A German court has dismissed patent lawsuits by technology giants Apple and Samsung against each other in the two companies' battle over the market for smartphones and tablet devices. Mannheim state court spokesman Joachim Bock said judges dismissed both cases involving alleged patent infringements of the companies' respective slide-to-lock technology on mobile devices.
Just over a month after taking criticism for changing its censorship policies, Twitter is handing over the information of a user associated with the occupy movement. A Massachusetts court ordered the San Francisco-based social-networking site to name the Twitter user behind the account @p0isan0n to the Boston Police Department.
Hacker attacks have repeatedly penetrated NASA computers in the past, stealing user information from dozens of employees and gaining control over key networks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, according to a federal report. In written comments submitted to Congress, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin noted that between 2010 and 2011 the agency reported 5,408 computer security breaches, resulting in the spread of destructive software or unauthorized access to computer systems.
A U.S. trade panel, which hears patent infringement cases, said that it would undertake a wide-ranging review of its preliminary decision over whether Motorola Mobility violated Microsoft patents. The International Trade Commission said it would review portions of its judge's decision from December that Motorola Mobility infringed a Microsoft patent in making Android cellphones.
A Frenchman took Google to court over a photo published online by its Street View application showing him urinating in his front yard which he believes has made him the laughing stock of his village in rural northwest France. The man, who is aged around 50 and lives in a village of some 3,000 people in the Maine-et-Loire region, is demanding the removal of the photo, in which locals have recognized him despite his face being blurred out.
Judge Dr. Peter Guntz of the Munich I Regional Court ruled that Motorola violates a photo gallery patent Apple holds, according to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, who was in attendance at the proceeding. The ruling gives Apple the opportunity to ban all infringing Motorola products, including two of the company's Android-based smartphones and the Xoom tablet.
The director of the FBI told an annual gathering of cyber-security professionals that the agency needs the private sector to help combat what he believes is becoming the nation’s No. 1 threat. FBI Director Robert Mueller reiterated his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in January that cyber-threats would surpass terrorism as the country’s top concern.
Eight top Republicans introduced a cybersecurity bill aimed at stopping an overarching, bipartisan measure proposed earlier this month in order to better protect critical infrastructure. The measure, introduced by the top Republicans on eight committees, would require federal contractors to inform the government about cyber threats and make it easier for government regulators and corporations to communicate about threats.
Major media companies and some New York area television stations sued broadcast-TV startu-p Aereo Inc. in federal court, alleging copyright infringement. Aereo, unveiled in February, plans to offer New York City residents the ability to stream broadcast-TV signals over Web-enabled devices for $12 a month, beginning March 14.
A laptop stolen from NASA last year contained command codes used to control the International Space Station, an internal investigation has found. The laptop, which was not encrypted, was among dozens of mobile devices lost or stolen in recent years that contained sensitive information, the space agency's inspector general told Congress today in testimony highlighting NASA's security challenges.
Apple Inc. urged a court in southern China to deliver a “fair and just” ruling in its dispute with the local unit of Proview International Holdings Ltd. over ownership of the iPad trademark in the country. Lawyers for both companies presented arguments for almost six hours at the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong in Guangzhou before being asked by the three-judge panel if they wished to settle.
Twenty-five suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America, said Interpol, the global police agency. The arrests, in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law-enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol’s Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime, Interpol said in a statement.
The sports gambling site Bodog was shut down and four Canadians indicted, including founder Calvin Ayre, for illegal gambling that generated more than $100 million in winnings, U.S. prosecutors announced. The website's domain name was seized and the indictments, which were returned Feb. 22, were unveiled in Baltimore, prosecutors said.
The French data protection authority said that Google’s new privacy policy appeared to violate European Union law, raising the stakes in a showdown with the company only days before it planned to put the new system into effect. Google announced the new policy last month, billing it as a way to streamline and simplify the privacy practices it employed worldwide across about 60 different online services, and to introduce greater clarity for users.
Microsoft and several other companies have complained to EU antitrust regulators about Google's social networking tool, two people familiar with the matter said, but they declined to provide the names of the other firms involved. The complaints, which have not yet been filed formally with the Commission, may prompt the European Commission to broaden its ongoing investigation into Google, which focuses on whether it is too dominant in the web-search market.
Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook's ads, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service, according to a source briefed on the matter.
A new lawsuit takes aim at Google and Apple for infringing on another company's technology for use of the Street View feature in Google Maps. In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Florida-based PanoMap Technologies accuses Google and Apple for infringing on its patent covering the the 3D panorama mode found in the Google Maps app on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Brazil has seen an extraordinary rise in high-profile hacktivism recently, according to a new report by cyber security firm Imperva. Since May 2011, hundreds of volunteers have taken part in Anonymous cyber attacks while a few skilled hackers have taken part in data thefts under the name LulzSec Brasil.
Chinese Internet users taking advantage of temporary access to Google Inc's social networking site, Google+, have flooded U.S. President Barack Obama's page on the site with calls for greater freedom in the world's most populous country. "Oppose censorship, oppose the Great Firewall of China!" one user posted, one of hundreds of comments in Chinese or by people with Chinese names that dominated the site.
The Obama administration has pushed hard for a privacy bill of rights that would give consumers more control over what personal data is collected online and what limits would be placed on that data. While the agreement would limit certain types of data collection, consumers would hardly be invisible on the Web.
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