Nvidia Corp. and patent-portfolio incubator Intellectual Ventures jointly acquired about 500 wireless communication patents as Nvidia continues its push beyond personal computers and seeks to defend itself from possible litigation in the mobile sector. The patents, purchased from IPWireless, include technology for advanced wireless technology known as 4G Long Term Evolution, or LTE.
A U.S. appeals court ruled that Apple Inc could press its bid for an immediate block on the sale of some tablet computers made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd based on allegations of infringement of one patent. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the judge in a district court in California had erred in deciding that Apple failed to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits.
Senate Judiciary Committee staffers plan to take a look at allegations that Microsoft has made it difficult for competing Web browsers to run on a certain version of Windows, an aide to Antitrust subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) told The Hill. The Mozilla Foundation, which makes the Firefox browser, and Google have accused Microsoft of hindering their browsers' ability to run on Windows devices with ARM processors, which are popular in mobile phones.
Facebook updated its privacy policy to provide more specific details about what the social network does and does not do with your personal information. The move comes after Irish data protection officials in December ordered Facebook to be more transparent about features like facial recognition.
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc., renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Saverin, 30, joins a growing number of people giving up U.S. citizenship, a move that can trim their tax liabilities in that country.
Online music storage firm MP3tunes Inc filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. court, following its prolonged run-in with music publishing giant EMI Group over copyright issues, court filings showed. MP3tunes is a so-called cloud music service that lets users store music in online "lockers." Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc and Google Inc have similar cloud services.
Amid signs the Federal Trade Commission is ratcheting up its investigation of Google Inc., the search giant is returning fire by stepping up a public relations campaign to make the case that its activities don't violate antitrust law. The company provided financial backing for two papers in which third-party lawyers and economists laid out a legal defense of Google's business practices and blasted possible action by the FTC.
Mozilla accused Microsoft of withholding APIs necessary to build a competitive browser for Windows RT, and said the behavior "may have antitrust implications." Anderson warned that Microsoft's decision to allow only Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) in one mode of Windows RT "signal[s] an unwelcome return to the digital dark ages where users and developers didn't have browser choices."
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said he was open to a proposal to give children a way to delete personal information that they post on Facebook or other online sites. Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, have introduced legislation that would require online firms to give children and their parents a way, when technologically feasible, to erase publicly available information online and would limit companies from collecting personal information about kids 15 and younger.
A federal review of Facebook’s buyout of photo-sharing company Instagram could reportedly delay the $1 billion deal's closure beyond the second quarter and slow the social network's mobile expansion. According to the Financial Times, the Federal Trade Commission has begun collecting information from at least one large Facebook rival as part of the probe.
An Assembly committee has approved measures aimed at stopping employers and educational institutions in New Jersey from asking for social media user names and passwords. The bills prohibit employers, colleges and universities from requiring current or prospective employees or students to disclose user names or passwords for social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
In a Google-funded report on the constitutional rights of an Internet search, UCLA law professor -- and blogger -- Eugene Volokh makes a lofty claim about the legal rights of any given Google search: The weight, placement, and even omission of search results deserve the same free speech protection as the articles on the front page of The New York Times.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said that it expects to reopen its application system on May 22 after a glitch forced the organization to temporarily stop accepting applications for new Web domain endings. The deadline for submitting applications will be May 30.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Wednesday that it expects to reopen its application system on May 22 after a glitch forced the organization to temporarily stop accepting applications for new Web domain endings.
The deadline for submitting applications will be May 30.
ICANN, a California-based nonprofit that manages the Web's address system, began accepting applications earlier this year for new Web domain endings in addition to traditional endings, such as .com or .org. The group says the new domain endings, such as .sport, .bank or .food, will spur online innovation and help consumers.
But advertisers and some government officials have criticized the domain name expansion, warning it could confuse consumers and force companies to spend millions defensively buying up domains related to their brands.
Last month, ICANN had to take its application system offline when it identified a glitch that allowed some groups to look at the confidential applications of their rivals.
ICANN said Wednesday there is no evidence that any applicant tried to use the glitch to gain an unfair edge over competitors.
The group said the "large majority" of users were not affected by the glitch.
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Japan's leading social gaming companies Gree Inc and DeNA Co Ltd said they would gradually phase out games that contain aspects of gambling as they face increased pressure from regulators. The game under investigation by Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency is called "complete gacha", which charges users around $3 to $4 to turn over virtual cards.
A Twitter hacker revealed thousands of user names and passwords for the microblogging site, but here's the good news: Most of the compromised accounts appear to be spam. Word of the breach began spreading after hacking news and activist hub Airdemon posted a dispatch saying 55,000 accounts had been compromised.
A California judge tossed out a lawsuit in which the Chinese firm Proview Electronics Co Ltd accused Apple Inc of tricking them into selling the "iPad" name for less than it might have. Proview, which is also suing Apple in China over alleged illegal use of the iPad name, filed a lawsuit in California superior court in February, saying the U.S. consumer electronics company deceived it by purchasing the rights to the name through a special-purpose vehicle.
Speaking to delegates at the opening of the France-based international police agency's European Regional Conference in Tel Aviv, Khoo quoted a study by London's Metropolitan University indicating that "80 percent of crime committed online is now connected to organised gangs operating across borders." "Criminal gangs now find that transnational and cyber crime are far more rewarding and profitable than other, riskier forms of making money," he said.
Adscend Media, accused by the Washington state attorney general in January of running a "likejacking" scam on Facebook, agreed to a consent decree to stop spamming Facebook users and pay the state $100,000 in attorneys fees. Facebook, which also sued Adscend in January over likejacking claims, settled that case for undisclosed terms.
Caught in the middle of political hot-potato case, “The People of the State of New York against Malcolm Harris,” Twitter has gone to bat for one of its users. In a move applauded by the American Civil Liberties Union, the information network filed to quash a subpoena that ordered it to turn over “any and all user information” for Harris between Sept. 15 and Dec. 31, 2011.
After previously testifying in the copyrights phase of Oracle v. Google in April, Google engineer Tim Lindholm was recalled to the stand at the U.S. District Court of Northern California as Oracle's first witness in phase two of the trial covering patent infringement. Representing Oracle, Fred Norton of Boies, Schiller & Flexner repeatedly asked Lindholm questions along the lines of whether he was the only person responsible for work on Java virtual machines and related innovations, following up with the implication that Lindholm certainly couldn't have been the only one.
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