Current internet subscription business models are ineffective, and are holding up development of services in the UK, fibre communications firm Level 3 has told Computing. James Taylor, EMEA content service product manager at Level 3, ...
In what has been billed as the biggest patent battle ever, lawyers representing Apple and Samsung traded verbal blows in the opening round of the legal battle. The four-week trial began in San Jose, California yesterday. Apple is looking ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Harold McElhinny, iPhone
Record export sales and revenue in an increasingly challenging market Commenting on the results,Kumba Iron Ore Limited's("Kumba")CEO Chris Griffith said: "Kumba's solid focus on operations and strategy has delivered another strong set ...
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A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
Tags: file-sharing site, internet service, network, music-playing site
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has offered to do a deal with U.S. prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. "Hey DOJ, we will go to the US. No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & ...
Tags: USA, Dotcom, business case, Megaupload
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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The High Court has intervened to end a stand-off between the home secretary and Gary McKinnon over the order to have him extradited to face hacking charges in the US. McKinnon's extradition has been stalled since the May 2010 election ...
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The Apple slide-to-unlock patent was held invalid by the High Court in London yesterday aloing with two other patents. HTC was asking the court to invlidate four Apple patents of which this was one. The other two patents also ...
A High Court in the U.K. has ruled that HTC did not infringe on Apple's photo management patent, while stating that three other patents Apple claimed in the lawsuit were invalid, according to HTC. The three patents declared invalid, ...
Tags: HTC, Apple, photo management patent, smartphones, tablets
When a blog that typically attracts 30,000 visitors a day is hit with 5.35 million, its operators had better have been prepared for what seems way too big to be called a spike. The popular SCOTUSblog, which provides news and information ...
Tags: IT technology, Traffic Tidal, Internet, Govenment rulling
Apple has agreed to pay $60m to Chinese electronics firm Proview Technology to settle a long-running dispute over rights to the "iPad" name. Apple bought worldwide rights to the iPad trademark in 2009 for $55,000 from Proview's Taiwanese ...
Birla Corporation, a flagship company of the M P Birla Group, is mulling setting up its first overseas cement plant in Ethiopia, a top company official said here Thursday. The company has formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, Birla Corp Cement ...
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has launched a campaign with the Guardian on Change.org to stop the extradition to the US of Richard O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old UK student. Change.org is described as a platform for social change, enabling ...
Tags: Wikipedia, website, web servers, internet
In what would be its maiden overseas venture, Birla Corp plans to set up a cement plant in Ethiopia. The MP Birla group company has recently formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, Birla Corp Cement Manufacturing Plc, in the sub-Saharan African ...
Tags: market view, cement
The Islamabad High Court(IHC)was moved against the execution of a contract for installing 65,000 Light Emitting Diode(LED)streetlights in Islamabad worth Rs6.8 billion by the Capital Development Authority(CDA)to the M/s Oslo lighting ...
Tags: installation of LED streetlights, Islamabad, letter of intent, finance