By Todd Haselton |
Google Glass is ugly. In the sample images of it that we’ve seen in the real world it looks like people are walking around like bizarro cyborgs trying to hack into our brains. That’s not really the case, though. Google Glass provides an amazing unparalleled…
By Todd Haselton |
There was a small bit of uproar after Apple introduced its fourth generation iPad with Retina display not long after it released the iPad 3. Consumers felt that they had been somewhat swindled because Apple decided to outclass its older iPad so quickly. That’s just…
By Todd Haselton |
Let’s get this out of the way first: just because a company owns a patent doesn’t necessarily mean that a product based on that patent is in the works. It does, however, mean that a company has at least thought about the technology that was…
By Ron Duwell |
In another patent war that could have gotten very ugly late last year, Samsung filed a lawsuit in its home country claiming that LG Display had stolen secret information regarding its OLED screens. In retaliation, LG sought an injunction that would ban Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1…
By Todd Haselton |
An Instagram user leveraged a lawsuit against the social network after it decided to change its terms of service to include some seemingly bizarre content controls. The case is still in front of a judge in San Francsico, and now Instagram is asking that the…
By Adriana Lee |
Did Facebook poach its iconic “like” button? That’s the heart of a case being brought to court on behalf of deceased Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer. The key argument is a simple matter of timeline. (No pun intended.) Six years before his death…
By Ron Duwell |
The people of Australia have long been subjected to inflated prices on software downloads, so much so that the government promised to investigate the matter last year. Now, they are officially following up on that vow by summoning three of the largest offenders to a…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T tried to acquire T-Mobile in 2011 but the deal was ultimately denied by the FCC and the DoJ. AT&T USA CEO Randall Stepenson recently sat down with the Dean of the University of Colorado law school where he discussed the deal and hinted that, perhaps,…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple is in danger of losing the iPhone name in Brazil, Reuters reported on Tuesday citing unnamed sources. According to the report, a company named Gradiente filed for the iPhone name in the country long before Apple hit the scene, though the company didn’t have…
By Todd Haselton |
A U.S. court once again rejected Apple’s efforts to ban Samsung from selling the Galaxy Nexus in the United States, Reuters reported on Thursday. A ban was originally in effect this summer, when Apple won a $1 billion suit against the South Korea phone maker, and…
By Brandon Russell |
Death, taxes and Apple vs. Samsung are three absolute certainties in life—when you think we’ve reached the end, everything starts right back up between the two companies. On Tuesday, the now infamous ruling between Apple and Samsung was reexamined by Judge Lucy Koh, and Samsung…
By Todd Haselton |
Is WhatsApp breaking the law? If you live in Canada or the Netherlands it does, at least according to a new report from privacy watchers. The application is coming under fire because it requires that a user opens up his or her address book to…
By Adriana Lee |
Politicians and Hollywood actors aren’t the only ones who get caught in sex scandals. Turns out, the technorati aren’t immune to it either. Chief Operating Officer Keith Rabois resigned from his position at mobile payment processing company Square after being accused of sexual harassment. New…
By Todd Haselton |
Yesterday we covered a story that reminded us all, come this weekend, it will be illegal in the United States to unlock a cell phone without your carrier’s permission – or without buying the device unlocked in the first place. What a terrible, awful, no…
By Todd Haselton |
This is so bizarre, especially because we own the devices, but apparently it will be illegal to unlock phones starting on Sunday. I always unlock my phones, especially if I have a carrier locked unit that I want to use overseas with a cheaper SIM…
By Adriana Lee |
The latest from a federal appeals court in Chicago may make civil liberties advocates cheer, but will likely unsettle parents of children who frequent social networks: The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that barring registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other…
By Todd Haselton |
Last year several engineers brought a lawsuit against Apple, Google, Intel, Pixar and other firms over an alleged secret “no poaching” policy. Basically, the firms were accused of entering an agreement not to poach one another’s employees. That sounds good on paper, but it’s not…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia is being investigated for tax evasion in India, Reuters said Thursday. The news follows an alleged raid of one of the smartphone maker’s facilities in India after tax authorities discovered Nokia may owe as much as $543 million in back taxes. PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global accounting firm,…
By Adriana Lee |
Chip maker AMD has accused four former employees, now with Nvidia, of stealing trade secrets and other confidential files and handing them over to its competitor last year. AMD filed suit in Massachusetts claiming that former VP Robert Feldstein and managers Manoo Desai, Nicolas Kociuk…
By Todd Haselton |
No, the court battles between Samsung and Apple aren’t over yet, but at least one of them is coming to an end. A Dutch court ruled recently that Samsung’s family of Galaxy Tab tablets in the lawsuit, which includes tablets with screen sizes ranging from…
By Adriana Lee |
Should children be inventoried, like products in a supply chain, or tracked like livestock? Depends on whom you ask. One privacy advocate’s nightmare scenario might be another Texas magnet school’s “innovative” student program. For a year now, the Student Locator Project, a pilot program at San Antonio’s John…
By Adriana Lee |
Remember the tidbit last month about the woman who got slapped with a $750,000 lawsuit for writing a scathing review of her contractor on Yelp and Angie’s List? Jane Perez didn’t just recount her frustrations, she also levied accusations involving missing jewelry and urged people not to hire the…
By Adriana Lee |
The patent system is busted. Litigious companies suing over vaguely worded claims, tying up courts and throwing obstacles at each other, preventing consumers like you and me from getting our tech goodies, make that perfectly clear. That fact isn’t lost on the U.S. Patent and…
By Brandon Russell |
A bill being considered in the sweltering state of Arizona could make parody Twitter and Facebook accounts a crime. As in, those found guilty of online impersonation could actually do jail time. But only if they do so with “malicious intent.” There’s a fine line…
