A 1984 U.S. anti-hacking law passed when computer crime was in its infancy is under fire for potentially going too far in criminalizing the actions of employees who violate workplace policies. Judges across the country are divided on how the 28-year-old law, the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, can be applied.
A Taiwan university has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple Inc in a U.S. court over the iPhone maker's Siri speech recognition system, which lets users place calls or perform other tasks with voice commands, and is seeking undisclosed damages. Apple is also wrestling with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in one of the biggest-ever technology patent trials as a lengthening list of foes big and small charges into legal battle with Apple over patents and trademarks for its popular mobile devices.
There's a brouhaha emerging that involves a reporter for the U.K. newspaper, The Independent, NBC's Olympic coverage and Twitter. The reporter, Guy Adams, who has been critical of NBC's Olympics coverage, was allegedly booted from Twitter for including NBC exec Gary Zenkel's email address in a tweet.
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are taking their battle over smartphones to a new venue: Kodak's bankruptcy proceedings. Eastman Kodak Co. has put 1,100 patents on the block, and the Silicon Valley giants are lining up on opposite sides ahead of a deadline for initial bids, people familiar with the matter said.
Skype has come under fire for allegedly letting the U.S. government use its service to spy on its users. The online call service company is now saying that's simply not true.
The top American military official responsible for defending the United States against cyberattacks said that there had been a 17-fold increase in computer attacks on American infrastructure between 2009 and 2011, initiated by criminal gangs, hackers and other nations. The assessment by Gen. Keith B. Alexander, who heads the National Security Agency and also the newly created United States Cyber Command, appears to be the government’s first official acknowledgment of the pace at which America’s electricity grids, water supplies, computer and cellphone networks and other infrastructure are coming under attack.
Google Inc said it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010. The failure to comply with a promise to delete all the data was notified to Britain's Information Commissioner's Office, which said the fact that the data still existed appeared to breach an undertaking signed by Google in November 2010.
Google Inc retook the offensive against thousands of authors claiming it copied their works without permission, and urged the end of a class-action lawsuit arising from its ambitious plan to build the world's largest digital book library. The request by the world's largest search engine company followed a federal judge's March 2011 rejection of a sweeping $125 million settlement of the now seven-year-old case.
Apple Inc. won’t immediately have to publish a notice on its U.K. website that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy its iPad tablet, a London court ruled.
Apple was denied an injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and the adjusted Galaxy Tab 10.1N by the higher court of Munich, a court spokesman said. The patent in dispute is related to a "list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display."
A federal court in Manhattan has sentenced Ira Rubin to three years in prison, in part of a U.S. crackdown on Internet gambling. Mr. Rubin was accused of processing tens of millions of dollars in illegal online gambling transactions for PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Apple Inc lost on a bid to transfer its patent dispute with Eastman Kodak Co out of bankruptcy court, a move that could have complicated the photography company's plan to sell the technology. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan quashed Apple's bid to have him take up the patent dispute instead of the bankruptcy judge to whom the lawsuit was assigned.
The Justice Department may put national security experts with cybersecurity training into department offices around the country in order to take legal action against computer facilities used in attacks on government agencies and private companies, according to a former high-ranking FBI official. The department would then be able to sue Web-hosting firms and other third parties and get court approval to seize Web addresses or shut down hosting companies to disrupt attack networks, former FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry said.
Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, said in a conference call with analysts that the company will launch its first real-money online gambling poker game in the first half of 2013. The game will likely be launched outside the U.S., since real-money online gambling is still illegal in the vast majority of states.
It's not new for Facebook pages to pop up in support of accused killers and other distasteful figures, but a few dozen James Holmes fan pages -- including one with more than 800 followers that appeared the day Holmes is accused of opening fire on a theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and wounding dozens -- are raising new questions about what constitutes free and appropriate speech in the digital age, especially on Facebook.
EU regulators are seeking concessions from Google which could be applied worldwide to resolve concerns about its business practices, the EU's antitrust chief said, raising the stakes in forthcoming settlement talks. Google, whose search engine is used for around four-fifths of Internet searches in Europe, has been accused by rivals of abusing its dominant market position, and the European Commission said in May it was concerned about its alleged anti-competitive behavior.
Apple Inc said Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is demanding from the iPhone maker a far higher patent royalty than Apple pays to other companies, at a rate the South Korean company has never sought from any other licensee. The information was contained in portions of an Apple legal brief freshly unsealed in U.S. court, and provides more detail about each side's negotiating position in the run-up to a high stakes trial.
Craiglist, which is surprisingly litigious considering its hippie mentality, has sued PadMapper and data scraper 3taps, which had provided an alternative and more modern map-based display that included the site’s listings. Craigslist is accusing PadMapper and 3taps of copyright and trademark infringement, breach of contract and unfair competition.
Google took a significant step toward resolving its antitrust problems in the EU after regulators warmed to new concessions offered to settle an investigation into alleged anti-competitive behavior and avert a possible fine. The European Commission said that there was a "level of good understanding" with the world's most popular search engine regarding its latest proposals that would form the basis of discussions before the Commission makes a final decision whether to accept them.
Apple is looking for Samsung to fork over $2.5 billion to settle patent infringement claims in the U.S. That's the latest figure bandied about by Apple in the ongoing patent infringement saga between the two companies.
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