When Apple releases its next version of its mobile operating system iOS this fall, iPhone customers will have the option to place FaceTime video calls over the cellular network, whereas before they could do so only on Wi-Fi. On the AT&T network, however, that privilege will be available to customers only on a certain type of data plan, which has raised debate on whether or not the carrier is violating government rules.
Samsung Electronics Co.’s chief executive officer will talk with his counterpart at Apple Inc. to see whether they can resolve their smartphone patent dispute before a U.S. jury begins deliberating, according to a person familiar with the matter. The companies’ lawyers will report to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in federal court in San Jose, California, on the outcome of the telephone discussion between Apple’s Tim Cook and Samsung’s Kwon Oh Hyun, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.
European network providers defended their proposal submitted to a United Nations body that would allow them to levy fees on content providers including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix. "We believe that this situation is putting at risk our capacity to invest," said Luigi Gambardella, chairman of the executive board of the European Telecommunications Network Operators, or ETNO.
Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility unit said it filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple Inc. claiming that features on some Apple devices, including the Siri voice-recognition program, infringe its patents. The complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission claims infringement of seven Motorola Mobility patents on features including location reminders, e-mail notification and phone/video players, Motorola Mobility said.
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Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility unit said it filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple Inc. (AAPL) claiming that features on some Apple devices, including the Siri voice-recognition program, infringe its patents.
The complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission claims infringement of seven Motorola Mobility patents on features including location reminders, e-mail notification and phone/video players, Motorola Mobility said yesterday.
A U.S. judge rejected Facebook Inc's proposed legal settlement to resolve allegations that the social networking company violated its members' rights through the its 'Sponsored Stories' advertising feature. In an order, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco listed several concerns with the proposed settlement, including a request for more information on why the agreement does not award any money to members.
A group of European rabbis is requesting that Apple remove an app from the App Store that they consider to be anti-Semitic. The Conference of European Rabbis wants Apple to remove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
AT&T Inc. said some business customers temporarily lost Internet access because its network was targeted by unknown attackers. Company spokesman Mark Siegel said that domain name system, or DNS, servers that direct traffic for AT&T customers were targeted at two locations by a distributed denial of service attack.
A case pitting adult entertainment companies against the gatekeepers of Internet domain names cleared a key hurdle, when a federal judge in Los Angeles largely allowed antitrust claims over the controversial .xxx domain to go forward. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez partly granted motions to dismiss filed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit organization in charge of the domain name system, and ICM Registry, LLC, the registry running the .xxx domain.
The Saudi Arabian government is objecting to a number of proposed new Internet address endings, including .gay, .bar, .baby and .islam. The country claims the .gay domain would promote homosexuality and would be offensive to "many societies and cultures."
Google, the target of more than a hundred patent lawsuits in the past decade, has expanded the scope of its patent search capabilities and added a new search tool to help those investigating patent claims. To its database of patents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- a separate search service when introduced in 2006 and recently integrated with Google Search -- Google has added patents filed with the European Patent Office.
An executive at Gamma Group, a British company that sells surveillance technologies, denied that a spyware program running on servers in 11 countries is part of his company’s product line. Gamma Group makes FinFisher, spyware that, according to the company’s promotional materials, can be “used to access target systems, giving full access to stored information with the ability to take control of the target system’s functions to the point of capturing encrypted data and communications.”
The U.N. telecoms agency has invited the world's more than 2 billion Internet users to join a debate about the future of the Internet. The Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union's announcement follows criticism from civil society groups who say preparations for an upcoming global conference have been shrouded in secrecy.
Data protection officials in Germany reopened an investigation into Facebook ’s facial recognition technology, saying that the social networking giant was illegally compiling a huge database of members’ photos without their consent. The data protection commissioner in Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, had suspended the inquiry in June, but said he reopened it after attempts to persuade Facebook to change its policies had failed.
The judge presiding over an intellectual property dispute between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. said the chief executive officers of the contending companies should talk again before the jury begins deliberating. “I’m going to make one more request that CEOs from both sides speak by phone,” U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said in federal court in San Jose, California.
The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said. Reuters had no immediate information on who was behind the hacking, the second time this month that the blogging platform of Reuters.com has been compromised.
A lawsuit filed in a federal court in California says Hulu violated its users’ privacy by sharing their viewing history with companies that could in turn offer them tailored advertisements. The case rests on a 1988 law, the Video Privacy Protection Act, intended to protect the privacy of video rental records.
Five days after a computer security firm disclosed the discovery of Gauss, a computer virus targeting computers in Lebanon, they issued a cry for help. Among Gauss’s most puzzling components is an encrypted “warhead” that watches for a specific computer system with no Internet connection and installs itself only if it finds that configuration.
Samsung went on the offensive in its patent feud with Apple, putting one of its leading designers on the witness stand to deny copying the iPhone's icons when Samsung was developing the graphics for its first Galaxy smartphones. Jeeyuen Wang's testimony was the first time Samsung put one of its own key figures on the stand to rebut Apple's allegations that Samsung deliberately copied its iPhones and iPads.
The erroneous filing of three documents under the wrong companies’ tickers on the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. news website on Aug. 12 may have been caused by hackers, the printing company involved said. An unidentified person or people uploaded several documents without authorization, A.Plus Financial Press Ltd. said in an e- mailed statement.
An appeals court said Google could challenge the ruling of Judge Denny Chin that allowed authors affected by the company's book-scanning project to sue as a group. James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School who has closely followed the litigation over Google Book Search, said it was unlikely that the decision would delay the main case.
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