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Earlier this week, the company developing Mac OS X filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings, a firm that allegedly copied the design of one of Apple’s products, and is now selling MacBook Power Adapters based on that design. Apple’s Power Adapter for MacBooks, also known as the... |
26 November 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Lawsuits aren't anything new for Google, but one in Italy could mean jail time for several Google employees if they're found guilty. The four men are charged with several privacy violations and libel over a user-uploaded video, hosted on Google Video in 2006. The prosecutors are now asking for one year in ... |
26 November 2009
06:31 GMT |
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After being banned from Resistance: Fall of Man by Sony for being a repeat offender found guilty of trolling, Erik Estavillo sued the company for its unjust action. When the courtroom dismissed the case, he moved on to Microsoft and Nintendo, accusing that a broken Xbox 360 caused him undue stress and that a Wii syst... |
25 November 2009
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Although it finished up some of its bigger legal issues when it settled the antitrust lawsuit with AMD, Intel is still far from getting out of all its other legal disputes. One of the more heated litigations that are taking place between it and NVIDIA, the entire quarrel between the two enterprises revolves around wh... |
24 November 2009
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This October, Microsoft's monarchic attitude showed itself once again when it decided to limit the possibility of using Xbox 360 addons that were not manufactured by the company itself. Everything that Larry Hryb deemed as "unauthorized Memory Units" became unusable after the update was applied on a 360 console.... |
24 November 2009
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About two weeks ago, Microsoft decided to deal another blow to the underworld of piracy, as a considerable number of modified Xbox 360 consoles had been banned from the Xbox Live. A lot of people, mostly those that ended up getting banned, were seriously frustrated by this decision, as one can only imagine, and it di... |
23 November 2009
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Though he constantly insists things are going well for him, Jon Gosselin’s problems seem to be increasing in number with each passing day. The other day, word got out that he once signed a contract with Kate Major, with whom he had a week-long affair a short while ago. Not only does said contract put him in hot... |
20 November 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Skype has had its most tumultuous year yet, but all the problems are finally behind it and the company can focus on growth and revenue as opposed to lawsuits. eBay has announced that it has finalized the sale it first revealed several months ago and that Skype is now a separate private company, although eBay still re... |
20 November 2009
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When the name of Kate Major first emerged in the press, it was in connection with “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star Jon Gosselin. She claimed to be his lover, he denied any involvement. She said he promised her he would make her his PA, he called her a shameless liar. Radar Online has now irrefutable proof that Ma... |
19 November 2009
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Aaron Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys fame, is now a wanted man – and not in a good way, as the IRS has just filed papers against him for tax evasion. One week after being booted from Dancing With the Stars with much hubbub, Carter is now seeing himself in troubled waters with ... |
18 November 2009
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Ever since the broadband Internet became a household appliance, games have begun to rely more and more on it. So much so that some have even lost the single-player element altogether and now rely on the online community the titles scored to keep themselves alive. Most online games encourage in one way or another a st... |
18 November 2009
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Nicolas Cage, arguably one of the most bankable actors in Hollywood at the present moment, is severely in debt, as we reported a while back. While the actor is saying that his finances are this bad because of his manager’s inattention to all the details, the manager himself has just filed a lawsuit against Cage... |
18 November 2009
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Google Books has been the source of much controversy for Google over the years and the problems aren't gone just yet, despite the company having reached an agreement more than a year ago with the author and publisher groups with which it was in litigation over the service. After delays and concerns from governme... |
14 November 2009
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A judge sided with Jennifer Lopez issued a temporary injunction against former husband of less than a year Ojani Noa, who was planning the release of a tell-all movie in the guise of a parody. Although a confidentiality agreement is in place between the two for many years, Noa seemed to think he could bypass it to ge... |
12 November 2009
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TLC is currently pursuing legal action against the man it made into a star with the “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality show, Jon Gosselin. The network has sued for breach of contract, because Jon reportedly cashed in good money to do interviews with the written and spoken media. Just recently, Gosselin too has f... |
12 November 2009
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Paris Hilton, although a questionable singer and actress, makes millions of dollars a year off her image alone. No matter how much criticism she gets and despite the occasional bashing in the tabloid media, whatever Paris touches turns to gold, whether it be an endorsement for canned, sparkly wine or a perfume and wh... |
10 November 2009
