The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has begun a formal investigation into Samsung's strategy of using FRAND-encumbered patents related to 3G wireless networking standards in lawsuits. The announcement comes after the Commission began a preliminary inquiry into the matter last November and several courts in the EU have struck down Samsung's attempts to use the patents against Apple. [......]
If a country was told that 90% of their beaches and rivers met EU water quality standards, you would think that would be a cause for celebration. Not so in the UK. Despite the new glowing governmental figures from DEFRA (The[......]
Senior officials in Spain's Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), the country's leading collection society for songwriters and composers, face embezzlement charges in the wake of a Friday raid on the organization's offices. [......]
UPDATED – What appears to be a fire or explosion engulfed one of the buildings at the Foxconn Factory in Chengdu, China. Foxconn is reporting two casualties and 16 hurt and the damage does look severe and quite thorough. MICGadget reported that "10 fire engines, ambulances and 10 police cars" arrived on the scene[......]
US businesses have been taken for at least $11 million over the last year thanks to unauthorized wire transfers to China. The situation is so serious that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a fraud alert to small- and medium-sized businesses, warning that cybercriminals have been compromising the businesses' banking credentials in order to send money overseas[......]
The popular file sharing and synching service known as Dropbox has been receiving some heat lately for changes the company made to its Terms of Service (TOS). For many, the point of concern was a section about compliance with law enforcement, in which Dropbox outlined situations where it would feel compelled to fork over personal data about its users. This sparked a bit of outrage among fans of the service, so Dropbox decided to set the record straight in a lengthy blog post explaining the changes. [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews The FBI said Thursday that it had executed more than 40 search warrants across the US, part of an expanding global probe into the attacks by hacktivist group Anonymous on several companies. [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews London police have detained five individuals ages 15 to 26 in connection with an investigation into Anoymous, a "hacktivist" group responsible for attacks on companies that suspended accounts associated with leak site WikiLeaks. The investigation is a global effort, and includes law enforcement agencies in both the US and Europe. The Metropolitan Police Service did not indentify the accused, nor did they directly link them to the group[......]
We all knew it was a distinct possibility that at some point that Google could be looking at a viable antitrust investigation. It's not clear if this is the day for it, but we do know that the Texas Attorney General is investigating the search giant to see if they are violating antitrust laws. At issue here is the accusation from some companies that Google is manipulating its paid search results in a way designed to disadvantage competitors[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews HP Chairman, CEO and President Mark Hurd resigned from his positions in the company on Friday after sexual harassment claims were brought against him by a former HP contractor. "As the investigation progressed, I realized there were instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at HP and which have guided me throughout my career[......]
Bringing to a close an investigation that began in January 2007 , the South Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC), has concluded there is no evidence of collusion to fix prices in the NAND flash memory industry. The FTC was investigating the world’s four largest manufacturers of NAND flash memory: two in South Korea, one in Japan, and one in the United States[......]
There's been a bit of a disagreement in the security community over how serious a recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) really is. On one hand, the researcher who discovered the bug labeled it as "highly critical," while at least one other security firm showed far less concern[......]
