Monday - December 29, 2008
A small networking company is suing three tech titans for patent infringement. Cygnus Systems has filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Arizona, alleging that Microsoft, Google and Apple have all violated a patent Cygnus received in March 2008 on the use of document preview icon, or so-called thumbnail, technology. The patent is described as a method for accessing a computer file via a graphical icon, which features an image of a portion of the file. Google, Microsoft and Apple, according to the suit, are using the technology in their respective software applications.
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Friday - December 26, 2008
It is no secret that "retail therapy" -- whether in the form of shopping at a designer boutique, visiting a favorite online retailer, or even purchasing a preferred brand of shampoo from the grocery store -- can evoke feelings of happiness and well-being. The brain actually receives an emotional boost from such experiences, and it intensifies when consumers interface with so-called "strong" brands.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
GateHouse Media, a chain of local newspapers, has sued the New York Times Co. for copyright and trademark infringement. Fairport, N.Y.-based GateHouse, which owns 125 local newspapers, alleged that Boston.com, the Web site for The Boston Globe, violated
copyright law by linking to GateHouse stories on the Internet.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
Lorrie Thomas does not "sell, share or whore out" the personal information of any visitor who comes to her Lorrie Thomas Web Marketing site -- and she backs up this no-share promise in her privacy statement. Indeed, the entire document is a straightforward description of what the company will and will not do with personal data.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
Five years and 35,000 people later, the Recording Industry Association of America has apparently conceded a major battle over music file-sharing. The music industry trade group has decided to stop suing individuals it suspects of illegally downloading music via peer-to-peer Web sites.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
The Justice Department has sued Microsemi to force the chipmaker to unravel its $25 million acquisition of Semicoa, a deal the government believes is driving prices up and quality down for semiconductors used by the Defense Department and NASA. The antitrust lawsuit claims that Microsemi created a monopoly on parts called "small signal transistors."
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Friday - December 19, 2008
A judge declined Thursday to order Arkansas officials to reveal which state computers were used to edit Wikipedia entries about Gov. Mike Beebe, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and another former elected official. Circuit Judge Marion Humphrey declined "for reasons of security" to order the disclosure of the physical locations of five computers used to edit profiles about the politicians.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Hasbro has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game "Scrabble." According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the lawsuit Friday. Hasbro, which owns the North American rights to the word game, sued Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, brothers from Calcutta, India, this summer.
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Monday - December 15, 2008
A Countrywide mortgage employee working Sunday nights copied customer records from an office computer, then sold the personal information of an estimated 2 million mortgage applicants. A group of hackers "wardriving" managed to capture credit card numbers, passwords and account information for more than 40 million customers. Before 2004, consumers rarely heard about these kinds of thefts.
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Friday - December 12, 2008
The Free Software Foundation filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems on Thursday, alleging the networking giant is in violation of numerous open source licenses. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan by the Boston-based nonprofit open source software group.
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