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Swedish ISP provider Tele2 AB says it will no longer store the IP addresses of customers, reports Computerworld . Tele2 says its decision is the result of customer demand following the impl... More >
The Federal Trade Commission is set to begin enforcement of its Red Flags Rule on May 1 , according to internetnews.com . As IT Business Edge blogger Lora Bentley explains, "These r... More >
i2 Technologies is accusing Oracle of infringing on 11 of its patents related to supply chain management, reports InfoWorld . The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dist... More >
Former Motorola CFO Paul Liska denies that he destroyed any evidence related to his case with the company, according to The Inquirer . Liska says he only deleted some personal files from a company... More >
Susan Collins, ranking member of the U.S. Senate's Homeland Security Committee, is questioning recent calls for a direct White House role in coordinating national cyber security affairs, reports C... More >
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, are pl... More >
Hoping to discredit three Microsoft patents, the Open Innovation Network is asking people to take a look at them and submit any so-called "prior art" that might question the validity of the patents... More >
According to The Sydney Morning Herald , Microsoft has officially responded to charges by the European Union that it tried to crush its rivals by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The softw... More >
ReadWriteWeb reports that Sen. Thomas Carper plans to introduce the Information and Communications Enhancement Act . The ICE Act would make information security a federal priority and create a Chie... More >
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has gotten into the dispute between Apple and BluWiki , reports MediaPost . The dispute goes back several months when Apple sent a Digital Millenium Copyr... More >
The long-running patent dispute between Qualcomm and Broadcom may be coming to an end. According to InfoWorld , Qualcomm has agreed to pay Broadcom $891 million to settle the dispute to e... More >
Apple has been fined $19 million for infringing on a patent held by chip manufacturer OPTi Inc., reports vnunet.com . According to AppleInsider , Apple had argued that the patent was inval... More >
Clearwire is the target of a class action lawsuit that alleges the company engaged in misleading advertising and "unlawful" early-termination fees against some customers using its fixed WiMax servic... More >
At a hearing before the House Energy Commerce subcommittee, Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and three privacy experts urged lawmakers to pass comprehensive online privacy legislati... More >
The European Commission has sent a draft decision ruling against Intel to European Union member states. According to a Reuters report on internetnews.com, the Commission says the chip maker abuse... More >
EU lawmakers have OKed a new price cap that will slash the cost of sending text messages from abroad , reports The Associated Press . Instead of paying the current average of 36 cents per message, ... More >
The House subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet is looking into cable's new interactive targeted TV ad system , reports Newsvine.com . Cable operators want to use digital set-... More >
According to eWEEK , Congress is reopening a 2007 investigation into inadvertent file sharing on P2P networks . The investigation is a result of numerous reports of sharing of personal records and ... More >
President Barack Obama has named Aneesh Chopra as the nation's first chief technology officer, according to CNET News . Currently, Chopra serves as Virginia's secretary of technology. Befor... More >
According to internetnews.com , Microsoft has agreed to an extension of government oversight of its behaviors for another 18 months. The oversight was set to expire on November 12, 2009, but is no... More >
As The New York Times points out, who should control the growing number of cyber security programs has become a decisive issue. The National Security Agency has been campaigning for the ... More >
Time Warner's AOL is taking its intellectual property battle with Yahoo to court. According to vnunet.com , Time Warner has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York... More >
Motorola's battle with former CFO Paul Liska is escalating. The company is now accusing him of destroying evidence related to the case, reports vnunet.com . Earlier this month, Motorola fi... More >
Reuters reports that the European Union has given Microsoft a one-week extension to respond to charges that it had sought to thwart rivals by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows systems. The d... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , the Justice Department says the National Security Agency went beyond the legal limits intended to safeguard privacy. During a routine oversight of int... More >
Time Warner's broadband consumption-based pricing plan has raised ire from consumers and Congress alike. eWEEK reports that the plan has not only triggered a rash of complaints from consume... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , technology industry group ECIS has been accepted as a third party to testify in the European Unions's investigation into whether Microsoft abused dominance i... More >
The U.S. is proposing a change in its policy towards Cuba in an effort to improve relations. InformationWeek reports that under the proposal, U.S. telecommunications firms could apply for l... More >
According to vnunet.com , HP says it plans to appeal a $53 million ruling issued against the company in a patent case. The Cornell Research Foundation was initially awarded $184 million f... More >
The European Union is upset that Britain did not apply EU data privacy rules when it gave permission for BT Group to test Phorm, which provides targeted advertising. So the EU has started legal acti... More >
According to Reuters , U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin has given the green light to lawsuits against five large companies, including IBM, that seek monetary damages for allegedly aid to South ... More >
According to Network World , U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman has denied a motion to restore class-action status to the Vista Capable lawsuit. Pechman initally decertified the class... More >
Motorola has fired back at a former executive who sued the company for firing him, saying he is a "treacherous officer." According to an Associated Press article on newsvine.com, Motorola ... More >
According to vnunet.com , the French parliament has defeated a three strikes anti-piracy bill in a vote of 21 to 15. The law would have necessitated that a separate government agency be est... More >
In order to settle patent lawsuits, Samsung will pay Spansion Inc. $70 million , reports The Wall Street Journal . The settlement also involves an exchange of patent rights in licenses and covenant... More >
Microsoft has been ordered to pay anti-piracy software vendor Uniloc a $388 million patent infringement fine , reports The Register . The legal row begin in 2003 when Uniloc USA and its Sing... More >
Germany has fined Microsoft for illegally pressing a retailer to sell its Office productivity software for a certain price, reports Computerworld . The German competition authority, the Bund... More >
Apple is facing a patent infringement suit filed by Elan Microelectronics . According to The New York Times , Elan is alleging Apple products -- including its MacBook computer, iPhone and iP... More >
The Associated Press is threatening legal action against online news aggregators that use its content and that of member newspapers without permission. According to InformationWeek , the new... More >
Senators Olympia Snowe and Bill Nelson have introduce a bill that seeks to update the CAN-SPAM law to include mobile spam , reports internetnews.com . The mSPAM Act would ban marketers from ... More >
Following its initial denial of Freedom of Information Act requests from Knowledge Ecology International, Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Office of the U.S. Trade Repre... More >
Internet advocacy group Free Press has asked the FCC to look into the restriction put onto Skype's Skype for iPhone application. According to afterdawn.com , iPhone users can only use the ap... More >
Following the enactment of a new anti-piracy law , Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by more than 40 percent, reports Top Tech News . The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive require... More >
According to eWEEK , Sens. John D. Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe have introduced legislation that would create a national cyber security czar reporting directly to the White House. The bill... More >
Russia is considering adding Microsoft to a list of companies monitored to ascertain whether they have monopolies in various market segments in the country. Profy reports that Russia considers a 35 ... More >
A U.S. District Judge today ordered HP to pay Cornell University $53.5 million for patent infringement on the school's data processing technology, according to The Mercury News . The patent, since... More >
The Senate may be nearing completion of the revised U.S. patent law. According to InformationWeek , compromises have been reached on contentious issues, such as how to apportion damages for infrin... More >
The PACid Group has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas alleging that 19 computer and semiconductor companies and their subsidiaries have violated its patent for "se... More >
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