Apple submitted a list of eight Samsung products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the U.S. market. Apple submitted the list after a jury found Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad in creating and marketing the products.
Twitter filed a motion to appeal a federal judge’s decision in ongoing litigation between the state of New York and Malcolm Harris, a Twitter user involved in last year’s Occupy Wall Street protests. The original decision passed down by Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. — which Twitter is fighting — ordered the company to hand over information on Harris’s Twitter activity during the protests.
Germany's biggest consumer lobby group believes Facebook is violating privacy laws with its new app centre and has set a deadline for the social network operator to fix it, or potentially face legal action. The German federation of consumer organizations said the social network was giving away customer data via its new app centre without notifying users.
The country's top trade agency handed Apple a mixed ruling in its dispute with Google-owned Motorola Mobility over patents covering 3G wireless technology. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Apple did not violate three Motorola patents, including one that a judge had found the company to be infringing. But the agency sent a fourth patent -- which the judge had initially said had not been infringed -- back to the judge to reconsider.
Apple won a decisive victory in a lawsuit against Samsung, a verdict that will give Apple ammunition in a far-flung patent war with its global competitors in the smartphone business. The jury found that Samsung infringed on a series of Apple’s patents on mobile devices, awarding Apple more than $1 billion in damages.
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. must stop selling some smartphones and tablet computers in South Korea and pay damages after a Seoul court ruled they infringed on each other’s patents. Apple, maker of the iPhone, violated two Samsung patents related to mobile-data transfer technologies, and Samsung infringed one Apple patent related to a “bounce- back” touchscreen feature, the Seoul Central District Court said.
A federal judge in New York concluded that skill plays the bigger role in determining who wins a poker game, in a ruling that could strengthen the hand of the companies seeking to get online poker legalized in the U.S. They range from social-games maker Zynga Inc. to casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp. to poker-tournament promoter PokerStars, who all view online poker as a potentially rich source of revenue.
Unknown computer hackers claim they forced the world’s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, to quarantine its oil production systems from infected PCs inside the company. They threatened to attack the company again.
A federal court in Massachusetts upheld a $675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum, who was accused of illegally downloading 31 songs from a fire-sharing Web site and sued by the main recording companies in the U.S. U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel rejected Tenenbaum's request for a new jury trial, saying jurors had appropriately considered the evidence of Tenenbaum's actions -- downloading files for two years despite warnings -- and the harm to the plaintiffs.
Apple Inc. is appealing a bankruptcy judge’s ruling in favor of Eastman Kodak Co. that blocked the iPhone maker’s claims to two patents. Apple said in a court filing that it is challenging U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper’s decision that gave Kodak a partial victory in a lawsuit over ownership of 10 patents.
The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security. The backlash came as New Delhi turned up the heat on Twitter, threatening "appropriate and suitable action" if it failed to remove the accounts as soon as possible.
LG Electronics Inc. of South Korea sued a joint venture of Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. in federal court in Delaware alleging infringement of four U.S. patents for optical-disc technology. Lawyers for Seoul-based LG said in today’s complaint that Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corp. of Tokyo knew about the inventions because it licensed the patents until the end of 2010.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert warning that hackers could exploit code in Siemens-owned technology to attack power plants and other national critical infrastructure. Security researcher Justin Clarke exposed the flaw at a Los Angeles conference, claiming he discovered a way of spying on encrypted traffic in hardware owned by a Siemens subsidiary, RuggedCom.
The U.S. Department of Justice, in a first for the agency, said it shut three Websites that allegedly catered to customers seeking illegal copies of copyrighted apps for the Android-based mobile devices and seized the domain names: applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com. The seizures are the latest in an ongoing effort by DOJ to target piracy on the Internet.
Germany is considering a copyright bill that would force search engines to pay licensing fees for reproducing newspapers' headlines and the first paragraphs of articles, a measure that has Google up in arms. According to the draft law, search engines would be utilizing copyrighted material by reproducing headlines and paragraphs of news stories, so they would have to pay fees accordingly.
AT&T has released a response on why it will block FaceTime over 3G to users not paying for its more expensive Mobile Share Plans. Since the announcement, many tech pundits have claimed the decision violates net neutrality rules from the FCC since other video chat apps like Skype and ooVoo allow you to use their services over 3G.
A coalition of nearly 20 children’s advocacy, health and public interest groups plans to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission, asserting that some online marketing to children by McDonald’s and four other well-known companies violates a federal law protecting children’s privacy. The law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, requires Web site operators to obtain verifiable consent from parents before collecting personal information about children under age 13.
After three weeks of arguments, the jury in the high-stakes patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has finally been given its instructions on what, exactly, jurors should be deciding in the high-stakes case. A ruling for Apple could ban imports of certain Samsung products and force the Korean company to change its designs or pay licensing fees, while a ruling for Samsung could damage Apple’s reputation as an innovator and lead to more iPhone look-alike designs.
India pressed social media websites including Facebook and Twitter on to remove "inflammatory" content it said helped spread rumors that caused an exodus of migrants from some cities. The government said in a statement it had already blocked access to 245 web pages it said contained doctored videos and images, and the telecommunications secretary, R Chandrashekhar, threatened legal action against the websites if they did not fully comply with the requests to take down the offending pages.
The website of a Moscow court that convicted three members of punk band Pussy Riot to two years in jail each for belting out a profanity-laced anti-Kremlin song inside a cathedral was hacked. A slogan denouncing President Vladimir Putin was posted on the site as was an appeal for the trio's release along with a video clip of one of the band's latest anti-Putin songs and a clip by Bulgarian singer Azis, local media reported.
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