Daily Archives: August 9, 2011 - 2 results

When New York legalized gay marriage in June it was big news. Maybe even a watershed moment in civil rights law. The Obama administration also made news earlier by calling the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. Now, however, federal immigration officials are using DOMA to deport an Australian man who’s been living here 19 years, the last seven as the spouse of a California man.   Defense of Marriage Act used to deport Australian man He’s legally married to …

Microsoft on Oct 28th 2010 announced, during their Professional Developers Conference 2010, the commercial availability of DataMarket aka Microsoft Codename “Dallas” which is part of Windows Azure Marketplace. This DataMarket includes data, imagery, and real-time web services from leading commercial data providers and authoritative public data sources. In short, its the one stop show for Data or iTunes for Data. And rightfully so. There are over 120 content providers to date with content ranging from Demographic, geospatial, financial, retail, sports, …