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Australian Ban of Galaxy Tab Grossly Unjust, Samsung Says

Since Samsung is making its appeal in Australia, to get the Galaxy tab 10.1 unbanned, reports are coming in about how things appear to be swinging in its favor, among other things. Those 'other things' are Samsung's words in regards to the original decision to ban the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet from Aust...

25 November 2011
05:27 GMT

PS3 Version of Battlefield 3 Will Finally Get Free BF 1943 As Promised

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield 1943, the shooter that was originally offered as downloadable title, will be included with all new copies on Battlefield 3 in order to solve any sort of misunderstanding with the player base.Earlier in 2011, when EA was promoting Battlefield 3, it an...

25 November 2011
04:21 GMT

Mariah Yeater Wants Justin Bieber to Take Second DNA Test

Mariah Yeater, the 20-year-old woman to claim to be the mother of Justin Bieber's child after a one-night fling last year, will not go away. Though the singer has already taken one DNA test, she's asking him to re-do it. Yeater first took Bieber to court on the grounds that he must pay her and “thei...

24 November 2011
10:35 GMT

Another Patent Troll Runs After Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet

Amazon probably knew to expect patent lawsuits when it made the Kindle Fire tablet, but it is unclear if even it expected the device to start being called a music player. Much to the chagrin of all those who dislike patent trolling, and trolling in general, Personal Audio LLC just filed a suit against Amazon. Thi...

24 November 2011
08:14 GMT

Grooveshark Claims Universal Is Full of It in New Lawsuit

Last week, Universal Music Group made a rather surprising move, suing the Grooveshark, again. It's not the lawsuit that's surprising, the accusations are. Universal claims that Grooveshark employees, from the CEO downwards, uploaded pirated songs to the site. Grooveshark enables users to upload their own s...

23 November 2011
11:11 GMT

Oracle Accuses HP of Paying Intel for Itanium, HP Admits It

HP and Oracle have been exchanging barbs over the Itanium server processor platform for months, and the latest, big accusations from Oracle turned out to be true. Granted, as with any court bashing, each side is doing its best to make its case as big and strong as possible. Oracle took its turn the other day, say...

23 November 2011
02:32 GMT

Bill Gates Testifies in Novell Lawsuit Today

Today, Bill Gates should take the stand in a suit that Novell has filled against Microsoft in the court of law back in 2004. The suit claims that Microsoft has been applying anti-competitive tactics that hurt two products from Novell, namely WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. The pair was supposed to make it to computers ...

21 November 2011
12:39 GMT

Lawsuit Launched Against Electronic Arts Over Battlefield 3 PlayStation 3 Fiasco

Edelson McGuire has announced that it has launched a class action lawsuit against video game publisher Electronic Arts representing customers who bought the PlayStation 3 version of Battlefield 3 and were promised and did not receive a free copy of Battlefield 1943.The lawsuit claims that the main problem is not fals...

21 November 2011
08:54 GMT

Grooveshark May Be Shut Down as Employees Are Accused of Uploading Illegal Music

Grooveshark has operated under a somewhat sketchy legal basis from day one. Yet it managed to stay alive for years now, streaming millions of songs, for free, to millions of users around the world.But that may come to an end if the latest accusations coming from Universal Music Group, which has sued the music streami...

19 November 2011
11:11 GMT

Justin Bieber Undergoes Paternity Testing

With Mariah Yeater's claims that he fathered her son now proved unfounded, Justin Bieber could breathe easily, and just lay back and forget about everything. Instead, he's undergoing a DNA test to prove he's not the daddy.Even though Yeater has dropped the lawsuit against Bieber claiming he was the fat...

19 November 2011
07:06 GMT

Apple Thinks Samsung's Call Records Can Prove Products Are Copies

The gloves are off, or close enough, in the whole Apple-Samsung lawsuit battle, even now, when the two are only in the pre-trial phase of the litigation, stage known as Discovery. Not a day seems to go by without something new reaching the web about the Apple-Samsung patent litigation. Being in the Discovery proc...

18 November 2011
05:36 GMT

Caught: Texts Prove Mariah Yeater Is Not Justin Bieber's Baby Mama

Shortly after Mariah Yeater hired a new attorney to represent her in what she believed would be a legal confrontation with Justin Bieber, with the aim to establish he's the father of her child, she has the rug pulled out from under her: there is proof she's lying.Yeater, a 20-year-old woman who came out of ...

