A Seoul court granted a request by Apple Inc. to delay a sales ban imposed on some iPhones and iPads after an August ruling that the U.S. company infringed on Samsung Electronics Co.’s patents. The Seoul Central District Court last month accepted Apple’s request to stay the South Korea sales ban until after the company’s appeals of the Aug. 24 ruling conclude, Kim Mun Sung, a spokesman for the court, said by phone.
A U.S. appeals court overturned a pretrial sales ban against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus smartphone, dealing a setback to Apple Inc in its battle against Google Inc's increasingly popular mobile software. The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is not expected to have an outsized impact on the smartphone market, as the Nexus is an aging product in Samsung's lineup.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned that the United States was facing the possibility of a “cyber-Pearl Harbor” and was increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation’s power grid, transportation system, financial networks and government. In a speech at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, Mr. Panetta painted a dire picture of how such an attack on the United States might unfold.
A Facebook developer is suing the social network, claiming the company damaged its business when it abruptly abruptly terminated a multi-year deal that gave the company access to Facebook data. Profile Technology, a New Zealand-based company that says it created the first ever independent Facebook search engine, said the social networking giant suddenly cut off its access in late 2010, then embarked "on a campaign of destruction" to damage its reputation.
Hackers have accessed the confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, employees, and faculty in a massive security breach at a Florida college, officials said. The breach was first thought to have been isolated to employees at Northwest Florida State College but may involve student records from across the state, education officials said.
This week, at ISS World Americas, an annual surveillance trade show in Washington, law enforcement agents from around the world will gather to learn about the latest in computer spyware. What they will not hear is how, in several cases, that software is being used by oppressive governments to keep tabs on political activists.
Internet standard-setters are watering down a tool that is supposed to help Web users hide their data from companies, the EU's Internet chief, Neelie Kroes, will say. Neelie Kroes set companies meeting under the banner of a standard-setting body called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) a June deadline -- which they missed -- to develop a better version of Do Not Track, a tool that would prevent the companies from collecting such data.
For more than a year, the Federal Trade Commission has been conducting a broad antitrust investigation into the way Google runs its Internet search and search advertising businesses. But in recent months it has added another investigation into Google’s competitive behavior: phones — specifically, patents that apply to lucrative smartphone technology, and the conduct of Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines suspended a new Internet law that critics had said could lead to imprisonment for sharing posts on social media. Fifteen petitions were filed with the court opposing the law, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which took effect Oct. 3.
A malicious worm spreading through Skype instant messages threatens to take control of a victim's machine and hold its contents for ransom. The issue, which was first brought to light by GFI, tricks users into downloading a ZIP file by displaying the socially-engineered message, "lol is this your new profile pic?" along with a link that also spreads the message to other Skype users.
Apple Inc's antitrust case with the European Union over e-book publishing could be settled in a couple of months, European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. Almunia, the EU's antitrust chief, said he hoped to resolve soon an investigation into Apple and four publishers over deals setting e-book prices.
Facebook Inc has proposed a revised $20 million settlement in a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the rights of users through its "Sponsored Stories" advertising feature after a U.S. judge rejected an earlier accord. The new settlement agreement, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, drops provisions setting aside up to $10 million for plaintiffs lawyers' fees and allows users to apply for a cash payment of up to $10 each.
The House Intelligence Committee recommended that American companies should be blocked from carrying out mergers and acquisitions involving two Chinese telecommunications firms, saying their equipment could be used for spying in the United States. The recommendations, the result of a yearlong investigation, also said the United States government should not use equipment from the companies, the giant Huawei Technologies and ZTE Inc., and that American companies should find alternative suppliers as well.
World of Warcraft just got hit with the gaming world’s equivalent of World War III. Some thousands of players’ avatars suddenly dropped dead across the massive multiplayer game’s virtual cities as a result of what the game’s maker, Blizzard Entertainment, claims was a hacker’s attack.
The best solution to improving oversight of the Internet may be to do nothing at all, a senior U.S. official said while briefing reporters on a conference in December that could decide to consolidate control within a U.N. body. The International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. body convening the conference, has said there is broad consensus that the treaty governing the way international voice, data and video traffic is handled needs to be updated after 24 years.
Canada Drugs, an Internet pharmacy and drug wholesaler that sold counterfeit cancer medicines to U.S. doctors, switched to a new Internet vendor. The move could thwart efforts by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shut down the company's websites.
Facebook Inc. said a $15 billion lawsuit accusing the company of secretly tracking the Internet activity of its users after they log off should be dismissed because the subscribers didn’t specify how they were harmed. The complaint suffers from an “utter lack of allegations of any injury to these particular named plaintiffs,” Matthew Brown, a lawyer for Facebook, told U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California.
The Swedish central bank’s website was probably attacked again by hackers who forced it to shut for a second day. The site has been under intermittent disruptions since noon likely as a result of an “overload attack,” Fredrik Andersson, a Riksbank spokesman, said today by phone in Stockholm.
Mobile phone maker Motorola achieved a rare victory against software giant Microsoft in a patent case before a German court, the latest in a wave of patent lawsuits by technology firms fighting over market share. The regional court in Mannheim ruled that Motorola Mobility, part of Google, did not infringe a Microsoft patent which enables applications to work on different handsets.
Google's YouTube has revised its Content ID system to recognize content more accurately, to reduce the incidence of mistakes, and to force copyright holders to either drop a claim or file a formal DMCA notification when a user appeals a rejected Content ID counter-claim. YouTube rights management product manager Thabet Alfishawi in a blog post said that although the company still has work to do to improve the way Content ID works, these changes will help ensure that "the rights of both content owners and users are protected and everyone can control their original content and make money from it."
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