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Court rejects Oracle’s attempt to kill Itanium processor support agreement with HP

Shane McGlaun, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Oracle and HP have been in court with Oracle trying to get out of an agreement it is said to have in place with HP that covers the support of Itanium processors. The legal fuss came about after Oracle announced in March of last year that it would no longer support the Intel Itanium processors with the latest version of its database system. Oracle's claim was that these processors were nearing their end of life. Read The Full Story

SOPA and PIPA delayed indefinitely, Internet Wins

Chris Burns, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

In what can only be described as seeming to be a Flawless Victory, not a few hours after Senator Harry Reid announced he’d be delaying the vote on PIPA, representative Lamar Smith, better known now as the sponsor of SOPA, has announced he would delay consideration on that bill as well. Both teams have been pressured by waves of not only internet-based groups during the blackout of major websites earlier this week, but by voters calling in from around the nation this week as a result of it. Both groups have noted their intent to “revisit” how to defeat “foreign thieves” in regards to piracy, but would be stopping votes on their legislature for now.

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Megaupload is down, Piracy indictment to blame

Chris Burns, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [8]

One of the most notoriously popular media uploading and downloading sites in the world has been shut down today amid allegations of piracy and charges amounting to $500 million in lost revenue for pirated content. These charges come from federal prosecutors in Virginia and are being leveled against the founder and others involved with the site. If found guilty, needless to say, Megaupload's owners will stand no chance of revival any time soon. Read The Full Story

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SlashGear 101: SOPA and PIPA explained in plain English

Chris Burns, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [29]

If you’ve not heard of either SOPA or PIPA in the last few weeks and months in your journeys through the internet, now’s the time to get educated, and quick. While the most recent news has been that the White House reaction to the SOPA bill specifically has effectively curbed it, there’s no reason why it can’t pop up again with a different name or a couple of simple changes that allow it to pass silently. These two bills, SOPA and PIPA, are amongst the most dangerous pieces of legislature ever to be written up for passage by the United States government in regards to innovation and the free market on a global scale today: this post will tell you why.

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RIM hit with BBM trademark lawsuit

Rue Liu, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [4]

RIM has been hit with another trademark-related lawsuit. The company has already surrendered its efforts in using BBX for its QNX-based BlackBerry 10 platform, but this time around the target is its use of BBM for its BlackBerry Messenger service. Read The Full Story

AT&T, T-Mobile merger lawsuit to be postponed or withdrawn by DOJ

Rue Liu, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [1]

According to the Wall Street Journal, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T's T-Mobile merger may be either postponed or withdrawn by the Department of Justice sometime next week. DOJ lawyer Joseph Wayland explained that the expedited court proceedings were no longer needed since AT&T had withdrawn its merger application from the FCC. But this isn't necessarily good news for AT&T. Read The Full Story

Carrier IQ, Apple, Samsung, HTC, and more hit with class-action lawsuit

Rue Liu, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [10]

The Carrier IQ scandal continues to spiral and now a new class-action lawsuit has been lodged against the company. The lawsuit, filed by three local law firms led by Sianni & Straite in the Federal Court in Wilmington, Delaware, also lists several other defendants, targeting handset manufacturers Apple, Samsung, HTC, and Motorola as well as US carriers AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Read The Full Story

Apple made to specify design alternatives for Samsung

Rue Liu, Dec 2nd 2011 Discuss [100]

Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in a worldwide legal battle for months regarding the South Korean manufacturer's smartphones and tablets infringing on the Cupertino company's designs and patents. Documents have surfaced today revealing that in seeking to ban Samsung's devices, Apple had to provide design workarounds to clarify exactly what sorts of designs would not be considered infringing. The list of alternatives is quite humorous. Read The Full Story

Carrier IQ tracking turns into wiretapping suit against it, Samsung ,and HTC

Shane McGlaun, Dec 2nd 2011 Discuss [28]

The tech world has blown up over the last several weeks with Carrier IQ's tacking software being sore point for just about every smartphone user out there that has the software on their devices and didn’t know it. Carrier IQ software was able to track all sorts of stuff on mobile devices without the user knowing it. Some of the biggest smartphone firms out there were using the software too. Read The Full Story

Gates to testify in $1B Microsoft legal battle

Shane McGlaun, Nov 21st 2011 Discuss [8]

Back in 1994, Novell alleged that Microsoft had a monopoly and was undermining the WordPerfect program that competed against Microsoft Word. This is certainly not the first and likely, not the last time that Microsoft is accused of monopolistic behaviors. Apparently, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is going to have to testify in the case. Read The Full Story

Warner Brothers issued DMCA takedown request for content it didn’t own

Shane McGlaun, Nov 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

Most of us would expect if a major movie studio is issuing take down notices using the DMCA to stop people that post its copyrighted content that someone would have looked to be sure the demands that they make on infringement is legit. As it turns out Warner Brothers did nothing like that. The company apparently used a scraper to look for keywords and the send automated take down requests. Read The Full Story

Apple settles MagSafe class-action lawsuit, details cash payment to customers

Rue Liu, Nov 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

Apple notified customers today that it has reached a settlement on the class-action lawsuit pertaining to faulty T-shaped MagSafe adapters on the MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. The lawsuit was filed back in 2009 following several instances of the adapter becoming frayed and becoming a fire hazard. In a separate case, the strained MagSafe adapter was said to have caused a major fire at a home in Connecticut. Read The Full Story