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AMD: Double Your Market Share or Shut Down

The antitrust lawsuit filed by AMD against its arch-rival Intel unveiled more details about AMD's precarious financial state. According to a brief released by chip manufacturer's lawyers, the company has to either double its share of the microprocessor market or shut down its business and go home. The brief...

6 May 2008
10:46 GMT

Take Two Sues Chicago Transit Authority for GTA Ads

It was about two weeks ago when we reported that the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) had decided to withdraw the ad campaign on Grand Theft Auto, following news reports from Fox News stating that recent criminal and violent acts in Chicago were caused by the yet to be released (back then) Rockstar title. This decisio...

6 May 2008
03:43 GMT

And Yes, Piracy Does Make You Famous! Pirate Bay Strikes 12 Million Users Milestone!

The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular names on the web nowadays even if it comes from that side of the market which is often accused of piracy and copyright infringement. In fact, The Pirate Bay is one of the most attacked services as several copyright holders and anti-piracy groups have sued the BitTorrent track...

25 April 2008
04:02 GMT

News Corp Hired Hacker to Attack Rivals

The evolution of a lawsuit between News Corp. and DISH Network Corp. reveals shocking details which took place in the past, although nobody would ever expect such a thing from a large corporation like News Corp. To be more specific, a computer hacker who testified a few days ago revealed that he was hired by News Cor...

24 April 2008
09:09 GMT

Apple Can't Stand iClones Anymore

Apple has had just about enough with "iCloners", sources on the Internet reveal. Whether Psystar has anything to do with it or not, Apple is no longer sitting with its arms crossed watching as the Chinese (and not only) sell pathetic copies of its iPhone, iPod and other Apple products. One company even shares its sad...

23 April 2008
04:31 GMT

Key Witness Hired by Pirate Bay's Lawsuit Rival

The Pirate Bay is again brought in the spotlights, but this time to what seems to be one of the most important glitches of the lawsuit versus the copyright holders: Jim Keyzer, the chief police investigator who was responsible for the investigation of the case, was recently hired by Warner Bros, one of the companies ...

18 April 2008
08:41 GMT

Rapper Stands Back In The Pirate Bay vs. IFPI Lawsuit

The dispute between The Pirate Bay and IFPI, an organization that fights for the copyright of several artists, tends to reach the first page of every newspaper around the world as every new day comes with hot and extremely important information. Following TPB's announcement that the website will demand compensat...

17 April 2008
05:09 GMT

STEC Dismisses Seagate's Patent Lawsuit

Solid-state drive manufacturer STEC claims that Seagate's patent infringement lawsuit is completely without merit and gets ready to prove this in court. According to the filled lawsuit, hard-disk drive manufacturer Seagate accuses STEC of infringing four of its patents that cover mass-memory storage technologies...

16 April 2008
04:51 GMT

Pirate Bay Seeking for Compensation from Copyright Holders?!

The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To b...

16 April 2008
04:43 GMT

Apple and Sony Pay 1.3 Million Yen in Battery Fire Lawsuit

Apple and Sony have to pay 1.3 million Yen (£6,500) to a Japanese couple who has had quite a bit of misfortune with their Mac which caught fire injuring the two, both physically and emotionally. According to this Macworld report, the Sony-made battery was the cause. Looks like the Sony Li-Ion battery issues aren'...

15 April 2008
09:44 GMT

Sued? Antivirus Update Required!

A new and pretty dangerous phishing attack was launched a few days ago, targeting the CEOs of online companies. According to Cyveillance's official blog, the CEO of the company, Panos Anastassiadis, received a suspicious email, apparently a subpoena, which informed him that he had been sued, the message includin...

15 April 2008
05:18 GMT

Seagate Starts Calling SSD Manufacturers To Court

Storage expert Seagate is reportedly gearing up for a huge court battle with almost any solid-state drive manufacturer on the market. As previously reported, Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins, said that he was not impressed with the performance boost achieved by using SSDs inside notebooks, and would ultimately sue it...

15 April 2008
03:00 GMT

New Evidence in the Wendy Williams Sex Case

Wendy Williams may be best known for hosting the highest rated weekday syndicated radio broadcast yet, pissing off Tupac Shakur and speaking her mind on day-to-day celebrity gossip, however the outspoken radio host may soon have a lot more to worry about than annoyed celebrities taking abusive swipes at her in their ...

