In a public procurement document, the Air Force announced it was seeking concept papers to help it build offensive cyber warfare capabilities. While the military has publicly discussed its desire to develop offensive cyber capabilities in the past, it has rarely outlined its needs for cyber weapons in such detail.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is pushing to conclude its antitrust investigation of Google Inc. in the coming weeks, four people familiar with the matter said. The agency’s staff will present its findings to the FTC’s five commissioners by mid-September and probably recommend whether to sue the company for hurting competition through its Internet dominance or suggest a basis for settlement, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the progress of the probe is confidential.
Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been conducting behind-the-scenes talks about a range of intellectual property matters, including the mobile patent disputes between the companies, people familiar with the matter said. The two companies are keeping lines of communication open at a high level against the backdrop of Apple's legal victory in a patent infringement case against Samsung, which uses Google's Android software.
Ebook-buying consumers in 49 states (all except Minnesota) and five territories are set to receive $69 million as the result of a settlement between the states and HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster. If the settlement is approved, the three publishers, who are also settling with the Department of Justice in the federal antitrust suit, will pay a total of $69 million to consumers who bought agency-priced ebooks between April 1, 2010 and May 21, 2012.
A public interest group won the right to oppose a $22.5 million consumer lawsuit settlement between the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Google Inc. over a privacy breach of Apple Inc.’s Safari browser. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco gave attorneys for Consumer Watchdog until Sept. 21 to file a brief opposing the settlement, which was announced Aug. 9 needs court approval.
Samsung Electronics Co. said it would fight Apple Inc.'s attempt to ban the sale of some of its smartphones in the U.S. with "all necessary measures." A Samsung spokesman said the company's options included filing to stop the injunction, appealing if the judge grants it and modifying products.
A second suspected member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec was arrested on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI said. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Phoenix six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.
A group of hackers has released a vast quantity of data from banks, government agencies, consulting firms and many others and promised more data leaks in the future. It's unclear how much data was published from how many organizations, but security firm Imperva analyzed the data and said some of the breached databases contain more than 30,000 records. Read the article: CNET News
The Motorola Mobility unit of Google Inc., the world’s most popular Internet search engine, was sued by a patent holder claiming infringement of two U.S. patents for applications that allow remote-data access from handheld devices.
In a new paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Justin Rao of Microsoft and David Reiley of Google have teamed up to estimate the cost of spam to society relative to its worldwide revenues. The societal price tag comes to $20 billion. The revenue? A mere $200 million.
Apple and Motorola Mobility are close to a licensing deal in Germany, thanks in part to the ruling of a local court. Motorola, a unit of Google, disclosed late Monday that the company had reached a tentative agreement to license out its essential patents to Apple.
Blue Calypso, a little-known marketing company, filed suit against Living Social for patent infringement just weeks after accusing Groupon of the same infraction. The company, which says it provides marketing services for businesses via social media and loyalty rewards services, says Groupon and Living Social has been using its technology.
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.
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