The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit. The ITC's ruling Thursday has ...
More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information. This week, the FTC ...
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In May 2000, after public input, the Federal trade Commission (FTC) staff issued the initial Dot Com Disclosures guide to show how the Commission's consumer protection statutes, rules, and guides apply to online advertising and sales and ...
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Smartphones with custom versions of Android offered by large mobile operators in the U.S. are not getting security updates as regularly as phones from Google, or smartphones from other vendors like Microsoft, according to a complaint by the ...
Fabricated Internet posts praising Samsung at the expense of HTC products has landed the South Korean company in hot water with Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission. Taiwan's FTC said on Tuesday it was investigating the matter, and could punish ...
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Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for ...
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Two people will share a $50,000 prize from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for the best idea to block illegal robocalls from reaching the owners of mobile and wired phones. Serdar Danis and Aaron Foss will each receive $25,000 for their ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The HTC One smartphone will be released in the UK, Germany and Taiwan this week, its Taiwan of China manufacturer has announced, claiming "unprecedented demand" for its new product. The 4.7 inch screen device will eventually roll out ...
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An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
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Concerns about the increased cost of compliance with privacy regulations influenced Google's decision to shut down Google Reader from July. According to an anonymous source speaking to AllThingsD, Google is attempting to better manage how ...
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Eleven complainants have sent an open letter to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, urging him to formally charge Google with breaching competition law. “The Commission opened proceedings ...
Tags: Google, search engine, search manipulation
The recycling of rigid plastics, excluding bottles, climbed 13 percent in 2011 to reach at least 934 million pounds for the year, and U.S. consumers with local access to recycle all non-bottle rigid plastics shot from 40 percent to 57 ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Bedding major Tempur-Pedic said Friday the Federal Trade Commission has approved its proposed acquisition of rival Sealy Inc. FTC clearance was the last major hurdle preventing the deal from being finalized, and ...
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Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payments, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Friday. The FTC report ...
Tags: Bill Cramming, mobile payment, cyber safety