outcome of the multibillion dollar lawsuits it was slapped with by music labels like Warner Music, Capitol Records and EMI.
SeeqPod has become quite the target of the music industry, which went as far as going after developers who merely leveraged the SeeqPod API.
Google's street view controversy
Privacy has been a major talking point on the Web in the last few weeks and for sheer volume of coverage, Google's recently introduced street view has to take the top prize, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
The service, aimed at giving anyone with an Internet connection a 360-degree view of almost any street in any major city, is instead giving Google a headache.
One man complained because the company's cameras had caught him being sick in the street.
No win for Microsoft
Microsoft may view its legal settlement with TomTom as a patent victory of sorts but it's a hollow and meaningless win in the eyes of some in the open source community, according to ZDNet.
Open Invention Network CEO Keith Bergelt says the settlement was anticipated and expected and he is “nonplussed” with the result.
He says Microsoft's effort to build a series of tiny “totem” patent cases to create fear, uncertainty and doubt about using Linux is futile.
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