By Adriana Lee |
CBS just can’t seem to resist messing with its tech journalists. Earlier this month, when CNET chose Dish Network’s new Hopper with Sling for its Best of CES awards, the broadcasting powerhouse forced the editors to pull their selection due to corporate’s lawsuit with the…
By Mark Hearn |
Philip Schiller, Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, took the stand in court Friday in the Samsung vs. Apple trial. While giving his testimony he described his first time seeing the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. “I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S…
By Mark Hearn |
Apple’s legal team has filed two motions in an effort to prevent Samsung from disclosing confidential sales summaries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, as well as buyer surveys. Samsung’s attorneys allegedly plan on using this documentation when they cross-examine Apple’s senior vice…
By Mark Hearn |
During the opening statements of the Apple vs. Samsung trial, Apple’s attorney Harold McIlhenny began Apple’s argument by showing jury members a slide of several Samsung phones from 2006 that were loaded with physical buttons and QWERTY keyboards including the popular Blackjack Windows Mobile phone.…
By Mark Hearn |
Apple and Samsung remain at odds behind a sales ban request against the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1. A recent document has been unearthed detailing Apple’s aggressive approach towards retailers carrying both products. According to Samsung, multiple retailers have received letters ordering them to…
By Adriana Lee |
Rick Stratton had no idea what was going on. As founder of Feed.us, he would’ve loved to have been featured on a high-profile tech blog. But his venture didn’t get the attention — his face did when it happened to appear in a screengrab used…
By Adriana Lee |
It may surprise you to know this, but we are not huge fans of superfluous lawsuits here at TechnoBuffalo. But sometimes a stunner of a case pops up that gets our notice — particularly when the litigant is a company on the verge of collapse,…
By Noah Kravitz |
From Jon Rettinger, President of TechnoBuffalo LLC As many of you are aware, TechnoBuffalo’s Editor-at-Large Noah Kravitz is currently engaged in a legal dispute with his former employer PhoneDog Media (PhoneDog) regarding ownership of his Twitter account. PhoneDog is suing Noah based on their valuation…
By Adriana Lee |
When it comes to lawsuits in the mobile tech industry, keeping track of who’s doing what can be kind of flummoxing. It’s like you need a scorecard or something, no? Apple sues HTC. So HTC sues right back. Apple tries to block Galaxy Tab sales…
By Sean P. Aune |
The ongoing global legal fights between Samsung and Apple seem to have become a daily occurrence with each side racking up minor victories in various jurisdictions. The latest ruling to come down was in France, and this time it fell to Apple. After losing a…
By Sean P. Aune |
That sound you heard this morning wasn’t the roar of Godzilla stomping across Japan for the millionth time, but instead it was Apple letting loose its lawyers once again on Samsung. In what has become at least a weekly event as of late, the Cupertino-based…
By Sage Lane |
I’m not a lawyer, and I do not profess to be. My understanding of the law is not profound, but what I lack in legal knowledge, I like to think I make up for in common sense. What I am about to say will elate…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple has been on a bit of a lawsuit tear as of late. Whether you think they are in the right or wrong for all the legal actions they’ve been taking, one thing is sure that it seems like anyone who has ever released a…
By Adriana Lee |
Oh, Spotify — what you go through just to serve the American people. You took great pains to wheel and deal, taking years, just to come to our shores. You crossed your Ts and dotted your Is, and made nice with the music industry. And for…
By Jack McGrath |
In an apparent attempt to slow down Google’s momentum in the mobile software market, Microsoft Corp. has filed a complaint with a federal court claiming that Motorola Inc., a proponent of Google’s Android operating system, has violated age-old patents. These lawsuits are becoming increasingly common,…
