The Delhi state government banned Uber Technologies Inc. immediately from operating in the Indian capital after a passenger accused one of its drivers of raping her two days ago. The company is also “blacklisted” from providing transport services in the future, according to a statement from Delhi’s Transport Department.
Lu Wei, China's top Internet regulator, may not welcome Facebook to his house, but he's certainly welcome at Facebook. Lu, the minister of China's Cyberspace Administration, recently toured the campuses of U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon Inc., according to a report and pictures posted on a Chinese government website.
Indian police arrested an Uber cab driver suspected of raping a female passenger and said they would take legal action against the U.S. online taxi service for failing to run background checks on him. The suspect was held in his home town in Uttar Pradesh where his car was earlier found abandoned.
When it comes to the details of Internet regulation, groups that otherwise have much common ground simply don’t see eye to eye. ColorofChange.org, a black political coalition, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, for example, support treating Internet access as an essential service like electricity or water — as Mr. Obama proposed — while the League of United Latin American Citizens opposes it.
Cisco Systems Inc. sued Arista Networks Inc., accusing the fast-growing competitor of infringing on an array of Cisco patents and copyrights associated with its networking equipment. The accusations are contained in separate complaints against Arista, a company led by former Cisco executives that went public six months ago and sports a market valuation of nearly $5 billion.
The top U.S. patent court, for the first time, is stepping into a debate that has splintered the technology community over how to value patents that cover essential technologies like Wi-Fi. Ruling on Ericsson AB’s contribution to the industry standard for Wi-Fi, which incorporates more than a thousand patented inventions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said patent licensing fees should be based on the incremental value of each invention, and not the value of the standard as a whole.
The Pyongyang government's state-run media said the cyber attack on Sony's Hollywood studio may have been the work of pro-North Korean supporters in a report that dismissed charges that the country itself was to blame as "wild rumor." "The hacking into Sony Pictures Entertainment might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers with the DPRK in response to its appeal," the article by the KCNA news agency said, using the official DPRK acronym for North Korea.
North Korea is a principal suspect in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, a U.S. national security source told Reuters, while a North Korean diplomat denied that Pyongyang was behind the crippling hack. The U.S. government's investigation into the Nov. 24 attack is being led by the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office and the Hollywood studio is cooperating, a law enforcement source said.
More than a million smartphones are stolen every year and federal regulators want wireless carriers to do more to deter the thefts. That was the theme of a report released by a Federal Communications Commission advisory panel.
A federal judge handed an early victory to banks in their effort to recoup losses from a major breach last year at Target. More than 40 million credit cards were compromised in the incident. A United States District Judge in Minnesota, Paul A. Magnuson, rejected Target’s bid to dismiss lawsuits by financial institutions that claim Target had played a “key role” in allowing its computer systems to be compromised.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced a bill to ban the government from requiring that tech companies guarantee access to their software and electronics. Lawmakers and privacy advocates have criticized reports that intelligence agencies are intentionally introducing security weaknesses into devices so they can eavesdrop.
Apple attorneys have raised an eleventh-hour challenge that could derail a long-running, class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit is over Apple's use of restrictive software that kept iPods from playing digital music sold by competitors to its iTunes store. The case went to trial this week, but Apple said new evidence shows the two women named as plaintiffs may not have purchased iPod models covered by the lawsuit.
The year 2014 marks the moment that the world turned its attention to writing laws to govern what happens on the Internet. And that has not been a great thing, according to an annual report from the U.S.-based pro-democracy think tank Freedom House.
Samsung Electronics Co. urged a U.S. appeals court to toss a $930 million verdict won by Apple Inc., saying the South Korean company didn’t copy the iPhone’s design and unique look and arguing that the damage award was too high. “They awarded Samsung’s total profit for all of these phones -- this is absurd,” Kathleen Sullivan, representing Samsung, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington.
Iranian hackers were identified in a report as the source of coordinated attacks against more than 50 targets in 16 countries, many of them corporate and government entities that manage critical energy, transportation and medical services. Over the course of two years, according to Cylance, a security firm based in Irvine, Calif., Iranian hackers managed to steal confidential data from a long list of targets and, in some cases, infiltrated victims’ computer networks to such an extent that they could take over, manipulate or easily destroy data on those machines.
Google Inc.'s massive effort to scan millions of books for a digital library violates copyright law, illegally depriving authors of licensing fees, royalties and sales, a lawyer for a group of authors told a U.S. appeals court. Paul Smith, who represents the Authors Guild and several individual writers, told a three-judge panel at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that the Google Books project was a "quintessentially commercial" infringement designed to protect the company's "crown jewel" search engine.
The U.K. government took aim at tech companies and other international firms, proposing a 25% tax on profits on “economic activity” that is shifted overseas. Treasury chief George Osborne said in his autumn budget statement to Parliament that he wanted to make sure “big multinational businesses pay their fair share.”
Just as Sony Pictures Entertainment appeared to be recovering from a crippling online attack last month, the studio found itself confronting new perils. Sony was newly rattled by the leak of internal documents, one of which contained the pre-bonus annual salaries of senior executives, showing 17 who earn more than $1 million a year.
A key House panel has delayed a hearing on the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to write new Internet traffic rules aimed at assuring "net neutrality." The U.S. House of Representatives Communications and Technology subcommittee had been expected on Dec. 10 to quiz all five FCC commissioners about so-called net neutrality rules that would regulate the how Internet service providers (ISPs) manage web traffic that travels through their networks.
In a blow to Apple, Australia's Federal Court has rejected an appeal by the technology giant to trademark the term "app store." The Registrar of Trade Marks refused registration of Apple's "app store" trademark in March last year because it was too descriptive.
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