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• Article | 25/05/2012 Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

  The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and h...
• Article | 25/05/2012 Apple settles patent lawsuit with SimpleAir

  SimpleAir in Texas said Thursday it had settled its patent infringement litigation against Apple, and entered into a confidential license agreement by...
• Article | 25/05/2012 Huawei files antitrust complaint with EC against InterDigital

  Chinese communications equipment company Huawei Technologies has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against patent company Inte...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after re...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after re...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as wit...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Motorola Mobility has infringed Microsoft patent, says Munich court

  Google-owned Motorola Mobility has infringed a Microsoft patent related to SMS messaging, according to a ruling in the Munich regional court, which al...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case

  The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a fil...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use'

  Most of the jurors in the Oracle v Google trial thought Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android should be allowed under the doctrine of fair use, one ...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

  Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.
• Article | 23/05/2012 Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

  Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.
• Article | 23/05/2012 Bredolab botnet author sentenced to 4 years in prison in Armenia

  The creator of the Bredolab malware received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia on Monday for using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed denial-...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Facebook to settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

  Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertisin...
• Article | 23/05/2012 YouTube appeals German content filtering verdict

  YouTube and German music royalty collecting society GEMA have appealed the outcome of a lawsuit filed by GEMA against YouTube, in which a German court...
• Article | 22/05/2012 Judge deems Kodak digital camera patent invalid

  A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that a Kodak patent asserted in a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion is ...