Earthcomber has sued TechCrunch for no apparent reason other than trying to get free press.

President Jim Brady of Earthcomber has been desperately trying to get Michael Arrington on the phone but hasn’t been able to, so he decided to sue TechCrunch instead.

I think it’s a great idea actually for guerilla marketing, too bad Michael got pissed off:

Did Earthcomber also sue iMeem, RockTheVote and NRDC, the other filtered search options? No. Because that doesn’t get them all this free press.

We will not be bullied, and people who file frivolous lawsuits need to be put down. I would rather run TechCrunch into the ground and go out of business than let this guy win.

I don’t think you need to react that way, it’s only going to give Earthcomber more free marketing, that’s what they were going for, Michael should have not even posted the blog post if he really wanted to shut Earthcomber down.

Well, maybe it’s already part of his plan, all paid for by Earthcomber months ahead.  Now that would be some serious bullying on the readers like myself.

This reminds me of that Palin hacker, I don’t think it’s the guy being indicted, it’s some random hacker outside the U.S. who probably made the FBI “think” it’s someone traceable.

via blogherald, TC

A lawyer has sued Google for showing ads on parked pages.  Parked pages are basically 1-page websites filled with Google AdSense ads, not so great for advertisers.  It seems like there’s minimum click fraud so it’s hard to tell if the case will close or not.

The latest is that Google is being sued by a lawyer (who, of course, is trying to turn it into a class action suit) complaining that the ads he bought on Google were shown on parked domains and error pages which resulted in bad clicks.

via techdirt

T-Mobile, threatened over AT&T’s new free wi-fi at Starbucks, sues Starbucks for unfair competition.

I agree that this is unfair competition and AT&T is basically trying to monopolize the mobile hotspot market.

I’ve never liked AT&T that much due to the fact that they charge so much.  Well, I don’t really like any telecommunication company, I think most of them are dirty as bank robbers.

T-Mobile should win this case and get lots of money so they can spend it back on their horrible over-priced hotspot technology.

Am I taking sides here?

No, I hate both T-Mobile and AT&T, now I am on Sprint, at least Sprint is fast.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks, saying the coffee shop chain secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free WiFi Internet access in its cafes despite an exclusive agreement with T-Mobile.

In the lawsuit, filed late on Thursday in New York state court, T-Mobile alleges that AT&T and Starbucks Corp are not living up to an agreement the three companies reached over how Starbucks should transfer from its T-Mobile partnership to a new partnership with AT&T announced earlier this year.

via gadgetell - reuters