Amazon.com Inc., the biggest online retailer, sued for a court order declaring that its advertised discounts of 30 percent on new college textbooks and 90 percent on used ones aren’t false or misleading. Amazon sued the National Association of College Stores Inc. in federal court in Seattle, saying the trade group is trying to prevent it from advertising lower prices.
A major furniture rental chain provides its customers with computers that allow the company to track keystrokes, take screenshots and even snap webcam pictures of renters using the devices at home, a Wyoming couple said in a lawsuit. Computer privacy experts said the firm has the right to equip its computers with software it can use to shut off the devices remotely if customers stop paying their bills, but they must be told if they're being monitored.
Google's Seoul office was raided on suspicion its mobile advertising unit AdMob had illegally collected location data without consent, South Korean police said, the latest setback to the Internet search firm's Korean operations. The probe into suspected collection of data on where a user is located without consent highlights growing concerns about possible misuse of private information as the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets increases.
Over the last year, as newspapers continue to grapple with how to protect their online content, Righthaven has filed more than 200 federal lawsuits in Colorado and Nevada over material posted without permission from The Denver Post or The Las Vegas Review-Journal. Some critics, however, contend that Righthaven’s tactics are draconian, and that the company hopes to extract swift settlements before it is clear that there is a violation of federal copyright law.
Hackers and scammers quickly exploited the killing of Osama bin Laden, hoping to capture curious/unsuspecting/trusting/gullible Net users, a Web-security firm reports. Hackers have compromised the website of a 33-year-old Pakistani IT consultant, Sohaib Athar, who unknowingly tweeted the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden, according to Websense Security Labs.
Week after week, thieves break into corporate computer systems to steal customer lists, email addresses and credit card numbers. Large data breaches get overshadowed by even larger ones. Yet people are turning over personal information to online retailers, social networks and other services in growing numbers.
Dish Network and EchoStar Corp will pay TiVo Inc $500 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit involving TiVo's video recording technology, putting an end to a long and costly legal battle. Dish and EchoStar, both controlled by Charlie Ergen, will make an initial payment of $300 million to TiVo, with the remaining $200 million to be paid in six equal annual installments between 2012 and 2017, the companies said in a statement.
Less than a week after news of a security breach sparked an uproar, Sony Corp. has shut down its online-gaming unit after a hacker infiltrated the network in the second such attack on the company in the last month. Sony Online Entertainment, known for creating massive multi-player games such as EverQuest and The Matrix Online, suspended service, according to a statement.
Scammers are distributing fake security software aimed at the Mac by taking advantage of the news that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces, a security researcher said. A security firm that specializes in Mac software called the move "a very big step forward" for malware makers targeting Apple's users.
Two weeks since after Sony's PlayStation Network was hacked Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, addressed the issue in a press conference in Tokyo. Though they still don't know who orchestrated the intrusion on the PSN servers in San Diego, Calif., they were "very sophisticated," Hirai said.
The ongoing battle between Amazon.com and Texas over whether the world's largest Internet retailer should collect sales taxes has drawn the attention of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. Amazon said in a regulatory filing that the SEC is looking into its dispute with Texas, which began last year when the Texas comptroller's office sent Amazon a $269 million assessment for four years of uncollected sales taxes.
The hacker group Anonymous has its next denial-of-service (DoS) target in sight: Iran, CNET has learned. Members of the loosely organized group are planning "Operation Iran," an attack designed to shut down Iranian Web sites, according to their latest online proclamation.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing an investigation of Google Inc.’s dominance of the Internet search industry by alerting high-tech companies to gather information for the probe, three people familiar with the matter said. The agency told the companies that it plans to issue so-called civil investigative demands for the information, said the people, who requested anonymity because the FTC hasn’t made the matter public.
A House of Representatives subcommittee sent a letter to Sony asking for information about the attack on the Sony Playstation Network by hackers. The letter, which was addressed to Mr. Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony, asked the company to answer a detailed list of questions related to the intrusion.
In the wake of a giant brouhaha over the news that Apple's iPhones record and store users' locations, Verizon Wireless says it will start slapping 'we can track you!' warning stickers on its products. Verizon's announcement came in the form of a letter to Representatives Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Joe Barton, a Texas Republican.
Two women have filed a $50 million class-action lawsuit against Google Inc. to stop the company from selling phones with Android software that can track a user's location. The lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, comes a week after Google acknowledged that phones running its Android software store some location data directly on phones for a short time from users who have chosen to use GPS services.
Jeff Moss, a prominent computer hacker who founded the annual Black Hat and DefCon security conferences in Las Vegas, has been hired as the chief security officer for the organization that coordinates names of the world's Web sites. "I can think of no one with a greater understanding of the security threats facing Internet users and how best to defend against them than Jeff Moss," Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's CEO and formerly the director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center, said in a statement.
Mobile privacy safeguards should also extend to third party application developers, two lawmakers said after reviewing the practices of four major U.S. wireless carriers. Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton, co-chairs of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, released letters they received from Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile in response to their inquiries last month about the collection, use and storage of location data.
Telecommunications-equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. has filed lawsuits against its biggest Chinese competitor, ZTE Corp., for patent infringement. Shenzhen-based Huawei accused ZTE of infringing a series of its patents related to wireless modems and high-speed fourth-generation technology, called Long Term Evolution, or LTE.
Samsung Electronics Co., the second-largest maker of mobile phones, broadened its patent- infringement dispute with Apple Inc. by suing the iPhone creator in the U.S. a week after making claims in Asia and Europe. Apple is infringing 10 patents related to mobile phones, Samsung said in a lawsuit in federal court in San Jose, California.
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