Legal

Microsoft Shareholder Sues Company Over EU ‘Browser Choice’ Mistake

A lawsuit tries to establish who’s to blame for a “technical error” which led to a £484 million fine

11 years ago

BlackBerry Sues Top Exec To Stay At His Post

How bad are things at BlackBerry? Michelle Maisto says the case of Sebastien Marineau-Mes is not a good sign

11 years ago

Man Who ‘Sold’ Free Microsoft Products Is Given Suspended Jail Sentence

Luton resident Mohammed Khalid Jamil ran a Microsoft support scam out of a call centre in India

11 years ago

Marvell Ordered To Pay Carnegie Mellon $1.54 Billion For Storage Patent Infringement

The judge increases the fine by $366 million to penalize “egregious behaviour”

11 years ago

UK To Allow Copying Digital Media For Personal Use

The government appears to be fighting against restrictive DRM measures by relaxing copyright rules

11 years ago

Microsoft Promises To Take Legal Advice Before Reading Hotmail Accounts

New rules come after the company allegedly read the email account of an ex-employee suspected of leaking Microsoft secrets

11 years ago

Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested, Charged With Stealing Windows Secrets

Alex Kibkalo allegedly passed on secrets concerning various Microsoft projects to an unnamed blogger

11 years ago

Russian Hacker Accused Of Raiding Swiss Banks Arrested In Bangkok

Farid ‘Diabl0’ Essebar, one of the creators of the Zotob worm, evaded the authorities for the last three years, and…

11 years ago

Toshiba And SanDisk Sue Hynix For Industrial Espionage

The engineer who leaked proprietary information is in custody

11 years ago

Federal Judge Freezes US Assets Of Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles

The head of the defunct bitcoin exchange will not be able to access his money. Oh, the irony.

11 years ago

Indian Watchdog Could Hit Google With A $5 Billion Fine

Google could be fined as much as $5 billion if an investigation by the Competition Commission of India finds it…

11 years ago

Judge Denies Apple Attempt To Ban US Samsung Phone Sales

Samsung also loses appeal against fines, will have to pay Apple $930m as ruling is upheld

11 years ago

HP Begins Autonomy Lawsuit Settlement Talks – Report

Talks are reportedly underway to settle the lawsuit from HP shareholders over its troubled acquisition of Autonomy

11 years ago

Google Lays Out Ground Rules For Glass Users

Google Glass users urged not to be ‘glassholes’ by being rude or acting oddly in public

11 years ago

Typo Products Says BlackBerry Can’t Patent Physical Keyboards

The US start-up wants to continue selling familiar-looking accessories for iPhones

11 years ago

Autonomy Hits Back At Fraud Claims, Says HP Is Dodging Taxes

HP says Autonomy lied, Autonomy says HP cheated

11 years ago

Twitter Makes Peace With IBM In Patent Deal

Twitter will buy 900 patents and sign a cross-licensing agreement with IBM following settlement of dispute

11 years ago

Google Glass Facing Driving Ban In The US

Seven states are now looking at making it illegal to use Google's wearable device whilst driving

11 years ago

EasyGroup Attacks Crowdsourced Delivery Startup Easybring

London-based parent of EasyJet claims the crowdsourced delivery service infringes on its trademarks

11 years ago

Google Close To Settling EU Antitrust Charges – Reports

Google is looking to end a three year EU investigation into its practices

11 years ago

Dutch Court Overturns ‘Ineffective’ Pirate Bay Ban

The 'ineffective' ban on the Pirate Bay website has been overturned by a Dutch Court

11 years ago

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Charged With Money Laundering

The co-founder of BitInstant allegedly conspired to supply Silk Road with Bitcoins

11 years ago

Technical Glitch Cripples US Federal Courts

The FBI says Friday’s downtime was caused by a technical issue, while the European Cyber Army takes credit for DDoS

11 years ago

Homeland Security Grills Google Glass-Wearing Cinema Goer

Google Glass gets anti-terror grilling over suspicions of copyright theft

11 years ago

HP Needs Six Weeks To Ponder Next Legal Move In Autonomy Saga

Legal row continues as HP is given more time to decide what to do about Autonomy accounting claims

11 years ago

Google Glass Driver Cleared By US Court

Ceclila Abadie was wearing Google Glass but there was no proof it was switched on

11 years ago

Verizon Judgement Is Just A Setback For The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

Verizon has beaten the FCC's Net Neutrality legislation, but Wayne Rash says the regulator can easily fix this

11 years ago

Apple And Samsung Agree To Mediation

Company CEOs to meet before upcoming US patent court clash

11 years ago

BlackBerry Sues Maker Of Physical iPhone Keyboard

Typo Products co-founder and media personality Ryan Seacrest may not have thought this one through

11 years ago