Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. chief executive officers are squared off in court to resolve a dispute that may pose the biggest threat to Google's Android mobile software, now running on more than 150 million devices. Google's Larry Page and Oracle's Larry Ellison were ordered to appear before a federal court magistrate in San Jose, California, after tussling over patents for more than a year.
Two men from New York City drove to the Elm City to get a closer look at a car that was listed for sale on Craigslist and met a man named “Mike” in the 100 block of Dover Street, New Haven police said. While showing off the car, Mike suddenly started revving the engine and two men attacked them from behind, held them at gunpoint and took the $4,600 in cash the victims had to buy the car, as well as thousands in jewelry and a cell phone, police said.
Samsung Electronics Co is considering legal action to ban sales of Apple's new iPhone, a source familiar with the matter said, in what could be its strongest step to defend against claims by the U.S. firm that the South Korean firm had copied its product designs. The source declined to elaborate further on where Samsung planned to take legal actions and the Maeil Business Newspaper reported that the South Korean firm may seek injunction request on Apple's new iPhone in Europe.
Japan's biggest defense contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, said hackers had gained access to its computers, with one newspaper saying its submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component factories had been the target. The company said in a statement that some information could have been stolen in the first known cyber attack on Japan's defense industry.
For 18 months, the European Commission has been considering how to put into practice a 2009 law that regulates software cookies, the unique digital markers that Web sites place on visiting computers to identify consumers and deliver ads tailored to individual interests. But regulators representing E.U. member states, backed by consumers’ rights groups, are balking at a voluntary arrangement, which they argue does not adequately protect individuals from unwittingly permitting marketers to collect personal data.
Global companies are growing increasingly worried that Thailand's recent clampdown on Internet traffic might drag down the country's economic potential and make it more difficult to expand here. Internet monitoring laws introduced four years ago were designed to root out online fraud and boost e-commerce in this tropical Buddhist kingdom. But critics say the legislation is being used to police the Web for political content.
The White House is out to fight cyberphobia with an initiative intended to bolster confidence in e-commerce. The plan, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and introduced earlier this year, encourages the private-sector development and public adoption of online user authentication systems. Think of it as a driver’s license for the Internet.
Samsung Electronics Co. widened a sprawling global patent dispute with Apple Inc. by filing a countersuit in Australia, while also appealing a key ruling in Germany. The South Korean company said it has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Australia, alleging iPhone smartphones and the iPad2 tablet computer violate multiple wireless technology patents it holds.
Google's Eric Schmidt, the online search giant's point man for all things Washington, goes before a Senate panel this week to argue the company is not a rival-abusing bully, but in fact is struggling to stay on top. Google Inc controls more than two-thirds of the global search market. But Web technologies such as social networking and smartphone applications offer new ways for people to find information -- putting pressure on the company.
Legislation overhauling the nation's patent laws will help federal officials quickly process a fast-rising mountain of applications filed by inventors, President Obama said in signing the measure into law. Under the America Invents Act, the U.S. will award patents to inventors on a first-to-file basis instead of the first-to-invent basis, which some say is more prone to litigation.
Google Inc., the largest Internet search company, won’t have to face part of Oracle Corp.’s claim that it infringed copyrights for the Java programming language. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled that some of the material Oracle claimed was infringed isn’t protected by copyright.
Google Inc. and authors and publishers groups have about nine more months to untangle their six-year-old legal dispute over plans to create the world's largest digital library, a federal judge said. Manhattan federal court Judge Denny Chin told lawyers at a hearing that he was "still hopeful" they could reach a settlement though "you're essentially starting from scratch."
The Federal Trade Commission announced it is seeking comment on revisions to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act that would extend it to cover evolving technologies such as web and mobile platforms for children under the age of 13. The proposed changes would require operators to post notice and obtain parental consent before collecting information from children, offer a larger variety of ways to obtain that consent, and provide proof that they are capable of adequately protecting children’s personal information.
Apple Inc. has removed a mobile app, called “Jew or Not Jew?”, from its online App Store in France. The app let users consult a database of celebrities and public figures to determine if they are Jewish or not. Its removal follows a complaint from a French anti-racism group that threatened to sue the iPhone and iPad maker.
As copyright and trademark owners continue to make their case for stronger laws to go after online pirates and counterfeites, a top executive with Paramount Pictures detailed how easy it is for users to find and stream movies and other content online. With four clicks, Paramount's chief operating officer Frederick Huntsberry pulled up a new movie and began streaming it at a a symposium on online intellectual property theft hosted by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.
Six of the biggest names in technology have lined up behind EMC Corp. and other companies caught up in a patent case that highlights a controversy over filing infringement charges against many unrelated defendants. Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Yahoo Inc. and SAP AG's U.S. unit filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, expressing support for EMC's appeal of a patent case brought by Oasis Research LLC. Oasis filed the suit in 2010 in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas against 18 defendants.
Consumer and privacy advocacy groups in the U.S. and Europe sent a letter to Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., citing concerns that a privacy hearing Mack will convene is being staged to give short shrift to how Europe has championed privacy rights for individual citizens. The hearing, titled "Internet Privacy: The Impact and Burden of EU Regulation," will be held before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, chaired by Bono Mack.
U.S. prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into whether eBay employees took confidential information from classified ad website Craigslist as eBay sought to build a rival service, a copy of a grand jury subpoena obtained by Reuters shows. The two companies have been feuding for years in civil court over allegations that online giant eBay took a stake in Craigslist and then misappropriated confidential information while it secretly planned its own classifieds site.
In the wake of last year's data collection controversy, Google said that it will allow users to opt out of having their Wi-Fi location data tracked. "At the request of several European data protection authorities, we are building an opt-out service that will allow an access point owner to opt out from Google's location services," said Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel.
Three major authors’ groups and eight individual authors filed suit against a partnership of research libraries and five universities, arguing that their initiative to digitize millions of books constituted copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, contends that “by digitizing, archiving, copying and now publishing the copyrighted works without the authorization of those works’ rights holders, the universities are engaging in one of the largest copyright infringements in history.”
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