A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
Tags: O2, illegally sharing, adult films, Golden Eye, piracy
Hewlett-Packard has filed a complaint against display manufacturers Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Tatung Company of America, seeking to recover damages it claims it suffered as a result of their involvement in a price fixing scheme. Chungwha ...
A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
Tags: Twitter, US court, old tweets, Occupy Wall Street, micro-blogging firm
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom could violate the terms of his bail, or face new criminal charges, if he launches a new file-sharing and storage service as planned, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing this week. Dotcom, ...
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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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IDG News Service - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit seeking details about U.S. National Security Agency surveillance of email and telephone calls, with the lawsuit raising concerns that the agency has illegally ...
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Patent licensing firms that can't get satisfactory results in patent infringement cases in U.S. courts are abusing a patent complaint process at the U.S. International Trade Commission that can lead to products made by U.S. companies being ...
Tags: patent licensing, satisfactory results, U.S.courts, lawmakers
BALTIMORE, MD, June 13, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A 45-year-old tow truck operator, searching for adult pornography on the Internet, claimed to have accidentally stumbled on a site linked to child pornography. The man then made a big ...
Tags: software program, identify computers, software, Internet
At a hearing held in Windsor, Ontario on September 12, 2011, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved a settlement of the class action Court File No. CV-08-11573 (Windsor) in respect of Construction Flat Glass against the defendants ...
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Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties met each other in the regional court of Munich on Thursday, where ...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, Motorola, Android Phones, Mapping Patent
Megaupload cannot avoid prosecution in the U.S. simply because it had no physical presence in the country, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a colorfully worded opposition to the file-sharing site's motion to dismiss copyright ...
Tags: DOJ, megaupload, U.S., physical presence
A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the ...
Tags: Russian man, Cyprus, attacks, Amazon.com, eBay
Closing arguments have begun in the high-profile patent-infringement case between Apple and Samsung. The process, which is expected to occupy the court for the rest of Tuesday, began with Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny imploring the ...
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A U.S. judge has imposed a judgment of $163.2 million against a defendant accused by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of being part of an operation that sold software to people it tricked into thinking their computers were infected with ...
Tags: U.S.judge, defendant, Federal Trade Commission, software
The operator of a mutual fund has pleaded guilty in U.S. court to charges that he operated a $13 million scheme to sell shares of Facebook and Groupon stock before their initial public offerings. John Mattera, who served as chairman of ...
Tags: mutual fund, operator, U.S.court, Facebook, Groupon stock