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Jon Gosselin, one half of the once extremely successful TLC reality series “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” is now being sued by the network for doing televised and media interviews in exchange of money when he was bound to it by an exclusivity contract. Former friend and occasional spokesperson Michael Lohan has alr... |
10 November 2009
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The war between the music industry and anyone it perceives as standing in its way of making money the good, old-fashioned way, by selling CDs, is still raging, but, for once, common sense and this little thing called the law prevailed in the face of scare tactics and misguided legal threats. Earlier this year, the No... |
9 November 2009
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Eddie Cibrian may have separated from his wife after cheating on her with country singer LeAnn Rimes who, in turn, was also married at the time, but that doesn’t mean the old saying of “once a cheater, always a cheater” suits him like a glove. Consequently, the actor is taking a US publication to co... |
9 November 2009
10:12 GMT |
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Sometimes, people try to bite more than they can chew and then complain about the sore jaw. One such person could be Alexander Stern. The gamer suffers from a visual impairment and yet insists that he not only play video games, which is a God-given right to anybody, but that Sony make its games more accessible for th... |
9 November 2009
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Not long ago, Jon Gosselin and Michael Lohan were best friends and, to some extent, even business partners. Lohan would often talk to the press on behalf of Gosselin and word had it that they were thinking of starring in a new reality show together as well. Since then, they have had a fall-out – and it’s ... |
9 November 2009
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Jennifer Lopez may finally have the perfect marriage and perfect family with now-husband Marc Antony and the twins they have together, but there is one man in her past that will simply not go away. Ojani Noa, the singer’s first husband, is looking to release a tell-all movie and intimate home videos shot while ... |
8 November 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Ever since Michael Jackson’s sudden death in June this year, estranged father Joe Jackson has been keeping a very high profile in the media, often doing interviews and media rounds to talk about his late son and plans for the children he left behind. However, he’s out for more than just media attention, a... |
7 November 2009
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It's official, the Skype saga is finally over, with all parties involved most likely satisfied with the results, though not exactly thrilled. eBay got rid of Skype, allowing it to focus on its other assets, most notably PayPal, the investors got a nice piece of the VoIP service and Skype's founders also got... |
6 November 2009
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Just yesterday, Michael Lohan was saying that he had come to the conclusion the only way he could make his daughter see that she needed rehab was to air all her dirty laundry in public. Since then to the time of writing, Mr. Lohan seems to have moved forward with his threat of releasing personal audios in his possess... |
5 November 2009
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Activision saw its shares of trouble when it decided to use the late Kurt Cobain's likeness in its Guitar Hero 5, and, since then, troubles with its rhythm games started pouring in. Now, it is once again sued by a band for the unlawful use of likeness in a video game. According to Los Angeles Times, No Doubt are... |
5 November 2009
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Former Miss California USA and the Miss California USA beauty pageant have finally found a way to agree on something, following months of verbal and legal dispute over the former’s firing from the competition in the aftermath of the homophobe-comments scandal. According to TMZ, Prejean has dropped the discrimin... |
4 November 2009
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Wireless carrier AT&T has sued Verizon Wireless over the “There's a Map for That” commercials Big Red has been airing for quite some time now, and which are aimed at the “There's an App for That” ads Apple delivers for its iPhone. According to AT&T, that filed the lawsuit on Tuesday,... |
4 November 2009
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be heading towards a resolution, as the parties involved are closer to a settlement. But, as expected, there are a couple of concessions that the company had to make in order to make things work. The agreement is between Skype's founders, the ones behind all of the lawsuit... |
4 November 2009
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There's no shortage of companies or even countries wanting to get their hands on some of Google's wealth, sometimes rightfully so, though, most of the times, the claims are a little weak. Now, Turkey is having a go at it by claiming that Google owes the country 71 million Turkish Lira (approx. €32 mill... |
3 November 2009
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In an effort to at least continue selling PCs with Snow Leopard as it tries to fend off Apple for the Leopard suit spawned last year, Florida-based Mac cloner Psystar has asked the judge handling its dispute with the Mac maker to rule in favor of its allegedly legit business. The people at Macworld excerpted a story... |
3 November 2009
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be getting closer to an end, as Skype's founders and eBay are apparently in talks for a settlement. According to the GigaOm blog, sources close to the talks say that the two parties are going over their differences, but the discussions could still go either way and are far... |
2 November 2009
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Lawsuits are a fact of life for large companies and they don't get any more common than patent lawsuits and all-time favorite for companies large and small. Patent laws are already widely disputed as being abused and this even more true for software patents, which most engineers would agree have very little fact... |
28 October 2009
