Samsung Considers Dropping Galaxy Tab in Australia

Samsung Electronics Co., locked in patent disputes with Apple Inc., may scrap the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia unless it wins approval to sell its newest tablet computer in the next two weeks, a lawyer said. Samsung is willing to abandon plans to launch the product because missing the Christmas season would result in the new tablet being “dead,” Neil Young, a lawyer representing the Suwon, South Korea-based company, told Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett in Sydney.

Supreme Court Won't Review Music Downloading Case

The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance of the recorded musical work under federal copyright law. The justices refused to review a ruling by a U.S. appeals court in New York that the download itself of a musical work does not fall within the law's definition of a public performance of that work.

Gambling Site Regulator Says It Didn't Know of Problems

The top official at the Channel Islands regulator that licensed Full Tilt Poker to run an online-poker business said he became aware the site had major financial problems only after the U.S. government in April indicted company executives and filed charges against Full Tilt. "What wasn't known to us is that the Department of Justice had frozen funds associated with the operation of Full Tilt," Andre Wilsenach, chief executive of the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, told attorneys and regulators at a conference in Las Vegas.

Samsung Seeks Settlement with Apple in Australia

Lawyers for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. offered Apple Inc. a deal on a patent dispute over the two companies' tablet computers that could allow the Korean company to launch its Galaxy Tab 10.1 device in Australia. The agreement, if accepted by Apple, could see the tablet's launch soon, Samsung's attorney David Catterns told Dow Jones Newswires after a hearing at the country's Federal Court in Sydney.

China Vows Crackdown on Internet Rumors, Hoaxes

China is vowing anew to punish people who post rumors and falsehoods on the Internet as the government tries to rein in forums that have increasingly become sources of debate and criticism. A spokesperson for the State Internet Information Office, a regulatory body under China's Cabinet, said in a statement released that Internet rumors and hoaxes were "malignant tumors" that harm social stability.

Utilities Face Risk of Cyberattacks, DHS Official Says

U.S. utilities and other crucial industries face an increasing number of cyberbreak-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official told reporters during the first tour of the government's secretive defense labs intended to protect the nation's power grid, water and communications systems. Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer told reporters at one of several nondescript buildings that house Control System Security Program facilities that the world's utilities and industries increasingly are becoming vulnerable as they wire their industrial machinery to the Internet.

Groups Ask FTC to Investigate Facebook's Tracking

Ten public-interest groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook Inc.’s tracking of Internet users after they log off the world’s most popular social-networking service. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and nine other groups, in a letter filed with the FTC, also asked it to examine whether Facebook’s new Ticker and Timeline features boost privacy risks for users by combining biographical information in an easily accessible format.

Public Interest Group Challenges Net Neutrality Rules

Public interest group Free Press filed a petition for review in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, challenging U.S. Internet rules set to go into effect Nov. 20. The rules, adopted last December by the Federal Communications Commission and published in the Federal Register last week, forbid broadband providers from blocking legal content but leave flexibility for providers to manage their networks.

Immigration Official Indicted on Child Porn Charges

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for South Florida has been arrested on child pornography charges, the Department of Justice said. Anthony Mangione, 50, of Parkland, Florida, was charged in a three-count indictment with transportation of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography, authorities said in a statement.

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