Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers' blog, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.
Apple has filed infringement suits against Motorola, saying that Multi-Touch smartphone uses Apple-owned intellectual property. The suits mostly pertain to Motorola's next generation smartphones, specifically the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BakFlip Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm.
If states can prohibit minors from buying Penthouse, Hustler and Playboy, why not "Grand Theft Auto" or "Mortal Kombat"? That is the novel question that will confront the justices when they evaluate a California law designed to prevent juveniles from buying or renting violent video games.
New jury instructions adopted by the Supreme Court of Florida, which judges will pass along to jurors, instruct them not to discuss the case through "electronic communication, such as a blog, Twitter, e-mail, text message, or any other means."
Research in Motion (RIM) and the Indian government seem to have reached a temporary agreement in their battle over the monitoring of RIM's networks in the country. "Following the continuing discussion of RIM with the Government of India on the issue of providing access for lawful interception, RIM has set up an interim arrangement for lawful interception of BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) services," India's Press Information Bureau said in a press release.
Log onto popular video streaming websites on a Sunday during football season and you can usually find several channels showing decent-quality live feeds of the games. This has kicked off a frenzied game of Whack-A-Mole for sports leagues bent on eliminating the pirated video feeds.
Google has pledged to overhaul its rules and procedures for blocking certain advertisers from buying "sponsored links" on its search engine, as part of a settlement. Under the deal with the French Competition Authority, Google agreed to adopt conditions, including a three-month notification period, when it rejected some ads from appearing next to its search results in France.
A Jacksonville, Florida, mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.
Two Hollywood studios have won a legal victory over a new type of foe in their battle against online piracy: a company that referred advertisements to sites that streamed pirated movies and television shows. But the case was resolved in a way that doesn't set a precedent that could be used against online ad networks -- like, say, Google.
If the forecast of strong Republican gains in Congress holds true Nov. 2, the battle over net neutrality -- the most contentious tech policy issue -- isn't likely to be resolved anytime soon. Analysts say the FCC could find itself in a more hostile political environment as its embattled chairman pushes for rules that Republicans are expected to argue would hurt the telecom and cable companies responsible for a large chunk of American jobs.
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into Google for allegedly violating the country's privacy laws through the data collected for the Internet company's Street View service, newspapers reported. The investigation, being handled by Rome public prosecutor Eugenio Albamonte, was opened at the request of the national Privacy Authority and on the basis of information provided by Google.
A group of law professors are urging President Obama not to publicly endorse a proposed trade agreement aimed at increasing international cooperation in the fight to curb piracy and counterfeiting. In a letter set to be sent to Obama, the professors take issue with the lack of public involvement in the crafting of the agreement and are asking the White House to ensure that the most recent, and possibly final text, is subject to "a meaningful participation process that can influence the shape of the agreement going forward."
Proview, a struggling Taiwanese-owned company, has threatened to sue Apple for alleged trademark infringement, in a lingering dispute that illustrates the complexity of branding in far-flung markets. Proview is a contract manufacturer of flat screens that made an unsuccessful attempt almost a decade ago to market a tablet computer it called I-Pad.
Security software vendor Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence report for October found an alarming increase in so-called spear-phishing attacks in the retail industry as scam artists incessantly targeted small groups of employees and executives at a pair of top-tier retailers.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ended its investigation of Google Inc.'s collection of data over unsecured wireless networks after the company said it will improve privacy safeguards in its Street View mapping project. The agency said the Mountain View, California-based company also agreed not to use the data, according to a letter from David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, to Albert Gidari, a lawyer for Google.
Police in Moscow say they have opened a probe against a man accused of running a network of online pharmacies promoted by junk e-mail messages. Police told Russian media at a press conference in central Moscow that they have launched a criminal investigation against Igor Gusev on charges of illegal business activities.
Google has been targeted in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of violating user privacy by passing along search queries in referral links. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Google's practice of including search terms in the URL for search-results pages violates user privacy when that URL is passed onto the publisher of the Web site clicked on by a Google user.
The end of LimeWire as it has existed for years appears to be at hand. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood issued an injunction against the company that requires it to disable "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" of LimeWire's peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Lime Wire announced.
The net domain reserved for Vietnam has become a haven of cyber crime, suggests research. About 58% of the sites using Vietnam's .vn domain harboured malware found the McAfee report.
The Obama administration has formed a subcommittee drawn from various parts of the federal government to advise the White House on regulatory and legislative issues for the Web. The panel, which will focus on Internet privacy, comes as consumer advocacy groups have complained that Internet users need more protection from social media, advertising and other sites that collect user information.
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