Remember “Locationgate”? That one time everyone was up in arms about a hidden file in iPhones that fed location data back to Apple? If you don’t, that’s okay (in internet years that’s like trying to remember the ’60s). Here’s a kind refresher.
And although Apple’s privacy policy for iOS devices (which includes iPads equipped with 3G …
Apple may be regretting letting iTunes and iPod users effortlessly skip back and forth through their playlists, having just been told by a Texas court that it’ll cost the company $8 million in damages for the ability to do so.
Apple’s payout comes after it lost a patent infringement case brought against it by a patent licensing …
If you were constantly being sued by a pair of 6’5″ twin bros with chiseled cheekbones and really, really heavy pockets, you’d probably think, “This is FOR SURE the weirdest court case I’ll ever have to go through. In LIFE.” And you know what? You’d probably be right.
Unless, of course, you were a certain Facebook founder named Mark …
Remember that huge anti-piracy initiative targeting all the people who illegally downloaded The Hurt Locker? Well, that was just a small part of a much larger crackdown happening across the country.
Torrent Freak reports that the overall number of users being accused of copyright infringement is closing in on a mind-numbing 200,000 …
The early candidate for weird Facebook lawsuit of the year took another turn this morning, when representatives for the social network discredited Paul Ceglia’s alleged e-mail exchange with Mark Zuckerberg as fake. A sham. A forgery. You get the idea.
As you’ll recall, Mr. Ceglia is the wood pellet salesman from upstate New York who …
Attention, humanity: We seem to be suffering from an acute case of stupidity.
There’s a viral misconception making its way through our Twitter accounts and Facebook profiles and injecting itself into our brains. And it’s leading those infected to believe these social sites are looking out for us.
Yesterday, we wondered if Twitter …
Reports are circulating that several iOS developers are being served legal notices for violations of patent infringement in the Apple App Store. What’s worrisome is that the plaintiff, Lodsys, is bypassing Apple and its daunting legal infrastructure and going straight after the vulnerable indie parties.
The patent in question concerns …
Earlier this week, we caught wind that Apple was suing its buddy Samsung, with accusations that the icon designs that Samsung’s been using for its line of Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets represent “blatant copying” of the icons Apple uses for the iPhone and iPad.
Apple and Samsung have seemingly had a civil working relationship …
If you’ve used one of Samsung’s Android phones or tablets recently, you may have thought to yourself that the square-icons-with-rounded-corners design used throughout the interface looked a little familiar.
Apple thinks Samsung’s icon design looks more than a little familiar and has filed a lawsuit alleging that “Samsung …
It’s been a weird year for football fans. The NFL lockout means Sunday’s regular pigskin battles may disappear entirely, or worse, that they’ll be waged by substitute players. It’s even getting strange on the video game front, where sports-play bigwig EA’s adding cautionary concussion mechanics to this year’s edition of their perennial …
Get any interesting e-mails lately? If you’re a Gmail user, you should have gotten one directly from Google yesterday saying, “We’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz.”
“Everyone in the U.S. who uses Gmail is included in the settlement,” says the e-mail. We won! What do we get? “Just to be clear, this is not a …
Gabriela Cedillo, the extra injured on the set of Transformers 3 when a slab of metal sliced into her skull during a stunt gone wrong leaving her partially paralyzed and unable to speak as a result, is suing Paramount Pictures for negligence. Cedillo’s attorney, Todd A. Smith, told CBS 2 in Chicago that neither his client nor other …
