Pandora founder Tim Westergren testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology this morning. His big message: That the same guidelines should be used to determine the royalty rates for all forms of radio.
Apple Inc. filed an enforcement action at the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, seeking an emergency order that would block imports of HTC Corp.’s newest phones and tablet computers. HTC had been ordered by the commission to remove a function patented by Apple for data-detection technology if it wanted to continue selling its mobile phones in the U.S.
Microsoft Corp. lost a U.S. court ruling on its claim that Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit breached a contractual obligation to license some of its patents on fair and reasonable terms. Microsoft is seeking to curb royalty demands from Motorola Mobility on Microsoft products including the Xbox gaming system and Windows products, and prevent Motorola Mobility from banning sales or U.S. imports of the Xbox.
A user in a Russian forum is claiming to have hacked LinkedIn to the tune of almost 6.5 million account details. It's not clear if they managed to download the usernames, but it's likely that both have been downloaded.
Research In Motion finds itself on the receiving end of another patent-infringement suit, this one filed by Mobile Telecommunications Technologies. A Lewisville, Texas, LLC, MTEL owns a portfolio of early wireless paging patents that once belonged to SkyTel Communications.
Look out for an unusual warning atop your Gmail inbox, Google home page or Chrome browser. It will not mince words: “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.” Google said it planned to issue the warning anytime it picks up malicious–possibly state-sponsored–activity on a user’s account or computer.
Apple Inc. was denied its renewed request for a ban on U.S. sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer while the case is still before a federal court of appeals. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, said that she doesn’t have jurisdiction to issue a preliminary injunction because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington hasn’t issued a mandate yet.
Yihaodian, a Chinese online retailer backed by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is probing a possible security breach, in what appeared to be the latest attempt to steal consumer data in China's growing e-commerce sector. Yihaodian, Wal-Mart's online arm in China, is working with local public-security officials to investigate the breach, a spokeswoman for the Shanghai-based company said.
It’s a scenario security researchers have long worried about, a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware -- disguised as legitimate Microsoft code -- to unsuspecting users. And that’s exactly what turns out to have occurred with the recent Flame cyberespionage tool that has been infecting machines primarily in the Middle East and is believed to have been crafted by a nation-state.
Facebook Inc. is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the social-networking site under parental supervision, a step that could help the company tap a new pool of users for revenue but also inflame privacy concerns. Mechanisms being tested include connecting children's accounts to their parents' and controls that would allow parents to decide whom their kids can "friend" and what applications they can use, people who have spoken with Facebook executives about the technology said.
When Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Europe’s largest antivirus company, discovered the Flame virus that is afflicting computers in Iran and the Middle East, he recognized it as a technologically sophisticated virus that only a government could create. He also recognized that the virus, which he compares to the Stuxnet virus built by programmers employed by the United States and Israel, adds weight to his warnings of the grave dangers posed by governments that manufacture and release viruses on the Internet.
Prostitution ads, often with explicit sexual language, are back on Craigslist, according to a new report. Craigslist, the online classified ad site, eliminated its adult services section in 2010 amid pressure from state attorneys general from across the country.
Steve Jobs gave a lot of juicy quotes before he died, and Apple Inc. has failed to keep some of them out of an upcoming patent trial against Google's Motorola Mobility unit, according to a court ruling. Apple and Motorola are scheduled for a high profile patent trial in a Chicago federal court later this month.
Google has quietly upped the ante in a long-running dispute with the Chinese authorities over censorship, adding a software twist to its search page that warns users when they type a search term whose results are likely to be blocked in China. The change, announced without publicity on one of Google’s corporate blogs, is described as an improvement in the search experience for users in mainland China, who can be disconnected from Google without explanation when they try to open a Web page that was found using a censored search term.
Microsoft's decision to install a "do not track" option, set on by default, to its next version of Internet Explorer should go over well with many users and interested groups. But advertisers warned the decision could threaten free services.
Research In Motion Ltd. won a federal court ruling in Canada allowing it to keep the BBM trademark for its popular messenger service, the company said, a rare bit of good news for the BlackBerry maker. Canadian television and radio research firm BBM Canada had filed a trademark infringement suit against RIM, arguing that it had been using the BBM name for 60 years and RIM's use of the acronym confused the public.
Spain has awarded online gaming licenses to companies including Bwin.party digital and Sportingbet in a move that will raise tax revenue and removes regulatory uncertainty hanging over operators. As many as 59 firms have applied to operate in the cash-strapped country.
From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet.
Kim Dotcom, who once seemed like an underdog in the U.S.'s largest-ever criminal copyright case, has notched several legal wins. Mr. Dotcom, founder of the online storage site Megaupload.com, was arrested in New Zealand in January on charges including criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit racketeering.
A federal judge in New York has granted class certification to authors challenging Internet search leader Google over its plans for the world’s largest digital library. Judge Denny Chin ruled in a written decision that class action is “more efficient and effective than requiring thousands of authors to sue individually.”
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