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Looks like the brief clash between Samsung and the South Korean Internet provider KT has reached its conclusion before things got too ugly.
The two ended up opposing one another when KT cut Internet access to the Apps available on Samsung Smart TVs.
About 250,000 sold TVs were affected and, needless to say, custo... |
15 February 2012
08:30 GMT |
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In a move that may or may not be surprising, depending on how much of Samsung's legal troubles one is acquainted with, the chairman of the company just got slammed with a lawsuit of his own.
In this instance, at least, it is not Samsung, as a company, that is feeling the hard part of the gavel, but its chairma... |
14 February 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Apple has filed another ITC complaint against South Korean mobile phone Samsung, this time in the United States, in an attempt to ban sales of a series of mobile phones in the country.
Among them we can count the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a handset that was launched in the United States in November last year, and whic... |
13 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Apple is getting sued yet again, this time by SmartData, adding to the long list of courtroom tussles that the Cupertino company is involved in nowadays.
The patent infringement lawsuit is aimed at the Apple iPhone, AppleTV and the Apple Remote.
SmartData claims that those products infringe their patent 7,158,757 a... |
10 February 2012
09:13 GMT |
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Samsung is none too happy about how, just the other day, hundreds of thousands of its Smart TVs got suddenly cut off from the Internet.
For those that missed the report yesterday (February 9, 2012), South Korean Internet provider KT decided to cut off web access to the apps loaded on Samsung Smart TVs.
The reason ... |
10 February 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Intel has had its share of legal troubles, but one of the more outstanding lawsuits against it has been dropped, following a ruling passed in December 2011.
Back in November 2009, the New York Attorney General filed an antitrust claim against the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant.
For those that haven'... |
10 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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In October last year, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took SeaWorld to court on behalf of five killer whales, asking for their immediate release into the wild on the basis of slavery. A judge has tossed the claim out.
PETA wanted five whales released because keeping them in captivity at SeaWorld was... |
9 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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One might say that it was only a matter of time before something like this happened, even though it has definitely been a while since the motive behind Acer's latest action arose.
Basically, Acer has sued former chief executive officer Gianfranco Lanci over alleged breaching of a non-compete clause.
Details ... |
7 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Ramona Fricosu, the woman ordered by a court to decrypt the contents of her laptop until February 21, revealed through the voice of her lawyer that she might have forgotten the password to the encrypted drive. According to Wired, the defendant hasn’t taken this position in court, but her attorney states that p... |
7 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Apple really didn't appreciate seeing Samsung win the appeal in Australia, the one that lifted the ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, so it figured it would raise its voice a little more.
At least that's what we would say if “a little more” wasn't such a massive understatement.
We'll just... |
3 February 2012
09:27 GMT |
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One Florida man has just found a legal loophole that might save his millions in case he's found guilty of wrongful death in a civil case stemming from a 2010 car crash: he's adopted his adult girlfriend. The video here will offer more details. John Goodman, a very successful Florida businessman, is now bein... |
2 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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MegaUpload users can breathe easy, for a while, their data is safe, though still inaccessible, for at least two more weeks. MegaUpload's attorney announced that the two companies that currently host MegaUpload data have agreed to store it for another two weeks giving the site time to fight the government and may... |
31 January 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Close to 100,000 students, faculty and staff members of the University of Hawaii will receive credit monitoring and fraud protection services for a period of two years after the educational institution admitted to a number of five data breaches.
The reputation of the University of Hawaii was stained by a lot of unfo... |
30 January 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Even though Samsung won against Apple in The Netherlands, ensuring freedom of movement for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, its efforts to ban the Apple iPhone 4S aren't bearing any fruit. It wasn't so long ago that an Italian court ruled against Samsung in their ongoing patent fight. Now, Germany's Man... |
28 January 2012
06:20 GMT |
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The whole drama starring Apple and Samsung has gone through yet another episode, one that the former was definitely displeased with.
Apple and Samsung used to be almost the best of friends until the latter created a tablet that became a threat to Apple's iPad.
Apple was quick to sue Samsung over alleged pate... |
24 January 2012
08:08 GMT |
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Embroiled in a patent dispute with Apple, Kodak recently filed for bankruptcy, but Apple has asked the court to bar Kodak from obtaining loans, arguing that the disputed patents actually belong to them.
Submitted to the US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York last week, the filing reveals that Kodak... |
23 January 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Advanced micro Devices may soon find itself with a lawsuit of its own to deal with, or a new one at least, as Arctic is thinking of fighting over the 'Fusion' trademark.
