The head of a company aimed at ensuring the legitimacy of online pharmacies said that the group that manages the Internet's address system is not doing enough to crack down on firms that sell Internet address registrations to Web sites that offer fake or stolen drugs without a prescription.
A California law firm may be looking to build a class-action lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone 4's network reception issues, now known online as the iPhone 4 death grip.
Versata Inc., a unit of closely held Trilogy Inc., filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Germany's SAP AG, alleging it has abused its dominant position in the enterprise software market. In the filing, Versata accuses SAP of illegally excluding the U.S. firm's retail pricing software from SAP's widely used enterprise software platform in order to boost sales of its own pricing tool.
In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to its Hong Kong site. For the last three months, Google has found a clever way to overcome its ethical objections to self-censoring search results on its Web site for mainland China, google.cn.
One of Vancouver's leading domain registrars is still grappling with how to approach news that .xxx has been given an official online domain designation for websites carrying pornographic content. Cybele Negris, co-founder and president of Webnames.ca, told BIV via e-mail that the Vancouver company, which doesn’t allow objectionable material on the sites it hosts, likely would not sell sites with the .xxx suffix. But there may be exceptions.
The Swedish anti-copyright group Piratbyran, which gave rise to the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has disbanded. Marcin de Kaminski, a founder of Piratbyran, which means "piracy bureau" in English, told BBC News "we don't feel we are needed" any more.
The door to the patent office should remain open to those who create methods of doing business, the Supreme Court said in a long-awaited decision. The plaintiffs in the case, Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw, tried to patent a system that institutions like businesses and schools could use to hedge the seasonal risks of buying energy.
The file-sharing community has gone on the offensive in its court fight with the makers of the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker." Jeff Kowalski, 28, filed an "Answer" to the complaint laid against 5,000 as yet unnamed people who the film's producers allege have shared the movie illegally via peer-to-peer services.
The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effort that could greatly enhance the ability of consumers to send and receive video and data with smartphones and other hand-held devices. President Obama will sign a presidential memorandum that aims to make available for auction some 500 megahertz of spectrum that is now controlled by the federal government and private companies, administration officials said.
Schools these days are confronted with complex questions on whether and how to deal with cyberbullying, an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrages of teasing texts to sexually harassing group sites. Affronted by cyberspace’s escalation of adolescent viciousness, many parents are looking to schools for justice, protection, even revenge, but many educators feel unprepared or unwilling to be prosecutors and judges.
Apple must "immediately make clear" what data it collects from users of its products and for what purposes, Germany's justice minister was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel magazine. "Users of iPhones and other GPS devices must be aware of what kind of information about them is being collected," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the German weekly.
It took a decade, but the federal government issued new policies governing how agencies can interact with the public online and collect information from visitors to their Websites with so-called "cookie" files and other technologies.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, says it will now start the process of registering ".xxx" by making checks on ICM Registry LLC, the company that wants to run it. ICM's founder Stuart Lawley says he thinks the new address could easily attract at least 500,000 sites, making it after ".mobi" the second biggest sponsored top-level domain name -- or TLD, the name for Web address suffixes such as .com or .org.
In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, Salesforce accuses Microsoft of willfully violating five of its patents and using them in everything from Windows 7 to the Windows Live authentication system.
More than a year and a half after he was arrested in Tehran, Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian-Canadian blogger also known as Hoder, was put on trial, according to Iranian news reports and statements by his family posted online.
The company that oversees Web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net.
Lawmakers questioned Federal Communications Commission officials about their plans to regulate Internet access, and overhaul an $8 billion federal phone subsidy fund so it can be used to fund new broadband lines. Members of the Senate Commerce Committee questioned three FCC commissioners about FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal for the agency to assert more control over the way broadband providers manage Internet traffic.
Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) announced that they have sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs expressing their concerns and asking for answers regarding reports that Apple is gathering location information on its customers. "Given the limited ability of Apple users to opt out of the revised policy and still be able to take advantage of the features of their Apple products, we are concerned about the impact the collection of such data could have on the privacy of Apple's customers," the letter reads.
A lawsuit that was filed on June 9 against Apple and AT&T over the discontinued unlimited data plan for the iPad 3G has been amended and re-filed to include additional iPad 3G customers. The suit, which is being presented as a proposed class action lawsuit, currently names three individuals who claim that Apple and AT&T "baited" them into purchasing an iPad 3G with the promises of a flexible unlimited data plan, "only to have that promise reneged upon within weeks of their purchases."
Twitter has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it "deceived consumers" by allowing hackers to obtain administrative control over Twitter because of loose security. The FTC said that the popular social networking site allowed hackers in 2009 to obtain "tweets," the 140-character micro-blogs users sent out, that were designated private and send out phony tweets pretending to be from then-President elect Barack Obama and Fox News, among others.
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