California Democrats denounced an offer by Internet retailer Amazon.com to create thousands of new jobs if the state postpones for more than two years its effort to force online merchants to collect sales taxes on purchases by Californians. Legislators and their bricks-and-mortar retail allies cast doubt that Amazon would follow through with a promise to build two distribution centers in the state and hire up to 7,000 people.
Google says it will cooperate with South Korea's antitrust regulator amid a report its local offices were raided as part of an investigation. Google Inc. said in a statement that it will work with the regulator to address any questions it may have about its business.
One Mexican state's tough stance on Twitter posts could have a chilling effect on social media throughout the country, analysts say. After false rumors about school attacks spread on Twitter and Facebook and caused real-life chaos on the streets of the city of Veracruz, state prosecutors accused two people of terrorism and sabotage for their posts.
An Arizona company that sued Apple over its use of the iCloud name seems to have changed its tune -- and its name. iCloud Communications alleged in a lawsuit filed in June that the name of Apple's online storage service copied its name and caused confusion over competing products.
In recent months, plenty of perfectly healthy businesses across the country have expired — sometimes for hours, other times for weeks — though only in the online realm cataloged and curated by Google. Search engine consultants say that “closing” a business on Google has become an increasingly common tactic among unscrupulous competitors.
The Dutch government said that it was widening its investigation into the hacking of official state Web sites in an attempt to learn whether the private data of Dutch citizens, many of whom file income tax returns online, had also been compromised. The Dutch data protection agency, OPTA, has asked the government security contractor at the center of the controversy, DigiNotar, to report whether the integrity of a special class of digital certificates known as qualified certificates, which guarantee the authenticity of computer users interacting with government computers, had been breached.
The Korean Fair Trade Commission, that country's antitrust agency, raided Google's offices in Seoul, CNET has learned. Regulators are apparently interested in information about Google allegedly limiting access to rival search engines on its Android mobile operating system.
An advocacy group that accuses Cisco Systems of aiding the Chinese government in monitoring and apprehending members of the banned Falun Gong organization said that it had new evidence to suggest that Cisco specifically tailored its technology for that purpose. The Human Rights Law Foundation, based in Washington, sued Cisco, a California-based manufacturer of networking equipment, last May in the Federal District Court in San Jose, under a statute that allows American companies to be sued for violations of human rights abroad.
Some of China's most prominent hackers plan to issue a call for their peers in the country to steer clear of commercial cybercrime, a move aimed at cutting down on Chinese cyberattacks that experts say often target foreign Internet users and companies. While it's unclear how effective such an appeal will be, it is a sign that some with roots in China's hacking culture are concerned that growth in the underground cybertheft industry could draw both louder foreign complaints and tighter domestic restrictions, which could restrict their freedom of action and affect the legitimate network-security sector as well.
Samsung Electronics Co. lost a chance to showcase its latest tablet computer at one of the world’s largest electronics shows after Apple Inc. won a second injunction blocking Galaxy Tab sales in Germany. Samsung, Apple’s closest rival in tablet computers, pulled the just-unveiled Galaxy Tab 7.7 out of the IFA consumer- electronics show in Berlin after a Dusseldorf court on Sept. 2 granted Apple’s request to ban sales and marketing of the product, James Chung, a Seoul-based spokesman for Samsung, said by telephone.
Attackers who hacked into a Dutch Web security firm have issued hundreds of fraudulent security certificates for intelligence agency Web sites, including the CIA, as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said. Experts say they suspect the hacker — or hackers — operated with the cooperation of the Iranian government, perhaps in attempts to spy on dissidents.
Jurors and defendants are not meant to be friends -- even if it's just Facebook friends. Four charges of contempt of court probably drilled this point home for 22-year-old Jonathan Hudson of Arlington, Texas.
After 17 years Germany has relaxed its restrictions on sales of Doom, the world's first popular first-person shoot-em-up game. A spokesman for Bethesda Softworks, which owns id Software, the creators of Doom, welcomed the news but was unable to say when the game would become widely available for sale in Germany.
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.
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