18 November 2011
04:48 GMT

United Colors of Benetton Pulls Unhate Pope Ad After Vatican Protests

Clothing company United Colors of Benetton has gotten itself in hot water for a new controversial ad campaign for its Unhate initiative. One photo shows the Pope kissing another man on the month, and it will be pulled from the campaign.Benetton is now promoting a new initiative, called simply Unhate, in support of th...

17 November 2011
16:01 GMT

Mariah Yeater Hires New Lawyer, Goes After Justin Bieber Once More

Mariah Yeater, the 20-year-old woman claiming to be the mother of Justin Bieber's child, dropped the paternity suit against him, but she's not yet ready to give up the fight. With a new legal representative, she's back for another round.As we also informed you yesterday, in a very surprising move, Yeat...

17 November 2011
05:16 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N Tries to Dodge Apple's Patent Hounds

Even though Apple has started to feel some heat of its own in its lawsuit duel with Samsung, it still has its initial victories, the ones that got the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in some parts of the world, so Samsung decided to be inventive. Not too inventive, it turns out, at least not on the surface, where just a cou...

17 November 2011
02:59 GMT

Mariah Yeater Drops Paternity Lawsuit Against Justin Bieber

He's not the daddy: Mariah Yeater, the 20-year-old woman claiming to have had Justin Bieber's baby after a casual encounter last year, has dropped the paternity lawsuit against him, it has emerged. It's been a very difficult few weeks for The Beliebers, Justin's fans, having to deal with reports t...

16 November 2011
06:56 GMT

Publicist Stands by Initial Claims that Kim Kardashian Is a Fake

Kim Kardashian and former publicist Jonathan Jaxson are wagging a bitter she-said he-said war. Jaxson said last week that she faked about everything in her life, and she's suing him for insinuating the same applies to her wedding to Kris Humphries. As we also reported only days ago, all hell broke loose when J...

15 November 2011
09:47 GMT

Samsung Had an Informal Policy of Not Suing Apple, Not Anymore

The whole Samsung-Apple debacle is bringing quite a few things to light, such as a so-called informal policy Samsung had in place of overlooking Apple's patent infringements. Samsung and Apple have sued each other ever since Apple began to hound the former's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet with abandon. It is no...

15 November 2011
04:50 GMT

Kim Kardashian Sues Publicist Claiming She Staged Her Wedding

Kim Kardashian is going after the man who's telling the press she staged her wedding to Kris Humphires – and about everything else in her life. The star is taking Jonathan Jaxson to court for allegedly violating a non-disclosure agreement. As we also informed you a few days ago, Jaxson says he worked for K...

14 November 2011
08:49 GMT

Warner Bros. Admits Removing File-Share Content Without Owning Copyright

Warner Bros Pictures, the Hollywood movie studio, admitted recently that due to failed filtering mechanisms, they removed materials that did not belong to them from the Hotfile file-hosting service. According to TorrentFreak, the Hollywood movie studio was given access to the systems of the file-host to take down wh...

11 November 2011
15:11 GMT

Justin Bieber's Baby Mama Mariah Yeater's Full Interview – Video

Even for those who don't know how she looks, the name Mariah Yeater must ring a bell: she is the woman claiming to have had Justin Bieber's baby after a casual encounter last year. Her full interview with The Insider is below. As we also reported at the time, Yeater is taking Justin to court in the hope o...

10 November 2011
05:00 GMT

Legal Dispute Between Pitbull and Lindsay Lohan Gets Nasty

Determined not to be made an example of anymore, a while back, Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against rapper Pitbull, claiming he owed her money for using her name in “Give Me Everything.” He's fighting back now. As we also informed you at the time, Pitbull name-drops Lindsay Lohan in just one verse. ...

9 November 2011
11:10 GMT

Alleged Baby Mama Mariah Yeater Speaks: Justin Bieber Was 'Aggressive'

After the shocking interview she gave to Star magazine, Mariah Yeater, the woman claiming to have had Justin Bieber's child, has come out of hiding and is talking to the press. He was “aggressive” to her, she says in a new interview. The Insider sat down with the 20-year-old woman to speak about th...

7 November 2011
09:57 GMT

Justin Bieber Will Take Paternity Test, Sue Mariah Yeater

Justin Bieber is set to prove he's not the father of Mariah Yeater's baby. In response to claims the 20-year-old fan made last week that The Biebs fathered her son, he will take a paternity test to prove she's a liar. TMZ reports that Justin's attorneys have already reached out to Yeater's le...

