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Lawsuit targets Microsoft and the DoJ
News A nonprofit antitrust group filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging the Justice Department and Microsoft violated federal law by not properly disclosing all information and communications related to settlement negotiations.
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
Lawsuit seeks to block Google settlement
News Lawyers representing Internet search advertisers filed a lawsuit this week in an attempt to block a proposed $90m (£48m) settlement to a class-action click fraud suit against Google, a lawyer and the lead plaintiff said on Thursday.
[May 12, 2006, 9:30]
Lawsuit opens new can of worms for Microsoft
News A lawsuit faulting Microsoft for security defects in its products has added a new front in the software giant's battle against vulnerabilities in its software. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Marcy Hamilton, a Los Angeles resident, who claims a...
[October 7, 2003, 11:50]
Apple vs Apple: Lawsuit reaches British judge
News Lawyers representing Apple Computer urged the High Court to rule that the lawsuit should be heard in California rather than in London, which is Apple Corps's preferred venue. Meanwhile, a US district court in California is also currently assessing...
[February 26, 2004, 13:05]
PC giants 'mislead on hard drive sizes' - lawsuit
Talkback How about a lawsuit over chip speed - in Ghz, FLOPS or other units! Incredible! cos I that's the problem here. As numbers go, 20 thousand million is only 18.626GB in computer terms since you have to divide by 1024 each time not 1000.
[September 23, 2003, 10:54]
Lawsuit targets biggest post-Napster network
News Perhaps more than any previous legal action, the latest lawsuit will test the ability of courts and one nation's system of law to reach across international borders for an online issue, and over technological hurdles that many techno-libertarians...
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
US Report: IE lawsuit settled
News After testimony yesterday, Microsoft offered the trustees of SyNet $5m (£3m) to settle the lawsuit, and the trustees accepted. Dhiren Rana, who owned the once thriving SyNet service and who sued Microsoft in late 1995, was not immediately available...
[July 3, 1998, 6:28]
How the SCO lawsuit will affect Linux adoption
News In early March, SCO Group filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM, accusing it of violating its Unix license. The most obvious question is, "How did SCO Group get the footing to file such a lawsuit anyway?
[April 15, 2003, 9:37]
Microsoft paid $12m to avert Opera lawsuit
News Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software $12.75m (£7.13m) to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browser, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned.
[May 24, 2004, 14:05]
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]
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]
Music publishers file latest lawsuit
News This lawsuit seeks to protect the rights of music creators from flagrant piracy," Edward Murphy, president of the NMPA, said in a statement. The lawsuit is the latest chapter in an ongoing saga aimed at stopping consumers from trading copyrighted...
[November 21, 2001, 10:02]
$$$$$$$$$Lawsuit$$$$$$$$$$$$
Talkback You all are going to cost the rest of us stockholder more profit with having to fight this stupid lawsuit. All the money Apple has made everyone with their stock. This group has to be the most ungrateful people out there and its embarrassing to be...
[January 26, 2007, 14:21]
Apple hit with iPhone patent lawsuit
News Apple has been hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit by an inventor who claims to have patented iPhone-like mobile web surfing. The '196 patent claims cover the display of internet content reformatted from HTML to XML on mobile devices — the...
[November 25, 2008, 11:04]
Google, Apple, others hit by Eolas patent lawsuit
News Eolas Technologies, a company that went through a years-long patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, has sued a large number of corporate powers for infringement of that same patent and another related patent concerning interactive programs...
[October 7, 2009, 8:26]
UK man threatened with BitTorrent lawsuit
News They filed a lawsuit in the US courts earlier this month claiming that copyright-protected films have been uploaded and downloaded from bds-palace.co.uk, which Reid runs. At present, Reid has not been formally named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
[March 18, 2005, 16:35]
Ballmer ordered to testify in 'Vista Capable' lawsuit
News A US judge on Friday ruled that Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will have to testify in a class-action lawsuit over the 'Vista Capable' logo programme that Microsoft ran prior to the launch of Windows Vista.
[November 24, 2008, 12:03]
Kodak defends Java lawsuit
News Eastman Kodak has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against computer maker Sun Microsystems that focuses on technologies found in Sun's Java programming language. The suit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of New York...
[February 14, 2002, 6:31]
Microsoft faces lawsuit over Vista branding
News A lawsuit, filed in the US, alleges that the company advertised systems as "Vista capable", when in fact the systems were not able to run Vista properly. We look forward to presenting this information to the court and addressing all other issues...
[April 4, 2007, 14:25]
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]
