By Todd Haselton |
Nokia recently filed fresh patent infringement complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission against HTC. The company said its two complaints with the ITC now cover nine different patents, and also noted that it now has a total of 50 patents asserted against HTC around…
By Todd Haselton |
Several publishers have already settled allegations that a legion of them, including Apple, were running an eBook price fixing scheme. Apple’s still holding out for a trial that will take place on June 3. Tim Cook may be called in to testify, but the actual…
By Todd Haselton |
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen issued a release on Wednesday stating that Penguin Group has reached a settlement in which it was accused of fixing the prices of eBooks. The book publisher will pay $75 million in consumer restitution and as injunctive relief, Jepsen said.…
By Jacob Kleinman |
It looks like Apple‘s Cold War against Google may finally be heating up. Apple typically targets Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers that rely on Android software with its patent infringement claims. Now, however, the Cupertino-based company may finally have Google in its crosshairs with a claim…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s currently in the hot seat on Capitol Hill for apparently working the system to avoid paying taxes. Those are the allegations being leveraged against the company by the U.S. government in any case, even though Apple has argued that it’s following the law. One of the…
By Jacob Kleinman |
A day before Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are scheduled to speak in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, the Cupertino-based company released a statement defending its status as a job creator in America and denying earlier claims that the…
By Adriana Lee |
Replacing a smartphone can be an expensive proposition. Many in the U.S. cost $200 subsidized, and $600 to $800 (or more) at full price. But the data on that handset? Well, that can be priceless — especially when you’re talking about irreplaceable images of lost…
By Ron Duwell |
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been summoned by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to testify on the company’s offshore tax practices. It is believed to have a horde of about $100 billion overseas, and that is money it does not have to pay…
By Ron Duwell |
The latest lawsuit filed against Apple isn’t coming from one of its competitors or the Chinese government, but rather another disgruntled American customer. A Florida woman has filed a $5M class action lawsuit in San Jose, CA against Apple for the faulty power button in…
By Brandon Russell |
France is on the cusp of introducing a tax on smartphones and tablets to help preserve the country’s culture, CNN said on Tuesday. Endorsed by President Francois Hollande’s administration, the proposal would tax any mobile device that can access the Internet up to 4 percent…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple wants to add the Galaxy S4 to the list of infringing products the Cupertino company believes violate its patents. According to Florian Mueller at FOSS Patents, the company made the request to U.S. Court Judge Lucy Koh, even though both companies were asked to…
By Adriana Lee |
The Senate began debating a new immigration reform measure recently, and it has privacy hounds up in arms. The legislation involves creating a national database of biometric information on every adult in the United States. What exactly do they mean by “biometric information”? Well, in…
By Adriana Lee |
When you think of bank robbers, ski-masked men seizing a bank with guns blazing might be the predominant mental picture. Oh, but that’s soooo over. Thieves no longer have to threaten tellers or ransack vaults to get their loot. But they do need tech expertise,…
By Adriana Lee |
Generally speaking, techsters don’t really like too many limitations. After all, there’s a reason why open-source, or freely available software code, has so many fans. Google and other companies have been advocates of an open Internet, doing their best to persuade closed nations and regimes…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever wonder what the tech landscape might look like if companies could pursue application development without pesky patents getting in the way? Well, we may not have to wonder anymore, merely look to New Zealand as an example, since it just passed a bill giving…
By Adriana Lee |
San Francisco’s City Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to revoke an extremely controversial statute — the first of its kind in the U.S. — that would have mandated health warnings to customers for mobile phones. Specifically, the law would have required retailers to inform…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple wants to peek behind the Android curtain, requesting Google hand over documents related to the OS’s source code. In Apple’s never ending battle with Samsung, the company asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal to force the search giant to hand over the info,…
By Todd Haselton |
The European Union recently said that Motorola Mobility, now a part of Google, was abusive toward Apple as an owner of GPRS patents in an effort to win an injunction against Apple products in Germany. The ruling in favor of the injunction eventually forced Apple…
By Brandon Russell |
Samsung last week filed a brief in response to Apple’s attempt for a permanent injunction in the mightiest of tech cases from last year. The suit is still undergoing review as Judge Lucy Koh re-examines 2012’s ruling, which could result in a lower figure awarded…
By Joey Davidson |
Yesterday, word spread that Warner Bros. and 5th Cell were both being sued for using copyrighted characters in Scribblenauts Unlimited. The creators of the Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat both found fault with the companies’ use of their intellectual property in these creation-based games. Today, Christopher Orlando Torres, creator…
By Ron Duwell |
Warner Bros. and 5th Cell have been hit with a lawsuit for the inclusion of two feline Internet memes in their hit series Scribblenauts. Both Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat have appeared in all of the Scribblenauts games as Easter Eggs, most recently turning up…
By Brandon Russell |
A lawsuit was filed against Microsoft on Wednesday by a company asserting the Windows 8-maker is using encryption technology from the 90s in its Skype service. Web Conference Encryption, a subsidiary of Copytele, which is a patent monetization and assertion company, filed the suit in…
By Roy Choi |
Outgoing Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski appeared at a Bloomberg Washington Summit Tuesday morning. At the Summit, Genachowski warned of allowing AT&T and Verizon to dominate the wireless industry would be a “very bad thing for our innovation economy.” Genachowski, announced last month his decision…
By Adriana Lee |
Instagram caused quite a stink when it updated its Terms of Service. Users, fearing that their uploaded images could be used for advertising without permission, spoke out against the new ToS, forcing the company to reverse the terminology to mitigate the P.R. nightmare. And yet,…
