Posted August 2, 2011, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
Earlier today we reported that Apple and Samsung were tangled in a legal battle in Australia where Cupertino had prevented the Korean company from releasing their Galaxy Tab 10.1 in that country. In an unrelated story, the tides have turned…
Posted July 29, 2011, 7:04 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
On Thusrday, the British High Court ruled that British Telecommunications, one of the largest ISPs in the world, must block public access to Newzbin2, a popular source for downloading illegitimate copies of television shows and other media. The ruling is…
Posted July 22, 2011, 12:57 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
It’s not unusual for large companies to have class action lawsuits brought against them for any number of reasons. Payouts from these settlements, if any, are usually so meager for the users that it’s not worth the time and effort…
Samsung is escalating its legal tussle with Apple with an ITC complaint aimed at barring the iPhone, iPad and iPod from being imported and sold in the U.S. The move comes about two months after Apple sued Samsung for copying…
Microsoft has lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a long running legal battle against i4i, the small Canadian company that sued them claiming willful infringement of its patents in Word 2003 and 2007. Specifically, the dispute centered…
Just hours after Google announced their entry into mobile payments the company has been slapped with a lawsuit from none other than PayPal, alleging that the search giant misappropriated trade secrets when it hired away PayPal mobile executives. The suit…
Posted May 24, 2011, 7:54 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Microsoft is back in court today to challenge an €899 million ($1.3 billion) antitrust fine issued by the European Court of Justice in 2008. The fine was a record high at the time and penalized the software giant for failing…
A new class action lawsuit accuses AT&T of "systematically overcharging" iPhone and iPad users for data usage. Suspecting foul play, AT&T customer Patrick Hendricks and his lawyers hired an independent tech consultant who conducted a four-month study that determined AT&T…
Posted May 6, 2011, 7:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News
Siddharth Hariharan, a former software engineer at Lucasfilm, has filed a class action lawsuit in California Superior Court in Alameda County, charging that several leading technology companies in the US violated antitrust laws by conspiring to fix the pay of…
Many Nvidia customers have been shafted by a cunningly worded settlement. In 2008, laptop owners sued the GPU-maker for defective graphics chips sold in Apple, Dell and HP notebooks. Following a two-year legal skirmish, the class action suit came to…
Posted December 6, 2010, 2:58 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
EMI and MP3tunes are currently in a three year legal battle over illegal distribution of copyright music. Michael Robertson, the owner of MP3tunes, was able to get hold of secret EMI e-mails, in which representatives of the group admitted to…
Posted November 4, 2010, 7:46 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Apple
In a new class-action lawsuit, angry iPhone owner Biana Wofford is accusing Apple of using the iOS 4 upgrade to maliciously cripple the iPhone 3G to boost sales of the iPhone 4, according to Ars Technica. Earlier this year, when…
Posted September 22, 2010, 9:30 AM by Mike Fischer | Filed in The Web
The Obama administration released its plans last June to take a tougher stance against Internet piracy, and Monday US lawmakers released their contribution: legislation that could allow the Department of Justice to seize the domain names of websites that promote…
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