The U.S. has confirmed it would resist efforts to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The U.S. has set out its position in documents filed with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) -- the UN agency responsible for encouraging the development of communications technologies.
A federal judge criticized lawyers for Samsung Electronics Co. in its patent case with Apple Inc., while an Apple executive recounted its shock at what he called Samsung's copying of the iPhone and iPad. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, on the third day of the closely watched trial between the big consumer electronics companies, berated Samsung for having released evidence to the press that she had ordered excluded from the case.
Thomson Reuters said the blogging platform of the Reuters News website was compromised and a false posting purporting to carry an interview with a Syrian rebel leader was illegally posted on a Reuters' journalist's blog. "Our blogging platform was compromised and fabricated blog posts were falsely attributed to several Reuters journalists," the company said in a statement.
Electronic Arts is suing the social games creator for copyright infringement, alleging that Zynga ripped off EA's "The Sims Social" when it created "The Ville," EA said in a press release. Zynga denied the allegation in a statement today, adding a dig at EA by saying that another EA game "SimCity Social" is similar to Zynga's "CityVille" game.
Eastman Kodak Co. won a partial victory against Apple Inc. over patents, defeating Apple’s ownership claims to two of 10 patents that Kodak plans to sell as part of its bankruptcy restructuring. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan ruled in favor of Kodak on the patents, saying the iPhone maker waited too long to assert its claims, according to a decision.
Embedding an infringing video doesn’t violate copyright laws, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rule. The court sided with the video bookmarking site myVidster, which had been sued by the gay porn production company Flava Works in 2010.
Business software maker SAP agreed to pay rival Oracle Corp $306 million in damages over copyright infringement allegations against a SAP unit, avoiding a new trial. The proposed agreement requires court approval, and would clear the way for Oracle to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to restore a $1.3 billion jury award in this case, according to a joint filing with a federal court in Oakland, California.
Google has signed a patent agreement with Rovi for technology that will be used for its upcoming Google Fiber service. The multi-year agreement provides Google with a license for Rovi's interactive program guide used in set-top boxes, mobile devices, and on the Web.
Senate Republicans dealt a potentially fatal blow to a White House-backed cybersecurity measure, leaving the bill's supporters pessimistic that a compromise could be reached this year to bolster the country's computer security. The legislation would create mechanisms for sharing cyberthreat information between government and businesses, and would set voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies that run critical infrastructure such as power grids.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a new law that makes it illegal for employers to ask job applicants or employees for passwords to their Facebook accounts or other online profiles. Illinois is only the second state to do so.
Research in Motion refuted a new round of Indian media reports, which claim that the BlackBerry maker has granted the Indian government the encryption keys to its secure corporate email and messaging services. RIM, which has been grappling with the Indian government for years, reiterated that it cannot provide access to its enterprise email and messaging services as the company itself does not possess the encryption keys for the same and these remain in the control of its corporate clients.
The judge hearing the lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle has ruled that the software giant is bound by its commitment to continue making software that is compatible with Intel’s Itanium server chip. The ruling in a Santa Clara County Superior Court found that Oracle breached a contract it agreed to in 2010 when it said it would continue making software for certain HP servers that use the Itanium chip.
Groupon was slapped with a lawsuit accusing it of illegally using peer-to-peer advertising company by little-known Blue Calypso. Blue Calypso said in a statement that Groupon is infringing on two patents related to its digital word-of-mouth marketing business.
Seeking to further tighten rules on online collection or disclosure of children’s personal information, the Federal Trade Commission proposed restrictive requirements on on companies and Web sites that target youths or that have young audiences. The proposal expands restrictions that the commission originally proposed last fall after it found that regulations governing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act had not kept up with advances in Internet technology.
Online poker giant Pokerstars agreed to pay $731 million to settle civil lawsuits by the Justice Department and to acquire the assets and pay off debts of Full Tilt Poker, a onetime rival. In parallel agreements, PokerStars and Full Tilt will both settle cases brought by the Justice Department in April 2011, but won't admit wrongdoing.
The French data protection authorities asked Google to examine private information that cars taking pictures for its Street View service collected, after Google acknowledged that it had retained some of the information despite promising to delete it. The request by the French privacy protection agency, known as the C.N.I.L., followed a similar one from the Information Commissioner’s Office of Britain.
U.S. regulators will require Google Inc to pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, two people familiar with the matter said. Members of the Federal Trade Commission voted to approve a consent decree that will allow Google to settle the agency's investigation but admit no liability, said one of the sources, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
British journalist Guy Adams -- the reporter for The Independent who became suddenly famous when Twitter banned his account at the request of NBC -- is back in action. Adams explained -- via Twitter, of course -- that he received an e-mail from Twitter saying, "We have just received an update from the complainant retracting their original request..." and that because of that his account has been "unsuspended."
A Kent State University student accused of posting a message on Twitter saying he would be "shooting up" the northeastern Ohio campus was instructed to stay away from the school and its president. William Koberna, a 19-year-old sophomore, was set to be released after posting part of a $50,000 bond set at Portage County Municipal Court in Ravenna, about 20 miles east of Akron.
Swiss player Michel Morganella was expelled from the Olympics for tweeting a message that the Swiss team said "gravely insulted and violated" the dignity of South Korea after his team's 2-1 defeat a day earlier. "As a member of the Swiss Olympic mission he gravely discriminated, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korean football team and the South Korean people," Swiss team chief Gian Gilli told reporters.
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