The New York Court of Appeals carved out a rather large exception when it ruled that a man could not be accused of certain child pornography charges because he did not "possess" the images - he'd viewed them online. And in early 2011, the ...
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Google will pay a historic fine to settle U.S. government charges that it violated privacy laws when it tracked via cookies users of Apple's Safari browser. The US$22.5 million civil penalty is the largest ever secured by the U.S. Federal ...
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Imagine a smartphone that can go weeks without needing its battery recharged. Apple owns the patent for a fuel cell system to power a portable computer, and that patent may be one to watch as the company rolls out new versions of its ...
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Penguin Group has become the latest book publisher to reach a settlement with the U.S.Department of Justice in a lawsuit that alleges that Apple and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices. Under the proposed settlement ...
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ANSA reported that prosecutors in the city of Taranto on Monday issued a European arrest warrant for Mr Fabio Riva, an executive of the ILVA steel plant at the center of an environmental dispute between local prosecutors and the national ...
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A key objective of Wools of New Zealand is to build the company,evolving within five years to be a fully commercial grower-owned sales and marketing business.Wools of New Zealand has spent considerable time meeting with all sectors of the ...
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New Zealand's High Court ruled Wednesday that Kim Dotcom and a Megaupload colleague can pursue damages against police and one of the country's spy services for illegally intercepting their communications. In her judgment,Justice Helen ...
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Watson Pharmaceuticals has introduced Pioglitazone Hydrochloride 15mg, 30mg and 45mg tablets, a generic equivalent to Actos. The company began the shipment of the product after winning the final FDA approval. Actos is a prescription ...
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A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony charges. Andrew Auernheimer,also known as"weev,"used an automated scripting tool called ...
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Alteris has acquired Los Angeles-based Sonoma Risk Insurance, which provides contract litigation insurance (CLI) in US. Under the terms of the agreement, Sonoma Risk Insurance will continue to provide products, plaintiff contract ...
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Oracle has filed suit against Texas company Advanced Dynamic Interfaces, seeking to have an intellectual-property action it filed against 20 users of Oracle software tossed out of court. The companies are all users of Oracle's Application ...
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A judge in California refused on Thursday to order YouTube to pull down a controversial anti-Islam movie trailer that has sparked violent protests at U.S.diplomatic missions in many Middle East countries,according to a spokeswoman for the ...
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IDG News Service - In a new twist over the controversy surrounding an anti-Islam movie trailer on YouTube, an actress shown in the trailer has filed a lawsuit demanding that YouTube and its owner Google take down the video. Google has ...
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In a case that has been running parallel to the intellectual property lawsuit between Apple and Samsung in the USA,a South Korean court ruled today that Apple had violated two of Samsung's patents,while the Korean firm had infringed on one ...
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IDG News Service - A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a proposed settlement in a lawsuit that alleges Facebook violated users' rights by using their names and recommendations of advertisers to be publicized through a Sponsored Stories ...
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