Watch out, IBM, it looks like Google’s just snapped up 1,000 patents belonging to you, which almost sounds dramatic, except for the part where IBM let them.
The future of law enforcement is…the future.
Things aren’t going well for Groupon these days. Not only is the daily deals business facing a downturn with Yelp cutting back the frequency of its deal service and Facebook dropping its service altogether, but now Groupon is facing its second class action lawsuit in two months—and this one comes from its own employees.
There is, it seems, only one problem with enforcing stricter copyright laws when it comes to online piracy: People stop using the Internet altogether.
Potential teenage Matthew Brodericks, beware: In this era of LulzSec, DDoS attacks on BART and hacktivst group Anonymous telling NATO that the world doesn’t belong to them anymore, the White House has decided that it’s time to take hacking seriously, asking for tougher sentencing for those found guilty of cybercrime.
Leave it to Walmart to find some kind of silver lining in an expensive settlement to a class action lawsuit. A California court has tentatively approved the corporate giant’s proposal to provide the 40 million Netflix subscribers their agreed upon settlement in the form of gift cards to Walmart’s website, which just happens to house [...]
Not that this should be monstrously surprising, but Sprint has filed a lawsuit against the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger. The suit has been filed "as a related case to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) suit against the proposed acquisition," according to Sprint’s press release.
He may have been one of the most successful recording artists in history, but that hasn’t stopped the corporate group responsible for managing Elvis Presley’s assets from filing a new lawsuit claiming that the singer was “unjustly exploited during his lifetime by his record company,” and all because no-one saw things like ringtones or digital downloads coming [...]
UPDATE 2: From CNET: “SF police confirm search for lost, unreleased iPhone“
FOLLOW-UP: WikiLeaks has published 250,000+ U.S. Embassy cables to a searchable online database…
Apple, Apple, Apple… did we learn nothing from the lost iPhone 4 fiasco? Yet another Apple employee “appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar,” according to CNET, who cites an unnamed source.