14 April 2008
06:25 GMT

Heath Ledger Framed by Paparazzi over "Drug Tape"

As if Heath Ledger's untimely death at the beginning of the year was not enough of a tragedy, the actor's memory was soon to be tarnished by a series if accusations and sensationalist reports, culminating with the infamous broadcast of a tape showing the young artist snorting cocaine during a party at the C...

14 April 2008
05:45 GMT

Ultra Products Slams PSU Manufacturers With Huge Lawsuit

Ultra Products, an obscure hardware manufacturer has triggered an enormous lawsuit against almost any power-supply unit manufacturer on the market, based on the alleged fact that they infringe upon the company's patented technology.The lawsuit claims that a vast number of high-power modular power supply manufact...

10 April 2008
16:26 GMT

Lohan Sued Again

Lindsay Lohan definitely has a hard time keeping her nose clean. If three stints in rehab, two arrests and a reputation for sleeping with just about any rich, good-looking man or woman who crosses her path were not enough, here's another piece of news that will most likely come to confirm the rehabbed actress�...

9 April 2008
06:17 GMT

Asustek Slams IBM With Patent Infringement Countersuit

Computer manufacturer Asustek has just filled a lawsuit against the US-based conglomerate IBM over an alleged patent infringement regarding its intellectual property. Asustek's legal action comes as a response to a previous lawsuit filled by IBM against the Taiwanese vendor on the same grounds.The system vendor ...

7 April 2008
20:06 GMT

Steve Jobs Sues New York City for Copyright Infringement

New York is facing a lawsuit from Apple Inc.'s CEO, Steve Jobs, who claims copyright infringement upon the company's logo. NY City's environmental awareness campaign, GreeNYC, features a similar logo to Apple Inc's - an apple, of course. It seems the leaf on top of the GreeNYC logo was noticed by ...

7 April 2008
05:15 GMT

Boring Couple Sues Google for Illegal Street View Pictures

Aaron and Christine Boring, a Pennsylvanian couple, have sued the Mountain View-based company Google, claiming that the search firm published photos of their private property without authorization. The couple accuses Google that its Street View technology, a special Google Maps function which provides street level pa...

7 April 2008
02:53 GMT

Apple Sued for Deceiving Customers

A federal class action lawsuit filed yesterday by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP (a consumer law firm), says that Apple is deliberately deceiving its customers. Apple lineup of iMacs sports different quality displays for each model, and while most boast an impressive 16 million colors on 8-bit in-plane switching (IPS) s...

1 April 2008
08:19 GMT

Rambus Wins in Memory Patent Lawsuit Trial

Memory chips manufacturer Rambus has just won in the patent infringement lawsuit against its competitors, after about ten years of trials. According to the jury investigating the case, Rambus was not found guilty of monopolistic practices against its competitors by patenting technologies that imposed themselves as st...

27 March 2008
18:41 GMT

AMD Slams Samsung With Patent Lawsuit

Chip manufacturer AMD has just filled a lawsuit against the Korean conglomerate Samsung for alleged infringements of the company's patents regarding chips and displays fabrication technology.The lawsuit has been filled with the Northern California district court a few weeks ago, and concerns the infringement of ...

21 March 2008
05:33 GMT

Apple Faced with iTunes, iPod Lawsuit

Apple got hit by yet another lawsuit, this time coming from ZapMedia Services that is upset with the Cupertino-based company for using the iPod-iTunes concept as if it was their own. ZapMedia claims it has invented the means of distributing media to user devices via a synced portal two years before the first iPod was...

13 March 2008
06:00 GMT

Guitar Hero Fight Flares Up

What is the main drawback when you manage to create a successful game? A game that in the 3 years since its original launch has brought in around 1 billion dollars in revenue and spawned some very good add-ons? A game that has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide? When the name of the game is Guitar Hero, the m...

13 March 2008
05:37 GMT

CEO Otellini Defends Intel In Antitrust Probe

Chip manufacturer Intel was represented by its CEO, Paul Otellini, during the hearings with the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. The company had to fight the allegations brought by its arch-rival regarding antitrust practices on the European market. The hearings took place behind closed doors, as previously ...