The IT market is never really free of legal struggles, but that doesn't seem to be doing anything to stop the flow of yet more la... |
21 January 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Looks like the turmoil of patent infringement lawsuits is not even in the least bit over for Samsung, as its Galaxy Tab was targeted again, by Kodak this time.
Kodak has definitely stopped playing nice now that its financial position and existence as a brand is being threatened more than ever before.
What it did ... |
19 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Grooveshark's troubles continue as the site has been forced to block German users from accessing it. The recent lawsuits the major record labels have filed against the company are not to blame, rather, rising licensing prices demanded by the German music rights collection group GEMA, have forced Grooveshark to s... |
18 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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A Washington state resident is suing Symantec for scaring consumers with fake error detections and convincing them to purchase their products in order to get rid of the alleged threats.
The class action complaint is filed in a Northern District of California court by James Gross and makes serious accusations regardi... |
12 January 2012
10:59 GMT |
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A while back, shortly after Kim Kardashian announced she was divorcing Kris Humphries after just 72 days and people started thinking the wedding must have been a sham, a new website emerged. She's now taking BoycottKim.com to court.As we also noted at the time the boycott movement was starting to pick up pace, t... |
11 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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We already know that video game companies Bethesda and Interplay have settled a long running lawsuit linked to the Fallout franchise and the two sides have recently revealed that the rights to create a Fallout based MMO have not reverted to Bethesda, the company which also holds the right to other genres linked to th... |
10 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Silicon Knights, the developer that is best known for the failure of Too Human, has said that despite the loss of one important witness it will carry on with its legal action against Epic Games, stating that it looks forward to offering proof that it has been negatively affected by the way the Unreal Engine was devel... |
9 January 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Grooveshark seems to be sinking more and more, it is now being sued by all four major record labels. EMI has joined the fray with a new suit. The interesting part about this is that EMI and Grooveshark already have a licensing deal so this can't be over copyright infringement.
In fact, the new lawsuit is precis... |
6 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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After accusing Apple Inc. of infringing on two of its patents relating to multi-touch technologies, Elan Microelectronics Corp. will receive 5$ million in compensation from the Cupertino tech giant, as well as access to a number of patented inventions of the Mac maker.
In June, last year, the U.S. International Trad... |
5 January 2012
07:34 GMT |
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In times where every single task is based on computers, a virus could be more than enough to give a convict a second chance.
After being convicted of second degree murder, Randy Chaviano, a Florida man, wanted to appeal his conviction, but to the court’s surprise the legal records of the initial trial could no... |
5 January 2012
03:00 GMT |
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Google is getting into trouble again in France and it's over the same issues, people don't like things they find in the search results. This time, it's a variation on the theme, someone didn't like the Google suggestions.A French insurance company, Lyonnaise de Garantie, didn't especially app... |
30 December 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Silicon Knights might no longer have a case in the lawsuit that it has brought against Epic Games, the creator of the Unreal Engine tech, because one of its key expert witnesses and his testimony have been excluded from the trial by a judge.Terry Lloyd was both an accountant and a financial analy... |
29 December 2011
20:51 GMT |
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Yoko Sekiguchi, a former employee of Konami, has received a favorable ruling from the Tokyo High Court for her legal action which was linked to discrimination over her request for maternity leave.The employee said that Konami, one of the biggest publishers in Japan, demoted her and cut her salary after she returned f... |
28 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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LCD manufacturers really haven't been taking care of their records as well as they should have.
Oddly enough, it happens again that, just as people are trying to enjoy holiday cheer, courts issue huge fines.
At least this once it is corporations that have to cough up the cash instead of random people.
Sharp, ... |
28 December 2011
09:12 GMT |
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This is a question and a problem that has risen on occasion lately and has now morphed into a complete lawsuit, just who 'owns' Twitter followers, users or their employers, if they're tweeting on behalf of the company?Twitter is a great way of communicating with customers, so it's obviously being ... |
27 December 2011
11:51 GMT |
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For 18 months, Jennifer O'Neill was Lady Gaga's personal assistant. During this time, she had to perform some of the most ridiculous tasks, while working over 7,100 hours overtime. She's now suing.In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan last week, O'Neill claims she accompanied Gaga all over the place and... |
27 December 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Rambus is one of those companies that don't make products but own patents and often sue other companies over alleged infringement, but it looks like its own record isn't really spotless either. To put it in layman terms, Rambus has a habit of stocking up on patents and then waiting until a product suppose... |
22 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Irony can be a wonderful thing, until it is worn down, overused and then crushed into the ground by how the things subject to it get too many and go too far for irony to handle.
