Google Inc rejected a request by the White House to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East. The Internet company said it was censoring the video in India and Indonesia after blocking it in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protestors enraged over depiction of the Prophet Mohammad as a fraud and philanderer.
Twitter turned over to a judge a printed stack of messages written by an Occupy Wall Street protester in October, around the time he and hundreds of others were arrested after walking on the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge. Manhattan prosecutors subpoenaed the records in January, because the messages could show that the police did not lead protesters off the bridge’s pedestrian path and then arrest them, an argument that the protester, Malcolm Harris, of Brooklyn, is expected to make at trial.
A self-professed leader of the computer hacker group Anonymous was arrested by authorities in Dallas, officials said. A Twitter account for the California law firm Leiderman Devine said it would be defending Brown at a hearing in Dallas federal court and that he had been detained on charges of "threatening a federal agent."
A bill that will require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before accessing private online communications such as e-mail or social networking interactions is expected to be introduced in the Senate. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, this legislation is a "key piece of efforts to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act," which was first passed in 1986.
After a five-week delay, a regional court in Munich, Germany, ruled that Apple can file for an injunction against Motorola phones and tablets following claims of patent infringement, according to Foss Patents' Florian Mueller. The patent in question deals with the so-called "rubber-banding" feature, an effect that causes a page on a mobile device to bounce back up after a user has swiped to the bottom of the screen.
A University of California patent licensee which has sued some of the biggest U.S. companies is taking on three more -- Facebook Inc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc and the Walt Disney Co. Eolas Technologies Inc and the Regents of the University of California filed lawsuits over four patents they believe the companies are infringing.
Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are building patent portfolios of fourth-generation mobile-network technology, an area that is likely to become their next battleground over intellectual property. Telecommunications carriers world-wide are upgrading their networks to support more bandwidth for faster Internet access and data downloads on mobile devices. Smartphone makers meanwhile are speeding the rollout of handsets that support long-term evolution 4G technology.
The anti-piracy program commonly known as “six strikes” has been a long time coming, but after a couple of delays, it's set to launch by the end of the year. Officially known as the Copyright Alert System, six strikes was announced in July 2011 and originally scheduled to launch in December of that year.
YouTube, the video website owned by Google Inc, said it would not remove a film clip mocking the Islamic Prophet Muhammad that has been blamed for anti-U.S. protests in Egypt and Libya, but it has blocked access to it in those countries. The clip, based on a longer film, depicts the prophet as a fraud and philanderer and has been blamed for sparking violence at U.S. embassies in Cairo and Benghazi.
Apparently the Taliban is using fake Facebook profiles to spy on Australian troops. According to a review of social media and defense by the Australian government, an "overt reliance" on privacy settings has led to a "false sense of security" among personnel.
The top four record labels have won a significant decision in their long-running suit against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman found by a court to have "lied" about illegally uploading music to the Web. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found unanimously in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade group for Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music.
GoDaddy, the Web services company, said on that its extensive technical problems were a result of internal issues, not an attack by a supporter of Anonymous, the loose confederation of rogue hackers. In a statement, Scott Wagner, the company’s interim chief executive, said the “intermittent service outages” were caused by an internal network error.
A Swedish man repatriated by Cambodia to serve a prison sentence for his involvement with file-sharing site The Pirate Bay was arrested in a new hacking investigation as he returned home. Prosecutors said Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, is suspected of hacker attacks against a company handling sensitive information for the Swedish tax authority.
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has left Cambodia and is being transported to Sweden, a spokesperson at Sweden's foreign ministry said. One of the masterminds behind the file-sharing website, Mr. Svartholm was arrested last month by Cambodian police.
A member of Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, claimed responsibility for an attack that apparently brought down Web sites hosted by Go Daddy. The company’s site was down, as were many of the Web sites hosted on its servers, including the fantasy sports site Draft Day.
A Florida company said on that its files -- not an FBI agent's laptop -- were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top law enforcement agency. "We want to apologize, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc.
One day after a start-up company unveiled an app allowing yellow-taxi drivers and passengers to find one another, New York City issued this gentle reminder: Smartphone apps may be the future of hailing a taxicab, but at least for now, their time will have to wait. In an industry notice, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission said it had not authorized the adoption of any apps used for cab-hailing or payment, including a service from Uber, which began offering its new app in about 100 taxis.
Al-Jazeera says hackers have targeted the Qatar-based TV satellite channel for the second time in a week, sending out false news reports on its mobile phone alert service. A pro-Damascus group known as the Syrian Electronic Army quickly claimed responsibility for the hack on Twitter.
The Federal Communications Commission is rapidly backpedalling from a proposal to tax broadband Internet service after a public outcry over the issue. Democrats and Republicans at the agency are now blaming each other for pushing the idea in the first place.
Apple Inc. may face a difficult task invalidating two HTC Corp. patents for data transmission in wireless devices, a U.S. trade judge said at a trial that could lead to import bans on the newest iPad and next version of the iPhone. “Clear and convincing means something to me,” U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Thomas Pender said in Washington, referring to the legal standard in determining that a patent shouldn’t have been issued.
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