The Android smartphone operating system is a very important asset for Google Inc, but it is not critical, the company's chief executive officer said in courtroom testimony. Google CEO Larry Page took the stand for a second day in a high-stakes legal dispute with Oracle Corp over smartphone technology.
Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court. Two publishers took a similar stance in the first hearing in Manhattan federal court since the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice accused Apple and five publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominance of the digital book market.
The chief executives of Silicon Valley giants Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. testified in a San Francisco courtroom, as the companies each told a jury that the other has misused Oracle's Java technology. The dramatic showdown came on the second day of a trial to determine whether Google's Android operating system for mobile devices infringes patents and copyrights associated with Oracle's Java technology.
Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd agreed that their chief executives would participate in settlement talks to try to resolve a patent lawsuit over smartphone and tablet technology, according to a court filing. Apple sued Samsung in the United States last year, saying the South Korean company's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets "slavishly" copies the iPhone and iPad. Samsung then countersued Apple.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it has retained the former general counsel of the U.S. Trade Representative to represent and work with the company on its intellectual-property-rights program. Alibaba, which is working to remove one of its units from the U.S. agency's list of markets offering products that allegedly infringe on intellectual property rights, said James Mendenhall will help it implement "new and innovative approaches" to protecting these rights.
Twitter announced what could lead to a reduction of hostilities in the patent wars threatening to engulf Silicon Valley: a pledge to do no evil. The pledge, which could become a kind of Hippocratic Oath for tech companies with patents, gives Twitter employees more control over their inventions -- and, most importantly, promises the patents will only be used for defensive purposes and not to block other companies from innovating.
Twitter is breaking up courtroom journalism into bite-size reports that take shape as fast as a reporter can tap 140 characters into a smartphone. But the micro-blogging site is increasingly putting reporters on a collision course with judges who fear it could threaten a defendant's right to a fair trial.
Google Inc., owner of the world’s most-used Internet search engine, acquired the German rights to the name “G-mail,” according to a filing at the nation’s trademark office. Google, which owns trademark rights to Gmail in more than 60 nations, has been fighting with German businessman Daniel Giersch who won the rights to “G-mail” in 2000.
An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective Anonymous has been charged with hacking into the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department, then taking credit for the attacks on Twitter, according to a federal indictment. John Anthony Borell III, of Toledo, Ohio, was set for arraignment Monday in federal court in Salt Lake City.
The U.S. and China have been discreetly engaging in "war games" amid rising anger in Washington over the scale and audacity of Beijing-co-ordinated cyber attacks on western governments and big business, the Guardian has learned. State department and Pentagon officials, along with their Chinese counterparts, were involved in two war games last year that were designed to help prevent a sudden military escalation between the sides if either felt they were being targeted. Another session is planned for May.
Opposition to pending cyber-security legislation ramped up today when several high-profile Internet groups joined forces to protest the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA). A coalition of Internet advocacy groups -- including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Reporters Without Borders -- launched "a week of Internet-wide protests", which calls on Web users to tweet their lawmakers with their opposition to the bill.
As opposition to the new Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act begins to grow, protesters are finding themselves without the big players in their corner that they had in the fights over SOPA and PIPA. Companies like Facebook, Intel and Microsoft have come under criticism for supporting the bill.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $25,000 fine on Google Inc., accusing the search giant of deliberately obstructing an investigation into whether the company violated federal rules when its street-mapping service collected and stored data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010. The agency proposed the fine as it faced a deadline for taking action on the "Wi-Spy" case.
Facebook Inc., which runs the world's largest social networking website, won a court ruling rejecting a bid by thousands of advertisers to sue the company as a group for overcharging them. U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, denied the advertisers' request for class-action status, saying they failed to show they had enough in common to sue for breach of contract and violating California's unfair competition law.
A U.S. judge deferred a decision on whether millions of gigabytes of data belonging to users of Megaupload.com should be preserved or the data-storage company that owns the servers where it’s housed can delete it. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady, at a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, told federal prosecutors they have two weeks to work out an agreement with parties claiming an interest in the massive cache of data that became inaccessible when law enforcement agents shut down Megaupload in January.
A German regional court backed a ban on push emails in Apple Inc.'s iCloud and MobileMe services in Germany, granting Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. a victory in a global patent war among several technology companies. The Mannheim regional court backed an earlier court decision that banned Apple from offering the service for synchronizing emails on devices in a patent proceeding brought by Motorola Mobility.
A computer hacker-turned-FBI informant is on track to get out of trouble after being accused of telling a police officer he was a federal agent. A Manhattan state judge agreed to dismiss the misdemeanor impersonation charge against Hector Xavier Monsegur if he avoids rearrest for six months.
Apple Inc. broke is silence about the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations that it colluded with publishers over e-book pricing by calling the allegations "simply not true." Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said, "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry."
A glitch with the application system for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has prompted the Internet's governing body to push the deadline for submissions to April 20. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said that it received "a report of unusual behavior" related to its TLD Application System (TAS).
Facebook, seeking to address concerns about the personal information it collects on its users, said that it would provide any user with more about the data it tracks and stores. In a posting on its privacy blog, Facebook said the expanded archive feature would be introduced gradually to its 845 million monthly active users.
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