7 November 2011
04:47 GMT

Chaz Bono Furious over Reports He Has only 4 Years Left to Live

Chaz Bono has started a legal war with the National Enquirer for a story plastered all over the front page of the latest issue of the tab, which claims he has only 4 years left to live. He's demanding a retraction and an apology, or he'll sue. The Enquirer claims that a variety of factors are contributing ...

7 November 2011
03:36 GMT

EU Has a Problem with How Samsung Is Suing Apple

The whole bash fest between Apple and Samsung was bound to eventually step on some toes and, as it happens, Samsung ended up raising a big enough red flag that the European Commission decided to get involved. One of the latest claims that Samsung made against Apple is that the latter is infringing 3G patents. This...

4 November 2011
08:00 GMT

Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail

Lindsay Lohan is going to jail. Just hours ago, a judge ruled that she had violated her probation by not doing community work as mandated for a previous offense, and she got 30 days in jail, plus another 270 days of probation. TMZ covered the case. Its sister website, TooFab, reports that Lohan had to choose betwee...

3 November 2011
04:48 GMT

Justin Bieber on Paternity Scandal: Ignore the Rumors

A 20-year-old woman claims Justin Bieber is the father of her 3-month son, after they had a casual encounter backstage one of his concerts last year. The Biebs is urging fans not to pay attention to the rumors. As we also informed you yesterday, Mariah Yeater is taking the teen heartthrob to court, asking a judge to ...

3 November 2011
04:19 GMT

Apple’s Jony Ive Scheduled for Deposition by December 1, 2011

Jonathan Ive and other designers are scheduled to provide depositions in the ongoing patent infringement suit between the California, US-based Apple Inc. and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics.Court documents obtained by Edible Apple reveal that Samsung plans to have depositions from multiple Apple designers, in...

2 November 2011
09:45 GMT

Apple Loses Lawsuit Against Tablet Maker NT-K

A Spanish Android tablet vendor going by the name of NT-K has managed to win a lawsuit Apple had kickstarted last year attempting to shutter its business.The Google-translated announcement says “Needless to clear all the damage it has caused this unjust accusation, both economically and emotionally to our compa...

2 November 2011
09:29 GMT

20-Year-Old Woman Claims Justin Bieber Got Her Pregnant

To the sound of millions of Beliebers crying, a woman has stepped forward to claim she is the mother of Justin Bieber's child, after they made love backstage one of his concerts last year. Of course, she's suing.Radar Online got a hold of the court papers filed by the 20-year-old woman who claims one night ...

2 November 2011
07:59 GMT

Samsung Loses in Court Again, Not to Apple This Time

There is no rest for the legally troubled, apparently, as Samsung is learning right now, after it ended up losing another court action, this time against a graduate of Korea's Hongik University. According to this report, the court ruled that Samsung had, indeed, committed copyright infringement by refusing to ...

31 October 2011
05:38 GMT

Taylor Swift Sues over Alleged Lewd Leaked Photo

One celebrity gossip website is about to get into really serious trouble: two months after posting a photo of a topless girl and claiming it was Taylor Swift, the singer is threatening legal action. As of now, the photo is still online, but Swift is said to have already instructed her legal representatives to make su...

31 October 2011
05:09 GMT

Samsung Didn't Manage to Ban Apple's iPhone 4S in Italy

At this point, people are either eager to or fed up with reading more about the Samsung-Apple scuffle, unless they are just unimpressed with the whole thing, but read they will. While Apple has been trying, and mostly succeeding, to get the Galaxy tab 10.1 tablet banned in various countries, Samsung has been doing ...

27 October 2011
10:44 GMT

Sylvester Stallone Sued for Stealing 'Expendables' Script Idea

When “The Expendables” came out in 2010, many expected it to fail miserably. Surprisingly, it turned out to be a major hit with audiences and even with some critics – but now, screenwriter Marcus Webb is saying he deserves all the credit. In documents filed in court the other day, Webb argues that S...

27 October 2011
06:13 GMT

Samsung Gets to Contest Apple's Australian Victory Early

Yet another episode has come to pass in the now infamous Apple-Samsung scuffle over the latter's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, one that may bode well for Samsung in fact. Samsung was able to gain a court approval, in Australia, for the acceleration of its appeal against the ban that Apple won against its tablet. T...

27 October 2011
05:32 GMT

Actress Sues IMDB for Revealing Her Real Age

Actors and celebrities in general often sue for defamation but, more often than not, they do so because lies about them come out in print. This time, one star is taking matters to court because IMDB published the truth about her. Word of a new lawsuit against Amazon.com’s subsidiary IMDB (that is, Earth&rsq...

