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Though a Gartner analyst says the end is near for the computer mouse , Microsoft claims a rival mouse manufacturer is violating seven of its patents, reports Todd Bishop at the Seattle Post-Intel... More >
The House of Lords has rejected the extradition appeal of a British man accused of hacking 97 U.S. military computer systems in 2001 and 2002, and he most likely now will face trial in the United S... More >
The European Commission has published a strategy for protecting industrial property rights across its 27 member states to include not only patents and trademarks, but other rights as well, reports ... More >
A California judge struck down Sprint's early termination fees as violating state law, reports The San Francisco Chronicle . Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw ordered Sprint... More >
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is suing Google and its unit YouTube for illegal use of its materials. Forbes reports the Milan-based company is seeking 500 million euros ($779.3 million) in d... More >
In the never-ending and ever-widening lawsuit against SAP, Oracle alleges that SAP knew , even when it bought TomorrowNow, that its operation was set up to steal Oracle's products and customers, rep... More >
Regional Internet company Embarq recently told lawmakers that it was conducting a targeted advertising test on 26,000 of its high-speed Internet customers in Kansas, based on their anonymous Intern... More >
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) is considering taking legal action against online auctioneer eBay. The trade association is also contemplating leading a lobby to Congress f... More >
So how many "spam kings" are there? Earlier this week so-called "spam king" Robert Soloway has been sentenced to 47 months in prison in Seattle. Now, the Rocky Mountain News reports... More >
Just as the excitement was building for webcast court proceedings in the patent dispute between Qualcomm and Nokia, the two companies have worked out a settlement that ends all litigation , report... More >
So-called "spam king" Robert Soloway has been sentenced to 47 months in prison. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman likened him to a polluter w... More >
American Airlines has settled its trademark-infringement lawsuit against Google , reports The Associated Press in a story on Newsvine.com. American claimed Google Adwords put competitors i... More >
Former Microsoft domain manager Carolyn Gudmundson, who pleaded guilty in January to embezzlement, has been sentenced to 22 months in prison and will be required to repay more than $923,000 in res... More >
It's not Tiger Woods in the U.S. Open or even the NBA finals. But, according to InformationWeek , there's so much interest in the patent infringement lawsuit between Nokia and Qualcomm that it's b... More >
Paul Venezia at PC World digs deeper in an attempt to understand the network administrator accused of locking down San Francisco's FiberWan network. Terry Childs comes across as a control fr... More >
Facebook filed suit against German social networking site studiVZ last Friday in a California federal court. Facebook claims the German Web site has lifted its look and feel and is seeking monetary... More >
The European Union is cracking down on Web sites that offer free ringtones and other goodies, reports BBC News . Eighty percent of the more than 500 Web sites studied provide information th... More >
Internetnews.com reports that U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball has ordered SCO to pay $2.55 million to Novell in the latest development of the three-year long Unix copyright dispute. SCO is... More >
Adam Vitale was slapped with a 30-month prison sentence and ordered to pay $180,000 in restitution for inundating AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period, reports PCWorld . Vital... More >
Law enforcement officials still haven't been able to pry the password to San Francisco's FiberWAN System out of a network administrator accused of locking it down , according to The San Francisco... More >
A disgruntled city computer engineer accused of locking top administrators out of San Francisco's new computer system is due to be arraigned Tuesday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports tha... More >
A federal judge has handed a victory to eBay by ruling that companies such as jewelry giant Tiffany & Co. are responsible for defending their brands, not the online auction site, according to a... More >
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the revised wiretapping law just passed by Congress and signed by the president last week, reports Wired . The group claim... More >
The head of the Federal Communications Commission says he will recommend that the panel take action against Comcast for throttling Internet traffic, reports The Associated Press in a story on New... More >
Verizon Wireless will pay $21 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in California over early termination fees, reports The Associated Press in The New York Times. The money will be dist... More >
Computer technicians in Texas are up in arms over a law enacted unanimously last year requiring a private investigator's license for anyone who retrieves data from a computer, analyzes it and makes... More >
As expected, the Senate approved a revised bill overhauling rules on government wiretapping that included immunity for telecoms, reports The Washington Post . After much wrangling, the leg... More >
As soon as August, some travelers won't have to remove their laptops from their cases as they go through airport security, speeding up the line, reports USA Today . The U.S. Transportation ... More >
7-Eleven stores are known for their convenience. Hackers conveniently tapped Citibank's network ATMs within 7-Eleven stores to steal the PIN codes of customers. The Associated Press reports t... More >
The scales of justice have yet to balance in the YouTube versus Viacom legal battle. DailyTech reports that the court has ordered Google (YouTube's owner) to turn over a complete log of user ... More >
The American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday seeking records of the agency's tracking of mobile phone users. The New ... More >
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