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Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits and, while many can be dismissed as frivolous, there are some of them that go into deeper issues. Facebook and Power.com have been engaged in a legal battle for almost a year now over the fact that Power.com scraped user data from the social network despite it explicitly forbidding... |
24 October 2009
05:48 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has been taking hit after hit yet, miraculously, managed to stay afloat with hardly any noticeable damage so far. This time though it may not be able to weather the storm as a Dutch court has ordered the site to remove all infringing torrents within three months or face fines of 5,000 Euros, or $7,500... |
23 October 2009
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The Pirate Bay case was scheduled for an appeal next month but it now seems that this has been postponed at least until summer 2010. The case has always been surrounded by controversy and this time it was no different. Two of the judges supposed to preside the appeal were accused of bias, a recurring theme in the Pir... |
20 October 2009
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On Friday, reportedly after several attempts to settle the matter outside a court of law, TLC, the network producing and carrying the “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality show, filed a lawsuit against Jon Gosselin for breach of contract. In court documents, the network argues that Jon is using his children as &ldq... |
19 October 2009
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Hollywood A-lister Nicolas Cage, who made an estimated $40 million between June 2008 and June 2009, is in major debt. Court documents reveal he owes the IRS over $6 million in unpaid taxes, while also defaulting on a $2 million loan, as we also reported. Nevertheless, Cage is not bankrupt: he was simply ill advised b... |
17 October 2009
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TLC, the network producing and airing the soon-to-be-defunct “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality series, is taking Jon Gosselin to court for allegedly violating contractual obligations, Radar Online reports. The father of eight was bound to TLC by an exclusive contract, a contract that he violated the moment he s... |
17 October 2009
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JD Supra, a distributor of legal content, has launched its free “Legal Edge” iPhone application. Streaming timely legal information written by the nation’s lawyers and law firms, the application allows iPhone users to stay on top of the latest legal news, as well as of the various developments in an... |
15 October 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The Sidekick data loss issue that made the headlines during the past few days has been brought to court by Sidekick customer Maureen Thompson from Atlanta, who filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile on the account that these companies failed to securely and automatically back up users' data, although the... |
15 October 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Facebook has been recently faced with a new lawsuit related to the Beacon matter, even though representatives of both parties have announced that an agreement is being negotiated. It appears that three persons from Texas currently have a pending lawsuit against another company (namely Blockbuster) that also participa... |
15 October 2009
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Skype's future is looking anything but secure, even with the recent sale, and with things getting a little desperate, the VoIP service seems to be looking at all options to ensure its survival. The latest rumor is that Skype is looking to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5 for around $50 million. The deal is f... |
14 October 2009
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The Michael Jackson Estate released yesterday “This Is It,” a never-before-heard Michael Jackson track, to promote the upcoming docu-film that drops at the end of the month. Some might have found that it sounded like a hit of 20 years ago, “I Never Heard” by Safire, and that’s because it... |
13 October 2009
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Three fonts are in the middle of one of the heftiest lawsuits against NBC this year. Font Bureau, a Boston-based graphics agency has filed a complaint against TV giant NBC after it wrongfully used the licenses purchased for three of its fonts (Antenna, Interstate, and Bureau Grotesque). Besides copyright infringement... |
13 October 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Social networking has been known to get people in trouble with the law from time to time, but most of the times it's for something done outside of the social network itself. MySpace status updates have been known to get people arrested for revealing details related to various illegal acts, and Facebook photos ha... |
10 October 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits, some frivolous, others with more weight. It's part of the territory when you get to a certain size and, with Facebook's 300 million users, there's hardly a target larger than it. If you're going to sue someone it might as well be the largest social network in t... |
9 October 2009
10:57 GMT |
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More than one year ago, there were reports on the Internet that claimed NVIDIA would soon announce it would get out of the global chipset market, a claim that was never confirmed by the company. Later on, NVIDIA announced that it had entered a legal dispute with Intel, the world's leading chip maker, according t... |
9 October 2009
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The new Guns N’ Roses released “Chinese Democracy” after many delays in November 2008, moving on to become one of the few albums to have spent over a decade in production stage. Almost a year later, the band is being sued for $1 million on plagiarism charges, after Ulrich Schnauss, a German electron... |
7 October 2009
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Google's acquisition of YouTube is one of the company's best-known transactions and the most controversial. The deal made waves at the moment for the price tag it carried, which many believed to be significantly over-inflated, and later on for all of the copyright infringement troubles it carried. To this d... |
6 October 2009
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