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Couple Sues Google Over Street View of Its House

Couple Sues Google Over Street View of Their House

We are all in agreement, Google Street View is freaking creepy, but is it lawsuit worthy? Aaron C. and Christine A. Boring (yes, their real names) are suing Google because images of their home appear on Google Maps' Street View. According to the Boring suit filed in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Oakridge Lane is a private road and the "reckless conduct" of Google has "exposed plaintiff's private information to the public."

Never mind that there is clearly no Private Road sign at the beginning of Oakridge Lane when viewing it in Google Maps Street View, or that photos of the Boring home, its approximate value, taxes paid, and details of the internal structure are all available on the Allegheny County Web site.

All of that is even completely irrelevant, since taking photographs of homes from public streets is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Just ask Barbara Streisand who sued an aerial mapping company for including photographs of her home in its products. Streisand lost that suit and was forced to pay the companies legal fees.

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Apple Slapped With Class Action Suit Over Misleading iMac Ads

Apple Slapped with Class Action Suit Over Misleading iMac Ads
Apple, no stranger to class action law suits at this point, is under the gun again. This time for misleading claims about the screens on its 20 inch model iMac PCs. Apple claims that its screens can display millions of colors -- 16,777,216 to be exact -- and while that is true of the 24-inch model and the previous generation 20- and 24-inch models, the recent update to the iMac line brought a downgrade for the 20-inch model.

Instead of using the same 8 bit in-plane switching screens as the previous generation, the new 20-inch iMacs went with an older technology called 6-bit twisted nematic film. This older technology limits the screens to 262,144 simultaneous colors, which limits the viewing angle and negatively effects color accuracy, making the screen completely ill-suited for video editing and digital imaging and photography.

The suit has been filed by the California based law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner.

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Apple Questions NYC's GreeNYC Program and Logo

Apple Gets Arrogant, Attacks NYC's GreeNYC Program and LogoApple Gets Arrogant, Attacks NYC's GreeNYC Program and Logo

New York -- 'The Big Apple' -- has filed for a trademark for it's new GreeNYC logo that is being plastered on the city's new hybrid taxis and buses. Thats the logo above, the infinity sign as an apple, with stem and leaf. Next to that is the Apple (formerly Apple Computers) logo. The silver apple shape with a leaf and a bite taken out of it.

Apple thinks the GreeNYC logo is a bit too similar to the Apple logo and has asked that the city's trademark request be denied. Apple claims the new logo will cause confusion and "seriously injure the reputation which [Apple] has established for its goods and services."

But before we go off carrying torches and pitchforks to Steve Jobs' front door perhaps we should see what a patent lawyer has to say about it. Nilay Patel at our sister site Engadget says that this is actually standard practice. Thousands of these types of petitions are filed every year by just about every company out there. Its part of the initial 30 day vetting process of any trademark request. In the end Patel seems to think its likely that Apple and the city of New York will come to some licensing agreement and everyone will just forget this ever happened. And we were really looking forward to forming an angry mob...

We still think this is a bit absurd. New York has been known as the Big Apple since the 1920s, more than 50 years before there was an Apple Computers to speak of.

From Wired and Engadget

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