Switzerland's top administrative court backed the Swiss privacy watchdog and ruled against Google Inc.'s Street View map service in Switzerland, saying the service infringes privacy in a ruling. Switzerland's Federal Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer and Google had been locked in a battle over the Web giant's popular Street View application ever since the mapping service went live there in 2009.
In what may only be a speed bump in a longer legal battle, a D.C. court of appeals has thrown out Verizon’s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s recent net neutrality rules, saying the company filed the lawsuit prematurely. Verizon launched the legal challenge before the rules, which were enacted in December, were filed in the Federal Registry.
Online music provider Pandora Media disclosed in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has received a subpoena related to a federal grand jury investigation about sharing customer information in its smartphone app. The company, which filed for an initial public offering with the SEC earlier this year, added the latest tidbit of information regarding the grand jury subpoena to its S-1.
The European Commission, which is urging governments on the Continent to consider using open-source software to make their computer systems more compatible, is negotiating with Microsoft to extend its use of the proprietary Windows operating system on 36,000 government computers, a spokesman said. Antony Gravili, a spokesman for Maros Sefcovic, the commissioner responsible for government administration, said the agreement covers 42 agencies and institutions that comprise the bulk of Europe’s central government.
Google said it is bidding $900 million on the patent portfolio of Nortel, the bankrupt communications technology company. The Internet search giant couched its bid as a preemptive strike to defend against patent litigation.
The man who created the first version of the uber-successful Madden NFL Football video game is suing Electronic Arts over tens of millions of dollars in owed royalties and potentially billions in profits over the franchise, which has sold more than 85 million copies in the more than 20 years since it hit the marketplace. Robin Antonick is demanding a jury trial in California, pressing claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that he has been cut out of the Madden franchise fortune.
More than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation. The so-called "mass-injection" attack, which experts say is the largest of its kind ever seen, has managed to insert malicious code into websites by gaining access to the servers running the databases behind the Internet, according to the technology security company that discovered it.
For years now, big corporations and those with financial stakes in their Web presence have employed handlers to edit their online reputation -- often as part of the array of services offered by a large public relations firm, lawyers or image consultants. But as everyday people began living more of their lives online, whether it’s blogging about dinner or posting vacation photos on Facebook, the downside to oversharing online began to catch up.
News Corp.’s Fox Networks Group told Time Warner Cable Inc. to stop streaming cable channels including FX to its pay-TV subscribers’ iPads, saying such use isn’t authorized. The company sent a letter demanding the New York-based cable operator stop providing the channels, Scott Grogin, a Fox spokesman in Los Angeles, said today in an interview.
It began with a 7-year-old asking her mother to tie colorful “Jolly Rancher” candies to the ends of her braids, copying a hairstyle she had admired in a magazine, for school picture day. But the girl’s mother says a teacher posted pictures of the second grader on Facebook and then led online friends in mocking the hairdo. Now Chicago Public Schools says it’s investigating the incident.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kroger Co., Capital One Financial Corp. and TiVo Inc. said they were affected by a security breach that may have enabled an unauthorized person to see some customers' names and e-mail addresses. JPMorgan and Kroger disclosed the accessing of the data, which occurred at Epsilon, a Dallas-based provider of e-mail marketing services.
China's Baidu Inc. has reached a deal with a local music copyright association, in a step toward resolving years of tension with the music industry over the company's music-search service. The online search provider said it will begin to compensate songwriters belonging to the Music Copyright Society of China when users download or stream their songs from Baidu's website.
A lawsuit filed by H-W Technology claims Apple, Research in Motion, Google, and 29 other major technology companies are infringing on a patent it was granted in April of 2009. U.S. patent number 7,525,955, which had first been filed in March 2005, is described as an "Internet protocol (IP) phone with search and advertising capability."
Samsung has been cleared of false allegations lodged by a security specialist who claimed that keylogging software was installed on two of the company's laptops. It turns out that a misfiring antivirus program called VIPRE, made by the GFI Software company, falsely identified a Microsoft Windows directory as malicious software.
Chinese authorities found three companies linked to Google Inc. broke tax rules and are investigating possible tax avoidance, a Chinese state-run newspaper said, raising the risk of fresh pressure on the Internet search giant. Google, the world's largest Internet search company, confirmed the three companies were units, but denied the tax violations alleged in the Chinese-language Economic Daily.
Proposed changes to European rules on product returns could cost online retailers 10 billion euros ($14 billion) a year, denting growth and leading to higher prices for consumers, an industry body warned. IMRG, which represents internet retailers, said the cost of draft amendments to the European Union's (EU) Consumer Rights Directive, voted through last week, equated to 4 percent of the estimated value of Europe's e-commerce industry in 2012.
Microsoft plans to file a formal antitrust complaint in Brussels against Google, its first against another company. Microsoft hopes that the action may prod officials in Europe to take action and that the evidence gathered may also lead officials in the United States to do the same.
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the action.
A security researcher says he discovered keylogging software installed on two brand-new Samsung laptops that could be used to monitor all activities on the computer remotely. Mohamed Hassan, founder of NetSec Consulting, discovered StarLogger software on Samsung laptops with model numbers R525 and 540 after running security scanning software on the systems when he bought them last month, he writes in a guest column in Network World.
Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. have both hired linguists to serve as experts in the tech titan's ongoing battle over whether or not the government can grant a trademark for the term "app store." Microsoft filed its latest argument with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which included the opinions of a linguistic expert who supported the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant's argument that the term "app store" was generic and shouldn't be trademarked by Apple.
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