Legal

EFF Demands Legal Protection For Jailbreaks

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking for legal loopholes to protect users who jailbreak smartphones or video game consoles

13 years ago

HP Responds To Oracle Claim Of Itanium Deception

HP and Oracle have accused each other of lying about the future of Intel's Itanium chip

13 years ago

Industry Predicts More Advanced Attacks in 2012

Cyber-adversaries are gearing up for even more advanced attacks. Fahmida Rashid Explores the security outlook for 2012

13 years ago

McKinnon’s Mother Pleads Before Extradition Debate

Hacker Gary McKinnon's mother wants MPs to renegotiate controversial US-UK extradition treaty

13 years ago

Swiss Government Rules Downloading To Stay Legal

The Swiss government claims that file-sharing does not lose entertainment companies money

13 years ago

Russian Opposition Sites Hit with Attacks

Websites critical of Russia's government appear to have been silenced in DDoS attacks

13 years ago

Apple’s Samsung Ban Bid Rejected By US Court

A US District Court has refused to grant a preliminary injunction against Samsung's smartphone and tablets

13 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Tab Ban Extended Down Under

Australian court bans Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for another week so Apple can launch high court appeal

13 years ago

British Apple Worker Sacked For Facebook Posts

An Apple Store employee who ranted on Facebook about his job has lost his claim of unfair dismissal

13 years ago

HTC Phones Could Be Banned in Germany

HTC's 3G smartphones could be banned from Germany just before Christmas, over a patent dispute

13 years ago

Yahoo Sale May Finally Happen, Say Reports

Microsoft has signed an NDA agreement which suggests it may be after Yahoo again

13 years ago

BSA, Microsoft Join SOPA Opposition

Even an anti-piracy group opposes SOPA, the proposed US anti-piracy legislation

13 years ago

EC Calls For European Copyright Revamp

European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes has argued that current copyright system is not working

13 years ago

Rambus Loses Suit Against Tech Rivals

A business model based on litigation is risky - Rambus loses more than half its stock value

13 years ago

The US SOPA Is Our DEA In Cowboy Boots

Britain has had two years of legal debate about the online copyright isssue, says Peter Judge. Why has the US…

13 years ago

Huawei Cleared Of Racial Discrimination

Huawei has been cleared of racial discrimination by an employment tribunal

13 years ago

Samsung To Release Modified Galaxy Tab 10.1N

Galaxy Tab 10.1N will bypass Apple's claims to patent infringement in several countries, Samsung hopes

13 years ago

British Engineer Accuses Huawei Of Race Discrimination

A former British employee of Huawei claims he was made redundant because he wasn't Chinese

13 years ago

Are You Operating A Legal Cloud?

Cloud computing did not exist when data protection regulations came in. John Roberts of Redstone explains how to keep within…

13 years ago

High Court Rejects Assange Extradition Appeal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden

13 years ago

Lawsuits Against Amazon Treble in 2011

Amazon has been sued 11 times over 30 different patents in 2011, a three-fold increase from last year

13 years ago

Internet Of Things Conference Underway In Poland

The European Union has high hopes for the Internet of Things at the Future Internet Week conference

13 years ago

Ofcom’s ‘Three Strikes’ Fileshare Policy Due In 2013

Ofcom will start sending letters to alleged file sharers in 2013 under the Digital Economy Act

13 years ago

UK Committee Suggests Libel Rules For Websites

A parliamentary committee suggests websites should be required to remove anonymous libels

13 years ago

West Yorkshire Police Accused Of Copyright Theft

Forensic telecoms expert claims West Yorkshire Police stole its software and sold copyright data on

13 years ago

BT And TalkTalk Granted Final DEA Appeal

Internet service providers BT and TalkTalk will be given a final chance to get the Digital Economy Act repealed

13 years ago

Samsung Signs Android Patent Pact With Microsoft

Samsung has agreed to pay Microsoft royalties for its Android devices, as Microsoft steps up its licensing strategy

13 years ago

Apple Says Samsung Rigged the 3G Standards

Samsung says Apple used 3G tech and didn't pay; Apple says Samsung put patented tech into the standards

13 years ago

Oracle Seeks £753m Damages In Android Java Case

Oracle is now seeking £753m in damages from Google in its Java patent infringement case against Android

13 years ago

Sony Bans Class-Action Lawsuits By PlayStation Users

Sony's new terms of service are about protecting Sony, not PlayStation Network users

13 years ago