Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agency said in a new filing in the case. Megaupload's charges that the DOJ conspired to ...
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Computerworld - After seeing 18 key IT staffers suddenly quit to take new jobs at General Motors, Hewlett-Packard has asked a Texas court for permission to depose two former managers to find out if employment contracts were violated. HP ...
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Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
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A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million. Xiang Li, 36, and a partner sold cracked copies of software from ...
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A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defence, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million. Xiang Li, 36, and a partner sold cracked copies of software from ...
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IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
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LOS ANGELES — Three creditors of online retailer LuxeYard have filed a petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here to force the company into Chapter 7 liquidation. The creditors, including Thomasville, N.C.-based upholstery resource Ison ...
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A US district judge has granted preliminary approval to Japanese auto maker Toyota Motor's unintended acceleration settlement for over $1bn. According to court documents, the settlement is valued at over $1.3bn between Toyota and an ...
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Computerworld - It has been a rough stretch for Itanium. HP and its customers were startled after Oracle in March, 2011 announced -- and without warning, according to court records -- its intent to discontinue software development on HP's ...
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Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of leaking thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to whistleblower site WikiLeaks, is expected to argue this week that the charges against him should be dropped because he has ...
Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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The Trustees of the Iron Workers Local Union No. 5 and Iron Workers Employers Association, Employees Pension Trust and CBO Glass are in settlement discussions in a case in which the Trustees had alleged that the company failed to pay the ...
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US photography giant Eastman Kodak has agreed sell its digital imaging patents for $US525 million ($501m) to help it emerge from bankruptcy protection. Kodak said 12 intellectual property licensees, led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX ...
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iMessage, the Apple messaging technology that the company has urged customers use to avoid an SMS spoofing bug, remains under a patent litigation cloud, with a trial slated for November. Last week, a researcher known for uncovering iPhone ...
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