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  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 his administration.

  By Lucian Constantin | 25 May, 2012 15:45

  Tags: cybercrime, Access control and authentication, data breach, Criminal, legal, intrusion, security

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  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 which Apple had taken a license to its patents.

  By John Ribeiro | 25 May, 2012 07:24

  Tags: patent, intellectual property, legal, SimpleAir, Apple

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  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 InterDigital, claiming it is abusing its patents allegedly essential to the 3G (UMTS) standard, it said Thursday.

  By John Ribeiro | 25 May, 2012 04:32

  Tags: antitrust, patent, intellectual property, legal, european commission, InterDigital, Huawei Technologies

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  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 recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 23:37

  Tags: Eric Holder, John Barrow, Frank Pallone Jr., WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, networking, Criminal, legal, privacy, security, Regulation, government, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Google, U.S. Department of Justice

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  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 recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 20:53

  Tags: Eric Holder, John Barrow, Frank Pallone Jr., WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, networking, Criminal, legal, privacy, security, Regulation, government, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Google, U.S. Department of Justice

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  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 witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

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  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 also dismissed a second case related to a localization patent.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 May, 2012 15:24

  Tags: Android OS, Android, smartphones, consumer electronics, patent, intellectual property, legal, Microsoft, Google, Motorola Mobility, Motorola

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  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 filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

  By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2012 05:35

  Tags: antitrust, e-commerce, Internet-based applications and services, internet, legal, Department of Justice, Apple

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  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 of the jurors revealed Wednesday after the trial had ended.

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 23:34

  Tags: Android OS, copyright, Civil lawsuits, patent, intellectual property, legal, Google, oracle

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  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.

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 20:08

  Tags: Android OS, patent, intellectual property, legal, Google, oracle

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  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.

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 18:29

  Tags: Android OS, patent, intellectual property, legal, Google, oracle

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  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-of-service) attacks that damaged multiple computer systems owned by private individuals and organizations.

  By Lucian Constantin | 23 May, 2012 15:50

  Tags: security, malware, legal, cybercrime

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  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 advertising feature, according to a court document filed Tuesday.

  By Cameron Scott | 23 May, 2012 10:47

  Tags: social networking, legal, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook, Civil lawsuits

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  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 ordered YouTube to inspect the titles of uploaded videos to filter out potentially copyright-infringing content.

  By Loek Essers | 23 May, 2012 00:49

  Tags: youtube, legal, intellectual property, copyright

• 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 invalid, Kodak said on Monday.

  By James Niccolai | 22 May, 2012 10:14

  Tags: smartphones, research in motion, patent, legal, kodak, iPhone, intellectual property, consumer electronics, Blackberry, Apple, Android