The Department of Justice is now looking into Google’s proposed settlement over its Book Search service, sources tell both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . The inquiry is said to be focused on antitrust concerns surrounding the online book deal. The Book Search settlement, announced in October, followed a three-year battle [...]
Lawsuits
Pirate Bay demands retrial
irate Bay owners were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars. But recent findings reveals that the judge who ruled against The Pirate Bay defendants on Friday is a member of two copyright [...]
Nvidia sues Intel
Nvidia countersues Intel for breach of contract related to a chip licensing agreement between the two companies. When Intel sued NVIDIA earlier this month alleging that the GPU maker had infringed upon its patents. The suit seeks to terminate Intel’s license to Nvidia’s patents related to graphics processing and three-dimensional computing and comes in response [...]
Apple Sued Over iPhone’s Browser
Apple’s iPhone 3G is generally considered the best browsing experience on a smartphone, as consumers appear to love the ability to zoom and scroll with their fingers on the mobile Safari browser. But that browsing experience is the heart of a new patent-infringement lawsuit filed by EMG Technology. The suit claims Apple is infringing on [...]
Facebook wins $873M judgment against spammer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook has won $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online hangout with sexually explicit “spam” messages. The victory, sealed with a judge’s order issued last Friday, probably won’t yield a windfall for privately held Facebook Inc., whose revenue this year is expected to range between $250 [...]