Samsung Electronics Co. lost its bid to persuade a federal judge in California to lift a preliminary ban on U.S. sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer imposed as part of a patent dispute with Apple Inc. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, issued the order temporarily blocking sales of the Tab 10.1 computer before a jury found Aug. 24 that Samsung infringed six of seven Apple patents and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages.
A group of public interest organizations said that they would soon file complaints against AT&T, alleging that the carrier was violating government rules by restricting the way customers can use FaceTime, Apple’s video-conferencing tool, which is built into iPhones and iPads.
Microsoft Corp urged Windows users to install a free piece of security software to protect PCs from a newly discovered bug in the Internet Explorer browser. The security flaw, which researchers say could allow hackers to take remote control of an infected PC, affects Internet Explorer browsers used by hundreds of millions of consumers and workers.
An appeals court judge suspended trial court litigation involving Google Inc and thousands of authors pending appeal by the search engine giant of an order granting the authors class-action status. A one-sentence order by a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge in New York said the Authors Guild, which sued Google seven years ago over the company's plans to create the world's largest digital books library, consented to the suspension.
A federal judge in California has rejected Home Depot's attempt to gain broad access to Facebook, Twitter, and other social-network posts made by a former employee who sued the retailer two years ago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal ruled that the big box retailer had the rights only to "social-networking communications between plaintiff and any current or former Home Depot employees" that relate to her employment or the lawsuit.
Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, a judge at the International Trade Commission said in a preliminary ruling. Apple and Samsung have taken their bruising patent disputes to some 10 countries as they vie for market share in the booming mobile industry.
Zynga Inc. has countered a copyright-infringement lawsuit from Electronic Arts Inc. with its own allegations that EA sought a potentially illegal agreement to avoid poaching each others' employees. EA filed suit against Zynga last month, alleging that the San Francisco online social games developer had infringed copyrights protecting EA's "The Sims Social" game with Zynga's "The Ville."
It could usher in a new era of online privacy. Or it might bowdlerize the Internet as we know it. Then again, it might do almost nothing at all. The item in question is Microsoft’s latest version of its Internet Explorer browser, scheduled to be available to consumers in late October, packaged with Windows 8. The browser comes with an option called “do not track.”
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.
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