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Over the decision of Supreme Court last month which forced the FBI to shut down its 3,000 GPS tracking device that were place without a warrant, the FBI still upset with Supreme Court ruling. Publication name NPR reported that on these 3,000 trackers were shut down, and only 250 weren’t eventually turned back on. It do means that FBI will have to follow criminals in the same way as it did from years, teaming up together in more physical way. “A search warrant requires probable cause to be shown,” said Bureau lawyer Andrew...

Over claims that AT&T purposefully violated registration requirements for use of IP Relay, the US Department of Justice has sued the carrier. AT&T has collected millions of dollars from the government for fraudulent calls, a service that allows the hearing impaired to place calls over the internet by typing messages. Since from November 2009, the government says that the fraudulent calls accounted for 95-percent of AT&T’s IP Relay calls. Constance Lyttle, a former AT&T communications assistant that made the initial allegations...

A Miami judge Marc Schumacher has issued a landmark order on a case that includes over 600 BitTorrent downloaders, according to TorrentFreak.  The main argument of the judge is that the “fishing expeditions” violate BitTorrent users’ right to anonymous speech, which is said to be protected by the constitution. Thanks to a loophole in Florida that allows copyright holders to subpoena internet providers with almost little or no evidence. “[These suits are].. used to extort settlements from defendants who are neither subject to the...

Mitel Network, Canadian communication and collaboration software maker filed suit against the world’s largest social networking giant, Facebook alleging that it has infringed two of its patents: U.S. patent number 5940834 – “Automatic web page generator” and U.S. patent number 7292685 – “Pro-active features for telephony”. The Canadian company says it has sent letters to Facebook notifying them of the potential patent infringement back in July 2011 and then again in September 2011, but it has never received any response....

After suspending the hearings by EU regulators early last December to seek more information about Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the commission set February 13 as a deadline for the mulling the deal – and both European Commission as well as U.S. Department of Justice approved Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which the company announced in August. The Chinese Commerce Ministry’s Anti-Monopoly Bureau is looking into Google fresh grain deal and will undergo an additional round of scrutiny which is valued...