As we reported, Apple filed a federal lawsuit against HTC Tuesday claiming infringement of 10 of Apple's patents related to smartphone technology. Apple said that HTC violated 20 of its patents, and the remaining 10 are covered under a parallel complaint...
HTC feeling Apple’s fury over smartphone patents
Apple has filed a lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, alleging that it violates as many as 20 patents that Apple has on the iPhone interface and hardware architecture. A parallel complaint has...
Apple Sues HTC Over iPhone
While Tuesdays are known for Apple product launches, today the company announced not a new Mac but a lawsuit over patent infringement related to the iPhone. The target was mobile phone maker HTC, and none other than Steve Jobs was making the accusations.
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we...
Dancing tot prevails over UMG in YouTube fair use case
The mother of a dancing toddler is dancing after winning a closely watched copyright case. US District Judge Jeremy Fogel granted partial summary judgment to Stephanie Lenz last week in her battle...
Windows XP downgrade lawsuit dismissed
US District Court Judge Marsha Pechman has dismissed a year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations for the downgrade rules it set for Windows Vista and XP. Pechman said the plaintiff had not proved Microsoft benefited from the downgrade practices that it created and that OEMs implemented. Since the plaintiff...
Yelp facing class-action lawsuit over extortive “ad sales”
Last year, business review site Yelp was the target of a scathing exposé that accused the company of promoting or even fabricating negative reviews in order to get businesses to pay to...
“Spying” school agrees to preserve evidence in Laptopgate
The school district responsible for allegedly "spying" on a high school student in his own home has agreed not to remove webcam images from any of the 2,300 student-issued MacBooks. In...
Did a Pennsylvania school district use iSight to iSpy?
Filed under: Hardware, Video, Odds and ends, MacBook
The FBI and lots of parents want to know if school-issued MacBooks were used to spy on students at a suburban Philadelphia school.Earlier today, a federal judge was asked to stop...
FBI, grand jury now probing high school’s webcam spying (Updated)
The furor over the Harriton High School webcam spying caper continues to grow. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating whether the school broke any federal wiretap laws when it remotely...
School backs off on laptop spying policy in wake of lawsuit
Less than a day after Harriton High School's questionable laptop policy made headlines online, its school district has disabled its remote monitoring capabilities. The Lower Merion School District (LMSD) issued a...
Parents: school used webcam to spy on our kid at home
School-issued laptops are becoming more and more common these days, but thanks to the action of one high school, students and parents might have second thoughts about bringing them home. The parents...
