EU regulators now vetting Microsoft's bid to buy Skype should block any anti-competitive bundling of Microsoft's Windows software with the Internet phone service, a Skype rival said. Italian fixed-line and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone provider Messagenet SpA also urged the European Commission to ensure that the companies supply data allowing competitors to provide products that will function with Skype's software.
The same group that hacked NBC News' Twitter account on September 9 and sent tweets about a bogus attack on Ground Zero apparently grabbed hold of USA Today's Twitter feed and fired off a clutch of messages.
Online retail giant Amazon.com won another round in the patent fight over its "one-click" purchasing system as an appeals court ruled that it did not infringe technology patented by Cordance Corp.
The minds behind "virtual pets" cannot tweak what it means to register a domain name on the Internet, the 9th Circuit ruled, setting aside a $100,000 victory for the South Korean company in a long-running cybersquatting case. A federal judge had previously found that Edward Hise violated anti-cybersquatting law when, in 2006, he transferred ownership of a domain name, Gopets.com, which he had originally registered in his own name seven years earlier.
Marks & Spencer Group and florist network Interflora both claimed victory following a European Union court ruling on whether companies can use rival’s trademarked terms to trigger advertisements on search engines. While Marks & Spencer and Interflora argued a ruling by the EU Court of Justice is in their favor, a U.K. national court will have to make the final decision on whether Marks & Spencer’s use of the Interflora trademarks “jeopardizes” the reputation of Interflora’s intellectual property.
Months after the revolutions started to sweep through countries in the Middle East and North Africa, debate continues over the role social media played in toppling governments. A new study by the University of Washington has concluded Twitter did, in fact, play a major role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.
As mobile devices invade the workplace, they offer all sorts of advantages to both companies and employees. But they come with one huge challenge: How do you make sure all that valuable information is secure?
Controversial net neutrality rules designed by the Federal Communications Commission to prevent Internet providers from imposing higher fees on subscribers that stream video or play online games will go into effect on Nov. 20. However, the new regulations could be derailed by lawsuits before they ever see the light of day.
Microsoft is hoping that federal agents will bring to justice one of the world's most notorious spammers, known to the company only as Cosma2k. According to Microsoft, Cosma2k is the handle of the alleged ringleader of the Rustock botnet, which earlier this year was the purveyor of more e-mail spam than any other network in the world, sending as many as 30 billion messages a day at its peak.
Starting Sept. 30, spirits makers in the U.S. and Europe will be held to a new set of self-regulatory guidelines for advertising and marketing on social networking sites and other digital media designed to prevent marketing their products to kids. The new rules require restricting access to spirits makers’ official brand pages on social networking sites, like Facebook, to adults who are of legal drinking age.
The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned. Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com.
The United States expressed concern about recent cyber attacks on defense contractors in Japan, which build U.S.-designed missiles, warships and military aircraft, calling for the attacks to be taken seriously. Experts speculated that the cyber assaults announced this week, the first on Japan's defense industry, may have included the Stuxnet computer virus which has been described as a guided cyber missile which targets industrial control systems.
In Google’s most high-profile antitrust hearing to date, Eric E. Schmidt, the company’s chairman, testifed before a Senate panel about how Google produces its search results, and whether it favors its own businesses, thwarts competition and hurts consumers. Google puts consumers first, he said, even if that means that Web businesses are upset about their search engine rankings.
Google Inc. said Oracle Corp. lowered its damages request to at least $2 billion in a patent and copyright dispute over Android software, according to a court filing. Google, which said the estimate includes $1.2 billion in damages for unjust enrichment in 2012 alone, asked a federal judge to exclude parts of the calculation that it says aren’t supported by the evidence.
The hunt for wireless patents may be fiercer than ever, as Google’s $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility shows. But not all intellectual property is created equally. And if Jefferies is right, Research in Motion won’t reap more than about $1 billion if it seeks to sell off its patent portfolio while continuing to make BlackBerrys.
Three Internet companies -- Nextag Inc., Yelp Inc. and Expedia Inc. -- are gearing up to attack Google Inc. on Capitol Hill, claiming the company is taking new profits for itself by unfairly punishing them on its search engine. In a preview of a Senate antitrust hearing on whether Google abuses its dominance on the Web, representatives of the sites -- which help people search for information on consumer goods, local businesses and airline flights -- said in interviews that Google has increasingly sought to drive people who use its search engine to its own specialized sites that compete with theirs.
Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. chief executive officers made little headway in negotiations aimed at resolving a lawsuit accusing the Web-search company of patent infringement, a person briefed on the talks said. The two sides, scheduled to meet again in federal court in San Jose, California, remained at loggerheads after the daylong session and were unlikely to reach a settlement soon, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
A Microsoft worker who two weeks ago tweeted about an unreleased Nokia Windows Phone is now no longer with the company. Joe Marini, who was a principal program manager for the Windows Phone team, raised a number of eyebrows two weeks ago when he tweeted his impressions of the device.
International Business Machines Corp. has offered concessions to settle an EU investigation into its business practices, which could allow it to ward off a possible fine and an antitrust infringement finding. The European Commission opened a probe into IBM in July last year after competing suppliers of mainframe maintenance services accused the U.S.-based company of discriminatory behavior.
U.S. prosecutors accused poker website Full Tilt Poker of running a Ponzi scheme in which the company's owners and board members paid themselves nearly half a billion dollars while defrauding players. The allegations were filed in a proposed amended civil complaint in Manhattan federal court, five months after a criminal indictment was unsealed on April 15.
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