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Ars Technica reports that Intel has joined Dell's fight against Psion over its trademark on the term "netbook." Earlier this month, Dell filed a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with a U.S. c... More >
Microsoft has filed suit against TomTom for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and with the International Trade Commission, reports PC Magazine ... More >
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an AT&T subsidiary's favor concerning an antitrust lawsuit accusing it of anti-competitive practices over DSL. According to Reuters , the Court disagreed ... More >
Google joins Mozilla in being allowed to submit arguments in the European Union's antitrust case against Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Bloomberg reports that the EU has given Google permission ... More >
Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder, philanthropist and start-up investor, has been happily Twittering away about his life, including a lawsuit filed against him by a former employee. He Tweets, ... More >
According to Bloomberg , Intel has submitted an official response to the European Union's charges that it used discounts to retailers to thwart competition. The response, known as a statement of o... More >
According to a survey from advertising firm Burst Media, three out of five Web users know that their behavior is being tracked online,and 80 percent said they are more concerned about their privacy ... More >
Republican politicians from Texas are pushing a bill that would require all ISPs and Wi-Fi operators to keep records about users for two years to help police investigations. According to CN... More >
Attorney Mary Ellen Callahan has been named the Department of Homeland Security chief privacy officer by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, reports CNET News . Callahan has ... More >
Google Maps Street View image-collection services have been vindicated following a ruling by a Pennsylvania judge. DigitalTrends reports that Judge Amy Reynolds Hay has dismissed a $25,000 l... More >
Dell has filed a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with a U.S. court in an effort to remove Psion's trademark of the term "Netbook," reports InfoWorld . Psion registered the term in the 1... More >
With discussions reaching a stalemate, Intel has filed suit against Nvidia to stop it from making chipsets that are compatible with Intel's latest Nehalem processors, reports PCWorld . Acco... More >
TradeComet.com has filed an antitrust suit against Google , claiming unfair practices. According to The New York Times , the small Web site operator alleges that Google raised its advertising... More >
Four current and former Research in Motion executives have agreed to settle a backdating case while neither admitting to nor denying the allegations. According to the Toronto Star , the SEC h... More >
Facebook is trying to stem furor over changes to its Terms of Service after The Consumerist posted a blog post titled, "Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit," reports internetnews.co... More >
Anna Gomez, former vice president of government affairs with Sprint, has been named deputy director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration by the Obama administration. The ... More >
A story rife with conflicting interests tells how e-discovery technology vendor Guidance Software got crosswise with an arbitrator in a wrongful-termination case when the employee produced e-mails th... More >
The barriers to widespread adoption of electronic health records, such as cost and lack of standards on security and privacy, won't go away just because the federal stimulus package is sending some... More >
A group of open-government activists is pressing for a Google-like free search mechanism for the federal court archives, reports The New York Times . As Carl Malamud, leader of the effort a... More >
A Los Angeles woman is suing Microsoft for requiring her to pay $59.25 to downgrade from Vista to XP on her Lenovo laptop, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . The lawsuit seeks class-action s... More >
A Federal Trade Commission report on online privacy urges companies that provide online advertising to get users' consent -- are you listening, Google? -- before collecting personal data such as that... More >
President Obama has signed legislation delaying the switch to digital TV until June 12, reports The Los Angeles Times . Though 500 stations planned to make the switch on Tuesday as original... More >
The House said yea and the Senate said nay. That's on requiring bailed-out companies to use the controversial E-Verify program to ensure no illegal workers are hired, according to eWEEK . It's a s... More >
The European Commission is pressing the UK about why it took no enforcement action in the widespread secret wiretapping and profiling of BT broadband subscribers in experiments of targeted adverti... More >
Oops! A marketing brochure for law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges spilled the beans that it won a $65 million settlement in the case between Facebook and ConnectU, a social-networ... More >
Microsoft recently was awarded its 10,000th patent , reports Ars Technica . It adds that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers two months ago gave Microsoft's patent portfolio its t... More >
A federal appeals court has sided with Staples in a case brought by a young employee who had worked for the company only seven weeks before making allegations of shareholder fraud, reports Law360 ... More >
In the wake of the $50 billion Bernard Madoff trading scandal, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to set up a sophisticated electronic monitoring system for hedge funds and other in... More >
While Oracle President Charles Phillips has the ear of President Obama , the Tories have Google CEO Eric Schmidt. U.K. opposition party leader David Cameron, citing "very difficult times," s... More >
A battle is shaping up between the U.S. Senate and House over the privacy regulations for electronic health records, reports The Washington Post . The House favors strict protections favore... More >
Firefox maker Mozilla will be allowed to submit arguments to the European Union in the antitrust case against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, reports Business Mirror . The EU notified the R... More >
President Obama has named venture capitalist John Doerr and Oracle President Charles Phillips to his Economic Recovery Advisory Board , reports eWEEK . The 16-member board , modeled on the... More >
Mac clone maker PsyStar has won the latest round in its seven-month-old legal battle with Apple, reports InfoWorld . A federal judge on Friday agreed to let PsyStar amend its countersuit, allowing... More >
Bribery was the top concern among global companies in Integrity Interactive's latest Top 12 survey of compliance issues, reports Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal . The story says there a sh... More >
Privacy advocates are up in arms over Google's location service Latitude. Privacy International said Thurday that Latitude " could be a gift to stalkers, prying employers, jealous partners ... More >
A new report from the Institute of Medicine concludes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule is inadequate to protect citizens' private information and hampers... More >
As the number of business processes sent offshore contines to rise, so too are functions related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance , reports soxfirst.com . Much of the offshoring is designed t... More >
A Massachusetts company that provides the most recent electronic prospectuses to investors is suing investment-research firm Morningstar, claiming that it is competing with the company by illegally... More >
Nokia has denied a Swedish newspaper's claim that it has threatened to leave Finland unless the country loosens its laws on employee surveillance , reports vnunet.com . The newspaper Helsing... More >
Despite all the hullabaloo about cloud computing, compliance won't be so easy up there, according to Computerworld . By its very nature, according to this post , cloud computing introduces l... More >
Two Los Angeles hospital executives have been indicted on fraud charges that allege they were involved in a scheme to recruit homeless people for unnecessary medical treatment to collect millions o... More >
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