Software giant Microsoft is ready to introduce measures that would address the European Union's antitrust concerns about users' ability to choose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft blocks computer makers from installing rival web browsers on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, following complaints from several companies.
A lawsuit against Apple over the durability of the iPhone 4's glass was tossed out by a federal judge in California. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila dismissed a case filed by Betsalel Williamson on January 2011, which sought class-action status and accused Apple of breaching its warranty by charging for broken glass.
A federal judge sentenced an Arizona man to 30 months in prison for selling access to thousands of hijacked computers. Prosecutors said Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, infected about 72,000 computers with viruses.
South Korean regulators are investigating complaints filed by Apple Inc that Samsung Electronics Co is abusing its dominant position in wireless technology, the Korea Fair Trade Commission said. Rivals Apple and Samsung are locked in patent disputes in 10 countries, as they vie for market share in the booming mobile industry.
The use of open-source software is becoming more prevalent at big companies for reasons including ease of innovation and cutting the time to get products to market. More than 50% of the software acquired in the next five years will be open source, according to the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey published by North Bridge Venture Partners and Black Duck Software Inc.
A price-fixing settlement between the U.S. government and electronic-book publishers Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group Inc. and HarperCollins Publishers LLC was approved by a judge in New York. The Justice Department in April sued the three publishers along with Apple Inc., Pearson Plc (PSON)’s Penguin Group and MacMillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH.
Cambodia is the latest country to come under sustained attack from computer hackers after police in the tiny Southeast Asian country arrested one of the founders of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website. A group calling itself NullCrew began hacking into government and commercial websites in the country after news of Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's arrest broke over the weekend.
Mitt Romney’s tax returns are reportedly in the hands of a team of hackers who plan on releasing them publicly at the end of the month unless a ransom is paid. The group allegedly obtained the files from PricewaterhouseCooper’s Tennessee office on Aug. 25, in what was described on PasteBin as a Mission Impossible-like caper.
The federal judge in Oracle v. Google has given up on trying to find any more paid journalists, bloggers, and similar commentators in the case while also ordering Oracle to hand some money over to Google. In a new order, Judge William Alsup said that the U.S. District Court of Northern California would "take no further action regarding the subject of payments by the litigants to commentators and journalists and reassures both sides that no commentary has in any way influenced the Court’s orders and ruling herein save and except for any treatise or article expressly cited in an order or ruling."
U.S. consumers lost $20.7 billion to cybercrime over the past 12 months, with 71 million Americans falling victim to online bad guys, according to new research. Globally, losses resulting from cybercrime including malware attacks and phishing hit $110 billion between July 2011 and the end of July 2012, a report by Symantec has found.
Cambodia will deport a Swedish co-founder of Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, who was convicted and sentenced to prison in Sweden for breaching copyright laws, a police official said. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, has been living in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, and was arrested last week after a request from Sweden, but he may not necessarily be sent back home directly.
Hackers have released a file that they say contains more than one million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. They claim to have obtained the file by hacking into the computer of a federal agent.
The website of Qatar-based satellite news network Al Jazeera was apparently hacked by Syrian government loyalists for what they said was the television channel's support for the "armed terrorist groups and spreading lies and fabricated news". A Syrian flag and statement denouncing Al Jazeera's "positions against the Syrian people and government" were posted on the Arabic site of the channel in response to its coverage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad which began in March last year.
Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company. That conviction explains why he spends so much of Twitter’s time and money going toe to toe with officers and apparatchiks both here and abroad.
Cambodian police said they arrested one of the masterminds behind notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, months after he was due to begin a one-year prison sentence in his native Sweden. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27 years old, was arrested in Phnom Penh in connection with the alleged illegal use of information technology, said police officials, adding that they were acting in concert with the Swedish government to get him out of Cambodia -- and possibly back to Sweden to serve his term.
Coming off its big victory in its patent suit against Samsung in a Northern California court, Apple has filed an amended complaint with the same court in a separate case -- adding the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note to the list of Samsung devices it says infringe its intellectual property.
FinSpy, one of the more elusive spyware tools sold in the growing market of off-the-shelf computer surveillance technologies, gives governments a sophisticated plug-in monitoring operation. Research now links it to servers in more than a dozen countries, including Turkmenistan, Brunei and Bahrain, although no government acknowledges using the software for surveillance purposes.
A Tokyo court has sided with Samsung in its patent battle with Apple, ruling the South Korean electronics company did not infringe on its rival's patents. A panel of three judges in Tokyo found that Samsung's smartphones and a tablet computer didn't infringe on Apple's patent for synchronizing music and video data with servers.
Akamai Technologies Inc.’s patent claims over online content delivery networks against Limelight Networks Inc. were revived by an appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ordered a lower court to reconsider whether Limelight infringed the Akamai patent.
Oracle issued an emergency fix for vulnerabilities in its Java software about four months after Security Explorations, a security firm, warned the company about the bugs. The delay in providing a fix allowed more than 100,000 computers to get hacked, security firm FireEye estimated.
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