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French courts slaps Google with $660,000 fine for offering free map services

, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [36]

A French court has fined Google in one has to be has to be one of the most idiotic court cases I've ever heard of. The complaint was brought against Google by French company called Bottin Cartographes, who offers mapping services to businesses at a price. Google operates its Google Maps service in France offering similar mapping services at no cost. Read The Full Story

Swedish Supreme Court rejects Pirate Bay founders final appeal

, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [2]

It's certainly not a good day to be a founder of The Pirate Bay. The legal saga centering on the founders of the file sharing site Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström has been ongoing for several years. So far, the founders of been appealing the court decisions further and further up the Swedish legal ladder, and eventually they made it to the final rung with the Swedish Supreme Court. Read The Full Story

Google fired cheeky recruiter who peeved Steve Jobs with poach attempt

, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [4]

Today most of us expect litigation between technology firms for things like patent and copyright infringement. What we might not expect is litigation against tech firms over agreements not to poach employees from one another. In the past the technology world has seen companies get together and agree to set pricing and other details on products, even though that's illegal. The LCD industry is a prime example with an agreement for price-fixing and the massive fines they paid out the cause of it. Read The Full Story

Makers of Steve Jobs Action figure gets the inevitable legal threat

, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [7]

I mentioned earlier in the week that a company called Inicons was showing of a prototype Steve Jobs action figure that was 12-inches tall. The creepy lifelike doll was to come with trademark Jobs clothing and three sets of hands. I wondered at the time how quickly the Apple ninjas would set upon the company. Read The Full Story

Former attorney takes Honda to small claims court over Civic hybrid fuel economy

, Jan 4th 2012 Discuss [7]

Class-action suits in the automotive industry are nothing new. Neither is the notion that in those class-action suits, the only people that generally get any significant money are the lawyers. Such is the case in a pending class action against Honda over the fuel economy on some models of the Civic hybrid that allegedly get less fuel economy than promised. Read The Full Story

Court denies Apple request to seal docs in Psystar case

, Jan 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

No one was surprised last year when Apple put all its weight on the head of Psystar. Psystar is the firm that was openly selling a Mac clone computer system that ran official OS X software. Apple retaliated with the claim that Psystar was violating licensing requirements for its software. Apple and Psystar came to a settlement agreement, and Psystar was effectively dead after that. Read The Full Story

Facebook sues a different Mark Zuckerberg

, Dec 19th 2011 Discuss [5]

Everyone knows the name Mark Zuckerberg as the person who founded the social networking site Facebook. Facebook and the real Zuckerberg are suing and being sued by another man who has changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. The suit isn't over the name change, but over a company the new Zuckerberg started to help game the Like system that Facebook uses. Read The Full Story

HTC, Apple Patent dispute ruling delayed again

, Dec 14th 2011 Discuss [2]

Apple has a patent suit pending against HTC in the US that is aiming at trying to stop the import of some of HTC's devices. The decision in the case has already been delayed once. HTC is now reporting that the decision in the suit was delayed again. The ruling was supposed to have been handed down today in the US via the ITC. Read The Full Story

.XXX domains available for general sale

, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

ICANN started the process of approving the new .xxx domain name back in March of this year. After months of waiting people that wanted to buy the new domains can now officially get them. The addresses ending in .xxx are specifically for porn sites and was intended to allow people to identify and avoid porn sites or make it easier to find them depending on your perspective. Read The Full Story

Netflix price-fixing suit tossed out of court

, Nov 25th 2011 Discuss [4]

Netflix has been involved in an always dating back to allegations in 2004 that alleged it and Walmart had colluded to fix prices in the online movie market. Walmart had apparently decided the case was lost and had sent out emails telling subscribers they would receive payment over the suit settlement. It appears not that Netflix will not be paying after all. Read The Full Story

Rambus claims rejected by US court, Hynix and Micron throw party

, Nov 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

I had honestly forgotten all about this legal case that has been running since 2004. Back in 2004, Rambus filed suit claiming that DRAM firms Hynix and Micron conspired to prevent the adoption of the Rambus memory in computer systems. Rambus sued the other companies for $4 billion. That $4 billion could have turned into $12 billion with California treble damages. Read The Full Story

Angry consumers start class action suit against RIM over outage

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Earlier this month the network behind the popular Blackberry messaging service was out for days leaving users of Blackberry smartphones with no access to email, IM, and web surfing. RIM admitted at the time it had no idea what was causing the outage, but hacking was not the cause. After the service came back, RIM tried to soothe angry customers with free apps. Read The Full Story
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