Apple Inc's Korean unit has paid compensation to a user of its popular iPhone after collecting location data without consent, lawyers and court officials said, the first payout by the company over these complaints. In May, Apple Korea was ordered by the court to pay 1 million won ($946) in compensation to Kim Hyung-suk, a lawyer, two officials at Changwon District Court said.
The second lawsuit over a case of “twitter-squatting” has ended just a month after it was filed. Coventry First, a company that operates in a controversial corner of the life insurance business, has backed off its demands to get the identity of an anonymous Twitter user critiquing its business.
A proposal by U.S. House of Representatives Republicans to free up spectrum for mobile broadband use would remove Net neutrality rules on new spectrum auctions and would make it difficult for innovators to use unlicensed spectrum going forward, a digital rights group said. Public Knowledge blasted the draft of the Spectrum Innovation Act, released prior to a spectrum hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's communications subcommittee.
Oracle Corp and SAP AG have not had any settlement talks since a $1.3 billion verdict against SAP last November, an attorney for Oracle said in court. A Northern California jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion last November over accusations that SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow wrongfully downloaded millions of Oracle's files.
India has asked Google Inc., internet telephone company Skype Ltd. and other such companies to allow the country's security agencies to monitor their user services to guard against terrorism and other crimes, a minister said. In a clear sign that India isn't relaxing its push for access to encrypted communication services, junior Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Sachin Pilot said that "there are a whole list of companies that have been asked to give [access]... provide solutions."
The Trojan spyware application known as Zitmo, which is designed to steal people's financial data, has now been altered to target devices running the Android mobile operating system. "The malware poses as a banking activation application," said Axelle Apvrille, a senior antivirus analyst and researcher for Fortinet, in a blog post.
EBay may be held liable for trademark breaches on its auction site if it has knowledge of the infringing data, the European Union’s highest court said in a dispute involving the cosmetics maker L’Oréal. The Court of Justice ruled that, as an operator of an online platform, eBay is liable if it “played an active role” that would “give it knowledge of or control over the data relating to the offers for sale.”
U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge. A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts.
Apple Inc's chief patent counsel will soon leave the company, at a time when the iPhone maker is fighting numerous legal battles around the world, according to sources familiar with the situation. Richard "Chip" Lutton Jr., who manages Apple's patent portfolio, recently hit his 10-year mark at the company and decided it was time to try something else, according to a source familiar with Lutton's thinking.
The legal fracas between gadget makers Apple and Samsung has reached a new level, with Samsung now vying to get some of Apple's legal team members kicked off the case. A 20-page motion filed by Samsung with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that some lawyers have a conflict of interest under the California Rule of Professional Conduct for having previously worked on Samsung's behalf in other legal matters.
Controversial legislation to require Internet providers to store logs about their customers for 18 months has run into an unexpected obstacle: a former supporter. "This bill needs a lot of fixing up," Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican and previous chairman of the House Judiciary committee, said at a hearing.
Amazon.com Inc. has intensified its fight against states over sales-tax collection. The Seattle-based retailer filed a petition to start the process of getting a measure on the California ballot to ask voters to repeal a recently passed state law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes.
A Homeland Security official confirmed that tech components imported from overseas, many of which end up in some of the most popular American gadgets, are often infected with malicious software. "This is one of the most complicated and difficult challenges that we have," Greg Schaffer, acting deputy undersecretary at DHS' National Protection and Programs Directorate, said during a hearing.
A group of hackers published online files that it says contains a list of roughly 90,000 military email addresses and passwords belonging to a prominent defense and homeland security consultant for the U.S. government, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. AntiSec –- a band of hackers reportedly made up of members from groups named Anonymous and the disbanded LulzSec –- posted the information to the website PirateBay.org.
Apple Inc. filed a second patent-infringement complaint against HTC Corp. at the U.S. International Trade Commission, seeking to block imports of "personal electronic devices" by the Taiwanese phonemaker. The complaint is the second lodged by Apple against HTC in the past 16 months and comes a week after the filing of a patent case against Samsung Electronics Co.
The Colorado prosecution of a woman accused of a mortgage scam will test whether the government can punish you for refusing to disclose your encryption passphrase. The Obama administration has asked a federal judge to order the defendant, Ramona Fricosu, to decrypt an encrypted laptop that police found in her bedroom during a raid of her home.
Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion Ltd and three other leading tech companies received court approval to buy wireless patents from the bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp for $4.5 billion. Judges in the United States and Canada approved the sale of 6,000 patents and applications, which fetched three times what some analysts expected from the four-day auction in June.
Apple Inc. was told to pay closely held Personal Audio LLC $8 million after a federal jury in Texas found that the maker of iPod music players infringed patents for downloadable playlists. Personal Audio, a patent licensing company with an office in Beaumont, Texas, sued Apple in 2009 for $84 million in damages, claiming infringement of two patents.
Hackers who have claimed responsibility for a spate of recent break-ins said that they had infiltrated the network of IRC Federal, an engineering contractor that works for federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and stole internal documents from its database and e-mail system. The group, which is a part of the hacktivist collective Anonymous and includes members of the defunct group Lulz Security, also said it had defaced IRC Federal’s Web site.
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before a U.S. Senate hearing on antitrust that could be held as soon as this month. The agreement, which Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Google confirmed, caps a few weeks of public wrangling over who the company would provide to be grilled at a public event that's unlikely to be sympathetic to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company.
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