Samsung Electronics filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung's smartphones and tablets "slavishly" copied its products. Samsung's counter lawsuit, its first against its biggest client, comes days before it launches a new product and could jeopardize business ties between the two companies, as Apple relies on Samsung for component supplies such as chips and LCD displays.
Apple Inc.'s iPhone is collecting and storing location information even when location services are turned off, according to a test conducted by The Wall Street Journal. The location data appear to be collected using cellphone towers and Wi-Fi access points near a user's phone and don't appear to be transmitted back to Apple.
Akamai Technologies Inc. persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reconsider whether Limelight Networks Inc. infringed a patent over software that speeds delivery of Web videos. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in December Limelight didn't infringe the patent.
In a decision that could have consequences to many of Google's businesses, a jury has found the search giant responsible for infringing on the patents of a small Texas company, Bedrock Computer Technologies. Google has been ordered to pay penalties of $5 million for its use of a key piece of software code, and the decision could affect other companies as well.
A computer hacker from Georgia has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft after authorities found him with more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his home computers. Credit card companies have traced more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions to the accounts that were breached by 26-year-old Rogelio Hackett Jr. of Lithonia, Ga.
Website domain collector Virtual City Vision lost its appeal against Newport News, a women's clothing chain, when the 4th Circuit affirmed a ruling that Virtual's www.NewportNews.com website dilutes Newport News' trademark. The ruling ends a legal battle between the clothing store and Virtual City Vision that has lasted for more than a decade.
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is investigating a sophisticated phishing attack that forced it to shut down email and Internet access. The lab -- which houses some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and stores classified government data -- was hit with a phishing attack on April 7 that was designed specifically to remove information from the network.
U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. settled a copyright infringement dispute with a Chinese department store, the industry group Business Software Alliance said. Fujian Dongbai Group Co. promised to actively use genuine Microsoft software and pay a total of 900,000 yuan (about $138,100) to Microsoft, as part of a legalization and compensation deal, BSA said in a statement.
Social media websites such as Foursquare, HootSuite and Reddit crashed temporarily because of problems at Amazon Web Services' data center. Officials at Amazon were unavailable for comment on the server problems, but a status update page on its Web Services site said the problems began early in the morning at a server bank in northern Virgina.
Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.), who chairs a new privacy panel set up in February, asked Apple to explain why its iPhones are tracking users' locations. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is also reportedly looking into the matter, while a Congressman from Washington State has followed Franken's lead, promising to ask questions of his own.
A hidden file on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G has been found to store location information. This privacy glitch was discovered by two programmers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, who presented their findings at the location-centric O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
The Department of Justice outlined steps that CPTN Holdings LLC has agreed to take in order to acquire some patents and patent applications from Novell Inc., which is in the process of being bought by a trio of private-equity firms operating as Attachmate Corp. The Justice Department said that in order to address antitrust concerns, CPTN -- a holding company owned by Microsoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Apple Inc. and EMC Corp. -- revised its agreements to buy the patents in several ways.
A U.S. appeals court agreed that Dish Network Corp. is violating a judge's order to shut down parts of a digital-video-recording service that infringe a TiVo patent. The ruling affects Dish's older DVRs and leaves open the question of whether software on newer models was changed enough to get around TiVo's patent for the "time warp" technology that simultaneously records and plays back television programs.
Facebook is still trying to find a path to Washington, where the company has only a fledgling lobbying operation, even though it finds its privacy policies under increasing scrutiny and is trying to navigate a politically sensitive expansion into China. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal about its approach abroad, Facebook officials in Washington suggested the company might be willing to play by China's rules -- a stance that could raise hackles in Congress.
For the past four years, the foreign companies that control the global Internet poker industry have helped bankroll an elaborate lobbying campaign in Washington, seeking to keep the United States from shutting their American operations down. For the past four years, the foreign companies that control the global Internet poker industry have helped bankroll an elaborate lobbying campaign here, seeking to keep the United States from shutting their American operations down.
A federal judge was asked by Apple Inc. to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit claiming the company limited choice by linking iPod music downloading to its iTunes music store. Robert Mittelstaedt, an attorney for the Cupertino, California-based company, told U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose, California, that blocking iPod music downloads that used competitors’ software was intended to improve downloading quality for iTunes customers.
Iran is the worst country in the world -- at least when it comes to web freedom, claims a new report. Among the reports eye-opening findings: The number of Internet users has doubled over the past five years, and governments worldwide are trying to find ways to control the heightened online activity -- sometimes relying on extreme measures to send a message.
Samsung Electronics said it would take counter-action against Apple after the U.S. firm filed suit alleging that the South Korean giant copied its smartphones and tablet computers. Apple's lawsuit claims Samsung's mobile phones and Galaxy Tab imitated the iPhone and the iPad.
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure companies are on the rise, with a jump in extortion attempts and malware designed to sabotage systems, like Stuxnet, according to a new report. While attacks are increasing, many companies aren't doing enough to protect their systems and are instead rushing to adopt new technologies -- such as Smart Grid -- without ensuring they adequately secure against cyber attacks, concludes "In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks."
Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics Co. claiming the South Korean electronics giant copied the look and feel of its popular iPhone smartphones and iPad tablet computers. The lawsuit, filed on April 15 in the Northern District of California, alleged that Samsung's smartphones, such as the "Galaxy S 4G," "Epic 4G," "Nexus S" and its "Galaxy Tab" touchscreen tablet, violated Apple's intellectual property.
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