13 March 2008
04:00 GMT

Harmonix Sues Activision for Guitar Hero, then Withdraws to Talk

Sometimes the big developers just don't want to talk to anybody regarding stuff they didn't do but they should've. Probably the same thing happened between Harmonix and Activision regarding the Guitar Hero franchise and some $14 million, so the developers filed a lawsuit against the publishers. It seem...

12 March 2008
05:09 GMT

Viacom VS YouTube $1Bn Lawsuit Punitive Damages Denied

Google might breathe easily, as US District Court Judge Louis Stanton denied the media conglomerate's claim for punitive damages in the case, the Silicon Alley Insider reports. Interestingly enough, the Mountain View-based company did not object to the amendment, nor did it attempt any means to avoid it being su...

11 March 2008
10:30 GMT

Intel : Two Days Until The EU Antitrust Verdict Comes In

Chip manufacturer Intel is preparing its defense against the EU antitrust charges that have been issued last month. The lawsuit, grounded on regulators' allegations that the chip manufacturer had abused its dominant market position will result in severe financial damages if Intel is found guilty.The US-based com...

11 March 2008
07:22 GMT

Sponsored Links Ruling in Yahoo!'s Favor

Yahoo! UK and Overture, its sister company, were sued by Victor Wilson, the owner of a London catering business, for displaying advertising for some other companies when words that he had registered as trade marks for his company were introduced in the search box. 'Mr Spicy' was what the whole fuss was all ...

7 March 2008
09:33 GMT

Yahoo! VS Chinese Dissidents Part 2

If you remember the very publicized lawsuit of last November, when Yahoo! was pointed fingers at for handing access to email, email records and user identification information over to the Chinese authorities, this might feel like a deja-vu altogether. The first lawsuit was settled out of court with the plaintiffs, th...

4 March 2008
06:42 GMT

Baidu Cornered in New Piracy Suit

Baidu has been a target ever since it emerged as China's number one search engine. Crawling roughly everything, it was inevitable to be involved some way or the other in lawsuits caused by users uploading and linking to pirated software and entertainment content. So far, it was not involved this year in any scan...

29 February 2008
06:09 GMT

iPhone Infringes on Displaying Number and Name

This you gotta hear! Romek Figa of Abraham & Son has just filed suit against Apple, claiming that "certain Apple telephones" (what, are there more of them?) infringe on his patent that does this: displays an incoming phone number alongside the incoming caller's name. That's it.Seemingly, Figa has patented t...

28 February 2008
06:09 GMT

Capcom Sued For the Dead Rising

I am really amused whenever somebody wakes up after a couple of years and realizes that a copyright infringement happened. But, these things take place every now and then, and this is one of the "now" moments. Capcom is being sued for its Dead Rising game, released in August 2006, by an independent movie producer wit...

26 February 2008
05:56 GMT

Can a Simple User Sue Nokia and Win? Of Course!

There's a general belief that "simple customers" can't sue big companies and win, even if they have the truth on their side. Moreover, many users don't even think about suing when a phone, a headset or another accessory doesn't work properly and the company that produced it refuses to change it or...

26 February 2008
04:43 GMT

Yahoo Sued for Refusing Microsoft

Yahoo! has been sued by two Detroit public pension funds because it allegedly acted against shareholders' interest when it raised its tail and said "No!" to Microsoft. "Yahoo's directors cannot 'just say no' indefinitely to legitimate acquisition offers when the effect of that decision is to deny ...

25 February 2008
05:36 GMT

Google Sued for Patent Infringement Alongside Microsoft

Google's moneymaker is threatened by a lawsuit that will turn into a legal battle of epic proportions, should the claims turn out to be true. Microsoft's adCenter is also in danger, but for the Redmond-based company it wouldn't be such a bust as it does not derive 99 percent of its revenue from its adv...

20 February 2008
10:22 GMT

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Sun Slammed With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

A small company called Implicit Networks, has managed to attract all the IT industry titans and drag them in a patent infringement lawsuit. AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Sun, Raza Microelectronics and Real Networks have been called to the Court for an alleged patent infringement regarding Implict's intellectual property.T...

20 February 2008
09:26 GMT

Earth No More Lawsuit Against 3D Realms

A copyright suit against 3D Realms was filled by Darin Scott and Edward Polgardy of Cinemagraphix Entertainment for the developer's 2009 title, Earth No More. Could the Duke Nukem devs really be in danger? Only time will be able to answer that question.According to the complaint, the two persons claim to have sh...

