Apple is yet again pursuing patent infringement claims against Samsung (and Samsung is counter-suing Apple too). [......]
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave up on its plan to sue piracy out of existence years ago. Instead of mass-copyright lawsuits, the group is embracing a mass-takedown strategy, sending notices[......]
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Late last year, a vigorous and secretive patent troll began sending out thousands of letters to small businesses all around the country, insisting that they owed between $900 and $1,200 per worker just for using scanners. The brazen patent-trolling scheme, carried out by a company called MPHJ technologies and dozens of shell companies with six-letter names, has caught the attention of politicians. [......]
The four lawyers linked to the Prenda Law copyright-trolling organization were slapped with an $81,000 sanctions order , which as of today, they have missed the deadline to pay. [......]
TerraCom's website offers free cell phones to low income customers; its call center company gave customers' personal data away. [......]
Apple CEO Tim Cook. Chris Foresman There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate see it. [......]
A much-publicized legal case involving a New York Web designer who faced thousands of dollars in fines after renting out his East Village apartment for a few days has been resolved. The designer, Nigel Warren, will have to pay a $2,400 fine for renting out his place to a visitor from Russia. The decision is a disappointment to both[......]
A new Senate report (PDF from The New York Times ) shows that Apple has been employing potentially sketchy business methods to avoid heavier tax burdens. According to the investigation, the company dodged billions in potential taxes on $44 billion in foreign income during the past four years. Some of the interesting bits from the Senate's report: three Apple subsidiaries in Ireland claim no responsibility to pay income taxes to any country. [......]
One of the longer-running, and higher stakes, high-tech patent disputes has been laid to rest. Brocade and A10 Networks settled their patent and copyright dispute over their competing application delivery controllers today[......]
Josh Chin The Chinese hackers who breached Google's corporate servers 41 months ago gained access to a database containing classified information about suspected spies, agents, and terrorists under surveillance by the US government, according to a published report. The revelation came in an article published Monday by The Washington Post,[......]
During a Q&A following a rambling conclusion to Google I/O's marathon keynote, Google CEO Larry Page said a few things that hinted at his frustrations with the one platform he can’t seem to find the right interfaces for: government. [......]
Earlier this month, four Prenda-linked lawyers were hit with serious sanctions by a Los Angeles federal judge. [......]
Some Alaskan permafrost tumbles into the ocean. [......]
If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed. And this can only happen if Microsoft can convert the messages into human-readable form at will[......]
After being publicly exposed in February as the source of a long list of cyberattacks on US companies and media organizations, the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Unit 61396 largely pulled back from the networks the unit had infiltrated. But now, the New York Times reports , the hackers are back in action using new techniques to go after many of the same corporate and government targets they had infiltrated before[......]
