According to The Guardian, Hacker group Anonymous reportedly published the emails hacked from the law firm Puckett & Faraj representing staff sergeant Frank Wuterich, who is responsible for the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians at Haditha. The group last week reported that it has broken into the website of a law firm that represented a US Marine accused of...
Cisco – the company that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, reported its second quarter results for the period ended January 29, 2011. Cisco reported second quarter net sales of $10.4 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $1.5 billion or $0.27 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.1 billion or $0.37 per share. “The quarter played out as we expected. Our strategy of tightly integrating our multiple products through an architectural approach is working, and...
The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple has reached an interesting twist – Motorola has offered to end the patent dispute and license its wireless patents to Apple – in exchange for 2.25 percent of Apple’s sales. Recently German court granted an injunction against sales of many of Apple’s 3G-bearing products, including older model iPhones...
Conglomerate Honeywell, the company which develops thermostats, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, the developer of the innovative smart thermostat. The lawsuit, which was filed United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, alleges infringement of seven Honeywell patents related to its thermostat technology. The company has invested...
Approximately 70 grass-roots groups, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, human rights groups, communities of color, and Internet companies including Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Open Congress, and Human Rights Watch, have sent an open letter to Congress asking it to put the brakes on intellectual property lawmaking in the...
According to Jakarta Globe report, Indonesia’s Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring after blocking access to almost one million pornographic Web Sites, is looking out to clean the country of anonymous Twitter accounts users that often use insults to attack other people. “We are now studying it. Because if they really violate [laws] and insult people, they could be reported as spam. Then their [accounts] could be closed by Twitter officials,” he said. Complaints can be filed against Twitter users that disturb the public or attack...
According to Agency O Globo, the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court of Goiás, a preliminary injunction to block suspension and Twitter profiles that warn drivers about the location and timing of traffic blitzes conducted in the state. The request was made by the attorney of the Union of Goiás (PU / GO), a unit of AGU in the state asking the micro-blogging site a daily fine of $500,000 in case of breach of the injunction. The Chief Prosecutor of the Union in Goiás, Celmo Ricardo Teixeira da Silva,...
With Apple recently accounted its highest quarterly earnings of record $46.3 billion in revenue, the company is still finding itself somewhere in reports of labor abuses among its suppliers – first NY Times reported Apple’s harsh working conditions at company’s component suppliers in China – and now, CNN published a video of journalist Stan Grant who recently...
With earlier protests against US SOPA and PIPA – in which we see thousands of websites – both small and large protested against the act – in the similar way protests are taking place but this time in Europe and it is against Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement (ACTA) – the protest is spreading like a fire – and even February 11 decided as a total turnout...
Nokia announced today that the Lumia 800 will be available in white, beginning later this month in most of the European countries including UK and Nokia’s home nation of Finland will be among the first to receive stock. “Since we began selling it late last year, the Nokia Lumia 800 has received rave reviews around the world,” said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President...
