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Apple's Schiller, Forstall set to testify in retrial over Samsung damages

Posted October 4, 2013 - 3:29 pm

Apple and Samsung Electronics will return to a Silicon Valley federal court on Nov. 12 for a retrial of their billion-dollar 2012 patent battle, and Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller may come back to testify.
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Samsung execs may have peeked at secret Apple info

Posted October 4, 2013 - 2:40 am

Samsung's lawyers may have provided their clients access to highly confidential information such as Apple's patent licensing agreements with Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp and Philips, according to a court document.
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US indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks

Posted October 3, 2013 - 10:39 pm

The U.S. has brought criminal charges against 13 persons, said to be members of the hacker group Anonymous, for their alleged participation in cyberattacks as part of a campaign called Operation Payback.
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Patent firm Lodsys backs out of dispute with Kaspersky Lab

Posted October 3, 2013 - 2:44 am

Security firm Kaspersky Lab said patent firm Lodsys had withdrawn its claims rather than face the verdict of the court in a patent dispute.
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Revenge of the nerds: 11 titans of technology who tackled sports

Posted October 2, 2013 - 1:59 pm

These geeks got rich and then bought their way into sports, but, unlike in tech, they didn’t all hit it out of the park
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US DOJ opposes company requests to publish surveillance statistics

Posted October 2, 2013 - 1:40 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice has opposed requests by Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other companies to publish the number of surveillance requests they receive from the U.S. National Security Agency and other agencies.
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Report: HTC, Qualcomm reworking HTC One chip design after import ban threat

Posted October 2, 2013 - 8:41 am

HTC and Qualcomm are reworking a radio chip for the HTC One smartphone in order to avoid a U.S. ban on imports of patent-infringing technology, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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Apple can push iOS email across German borders again

Posted October 2, 2013 - 4:19 am

Apple switched on its push email services for iOS devices in Germany again after posting a bond of €100 million (US$135 million).
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Yahoo concerned that release of redacted FISA papers may mislead

Posted October 2, 2013 - 12:25 am

Yahoo has asked that it be allowed to review declassified documents of a secret court about a dispute over data collection between the Internet company and the government, as the release of the redacted documents could mislead the public.
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More NSA leaks to come, Guardian says

Posted October 1, 2013 - 5:10 pm

The flood of stories on government spying will not be slowing soon -- in fact the majority of the most important documents detailing how the U.S. National Security Agency collects personal data have not been published yet, journalists from U.K. newspaper The Guardian said on Tuesday.
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Former Qwest CEO out of prison, blames NSA for troubles

Posted October 1, 2013 - 12:00 pm

Revelations made by NSA leaker Edward Snowden would have given former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio a fighting chance to beat insider-trading charges that garnered him a 70-month jail term, says Nacchio, who was released this month after serving four and a half years.
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SAP seeks an edge from NSA surveillance worries

Posted October 1, 2013 - 11:49 am

SAP may build a second data center in Australia in order to meet customer demand for locally delivered cloud services in the wake of revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program.
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India puts Nokia assets on ice in tax tussle

Posted October 1, 2013 - 8:56 am

The Indian government has stepped up its squabble with Nokia over taxes and has frozen some of its assets in the country until the issue is resolved.
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Rivals to again review Google's promises in EU antitrust case

Posted October 1, 2013 - 6:12 am

The European Union is to put Google’s latest proposals to the marketplace in order to allow competitors and rivals to assess the search giant’s plans to avoid antitrust sanctions.
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IBM to pay $44,000 fine over online job listings

Posted September 29, 2013 - 8:37 pm

IBM will pay a US$44,000 fine to settle a case alleging it violated anti-discrimination law by placing online job listings seeking software developers with specific visas, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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France sanctions Google for European privacy law violations

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:56 pm

Google faces financial sanctions in France after failing to comply with an order to alter how it stores and shares user data to conform to the nation's privacy laws.
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German court rules Apple photo-management patent invalid because of Steve Jobs keynote

Posted September 27, 2013 - 11:23 am

Germany's Federal Patent Court invalidated an Apple photo-management patent because Steve Jobs showed how the technology worked during a keynote months before the company applied for the patent in Europe.
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Google's Gmail scanning unclear to users, judge finds

Posted September 26, 2013 - 9:35 pm

A U.S. federal judge allowed a class-action suit against Google to proceed, saying the company's terms of service are unclear when describing how it scans Gmail content in order to deliver advertisements.
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PC security, NSA-style: 7 tips from the spymasters

Posted September 26, 2013 - 1:08 pm

Some of the agency's countersurveillance tips are easy for anyone to implement.
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Patent trolls will gain from a single European system, vendors warn

Posted September 26, 2013 - 7:30 am

The creation of a pan-European patent system will help spread abusive patent litigation to Europe and could lead to E.U.-wide sales bans on products, leading tech vendors have claimed.
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Indian biometric ID project faces court hurdle

Posted September 25, 2013 - 2:47 am

A controversial biometric project in India, which could require people to produce their biometric IDs to collect government subsidies, has received a significant setback from the country's Supreme Court.
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Strip club sues Oracle over unpaid $33,540 tab

Posted September 24, 2013 - 10:29 pm

A San Francisco strip club has filed a lawsuit against Oracle, alleging an employee of the software giant didn't pay a US$33,540 bill run up over two days last year.
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HTC violated two Nokia patents, US trade judge says

Posted September 23, 2013 - 8:13 pm

Taiwan's HTC has infringed on two patents held by Nokia related to cellphones and tablets, a judge at a powerful U.S. trade court said Monday.
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Java exploits seen as huge menace so far this year

Posted September 23, 2013 - 3:51 pm

Java was the most targeted development platform for exploit attacks during the first half of the year, and attacks have increasingly shifted to zero-day vulnerabilities, according to F-Secure's new threat report.
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LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

Posted September 23, 2013 - 12:06 am

LinkedIn denied over the weekend charges that the company breaks into the email accounts of its members without permission to harvest contacts' addresses.
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