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Article | 12/06/2013 Gmail access disrupted in Iran ahead of election
Access to Google's Gmail service appears to be disrupted in Iran just days before the country's presidential election.
Article | 12/06/2013 Group wants antitrust agencies to block Google's Waze deal
U.S. antitrust agencies should block Google's proposed acquisition of crowdsourced mapping app Waze because the deal would take away Google's major co...
Article | 12/06/2013 Rambus settles patent infringement suit with SK Hynix
Rambus has signed a US$240 million patent licensing agreement with SK Hynix, ending a nearly 13-year patent dispute between the two companies over mem...
Article | 12/06/2013 Chinese seller of pirated software sentenced to 12 years in US prison
The operator of a website that sold more than US$100 million worth of pirated software to customers worldwide was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in a U...
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 | 11/06/2013 Rights groups ask US spy court for justification of Verizon order
Civil rights groups have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for the legal justification of the U.S. government's surveillance of...
Article | 10/06/2013 Apple's law-enforcement critics 'appreciative' of new activation lock
Two prominent law enforcers in the U.S. who have been pushing Apple to do more to combat iPhone theft say they appreciate a new feature previewed earl...
Article | 7/06/2013 Larry Page: US government has no access to information on Google servers
Google has denied involvement in a U.S. government surveillance program called Prism since news broke Thursday that the National Security Agency has b...
Article | 7/06/2013 Google, Cisco to pay TiVo in patent settlement
Cisco Systems and Google will give digital-video-recorder pioneer TiVo lump-sum payments totaling US$490 million as part of a deal that will end the c...
Article | 7/06/2013 Conservative activist files lawsuit over NSA surveillance
A conservative activist has filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. National Security Agency ...
Article | 6/06/2013 EU countries must be able to sentence hackers to two years, draft law says
Hackers would face up to two years or more in prison no matter where they live in the European Union under a new draft law approved by the European ...
Article | 6/06/2013 Report: Secret court order gives US access to Verizon call records
The U.S. National Security Agency has been allowed by a court order to collect phone records of a large number of customers of Verizon, according to a...
Article | 6/06/2013 Online ring for trading in stolen credit card data busted
Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Vietnam and the U.K. have disbanded a ring that allegedly sold online credit card details since 2007.
Article | 6/06/2013 Microsoft, US feds disrupt Citadel botnet network
Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have taken aim at a botnet network based on malware called Citadel that is held responsible for...
Article | 4/06/2013 ITC orders import ban on some iPhones, iPads in Samsung patent dispute
Apple infringed a Samsung Electronics patent, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a final judgment released Tuesday that bans import into ...