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A coalition of companies that includes Google, HP, Cisco and Verizon has banded together to form the Allied Security Trust to fight patent trolls, reports PC Pro . The group will buy key intellect... More >
SAP has agreed to a settlement and cross-licensing deal with i2 Technologies , which makes supply chain management software, reports InfoWorld . As part of the deal, the enterprise software ... More >
Get ready for domain names such as .smith, .sports or .love, reports Reuters , since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted Thursday to relax the rules . Not only does... More >
Trying to overcome public reticence toward putting health records online , Google, Microsoft and health care providers and insurers developed privacy standards for such information, reports The A... More >
A federal judge has sided with Facebook in an appeal by rival college social network ConnectU, reports The New York Times. Connect U's founders claimed they had new evidence to show Faceboo... More >
Semiconductor company Novellus Systems has agreed to pay $168,000 to an African-American worker who said he was fired after he complained about an employee's racially offensive rapping , reports Th... More >
A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft owes Alcatel-Lucent $512 million from an earlier patent-infringement case, reports Reuters . Judge Marilyn L. Huff upheld an April jury finding th... More >
The Federal Communications Commission has given Sprint Nextel another year to vacate spectrum on certain parts of the 800MHz public safety band identified in a plan to minimize interference, report... More >
Congress is to vote Friday on an overhaul to the rules on government wiretapping and effectively provide legal immunity to telecoms that participated in the government's domestic spying program, r... More >
After rejecting a previous version, Sweden's parliament narrowly passed a bill giving government sweeping powers to snoop on e-mail and telephone traffic that crosses its borders, reports BBC News... More >
A service that provides targeted advertising for ISPs has come under fire from two groups that say it actively spies on users to profile them, reports Washington Post blogger Kim Hart. The... More >
A federal court ruling handed down Wednesday limits employers' right to read text messages sent on company-supplied devices, report The Los Angeles Times . The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circu... More >
China's State Intellectual Property Office called reports that it is investigating Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior "seriously untrue," according to an Associated Press story on Yahoo. &nb... More >
So who isn't investigating Microsoft for alleged anticompetitive behavior? State media in China say that country has begun such an investigation and lawsuits by local companies could follow,... More >
Two pension funds, which sued to have Yahoo's controversial employee severance plan thrown out, won't get their day in court before the Aug. 1 shareholders meeting. Investors renewed their c... More >
Broadcom's co-founder and former chief executive Henry Nicholas III pleaded not guilty Monday to backdating charges and federal drug charges as well, reports Reuters . The alleged backdati... More >
In the saga that never ends, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit trying to force the White House to produce missing e-mails , reports The Washington Post . In a 39-page ruling, U.S. Dist... More >
Saying he doubts class-action lawsuits will settle the issues with cell carriers' early termination fees, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin outlined his own plan at a hearing ... More >
British hacker Gary McKinnon is preparing for his final UK appeal to fight extradition to the U.S. McKinnon has been charged in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and faces up ... More >
A Florida man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for setting up a botnet using Newell Rubbermaid's corporate network in Europe, reports InfoWorld . Robert Matthew Bentley, 21, of Pan... More >
Verizon will be required to sell portions of Unicel's mobile network in three states in order to buy the company, reports PCWorld.com . The Justice Department ordered the sale of assets in ... More >
One way to deal with nasty data breaches, it would seem, would be to stop building all those enormous government databases. The Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee is urging the government to... More >
In a slap to Microsoft, European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes in a speech urged businesses and governments to proceed with "vigor" in a policy to use software based on open standards ... More >
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has put the brakes on companies' ability to collect multiple royalties on patents, reports The Associated Press in The San Francisco Chronicle. &nbs... More >
With the rest of the blogosphere continually comparing newly introduced phones to the market as the potential "iPhone killer," will Apple's new 3G model itself do the trick? Info-Tech Research... More >
Microsoft has filed 21 federal lawsuits against resellers in 14 states as it continues its campaign against software piracy, reports The Seattle Post-Intelligencer . The lawsuits allege tha... More >
Microsoft and Kaiser Permanente, the biggest U.S. health maintenance organization, have teamed up in a test of online health records , reports Reuters . The pilot will include only the 156,0... More >
The Federal Communications Commission this month will not vote on a plan being floated by Chairman Kevin Martin to offer free Wi-Fi , but he told The Associated Press he hopes to present it to th... More >
Data breach notification laws aren't reducing identity theft , according to a recent report by Carnegie Mellon University. InfoWorld reports that the university used information from the FTC... More >
Groups opposed to U.S. policy on H-1B visas have filed a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's recent decision to extend the amount of time foreign nationals can work in the United States o... More >
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