The music streaming application Grooveshark is available again for Android devices 16 months after it was removed by Google from its application market. Grooveshark, which is run by Escape Media Group based in Gainsville, Florida, has had ...
Tags: music streaming application, Grooveshark, Android devices
Computerworld-A woman ordered to pay$222,000 for pirating 24 copyrighted songs has taken her fight against the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA)to the U.S.Supreme Court. In a petition filed Monday,lawyers for Minnesota ...
Ellison's company was contractually obliged to continue to support Itanium, judge rules Oracle could be facing a multi-billion dollar payout after a judge ruled it must continue to develop software for HP's products that use Itanium ...
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In March of 2011, Luvdarts et al v. AT&T et al a copyright infringement case, was dismissed with prejudice by a judge in the Central District of California. On January 11, 2013 the Ninth Circuit will hear the case on appeal in Pasadena, ...
Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
Tags: high-skill immigration, U.S.election, large tech companies
U.S.President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night,topping 270 electoral votes to defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney just after 11 p.m.yesterday. Romney held a small lead in the battleground state of Virginia,but most election ...
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Computerworld-A Ukraine-based startup,Devellar,has launched an online plagiarism tool that checks online content to see whether it has been duplicated. The beta version of PlagSpotter features an algorithm that"enables ...
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A U.S.federal judge has asked for more information to plan an evidentiary hearing concerning the fate of terabytes of data held in limbo since the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site. U.S.government prosecutors and Kyle Goodwin ...
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As the U.S.and eight other nations negotiate a wide-ranging trade agreement,several digital rights groups said they're concerned that the Trans-Pacific Partnership(TPP)will bring back controversial copyright-enforcement provisions pushed by ...
Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership, USA, SOPA, USTR
IDG News Service - The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement. The U.S. had asked for a judicial ...
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The trial judge presiding over the patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung has urged both sides to reach a settlement. Judge Lucy Koh suggested that both companies should seek a settlement before the jury begins deliberating ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Copyright infringement, patents
IDG News Service-When assigning search result rankings,Google will now take reports of copyright violation into account. The goal is to give better placement to sites that publish content they either own or have legally licensed,and ...
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Networking equipment company Brocade Communications Systems said late Monday that a jury in California had found competitor A10 Networks responsible for intellectual property infringement and unfair competition,awarding the company a$112 ...
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SAP has agreed to pay fierce rival Oracle a minimum of$306m(GBP196.6m)in partial damages over copyright infringement,but the total settlement could be as much as$426m(GBP273.8m). The amount includes the$120m(GBP77m)that Oracle said it had ...
Tags: SAP, Oracle, TomorrowNow, unauthorised downloads
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