20 October 2011
04:43 GMT

Amazon Kindle Fire 2 Tablet Set for Second Half of 2012

You'd think that, since it, basically, isn't selling yet, the Amazon Kindle Fire would have all the attention of tablet hopefuls, but this, apparently, isn't the case. Instead, rumors are roaming the web that Amazon has already entered a deal with Foxconn for the making of the successor to this item....

19 October 2011
19:11 GMT

Samsung Gets a Respite in Apple Lawsuit Debacle

It appears that the whole battle between Apple and Samsung isn't going exactly as the former had hoped in the US, as a federal judge dismissed part of the antitrust claims. About three or four days ago, we mentioned that Samsung might end up with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 kicked out of the US. This would have been...

19 October 2011
09:52 GMT

Samsung Answers Apple in Kind, Wants iPhone 4S Out of Australia

Samsung sues Apple in Australia over the latter's alleged infringement of three 3G patents in the making of the iPhone 4S, demanding a ban from Australian stores. Users probably know of the big battle that Apple and Samsung got embroiled in a while ago, after the former sued the latter over the Galaxy Tab. Seein...

17 October 2011
15:31 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab Might Get Banned in the US Too

Samsung has definitely not been going through the best of times lately, at least as far as its tablet business goes, as Apple might just get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in the US too. The scuffle between Apple and Samsung has spread more or less around the whole world, as the two have been suing each other in mult...

15 October 2011
06:43 GMT

Mississippi Woman Sues Facebook for Invasion of Privacy

Breach of contract, violation of federal wiretap statutes, unjust enrichment and trespassing are all things Facebook is accused of by Brooke Rutledge from Lafayette County, who felt she had no choice but to file a complaint against the social network for making her feel insecure. It seems as the spy cookies issue ...

14 October 2011
06:24 GMT

Apple Gets Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet Banned in Australia

Samsung's tablet had already been delayed in Australia, for legal reasons invoked by Apple, and the court has finally reached a temporary decision, not at all fortuitous for the former. People may have thought that Samsung had a good chance of scoring big on the tablet market when it created the Galaxy tab 10....

13 October 2011
02:35 GMT

Jessica Alba Sues Belly Bandit for $1 Million (€726,375)

Belly Bandit claims to be the “first-ever post-partum compression garment” and it also says that Jessica Alba used one such garment to get back in shape after her first pregnancy. The actress is now suing over it. TMZ reports that Alba has filed papers against the makers of the Belly Bandit for using her ...

12 October 2011
15:41 GMT

Patent Trolls Already After Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet

It wasn't unexpected, it really wasn't, but the fact that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet got sued even before it made it out the door is still an unfortunate reminder of the patent system's shortcomings, new law or not. Granted, it isn't exactly accurate to say that the new Amazon tablet got...

11 October 2011
09:16 GMT

Apple Flat-Out Rejects Samsung's Settlement Request

Apple and Samsung have been clashing a lot in courts lately, after the former sued the latter for patent infringement because of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, and it seems like there isn't going to be any settlement between the two, not in Australia anyway. The legal fight between Apple and Samsung hasn't...

4 October 2011
07:17 GMT

MotorScience Gets Sued for Clean Air Act Violations

An engine certification services consulting firm that allegedly caused the importation of more than 24,000 uncertified recreational vehicles that do not comply with the Clean Air Act’s requirements has been sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).MotorScience, Inc., located in California, reporte...

30 September 2011
08:00 GMT

Court Rules that Apple Can Restrict Mac OS X to Macs

Apple has won an injunction against Mac cloner Psystar following a three year long trial that ended with Apple being granted the right to continue to restrict its operating system to Macintosh computers.In late 2009, US District Judge William Alsup ruled that by distributing Mac OS X with its machines, Psystar violat...

30 September 2011
03:07 GMT

Steve Jobs Was First to Contact Samsung Over Patent Infringement

A key witness in the tablet suit between Apple and Samsung revealed in an Australian court today that former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was the first to approach the Korea-based electronics maker over possible patent infringements by its products.According to Dow Jones Newswires, former Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve J...

29 September 2011
08:45 GMT

Vince Zampella Says Video Game Developers Need Control

Since leaving Infinity Ward and launching legal action against publisher Activision the ex-leaders of Infinity Ward have been unwilling to talk about their next video game project and or about the lawsuit but it seems that they are interested in talking about the biggest trends in the industry, from 3D to intellectua...

26 September 2011
10:38 GMT


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