Remember a few years ago when Google got itself in that whole little Street-View-cars-collecting-personal-Wi-Fi-network-data debacle? Well, it looks like the case is finally being settled, and it's not just the people who had their privacy stripped before their very eyes that are benefitting — everyone gets a piece of the pie! Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"but that's what I'm saying, it would rapidly become useless, a 0% match unless they have a way to update it via phones fixing with GPS.
in a lot of..." More »
Judge Lucy Koh has given Samsung a huge discount on the damages it owes Apple. Originally billed to pay Apple over $1 billion, (£665 million) Judge Koh has cut $450,514,650 (£299 million) from Samsung's tab. The new total that Samsung owes is $598,908,892 (£398 million). Still an unfathomable amount of money but an unfathomable amount of money less now. Read More >>
Featured comment by Spectater:
"This should have never went to court. I had a look at what the case was about,and my opinion it was a waste of tax payers money." More »
You read that right. The Pirate Bay is the one doing the suing over copyright infringement this time. Even more hilariously, The Pirate Bay says it will sue CIAPC, an anti-piracy group, for copyright infringement. The Pirate Bay is completely serious! It has already asked the policy to investigate its claim that CIAPC has copied The Pirate Bay. Read More >>
Facebook's crusade against pseudonyms and nicknames has just won out. After a German court ruled Facebook couldn't force people to use their real, full names, a successful appeal from Facebook in another German court rules it can. The result? You're stuck using your real name on Facebook. Read More >>
Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer is suing Facebook over its 'Like' button. Companies get sued all the time! Why do we care? Well, aside from having an A+ name, van Der Meer is actually... dead. He passed away in 2004, just as Facebook was beginning to take over the world. Why is he suing now? Read More >>
Word just came down that Apple's iPhone has been found to infringe on three patents held byMobileMedia, according to Bloomberg. It's not clear which patents are in question, but in 2010, MobileMedia, a company owned by Sony, Nokia, and a company that licenses MPEG patents,took Apple to court over 18 patents dealing with screen rotation and call rejection. Read More >>
I'm not sure whether it's 'cool' to sue Samsung at the moment or something, but it seems Ericsson thinks so. It's just filed a lawsuit against the South Korean giant for yet more patent infringement. It seems Samsung's fighting on all fronts right now. Read More >>
Well, this is getting a little confusing. Oatmeal Studios, who's suing the Oatmeal we know and love, has responded. It says it's drawn up the lawsuit to protect its name, and to defend against one of the world's largest greeting card companies. The Oatmeal's just got caught in the crossfire. Read More >>
Featured comment by equesta:
"It's fair enough I guess. It's not like Oatmeal Studios owns a patent to "printed thick paper-based product with four sides"." More »
After finally getting rid of all that FunnyJunk mess, Matthew Inman's Oatmeal has found itself right in the middle of yet another lawsuit, this time all over a name and some greeting cards. Yep, that's right, cards. Read More >>
Featured comment by Cloudfire:
"I would argue that it would still be far too similar to the original copyright, but this is why we have courts to decide.
The last lawsuit was enti..." More »
OK, it's a bit odd that the 32GB Surface actually only turns up with 16GB of space, because Windows RT takes up half of it, but suing Microsoft? Really? Why don't you just stick an SD in there and call it a day? What's wrong with you? Read More >>
Featured comment by alienvariety:
"Now it's my turn to say in a perfect world I would be 100% in agreement :P
This isn't a perfect world, and unfortunately, for big corporations not ..." More »
If your heart grew two sizes when Apple and HTC decided to settle their patent disputes with money instead of lawyers (or guns?), prepare for shrinkage. When asked if Samsung would follow suit — or lack thereof — its mobile head, J.K. Shin, gave an emphatic no. To the jousting field! Read More >>
Featured comment by mikeo:
"Probably not 'all' of them. As you point out, they don't have a monopoly. I was also referring to their litigation for products, not parts.
Where ..." More »
If you thought the Apple-Samsung war was over, think again. Samsung's fired yet another salvo at Cupertino, this time targeting the iPhone 5 and possible patent infringements. Samsung says it has "little choice but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations". Will this patent madness ever end? [Reuters] Read More >>
In a hilarious court ruling, Apple got denied a trademark on its orange music icon (the one that's on iOS devices) because trademark judges said consumers might confuse the logo with one owned by MySpace. Hah! Read More >>
Featured comment by zerobob:
"The music symbol itself seems completely generic to me, the sort of generic music symbol you'd find everywhere, from kids toys to song books and music..." More »
Yesterday an appeals court helped the RIAA extort some £140,000-odd from Jammie Thomas-Rasset for distributing just 24 songs on the internet. The original verdict called for a preposterous penalty of £1.2 million. Sure, this new amount of just under £6,000 a song is lower, but ugh, it's still absurd and horrible. Read More >>
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