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Valve has until October 10 to resolve EULA dispute in Germany

Valve has until October 10 to resolve EULA dispute in Germany
  • Posted September 24, 2012, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
  • Valve is facing legal action from the Federation of German Consumer Organizations regarding recent changes made to their end-user license agreement (EULA). A representative for the organization says the developer has until October 10 to respond to their desist order…

Twitter hands over Occupy protestor data to avoid hefty fines

Twitter hands over Occupy protestor data to avoid hefty fines
  • Posted September 14, 2012, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Twitter was given until September 15 to either give up tweets belonging to Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris or face stiff financial penalties from a New York State Supreme Court judge. The microblogging service elected to avoid any further…

Twitter ordered to identify protester, argues users own their data

Twitter ordered to identify protester, argues users own their data
  • Posted September 12, 2012, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • A New York State Supreme Court judge ordered Twitter to hand over the account information of Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris, Bloomberg reports. Twitter has until September 15 to comply with the court order to face an undisclosed fine…

Book publishers reach $69M settlement in e-book price-fixing case

Book publishers reach $69M settlement in e-book price-fixing case
  • Posted August 31, 2012, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Three book publishers have agreed to an anti-trust settlement that will see them collectively pay more than $69 million in order to resolve charges that they collaborated with Apple to raise the prices of digitally-distributed books. Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins…

Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling

Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling
  • Posted August 26, 2012, 1:16 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Late in the process yesterday at the Apple v. Samsung trial, when the parties and the judge were reviewing the jury verdict form, Samsung noticed that there were, indeed, inconsistencies in the jury's verdict form, a possibility Samsung anticipated. In two instances, results were crazily contradictory...

Samsung, Apple face small fines in South Korea, but ruling could have major implications

Samsung, Apple face small fines in South Korea, but ruling could have major implications
  • Posted August 24, 2012, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Apple
  • A South Korean court has delivered a split decision in its piece of the patent infringement battle between Apple and Samsung. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the three-judge panel declared Apple infringed two Samsung technology patents,…

Apple calls e-book settlement "unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented"

Apple calls e-book settlement "unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented"
  • Posted August 16, 2012, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • In a statement issued yesterday, Apple lambasted the Department of Justice over supporting a government-proposed settlement intended to resolve possible e-book price-fixing practices. The company criticized the settlement as "fundamentally unfair, unlawful and unprecedented", accusing the DOJ of attempting to…

Apple and Samsung US sales figures unearthed in court documents

Apple and Samsung US sales figures unearthed in court documents
  • Posted August 10, 2012, 12:05 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Apple
  • More news continues to flow from the Apple vs. Samsung trial as Cupertino seeks a $2.5 billion judgment against the Korean tech giant over claims that they copied the design of the iPhone and iPad when developing some of their…

Craigslist blocks search engines to thwart third parties like PadMapper

Craigslist blocks search engines to thwart third parties like PadMapper
  • Posted August 7, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • Craigslist has taken further steps toward locking down its listings by reportedly removing its content from major search engines to prevent it from being scraped and repackaged by third-party services. In June, Craigslist sent a cease and desist to PadMapper, an aggregator that...

Steam's updated user agreement bans class action suits

Steam
  • Posted August 2, 2012, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Following the lead of EA, Microsoft, Sony and other gaming outfits, Valve updated its Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA) Tuesday to forbid users from filing class action lawsuits. The change comes as a surprise to many gamers, who generally regard Valve as one of the "good guys"...

Judge orders Oracle to continue support for HP's Itanium-based servers

Judge orders Oracle to continue support for HP
  • Posted August 2, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Software, Industry News
  • A California Judge has ruled in favor of Hewlett-Packard in its breach of contract lawsuit with Oracle. As a result of the verdict yesterday, Oracle is contractually obliged to continue developing software for its Silicon Valley rival, and now faces…

Court filings reveal Sony-inspired iPhone ahead of next week's trial

Court filings reveal Sony-inspired iPhone ahead of next week
  • Posted July 27, 2012, 6:08 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Apple, Hardware
  • The widely-discussed patent infringement trial between Apple and Samsung starts next week, with the former seeking $2.525 billion in damages and the latter demanding 2.4% of the sale price on every device misusing its patents.

