Ukrainian authorities have taken down Demonoid.com, one of the world's largest torrent file-sharing sites. Investigators from the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs raided the data centre that was hosting the website's servers.
A man who writes a blog about his experiences with and advice on what he calls a cave man diet has filed a lawsuit over a North Carolina law says that “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” without a license is a crime. Steve Cooksey says his First Amendment rights had been violated.
Facebook Inc will allow users in Britain to wager real money on its service, opening its doors to gambling for the first time as revenue growth slows at the world's No. 1 social network. Gamesys, an independent gaming company, launched a version of online Bingo for Facebook users in Britain who are at least 18, and which the company said will pay winners real money.
AOL Inc. confirmed that it has reached a partial patent settlement with ringtone company Vringo Inc. related to online search and advertising. The settlement is partial because AOL is still named in the lawsuit as a customer of Google Inc., the main defendant in the patent suit.
Authors suing Google Inc. over the digitizing of books asked a judge to order the company to pay $750 a book for illegal copying and distribution of their works, according to a court filing. Google is being sued over its plan, announced in 2004, to scan millions of books from public and university libraries to provide snippets of text to people who use its Internet search engine.
Baidu Inc. fired three employees suspected of taking payments to delete material from its website, a common form of misconduct on the Chinese Internet. Although the development is unlikely to have a major effect on the Chinese search giant, it offers a look into how Internet companies in China have struggled to keep up with the diffuse illegal practices that have accompanied the rapid growth of Internet use.
Law firms are becoming top prey for email scammers who exploit lawyers' eagerness to take on new clients through the Internet. Crafting elaborate stories that often involve real companies or properties, con artists say they live abroad and need help collecting money from a debtor or a legal settlement.
The Internet is abuzz this weekend as a result of the Gizmodo Twitter account getting hijacked. That incident was traced back to the hack of an Apple iCloud account -- allegedly accomplished through social engineering.
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.
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