Month: June 2013

Focus, criticism shifts to Amazon in Apple e-book trial

Posted by | Jun 6, 2013 | |

NEW YORK — Amazon acted like a bully and threatened the publishers when discussing a new e-book sales structure, according to two publishing CEOs who testified during the Apple e-book price-fixing trial over the last two days. David Shanks, CEO of Penguin Group USA, and Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, said Amazon’s e-book pricing, in which the publishers had little power, was the main factor that drove them to pursue deals with Apple that allowed them to set their own prices

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NSA secretly vacuumed up Verizon phone records

Posted by | Jun 6, 2013 | |

The Fort Meade, Md. headquarters of the National Security Agency, which is vacuuming up Verizon call records “on an ongoing daily basis.” (Credit: Getty Images) The National Security Agency is vacuuming up records of millions of phone calls made inside the United States, a top secret court order reveals. A top secret order that was released this afternoon requires Verizon to hand over to the NSA “on an ongoing daily basis” information about all domestic and overseas calls — “including local telephone calls.” The FBI obtained the secret order, which was disclosed by The Guardian newspaper, from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which meets behind closed doors and whose proceedings rarely become public

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