Google says plaintiffs haven't proved scanning books hurts sales

Google says plaintiffs haven
  • Posted July 27, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • It appears Google has asked for a summary judgment regarding the legality of scanning books and posting them online via Google Books. Google defended its book-scanning project (formerly known as Google Library) on the basis of fair use, preserving those works,…

Weekend tech reading: Kodak loses patent suit against Apple, RIM

Weekend tech reading: Kodak loses patent suit against Apple, RIM
  • Posted July 22, 2012, 2:05 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Eastman Kodak has lost a patent case against Apple and Research In Motion, dealing a blow to the onetime film giant's efforts to raise billions of dollars by selling off its intellectual property. Kodak filed a complaint against the iPhone and BlackBerry makers at the U.S. ITC...

Samsung Galaxy Nexus injunction overturned in appeals court

Samsung Galaxy Nexus injunction overturned in appeals court
  • Posted July 10, 2012, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • A US appeals court has lifted the ban on the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone that went into effect late last month. A similar ruling fell short for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which still remains on the ban list…

Weekend tech reading: Samsung Galaxy Nexus banned in US

Weekend tech reading: Samsung Galaxy Nexus banned in US
  • Posted July 1, 2012, 2:53 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a second legal setback at the hands of a California judge, who issued a preliminary injunction Friday against one of its flagship smartphones at the request of Apple Inc. The order, which bans Samsung from selling or importing the Galaxy Nexus...

Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moving forward with appeal

Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moving forward with appeal
  • Posted June 21, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Following lengthy legal proceedings between Oracle and Google which saw the former win a very small portion of their original judgment, the two companies agreed that Oracle would accept $0 in damages from Google. The proposal was enough to confuse…

Samsung wins patent dispute against Apple, will seek compensation

Samsung wins patent dispute against Apple, will seek compensation
  • Posted June 20, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Industry News
  • The Netherlands' District Court of The Hague has ruled in favor of Samsung in a patent dispute with Apple. Samsung claimed that Apple infringed upon patent EP1188269 which relates to a 3G technology used in the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4…

Facebook donates $10m to charity to settle "Sponsored Story" lawsuit

Facebook donates $10m to charity to settle "Sponsored Story" lawsuit
  • Posted June 18, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • Facebook settled a lawsuit last month that could have seen the social network compensate one out of every three users in the US but details of the settlement were only made available over the weekend. Zuckerberg and company agreed to…

MPAA would allow Megaupload users access to non-copyrighted files

MPAA would allow Megaupload users access to non-copyrighted files
  • Posted June 7, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Former Megaupload users have now been without the files they once stored in the cloud for nearly five months after the US government shut the site down under allegations that it was an international organized crime ring responsible for a…

Apple responds to 'deceptive ads' claim in Siri lawsuit

Apple responds to
  • Posted May 18, 2012, 4:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Industry News
  • Siri was introduced as one of the standout features of Apple’s flagship smartphone las October, but not everyone was impressed with the voice-controlled assistant. A lawsuit filed in March by New York resident Frank Fazio claimed that Apple's iPhone 4S…

Facebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy violations

Facebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy violations
  • Posted May 18, 2012, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • While it may be a joyous day for Facebook over on Wall Street, things aren’t looking as peachy in the courtroom as the social network has been hit with a lawsuit to the tune of $15 billion. Levied by law…

Shareholder hits Nokia with class-action suit for poor Lumia sales

Shareholder hits Nokia with class-action suit for poor Lumia sales
  • Posted May 8, 2012, 4:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • One of Nokia's angry shareholders, Robert Chmielinski instructed law firm Robbins Geller Rudman and Dowd to file a class-action lawsuit (PDF) in a New York court against the firm, claiming it misled investors with promises that the partnership with Microsoft…

Angry parents file class action suit against Apple over in-app payments

Angry parents file class action suit against Apple over in-app payments
  • Posted April 17, 2012, 11:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Apple
  • Apple's hectic legal department is set to wake up to yet another lawsuit this week, this time a class action lawsuit filed by angry parents who claim the American iPhone and iPad retailer is unfairly profiting from in-app purchases of…

Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Apple, e-book publishers

Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Apple, e-book publishers
  • Posted April 11, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and two major publishers over e-book price-fixing. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and specifically claims that Apple conspired…

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