Samsung has just won one crucial victory in its legal battle with Apple. It’ll get to keep its products on retailers’ shelves this Christmas. On Friday, a judge denied Apple an injunction that would have allowed the electronics …
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Why Walmart’s Netflix Settlement Is Worthless (Twice Over)
If you received an email recently telling you that you would be receiving a Walmart gift card or cash equivalent as part of the corporation’s settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging that Walmart and Netflix illegally worked …
Universal Music Sues Music Streaming Service for 100,000 Illegal Uploads
Spotify may be about to lose one of its most high-profile competitors, thanks to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed at the end of last week. Grooveshark, the streaming music service that recently relaunched itself with a new …
Hacker Arrested for Causing $500,000 Worth of Damage to NASA
How much damage can one man cause the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? If the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism’s charges against the newly arrested Robert Butyka are to be …
Court Rules Government Can Get Your Online Personal Data Without Warrant
A new legal precedent was set yesterday with the decision by a U.S. District Court Judge that the government can, in fact, collect information about you through your internet use without a warrant.
The ruling by Judge Liam …
Is Microsoft Bullying Device Manufacturers with Patent Claims?
Microsoft has declared a quiet war against Android, using patents to try and drive competitors out of business – or at least, out of competition. That’s the claim being made by Barnes & Noble, which is asking U.S. regulators to …
British ISP Lobbied to Shut Off Access to Filesharing Sites
Following a landmark legal ruling that forces the United Kingdom’s largest ISP to block access to an illegal filesharing site, movie studios, record companies and other media publishers are banding together to push for British ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay in an attempt to significantly cut down on piracy within the …
Judge Allows Sprint’s AT&T/T-Mobile Lawsuit to Proceed
The $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile may still be going ahead, but it’ll have to face a lawsuit claiming unfair competition from Sprint and C Spire before it can be finalized, with a U.S. District Judge allowing the companies’ case to proceed after dismissing some of their more outrageous claims.
Judge Ellen Huvelle ruled …
Zediva Shuts Down After Settling Lawsuit with MPAA
The dream of an admittedly-overly-complicated way of ignoring existing copyright law in order to stream movies online is, it seems, over with the news that the lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and website Zediva.com has been resolved, with Zediva agreeing to pay $1.8 million and permanently stop streaming video …
Smartphones, Beware: Apple Patents Slide-to-Unlock Feature
The Apple patent war is going to get a little nastier. We’ve all heard about the patent wars between Apple and Samsung, but Apple now owns the “slide to unlock” patent, available on smartphones almost everywhere.
In particular, Android devices—phones and tablets alike—are running the risk of being sued by Apple for patent …
