Phandroid has revealed that its Android Forums website was hacked using a known exploit. The data that was accessed includes usernames, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords, registration IP addresses, and other less-critical forum-related information. At the time of writing, the forum listed 1,034,235 members.
Aereo Inc., the online television service backed by Barry Diller, will expand from New York to other large U.S. cities following a favorable court ruling, the 70-year-old billionaire said. “We’re going to really start marketing,” Diller said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he was attending the Allen & Co. annual retreat.cop
A Web site started by an enterprising 24-year-old college student from northern England that helped visitors find American movies and television shows online has created a fierce battle between two of America’s great exports: Hollywood and the Internet. Although the site did not serve up pirated content, American authorities say it provided links to sites that did. The Obama administration is seeking to extradite Richard O’Dwyer from Britain on criminal charges of copyright infringement. The possible punishment: 10 years in a United States prison.
Iran's booming Apple business underscores the limitations of economic sanctions by the United States and other countries. Although U.S. consumer products and computer equipment are banned, enterprising Iranian merchants continue to source them through underground trade routes in the Middle East and beyond.
Grooveshark’s parent company, Escape Media Group, won a glimmer of hope with a court decision that undercut one of the Universal Music Group’s two copyright infringement cases against it, and also opened the door for it to countersue the label for what could be millions of dollars in damages. But even if Grooveshark wins that case, it faces another, bigger infringement suit, as well as another claim in a dispute over publishing royalties — and questions about whether it can hold on to those licenses it has managed to get.
A New York man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement in plot to distribute movies on the Internet before they became available on DVD. Fifty-three-year-old Gregory Cherwonik of Canandaigua, N.Y., entered the plea in federal court in Alexandria.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized 70 websites accused of selling products that infringe copyright, bringing the number of websites seized by ICE in the last two years to 839. The websites recently seized sold jewelry, baby carriers, headphones, sports jerseys, language-learning software and other items, according to pictures of the websites posted on ICE's website.
Twitter's plan in April designed to curb patent confrontations, which limits how companies could use patents against rivals, might change now that Microsoft said it would buy Yammer. Patent experts said it’s unlikely the software giant will handicap its new toy with the restrictive patent rules.
The mobile version of Google's Chrome browser is the latest target of EMG Technology, a patent firm who says the tech giant is infringing on its navigation technology. The suit, which was filed in District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the Tyler Division, seeks damages as well as an injunction to keep Google from offering Chrome for mobile devices in the U.S.
Yahoo confirmed that a file containing approximately 400,000 usernames and passwords to Yahoo and other companies was stolen. A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted usernames and passwords for what appeared to be 453,492 accounts belonging to Yahoo, but also Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com users.
A startup company can continue to send live TV programming to iPhones and other mobile devices in the city despite objections from major broadcasters that say expansion can threaten the free broadcasting of events such as the Super Bowl, a judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan said she understood how the service provided by the company, Aereo, may be unfair to broadcasters.
Social networking site Formspring said that it was disabling nearly 30 million registered users’ passwords after hundreds of thousands of them were leaked to the Web in their encrypted form. Formspring said in a blog post that the breach happened after someone hacked into one of the San Francisco-based company’s servers.
Security researchers have discovered malware that masqueraded for weeks as games hosted on the Google Play marketplace. Android.Dropdialer, a Trojan that sends costly text messages to premium-rate phone numbers in Eastern Europe, had gone undiscovered for two weeks in the form of two game titles, Symantec researcher Irfan Asrar wrote in a blog post.
A judge recused herself from overseeing a privacy lawsuit against Facebook over the social networking service's "Sponsored Stories" feature, one day before she was set to hold a hearing on a proposed settlement. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, federal court did not provide a reason for the recusal in a brief order.
Copyright-collecting societies -- the organizations that collect royalty payments from music, movies and books and distribute them to copyright holders -- must adapt to an age of online music downloads, the European Commission said as it laid out plans to modernize the industry. In a system set up when the music world consisted of live performance and gramophone recordings, music-rights management remain tied to national boundaries, and there are worries about the accountability of certain societies to their copyright holders and to their management of the royalties, the commission said.
MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom has a proposition for the U.S. Justice Department, which is trying to extradite DotCom to the U.S. to face piracy charges. He's offering to travel to the U.S. voluntarily -- provided federal authorities unfreeze his assets to cover his legal expenses and cost of living.
Major Internet sites and human rights advocates sharply criticized a proposed law that would grant the Russian government broad new powers to restrict Web content, ostensibly to protect children from pornography and other harmful material. Critics said the law could quickly lead to repression of speech and a restrictive firewall like the one in China. The new measure is part of a wider effort by the Russian authorities to crack down on the opposition since President Vladimir V. Putin’s inauguration in May.
Technology and information penetration in China will eventually force the Great Firewall of China to crumble and even lead to the political opening of the Chinese system, according to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. "I believe that ultimately censorship fails," said Schmidt, when asked about whether the Chinese government's censorship of the Internet can be sustained.
France's data protection watchdog said it will likely wrap up the inquiry of Google's new privacy policy, which it is conducting on behalf of European regulators, in September. France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique (CNIL) had expected to decide in June whether Google's new approach to privacy that took effect in March conforms with European law, but the process has been slowed as the company provided more information to the regulator.
Google Inc. close to a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple Inc. users, according to officials briefed on the settlement terms. The fine is expected to be the largest penalty ever levied on a single company by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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