Research In Motion Ltd. is considering a bid for Nortel Networks Corp.’s portfolio of wireless technology patents that would top Google Inc.’s $900 million offer, two people familiar with the plans said. RIM, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, is weighing an offer that would keep Google from gaining control of about 6,000 Nortel patents and patent applications, said the people, who couldn’t be identified because the plans aren’t public.
An Iranian military commander has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the United States and Israel launch a cyber attack on its nuclear facilities, Kayhan daily reported. Gholamreza Jalali, head of Iran's civilian defense, said the Stuxnet virus aimed at Iran's atomic program was the work of its two biggest foes and that the German company must take some of the blame.
The United Arab Emirates plans to limit the number of BlackBerry users who can make use of the smartphones' highest level of data security. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in an emailed statement that only qualifying companies with 20 or more BlackBerry users will have access to the Blackberry Enterprise Server, a system that ships data to company servers abroad.
The two biggest Internet search engines in South Korea filed a complaint with the Fair Trade Commission, charging that Google was blocking the installation of their services on smartphones preloaded with Google’s Android operating system. The NHN Corporation, which owns Naver, the largest search portal, and Daum, the No. 2 portal, asked South Korea’s trade commission to investigate whether Google had improperly maneuvered to have Android preinstalled on most smartphones being sold in the country.
In an aggressive attack on Internet gambling, federal prosecutors unsealed fraud and money laundering charges against operators of three of the most popular online poker sites. The government also seized the Internet addresses of the sites, a new enforcement tactic that effectively shuttered their doors.
A California woman is suing a popular Internet dating site, saying she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on Match.com. The suit demands that Match.com screen its members for sexual predators.
The appointment of a former record industry representative as EU copyright chief has raised questions in Brussels about plans to overhaul the bloc's copyright rules, which musicians, companies, and EU Parliamentarians have all said need fundamentally changing. Maria Martin-Prat, formerly director of legal affairs and deputy legal counsel of the record company trade association International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, will take over as head of the copyright unit in the European Commission's internal market department on April 16.
In many countries around the world, if you break the law by stealing copyrighted content you can be sentenced to prison and heavily fined. But if Google catches you breaking copyright laws, the punishment is more akin to being caught smoking in the boys room in high school: You’re forced to take an online class at YouTube’s Copyright School.
A Malaysian man, accused of hacking into a Federal Reserve computer server, pleaded guilty to possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers that the government said he intended to sell. Lin Mun Poo, 32, entered his plea to one fraud count before U.S. District Judge Dora Irizarry in the federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
By seizing servers and domain names and getting permission to remotely turn off malware on compromised PCs, U.S. officials have disabled a botnet that steals data from infected computers. The legal actions are part of the "most complete and comprehensive enforcement action ever taken by U.S. authorities to disable an international botnet," according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
Russian hacker attacks on the country's biggest blog site and a spy agency's warning to Gmail and Skype have raised fears that authorities are tightening their grip on dissent in a China-like assault on free speech. With an eye on Arab unrest that has toppled two North African leaders and spurred Western military intervention in Libya, Moscow is keen to defuse potential turmoil ahead of a December parliamentary election and a 2012 presidential vote.
Law enforcement officials are reporting significant progress in cracking a massive semiconductor-theft case, which involved an armed robbery at a Silicon Valley company of chips officials value at $37 million. Thirteen to 15 masked thieves took part in the Feb. 27 robbery at Unigen Corp., a closely held company with businesses that include manufacturing electronics products for other companies.
Motorola Solutions and the Chinese company Huawei Technologies said that they had agreed to settle a pair of lawsuits over intellectual property. The agreement is expected to clear the way for Motorola Solutions to complete the sale of its networking division to Nokia Siemens Networks.
The Texas Comptroller's office started sending notification letters to residents whose names were inadvertently placed on an agency server that was open to the public. The records of about 3.5 million Texans were placed on the public server. Disclosed data included names and mailing addresses, Social Security numbers, and to varying degrees, information like dates of birth or driver's license numbers.
Senators introduced an Internet privacy bill that would create first-time rules for Facebook, Google and other Web firms that thrive by collecting information about users. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said their measure aims to protect Internet users by forcing companies to explain how they collect information and what they do with it.
Walker Digital, a research and development laboratory for technology patents, filed 15 lawsuits against more than 100 companies including Apple, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon and Google for unauthorized use of its intellectual property rights. Walker Digital, a Stamford, Connecticut-based company that includes Priceline.com founder Jay S. Walker as its chairman, filed the lawsuits in a Delaware court alleging that some of the biggest names in technology are using inventions created and owned by Walker Digital.
E-mails allegedly written by Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are cited in a new court filing by Paul Ceglia as proof of his claim that he’s entitled to 50 percent of the company under a 2003 contract. The revised complaint, filed in federal court in Buffalo, New York, includes new allegations supporting Ceglia’s claim to own part of Palo Alto, California-based Facebook, the world’s biggest social-networking site, including that Zuckerberg sent numerous e-mails discussing the terms of the contract and the early development of “The Face Book” with Ceglia.
A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping. The proposal -- expected to be made public soon after Tax Day -- would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the ability of Americans to shop at Web sites like Amazon.com and Overstock.com without paying state sales taxes.
The Huffington Post is the target of a multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in United States District Court in New York on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers. The suit seeks at least $105 million in damages for more than 9,000 writers.
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced that it has settled its contentious suit against infamous hacktivist George Hotz, aka GeoHot. For those who haven't been keeping up, Hotz hacked Sony's PlayStation 3, jailbreaking it to run non-Sony-approved software and, potentially, pirated games.
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