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Article | 9/07/2010 US panel to investigate patent complaint against smartphones

The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into patent complaints filed by FlashPoint Technology, which alleges that four s...

Article | 7/07/2010 Database admin sentenced for hacking employer's network

A former senior database administrator at a Houston electricity provider was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison for hacking into his former emplo...

Article | 1/07/2010 Facebook adds new controls for third-party apps

Facebook has revamped the way its users share information with third-party applications and Web sites in an effort to make the process easier, the com...

Article | 1/07/2010 Amazon.com to acquire shopping site Woot

Amazon.com plans to acquire online discount retailer Woot.com, the smaller site announced Wednesday.

Article | 30/06/2010 Taiwanese LCD maker pleads guilty to price fixing

HannStar Display, a Taiwanese maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$30 million fine for participating in a ...

Article | 29/06/2010 Court patent ruling leaves software patents intact

The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ...

Article | 28/06/2010 US trade panel to investigate S3 complaint against Apple

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched a formal investigation into four patent complaints filed against Apple by computer graphi...

Article | 25/06/2010 Twitter settles FTC privacy complaint

Social-networking giant Twitter has agreed to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that the company deceived users and p...

Article | 25/06/2010 States settle price-fixing complaint against DRAM makers

Thirty-three states, including California, have reached a US$173 million settlement with six DRAM makers alleged to have fixed prices for their produc...

Article | 23/06/2010 U.S. government to crack down on piracy

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration will seek to aggressively enforce its intellectual property laws by putting pressure on countries that do...

Article | 18/06/2010 Companies launch online fraud alert service

Microsoft, eBay and Citizens Bank have launched a new Internet fraud alert service designed to allow them to better share information about compromise...

Article | 11/06/2010 Taiwan company, executives indicted for LCD price fixing

A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted the largest Taiwanese maker of thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, its U....

Article | 9/06/2010 HP lawyer: Tech industry needs to focus more on privacy

The technology industry is facing an "erosion of trust" from customers because of concerns over privacy violations and cybersecurity problems, Hewlett...

Article | 26/05/2010 Google: $54 billion impact of search and search ads in US

Google's search service and search advertising products generated an estimated US$54 billion for U.S. businesses, Web site publishers and nonprofit gr...

U.S. copyright official Steven Tepp said Tuesday he doesn't understand many of the current objections to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreem...