A woman at a McDonald's thought she was getting an iPad at a bargain price, but instead she got a very expensive piece of wood. Ashley McDowell, 22, said she was getting food at about 10 p.m. Monday when two men approached her in the parking lot.
Oracle lobbed a host of new charges against arch-rival Hewlett-Packard, asking a Santa Clara County judge to revoke a legal settlement that the two companies negotiated when Oracle hired former HP chief executive Mark Hurd last fall.
Apple was slow to act against the booming counterfeit industry in China and other Asian countries, according to cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The technology giant eventually organized a team in March 2008 to curtail the explosion of knockoff iPods and iPhones, according to an electronic memo from the Beijing embassy dated September 2008.
Hackers have obtained a digital certificate good for any Google website from a Dutch certificate provider, a security researcher said. Criminals could use the certificate to conduct "man-in-the-middle" attacks targeting users of Gmail, Google's search engine or any other service operated by the Mountain View, Calif. company.
Google and its directors were accused in a shareholder lawsuit of breaching their fiduciary duty by facilitating illegal imports of prescription drugs, leading to a $500 million settlement with the U.S. government. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and the company’s board knew or should have known it was illegal for pharmacies outside the U.S. to ship prescription drugs into the country, according to a complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California, by a Pennsylvania woman who owns Google shares.
China's Supreme Court and prosecutors office will step up the fight against computer hacking by toughening penalties for those caught doing it, state media said. Under rules coming into effect from September 1, people who "knowingly purchase, sell or cover-up illegally obtained data or network control will be subject to criminal penalties," the official Xinhua news agency cited a statement as saying.
The trademark battle between Facebook Inc. and the parody site Lamebook.com is over. The companies have reached an agreement that lets Lamebook continue to operate under its current name, but Lamebook will add a disclaimer to its website and will not seek trademark protection for its name.
The state-run China Central Television network has yanked a video that inadvertently included a short clip of a cyber-attack tool targeting Falun Gong websites. Posted in mid-July, the video was a documentary entitled "The Internet storm is coming!"
Relentless tweets against a Buddhist leader have landed a man in jail on charges of online stalking and placed him at the center of an unusual federal case that asks the question: Is posting a public message on Twitter akin to speaking from an old-fashioned soapbox, or can it also be regarded as a means of direct personal communication, like a letter or phone call?
More than nine months before a proposed June 2012 referendum asking that California’s new Internet sales tax law be overturned, Amazon, the Seattle-based online retailer, has already spent $5.25 million, state records show, more than any company has spent in California this far from a vote in at least a decade. “The initiative and referendum process have been hijacked,” said Loni Hancock, a state senator from Berkeley, who wrote the law Amazon is trying to overturn and who is now pushing legislation that could block Amazon’s referendum effort.
Behind Google Inc.'s decision this week to settle a U.S. criminal probe into ads it carried for unlicensed online pharmacies lies a previously undisclosed factor: Justice Department investigators believed company co-founder Larry Page knew of, and allowed, the ads for years. Sorting through more than four million documents, prosecutors found internal emails and documents that, they say, show Mr. Page was aware of the allegedly illicit ad sales.
Steve Jobs has his name on more than 300 patents, a sign that he did more to create Apple Inc.'s landmark products than simply supervise engineers. But the company's originality, and handling of intellectual property, have frequently been controversial topics.
A judge in Düsseldorf said that Apple’s intellectual property rights are probably strong enough to ban sales of Samsung Electronics’ rival Galaxy 10.1 tablet computers in Germany. The court is unlikely, however, to expand the ban beyond Germany to other European Union countries as Apple had sought, the presiding judge, Johanna Brückner-Hofmann, said in a preliminary assessment.
A 22-year-old man was charged with computer offenses by U.K. police investigating attacks on companies carried out by the hacking group Anonymous. Peter David Gibson, a student from Hartlepool, England, was charged with a conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer or hinder access to a program or data, the Metropolitan Police in London said today in a statement.
Facebook and Twitter are preparing to stand firm against government ministers' calls to ban people from social networks or shut their websites down in times of civil unrest. The major social networks are expected to offer no concessions when they meet the home secretary, Theresa May, at a Home Office summit.
Motorola has been banned from claiming its Atrix phone is the “world's most powerful smartphone". In a new ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an advert which made the claim was found to be misleading after two complaints from Samsung users.
A U.S. judge said parts of a false advertising lawsuit can proceed against online coupon distributor Groupon, according to one attorney who attended a court hearing. A proposed class action was filed against Groupon earlier this year by a tour operator in San Francisco, accusing Groupon of bait and switch advertising.
Google Inc. reached a long-awaited $500 million legal settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid prosecution on charges that it knowingly accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal ads from Canadian online pharmacies. The ads resulted in the unlawful importation of prescription drugs, including controlled substances, into the U.S., potentially placing consumers at risk, the Justice Department said.
Apple won an injunction in a Dutch court to stop Samsung Electronics from marketing three smartphone models in some European countries after alleging a breach of patents. The court dismissed all other demands by Apple, saying there were no violations of two other Apple patents, no violations for Samsung's tablet computers Galaxy Tab, and no violations of model rights.
A woman who sued Match.com after being sexually assaulted by a man she met on the online dating site has settled her lawsuit in a Los Angeles court. The settlement comes after Match.com attorneys provided proof to the court that it is screening its members to see if any are sexual predators.
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