Apple is seeking to ban sales of some Samsung Electronics gadgets in Japan, accusing its rival of violating patents relating to the iPhone and iPad, the latest salvo in a series of patent battles between the two companies. Apple has filed a suit with the Tokyo District Court seeking the suspension of sales of Galaxy S and its sequel S II smartphones and the Galaxy Tab 7 in Japan, according to sources close to the matter.
The judge overseeing the dispute between Oracle and Google "strongly recommends" that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page be ordered to attend mediation. That means the judge wasn't happy with Oracle's suggestion that it would send its president, Safra Catz, or with Google's plan to send Andy Rubin, head of its mobile operation, to a court mediation session.
Amazon.com cut a tentative deal with legislative leaders that would allow it to postpone collecting sales taxes from Californians for another year. The company in turn would drop its battle to overturn the state's new law that required it and many other out-of-state online retailers to collect the taxes.
HTC Corp., Asia’s second-biggest maker of smartphones, filed infringement claims against Apple Inc., using patents it bought from Google Inc. last week. The nine patents originated with Palm Inc., Motorola Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc., with Google taking ownership within the past year, according to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records.
One stolen Google website authentication certificate would have been reason enough for Web users to worry, but it turns out the security breach at the Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar is far more damaging than first thought, and could signal a new and extremely dangerous cyber crime threat.
In a rather anti-climactic development, without much fanfare at all, those companies that want to protect their brands from association with the sex site-focused ".XXX" domain will have the chance to do so for the next seven weeks. While .XXX will likely serve as the go-to domain for adult entertainment sites, the ICM Registry understands that non-porn/pornish sites may have a stake in securing those domains as well.
An analysis by computer security giant McAfee titled “Caution: Malware Ahead” suggests that the large amount of electronics being used in cars today is making them increasingly vulnerable to hack attacks, even by something as simple as text message. Embedded systems, including those for engine management, active cruise control and airbags, now live side by side with telematics that connect vehicles to wireless communication devices and the “cloud” through services like Ford’s Sync and General Motors’ OnStar, which has the ability to shut down cars and unlock doors remotely.
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.
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