19 February 2008
05:26 GMT

Lost Laptop Worth $54 Million

Losing a laptop must be painful, but when somebody else goes through the trouble of loving you it must be nearly insupportable. Raelyn Campbell one day sent hers to the shop for one defection, while under warranty and never saw it back. Her repeated phone calls for details on when it would be ready went on for about ...

13 February 2008
13:21 GMT

Final Fantasy Replica Swords, Reason for Lawsuit

Usually things are completely different, with different individuals suing the big publishers for all kinds of reasons - and some of them are just poor attempts to gain some fame and some extra bucks. Well, this time we have another case and it's definitely not for the extra income (even though, at one point, it&...

13 February 2008
05:25 GMT

Google Wins "Crimes Against Humanity" Lawsuit

Sometimes having the legal power to sue anyone, over anything, brings strange ideas, and many lawsuits stand to test that theory. None of which can hold a candle to the suit Google had to go through, believe me on that. It was sued for 'crimes against humanity' by a man named Dylan Stephen Jayne, who observ...

11 February 2008
14:21 GMT

Apple Hit with Patent Suit Over iTunes Store's Allowance Feature

Not that Apple wasn't on the down side already, but now it is being hit with a patent suit on behalf of Restricted Spending Solutions (RSS), over functions included with the iTunes Allowance feature, within iTunes Store. The small California firm claims to hold a patent on the concepts used by this particular fe...

8 February 2008
10:07 GMT

Transmeta Gets Bombed by Shareholders Over Faint Revenue

Chip manufacturer Transmeta was about to be torn into pieces by its own angry shareholders because of its poor performance in the third quarter of 2007. Formerly known as a fierce competitor in the x86 processor market, the company posted a revenue of only $44,000 in the third quarter of 2007, which drove its shareho...

4 February 2008
09:26 GMT

Prosecutor Looking to Convict The Pirate Bay Owners

There's no case against the owners, everybody supporting the Peer-To-Peer site claims. The Pirate Bay is not hosting anything, it is merely a search engine for BitTorrent files, they say. However, one prosecutor said that a case for "assisting copyright infringement" of 4 software applications, 9 films and 22 m...

1 February 2008
21:56 GMT

Buzztime Buzz-es Sony with Lawsuit

California-based Buzztime Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) based on the fact that, according to them, Sony's line of "Buzz!" games violates several of its own trademarks. The company was established back in 1985 and operates under the Buzztime consumer brand and...

1 February 2008
06:55 GMT

GTA IV Ready For Launch, Jack Thompson Returns

It's always funny to see Jack Thompson throwing dirt towards Grand Theft Auto IV as soon as news hit the stands and people start to get really excited. Actually, I am sure that Jack was one of the saddest persons in the world when the GTA delay was announced. And why wouldn't he be? This game is his ultimat...

28 January 2008
06:39 GMT

Viacom Suit Draws Near, Google Changing Law Firms

The 1 billion dollar suit against Google is a good enough reason to be worried about and make sure that you haven't overlooked anything. It's not going to be a trial that will have the judge emotional and take decisions with his heart, it's not going to have a closing plead that will be waited for with...

21 January 2008
07:06 GMT

Dell, HP to Face Lawsuits Based On Exploding Laptops and Monitors

PC Vendors Dell and HP have been called in front of the United States Court of Justice to account for a series of malfunctions in their IT equipments that have led to severe physical injuries. The lawsuits are unrelated to one another but claim that faulty computers started to spark fires and finally explode.Dell is ...

15 January 2008
10:32 GMT

New York Allies With AMD and Claims Intel Is the Bully

The New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today backed up AMD's accusations at rival Intel of anticompetitive behavior in the CPU market. The city Attorney General today stated that Intel's "potential anticompetitive conduct warrant a full and factual investigation." This announcement comes more than two...

11 January 2008
03:47 GMT

IBM Sued Over Wrongful Disposal of Chemical Waste

A group of lawyers for 90 current and former residents of New York state joined their swords against the computer giant IBM in a lawsuit alleging that chemicals from an IBM plant have caused multiple and severe health issues among the population. The residents of the area near the IBM plant complain that the disposed...

4 January 2008
05:12 GMT




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