Grooveshark.com said that a lawsuit accusing it of posting copyrighted music is based on a "gross mischaracterization of information." The comments came in response to a lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group accusing the music-sharing site of posting more than 100,000 pirated songs to its site.
EU regulators investigating Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics over their patents dispute are worried intellectual property rights may be unfairly used by some firms against their rivals, the EU antitrust chief said. The European Commission earlier this month asked Apple and Samsung for details on patents used as standards in the mobile telephone industry.
Microsoft's Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the company's history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical features that would no longer support a rival software maker's word processor, Bill Gates testified in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of WordPerfect. Gates was the first witness to testify as Microsoft lawyers presented their case in the trial that's been ongoing in federal court in Salt Lake City for about a month.
The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Apple Inc. products don't infringe on patents held by S3 Graphics, an acquisition target of HTC Corp. The commission reversed a preliminary ruling that some Apple products violated S3 patents involving texture compression, which is used in computer applications such as 3-D games. The panel said it found "no violation" by Apple and "the investigation is terminated."
AT&T Inc, the No. 2 U.S. mobile provider, said it is investigating an "organized and systemic attempt" to access wireless customers' information but that it did not believe any accounts were breached. The company, which had 100 million subscribers at the end of the third quarter, said it is advising less than 1 percent of its mobile customers that there was an attempt to obtain information about their accounts.
Software piracy in China isn’t going away anytime soon, but the effort to fight it looks as if it got a bit — just a bit — more serious, according to representatives of one of the industry’s main lobbying groups. The United States Commerce Department just released a summary of the results of a trade meeting between United States and Chinese government officials that occurred in Chengdu. Chinese officials made a number of commitments during the meeting to tackle what software makers believe is one of the worst and most fixable parts of the piracy problem in China: the use of unauthorized copies of software by government agencies and state-owned enterprises.
The federal organization overseeing the administration of funds from the 2008 bailout has cracked down on alleged scams that used Bing and Yahoo to lure vulnerable homeowners with ads for bogus mortgage modification deals. The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or SIGTARP, shut down 85 alleged online mortgage scams that advertised with Google and targeted struggling homeowners.
Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system. The Nov. 8 incident was described in a one-page report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center, according to Joe Weiss, a prominent expert on protecting infrastructure from cyber attacks.
A technology company is suing Motorola Mobility, alleging that the mobile device manufacturer stole source code for its cellular networks and phones. Lemko Corp. filed suit against Motorola Mobility in Cook County Circuit Court. The lawsuit is the latest twist in a convoluted and protracted court battle between Lemko and Motorola Inc., which split into two independent public companies in January.
In a copyright lawsuit, Universal Music Group says it has obtained e-mails and other records that show Grooveshark's leaders led an effort to post over 100,000 pirated songs onto the music service, CNET has learned. "[The business records of Escape Media Group, Grooveshark's parent company,] establish unequivocally," Universal's lawyers wrote in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, "that the sound recordings illegally copied by Escape's executives and employees, include thousands of well known sound recordings owned by UMG."
The tide seems to have turned against the Stop Online Piracy Act, as both Nancy Pelosi and Darrell Issa have come out against passage. Congress, Republican California Rep. Darrell Issa said, is “realizing there are so many unintended consequences that they can’t just use Google as a piñata and bash on it here.”
Samsung Electronics Co. said it will release a modified version of its Galaxy tablet computer in Germany, two months after a court barred the company from selling the devices in Europe's biggest economy on the grounds it copied Apple Inc.'s iPad. The decision to release a modified version of the Galaxy reflects the South Korean electronics giant's eagerness to begin selling its tablet device in Germany ahead of the year-end shopping season, especially given the apparent weakness of the global economic recovery.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to debate wide-ranging cybersecurity legislation during the first work period of 2012, according to backers of the measures. Reid told Republican leaders of his decision in a letter late on Wednesday night, the top members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said in a statement.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said he would hold a hearing to look into reports that Facebook tracks its users on the Web after they log out. "No company should track customers without their knowledge or consent, especially a company with 800 million users and a trove of unique personal data on its users," Rockefeller said in a statement.
One of the largest purveyors of pornography on the Web has filed suit to block or overhaul the new dot-xxx suffix on Internet addresses, accusing organizations that assign online addresses of running a monopoly that creates unnecessary costs. The lawsuit was filed by Luxembourg-based Manwin Licensing International SARL, which owns a network of websites including YouPorn.com and manages Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s brand on the Web, along with adult filmmaker Digital Playground Inc.
Rambus Inc lost a $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron Technology Inc and Hynix Semiconductor Inc, erasing more than half of the chipmaker's value as investors abandoned its stock. Rambus attorneys argued that South Korea's Hynix and Idaho-based Micron colluded to fix prices of memory chips used in personal computers and to prevent Rambus technology from becoming widely used. Read the article: Reuters
European Union regulators started an antitrust probe into Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc.’s use of smartphone patents on their “own initiative” without waiting for a competitor to formally raise the issue. Per Hellstroem, the head of the European Commission’s antitrust unit for consumer electronics, said in London that the EU’s “preliminary investigation” is trying to determine the underlying facts about phone makers’ use of patents.
The fight between Hollywood and Silicon Valley over proposed anti-piracy legislation is heating up on Capitol Hill. At a congressional hearing, Michael O'Leary, senior executive vice president for the Motion Picture Assn. of America, Hollywood's chief lobbying arm, urged lawmakers to move swiftly to pass a bill that would make it easier to shut down rogue websites that traffic in pirated movies and TV shows.
Facebook said that it has stopped most of the spam that has flooded many users' pages with pictures showing graphic sex and violence. The social-networking company urged its 800 million-plus users to remain vigilant to keep their accounts from being hijacked.
Facebook users report that for the social networking site has been infested with a mix of hardcore pornographic images, doctored pictures of celebrities in sexual situations, photos of extreme violence, and yes, a picture of a beaten dog. Now, Facebook says it has identified the problem -- but not the culprit. In a statement, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes acknowledged that the site was the target of a coordinated spam attack and explained how it went down.
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