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Best Buy, Samsung, others named in GPL lawsuit
News Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse and JVC are among 14 consumer electronics companies named in a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed on Monday in New York by the Software Freedom Law Center. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Software Freedom...
[December 15, 2009, 7:51]
Court gives go-ahead to Hewlett lawsuit
News A Delaware judge ruled Monday that Walter Hewlett may pursue a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard, a decision that could pose problems for the company's proposed $19bn merger with Compaq Computer. Hewlett, the HP director who opposes the company's...
[April 9, 2002, 8:34]
Lawsuit targets PS2 chip
News We hope the lawsuit will encourage them to bargain in good faith," the representative said. Electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have been sued in a patent dispute involving the main chip used by Sony's PlayStation 2 console.
[October 28, 2003, 9:05]
VIA lawsuit seeks to block Pentium 4
News Taiwanese chip maker VIA Technologies stepped up its legal battle with Intel today, filing a lawsuit that seeks to halt sales of Intel's flagship Pentium 4 processor. The lawsuit seeks to stop sales of the Pentium 4 and requests that monetary...
[September 20, 2001, 13:00]
Sony settles class action lawsuit over DRM
News Sony BMG has struck a deal with the plaintiffs involved in a class action lawsuit over copy-restriction software it used in music CDs, according to a settlement document filed at a New York court on Wednesday.
[December 29, 2005, 13:55]
Tech industry quiet over Netscape lawsuit
News High-tech industry lobbyists issued a collective yawn after Netscape Communications filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Microsoft claiming the software giant's business practices crushed the alternative browser.
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Belkin and Microsoft settle patent lawsuit
News Microsoft said on Friday it has settled a lawsuit with Belkin after the peripherals maker agreed to license one of the software maker's technologies. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant sued Belkin in August, saying the company had refused...
[December 4, 2006, 8:31]
Microsoft settles Google lawsuit over executive hire
News Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s. The parties have entered into a private...
[December 23, 2005, 9:50]
Intel hits back over AMD lawsuit
News AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel on Monday in US District Court in Delaware. Intel was able to stare down an antitrust lawsuit Intergraph filed against the chipmaking giant back in 2000. Lawyers predict the lawsuit could take about 18 months to go...
[June 30, 2005, 9:35]
Apple wins iPod hearing-loss lawsuit
News For mor eon this story, see Apple wins appeal in earbud hearing-loss lawsuit on ZDNet.com. A San Francisco appeals court has upheld a previous ruling that Apple's iPod cannot be held responsible for hearing loss.
[December 31, 2009, 8:08]
Netscape hits Microsoft with lawsuit
News Desler also accused AOL Time Warner of using the Netscape lawsuit to undermine the settlement that Microsoft reached in November with the Justice Department and nine states. The lawsuit is based on previous court findings that Microsoft's business...
[January 23, 2002, 8:44]
Facebook hit by user-privacy lawsuit
News A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit on Monday that alleges the social-networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The lawsuit, which was filed in California's Orange County Superior Court on behalf of five users...
[August 18, 2009, 8:23]
Harris Interactive drops spamming lawsuit
News Major polling firm Harris Interactive has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft, Qwest Communications International, America Online and other ISPs it accused of unfairly blocking its email. Bellsouth.net was dropped from the lawsuit, but claims it...
[September 13, 2000, 18:06]
AOL faces hate speech lawsuit
News AOL Time Warner is facing a lawsuit that accuses AOL of allowing hate speech to be published in its Muslim chat rooms. The lawsuit, which has been filed in the US District Court of Alexandria, is seeking an injunction against AOL that would force...
[August 31, 2001, 16:47]
Apple lawsuit provides clues to new products
News In its latest lawsuit seeking to clamp down on leaks, Apple has added credibility to several hot rumours, including plans to offer a cheaper Macintosh and its own line of office software. The postings on Think Secret included detailed technical...
[January 6, 2005, 7:40]
Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft
News Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy-protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code.
[September 27, 2006, 8:40]
Toner company fights DMCA lawsuit
News This lawsuit is the latest of several recent DMCA cases -- both civil and criminal -- that have tested the limits of the 1998 copyright law, which Congress intended to limit Internet piracy. In a final round of skirmishing before a court hearing on...
[February 6, 2003, 8:06]
Second WGA lawsuit faced by Microsoft
News Microsoft has been named in a second lawsuit over its antipiracy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, which plaintiffs allege acts as "spyware" on their systems. Engineered Process Controls, Univex and several other parties filed a class action...
[July 6, 2006, 9:45]
Experts: Java lawsuit could be tough to win
News Legal experts describe Sun Microsystems' lawsuit against Microsoft as very aggressive and expansive, going well beyond anything pursued by federal and state trustbusters. It will have a major, serious lawsuit to litigate here," he said.
[March 11, 2002, 14:57]
Compuware lawsuit targets IBM
News Software company Compuware is charging IBM with using its intellectual property and engaging in illegal tying of its technologies and anti-competitive practices, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern...
[March 13, 2002, 6:31]
