Japan’s FujiFilm sues Motorola over phone patents
- Japan’s FujiFilm is suing Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary over four patents associated with digital camera and photo technology in cellphones. The lawsuit has its roots in April 2011, when...
View ArticleGoogle exec Marissa Mayer takes over as Yahoo CEO
- Marissa Mayer, a longtime Google executive, has been named the next CEO at Yahoo. Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience for Google, will be the new CEO of Yahoo. (Photo:...
View ArticleGoogle to pay record $22.5m fine to FTC over Safari tracking
Google is to pay a record $ 22.5m (£14.4m) fine to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US after it tracked users of Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac computers by circumventing privacy protections on...
View ArticleAnother Suspected LulzSec Hacker Arrested Over Sony Incident
Another Suspected LulzSec Hacker Arrested Over Sony Incident A 20 year old named Raynaldo Rivera is the latest to be arrested in the U.S. in connection to the hacking of Sony Pictures back in May and...
View ArticleMicrosoft to be Hit With Another Vast Fine Over Browser Choice ‘Glitch’?
Microsoft to be Hit With Another Vast Fine Over Browser Choice ‘Glitch’? Microsoft can’t seem to stay on the right side of the EU regulators when it comes to its long-running browser anti-competition...
View ArticleYouTube Actually Becomes More Reasonable Over Draconian Copyright Takedowns!
YouTube Actually Becomes More Reasonable Over Draconian Copyright Takedowns! YouTube has actually improved its Content ID copyright takedown system, making it less biased towards copyright holders – a...
View ArticleFoxconn workers on strike over iPhone 5 production, labor group says
Thousands of workers went on strike at a Foxconn factory in China on Friday, bringing some iPhone 5 production lines to a halt, a labor rights group said. The strike at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory...
View ArticleReddit blocks Gawker in row over ‘creepshot’ photos
A row over a Gawker journalist’s investigation into extreme adult content on Reddit has highlighted issues of free speech versus privacy and the publication of offensive material on the content sharing...
View ArticleUpdate: U.S. ‘disappointed’ over U.K. refusal to extradite hacker Gary McKinnon
U.S. officials today expressed dismay over the U.K. government’s refusal to extradite British hacker Gary McKinnon, but insisted the broader extradition relationship between the two countries is as...
View ArticleApple sued over exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T
Apple’s much-maligned iPhone exclusivity agreement with AT&T Mobility, started in 2007 but now ended, is once again the target of a class-action suit. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District...
View ArticleInternet Archive Now Stores Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web
For both simple and in-depth information, Wikipedia has become a go-to spot for many. While fact-checking is recommended for important information you may come across, the fact that the online service...
View ArticleFTC May Sue Google over Unreasonable Licensing Terms
According to a new report, Google has run afoul of the FTC, which is an unenviable spot to be in. Sources told Bloomberg that FTC staff has formally recommended the suit to the group’s commissioners....
View ArticleUpdate: Lawsuit filed in Ohio over software updates to vote tabulation machines
The co-chairman of the Ohio Green Party and editor of FreePress.org, Bob Fitrakis, on Monday filed a federal lawsuit over software that was allegedly installed on central vote tabulation machines in 39...
View ArticleManufacturer sues IBM over SAP project ‘disaster’
IBM has been slapped with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied about the suitability of an SAP-based software...
View ArticleTwitter under fire in France over offensive hashtags
Twitter is coming under increasing pressure from the French government over homophobic, racist and anti-semitic tweets which Paris says contravene its laws on hate-speech. French ministers are in talks...
View ArticleCoke bottler picks SaaS over SAP
Gas prices may be rising, federal sequestration looming, and perhaps another meteor will strike. Bad things are happening, but not so much to Software as a Service providers. A recent Gartner report...
View ArticleGeorge Lucas’ THX Suing Apple Over Speaker Patent Infringement
Speaking of Apple getting sued by people, it appears as though THX Ltd., which was founded by none other than George Lucas, is bringing a lawsuit against Apple for allegedly violating a 2008 patent for...
View ArticleNews in Brief: Custom-designed legs help robots speed over sand
Six-legged machine runs across grainy surfaces By Meghan Rosen Web edition: March 22, 2013 Enlarge A LEG UP A hexapod robot rests in a bed of granular material. The robot uses custom-designed legs to...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia threatens to block WhatsApp over regulation refusal
Messaging app WhatsApp is the latest social networking service to face the wrath of the Saudi Arabian government, and could be blocked in the country within weeks. Negotiations between WhatsApp and...
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