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A Look at Steve Jobs' FBI File
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Yes, it's true. The FBI had a file on Steve Jobs. It's not what you might think, though. The FBI performed a "level III" background investigation on Jobs as a potential presidential appointee in 1991. He was described by most witnesses as an "individual of good character and integrity" that...
Acer reportedly suing former CEO Gianfranco Lanci for breaching his noncompete
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It looks like former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci's new position with Lenovo has landed him in a spot of legal trouble — Acer is reportedly suing Lanci for breaching his non-compete clause. Lanci left Acer in March of 2011 after several quarters of poor performance and a disagreement with...
Cybersecurity Bill: Protecting Us From Attacks... Or Keeping Our Own Attacks Secret?
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We've been discussing the fight in the Senate over the latest version of the Cybersecurity Act. One of the things we mentioned is that, at 211-pages, it's quite likely there are a ton of little "easter egg" gems in there that the public doesn't want or need, but which we'll...
PayPal Draws the Line on Erotic Books, as Criticism Mounts
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PayPal said Thursday it does not allow its service to be used for the sale of erotic books, but said it was to stay out of legal trouble, and not to impose its......
Aereo hands-on: live TV in your browser, for $12 a month
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Aereo's premise is a clever one: for $12 / month, it streams over-the-air broadcast channels to almost any device with an HTML5-supporting browser — only iOS devices and Roku are supported now, but the company promises near-universal support is coming. It's designed to be a complement to Hulu or...
Court resurrects Rosetta Stone’s trademark lawsuit against Google
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Rosetta Stone Inc., the company best known for producing language learning software, got a dose of good news in its longstanding trademark infringement suit with Google on Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has decided to address whether Google is in violation of trademark infringement...
Swedish company claims rights to 'slide to unlock' with new UI patent
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A patent issued to Swedish touchscreen technology company Neonode for a 'sweep gesture' user interface could mean legal trouble for Apple, which is currently embroiled in a dispute with Motorola and Samsung over its 'slide to unlock' patent....
Will Tumblr's New Terms Of Service Finally Lead To The De-Stupidifying Of Terms Of Service?
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Late last week there was some buzzing over Tumblr's new Terms of Service, which some noted had some amusingly plain language explanations in them, resulting in a bit of news coverage. Having gone through the process of creating terms of service with lawyers before, I'm somewhat jaded on the subject...
OnLive Desktop now based on Windows Server 2008, company silent about alleged licensing conflict
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For a while there, we were worried that OnLive's streaming Windows 7 cloud desktop service might have legal trouble due to a Microsoft complaint, but it seems that OnLive isn't using Windows 7 anymore: as you can see in the image above, it's now Windows Server 2008. Before you...
Burberry faces lawsuit for using Bogart image on Facebook timeline
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Luxury brand Burberry is in legal trouble for using an iconic image from the film Casablanca in a social media campaign to promote its trenchcoats. In a lawsuit filed in New York, Burberry claims that it had the right to use an actor’s image in a timeline of its coats...
Mobile Ad Wars: Augme Slaps Millennial Media With Patent Lawsuit Over Targeting Technologies
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After debuting on the New York Stock Exchange last week with a huge pop in stock value, mobile ad network Millennial Media is now facing potential legal trouble from another mobile ad player. The company is facing a patent lawsuit by mobile marketing service, Augme Technologies. We’ve embedded the lawsuit...
European Commission VP: Android apps violating privacy laws
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European Commission VP Viviane Reding hinted Android app developers and possibly Google itself might be in legal trouble over app data access. Reacting to a report by the UK's Channel 4 where many top-50 Android apps were allegedly scraping personal data and passing it on to ad suppliers, Reding believed...
PayPal draws the line on erotic books, as criticism mounts
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PayPal said Thursday it does not allow its service to be used for the sale of erotic books, but said it was to stay out of legal trouble, and not to impose its moral beliefs on others or restrict free speech....
Apple drops 4G branding for new iPad following consumer and regulator pressure
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Having come under fire from regulators across the world — most notably in Australia — over the branding of its 4G-connected iPad, Apple has changed the way it advertises the tablet, relabelling the ‘Wi-Fi + 4G’ model as ‘Wi-Fi + Cellular’. The small change was noted by 9to5mac, which states...
Student Fined For Running Movie & TV Show Subtitle Download Site
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From the deaf to those who simply don’t understand the language being used, for millions of people all around the world subtitles are necessary for the enjoyment of movies and TV shows. Online, subtitles come in the form of small text files that can be quickly downloaded and played alongside...
DEAR ENTREPRENEURS, ATHLETES, AND LOTTERY WINNERS: Here's How To Keep All That Money You Made
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News came this week that Allen Iverson is broke. Allen Iverson, you will recall, used to be a star basketball player. He made $21 million one year playing for the Detroit Pistons. And he made more than $150 million in his career (a lot more, presumably, when one factors...
Apple sued again in China, this time over Siri patent infringement
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Apple could be set for more legal trouble in China after Shanghai-based Zhi Zhen Internet Technology said it had filed a patent lawsuit against Apple for allegedly infringing on its voice assistant service with Siri. According to NASDAQ, Zhi Zhen Internet Technology holds a patent for a Chinese language voice system...
Who’s watching the watchers? If the ACLU has its way … you!
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In an age of surveillance when over 200,000 cameras watch London ceaselessly and unmanned government spy planes patrolling U.S. skies, the New Jersey ACLU is providing tools for citizens to engage in “reverse surveillance.” The tool is a smartphone app, Police Tape, available for Android and currently in the app store approval...
Google Fined For Not Blocking Dirty Jokes
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sinsi was the first of a few of you to send in the news that Google has been fined by a Brazilian court for not blocking some dirty jokes on its Orkut social network (which, for reasons no one has explained, is only popular in Brazil). This isn't the first...
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