Back when the Kindle Fire tablet first got Amazon sued, the irony was easy to see, given the tradition that the IT industry has for potent... |
22 December 2011
05:26 GMT |
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A gamer in North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against video game hardware maker and publisher Sony, claiming that the company used business practices when it introduced a new provision in the Terms of Service for the PlayStation 3 that accompanied the most recent firmware update.Another similar legal action stated th... |
20 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Six years ago, a coalition of publishers and author organizations sued Google over its Books program. The groups argued that Google was infringing on their copyright by scanning millions of copyrighted books, out-of-print or not.
Google on the other hand argued that what it was doing was fair use, since it was not m... |
14 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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All the time and resources Apple spent trying to get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 completely banned in Australia appear to have ultimately had the opposite effect. Granted, Apple did get an early victory and convinced the first judge who oversaw the case to issue an injunction against the tablet. This prevented Samsung fr... |
14 December 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Martin S., a 27-year-old man, the one considered to be the “main admin” of the defunct Kino.to movie streaming portal, was sentenced to 3 years in jail, the authorities confiscating his house, a car and bank accounts.
Many individuals were arrested, some of which were already imprisoned, for running the ... |
12 December 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Motorola has officially acknowledged a win against Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. after a German court ruled that Apple’s European sales office is infringing one of Motorola Mobility's core cellular communications patents.Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. has issued an official report announcing tha... |
11 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Panasonic has been making the news for a lot of things, and now it has antitrust lawsuit fine as an extra reason, though the cause for it might not be easy to guess.
Panasonic hasn't been good, so instead of present from Santa Claus, it got greeted by a different sort of gift this winter.
The company has been ... |
8 December 2011
20:21 GMT |
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There was bound to be some talk and snooping around the web after the pro-Samsung verdict in the US and, sure enough, a certain leak shows something interesting indeed.
A poorly redacted copy of the Apple/Samsung US preliminary injunction ruling (which has since been replaced) showed something Apple probably didn&#... |
6 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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After being accused of copyright infringement by book publishers Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons, Chitika and Clicksor ad networks, that offered services to a site that displayed links to pirated e-books, were found not guilty by a United States District Judge. The whole issue started after the advertising networks w... |
6 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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David Goldblatt filed a class action lawsuit against HP after learning about the dangers that could lurk behind the use of LaserJet printers.
Many might be thinking that HP couldn’t have known about the weaknesses, but as it turns out, a 2010 report commissioned by HP revealed that high-level security risks d... |
6 December 2011
02:36 GMT |
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There doesn't seem to be much chance of Apple and Samsung settling their differences now that their patent war has escalated all around the world, and Samsung's latest move proves it.
There aren't many things that could make a company change how its finances get distributed and invested, but Samsung ... |
5 December 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Apple is targeted by a lawsuit over unprecedented breach of the digital privacy rights of 150 million cell phone many of which are iPhone owners. At the heart of the suit is the Carrier IQ tool used in mobile operating systems, including the iOS.Discovered in Google’s Android operating system and later in Apple... |
5 December 2011
08:56 GMT |
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The Kardashian clan has been going through its roughest patch yet, since Kim announced she would be divorcing Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage. On that note, Khloe is now being named in a lawsuit as an assailant. A transgender woman has filed papers against the reality star, claiming she shoved and hit her in... |
5 December 2011
07:48 GMT |
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Hackers might just have all they need to start messing with the judicial system, in the UK anyway, once April 2012 comes around, as the British Government decided it was time tablets came into the picture.
According to The Guardian, traditional paper documents will begin their descent into posterity in five months ... |
5 December 2011
06:00 GMT |
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The ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Samsung tablet may have been officially overturned, but Samsung is still not allowed to start shipping the item in Australia, not until December 9, 2011. A few days ago, it was decided that the original injunction against the 10.1-inch Android tablet really was unjust. As such, the ... |
2 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Apple just got one of its previous victories thrown out the window, but it doesn't appear eager to let Samsung enjoy it, not from how it immediately went after another one of its tablets.
Samsung did say that getting the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in Australia was a “grossly unjust” verdict and, whethe... |
30 November 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Earlier this week, word got out in the tabloids that Kris Humphries was weighing in his legal options and planned to sue Kim Kardashian for the way the new season of her reality show would portray him. As it turns out, far be the thought from Kris. With the second season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York set to debut... |
27 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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