A federal judge on threw out a "grossly excessive" $1.3 billion verdict that Oracle won against SAP in a landmark intellectual property case, possibly setting the stage for another circus-like showdown between the two technology companies. The decision was a surprising twist in a 4-year-old case that's been filled with them.
Amazon.com Inc. is offering to build at least two distribution centers and hire as many as 7,000 workers if lawmakers back away — at least temporarily — from trying to force the Internet giant to collect sales taxes on purchases made by California customers. The proposal, along with promises to invest as much as $500 million in the new facilities, was made in the form of draft legislation at a meeting between Amazon lobbyists and representatives of companies that belong to the California Retailers Assn.
Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users request that tracking software be turned off, according to a new lawsuit. The proposed class action, filed in a Seattle federal court, says Microsoft intentionally designed camera software on the Windows Phone 7 operating system to ignore customer requests that they not be tracked.
The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days. Posting the news and records of its exploits on Pastebin, the group is taking credit for launching "DNS Cache Snoop Poisoning" attacks against its victims.
WikiLeaks has suffered a cyber attack, on the heels of the news that the organization had suffered a leak of its own, allegedly revealing the names of sources. WikiLeaks confirmed the attack via Twitter.
Hackers passed themselves off as the Internet giant Google with the apparent goal of snooping on people using Google services in Iran, the company said. It was the latest in a string of breaches that call into question the reliability of certificates that are supposed to verify the authenticity of Web sites.
The Justice Department’s settlement of a criminal investigation of Google for allowing Canadian pharmacies to advertise drugs for distribution in the United States reflected an effort by prosecutors to extend the reach of federal drug laws. This may present future challenges to Internet search companies over their advertisements.
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.
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