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Article | 18/06/2013 Google Glass privacy concerns raised by international data protection authorities

The Australian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy concerns about Google Glass in an open letter t...

Article | 18/06/2013 Swedish court OKs Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm Warg's extradition to Denmark

The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, th...

Article | 17/06/2013 Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers

Apple received between 4000 and 5000 requests for customer data from US law enforcement between December 1 and May 31, according to the company.

Article | 14/06/2013 Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store

Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers.

Article | 14/06/2013 Apple's crucial overscroll bounce patent claim is valid, US patent office says

The USPTO has confirmed four claims of Apple's overscroll bounce patent, including claim 19 of the patent, according to a document filed with a Califo...

Article | 13/06/2013 Even before NSA scandal, US residents were anxious about privacy breaches

Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were very concerned ...

Article | 13/06/2013 Apple updates Belgian warranty policy as consumer lawsuit proceeds

Apple has posted to its Belgian website a new policy stating that its warranty period is now two years, up from the previous one year, but a local con...

Article | 12/06/2013 Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead

The German city-state of Berlin won't migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on op...

Article | 11/06/2013 Netflix, Roku do not infringe on Rovi's interactive program guide patents, ITC finds

Streaming video service Netflix does not infringe on several Rovi patents on an interactive program guide and parental control technology, the U.S. In...

Article | 7/06/2013 Amsterdam to allow occasional Airbnb vacation rentals

Amsterdam authorities have conceded that people may rent out their rooms and houses on Airbnb as long as they don't do it all the time and abide by ce...

Article | 5/06/2013 Fairphone to start building 'ethical' smartphone

Fairphone has received enough orders to start production on what it says is a smartphone that will be built according to ethical standards, designed a...

Article | 4/06/2013 China joins EU, US in international patent classification system

The Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) on Tuesday signed an agreement to start using the same patent classification system as adopted b...

Article | 3/06/2013 Apple ordered to pay out the €5 million it's collected in copying levies in France

Apple has to pay out €5 million (US$6.5 million) in home copying levies that it's collected but failed to deliver to the appropriate agency, the Paris...

Article | 31/05/2013 Dutch Supreme Court: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on iPad design

Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on Apple's iPad design right, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on Friday.

Article | 30/05/2013 Payleven's chip-and-PIN readers land in Apple's retail stores

Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe.