Apple is reportedly turning off from the ebook piracy issue from quite some time, over on which Chinese writers’ mainly ten in numbers are expected to file a lawsuit against the company. Back in January, three separate lawsuits already rounded up which involved 59 books with a Beijing court with constantly number of writers, including race car driver Han Han raised from nine to twelve. “It is encouragement in disguise, because they did not punish the developers. The developers could have been kicked out. But nothing happened to...
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The Cupertino-based Apple has been served with a formal notice by The European Consumers’ Organization concerning “unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market”, which in respect to Directive 2005/29/EC requesting the company to puts a halt to its AppleCare guarantees as they stand, reports Bloomberg. The minimum warranty for products...
On the note of taking care of privacy issues and laws, the European Union and the United States announced a new commitment to collaboration on privacy issues and laws at the High Level Conference. The High Level Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held simultaneously in Washington, DC and Brussels with the participation of Vice-President Viviane Reding and Secretary John Bryson, represents an important opportunity to deepen our transatlantic dialogue on commercial data privacy issues. The quote, from the statement released...
Bing just fired two of its marketing executives, Eric Hadley and Sean Carver, over misusing the company funds, reports AdAge. Hadley served as general manager; worldwide marketing for Bing and Carver was Bing’s advertising director. The company said its internal inquiry had found the two in violation of company’s internal guidelines stating relationships with outside vendors, comprising of any number of partners, agencies or media companies. Microsoft has said in a statement: We can confirm that as the result of an investigation,...
Yahoo which were recently seen dropping from the case by Indian courts over the complaints saying that Internet companies are not taking responsibilities for user-posted content – adding today to this case against Microsoft too get dropped after Indian court has terminated the proceedings. In the same run both Google and Facebook will petition the court on May 3rd and in the same urge they too are hoping that the case against them too get terminated as both the respective search and social giant have previously removed content from...
A Goldman Sachs person, whose name or identity has not been disclosed, was found caught on a wiretap leaking secrets about Intel and Apple, a lawyer for former Goldman board member Rajat Gupta stated in court, reports Reuters. Since the matter is not public, the source related to the matter declined to be identified. According to Lawyer Gary Naftalis, said that “the Goldman person leaked confidential information about the two companies to Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund founder convicted of insider-trading charges last...
The radio program “This American Life” last week retracted an episode critical of working conditions at a Foxconn Chinese factory, saying it had contained “numerous fabrications”. The retracted episode, broadcast on January 6, was based heavily on a one-man theatrical show by actor Mike Daisey: “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” Foxconn over on this said that it had no plans to take any legal action over a US-based radio program about its activity in China, reports Reuters. The executive producer...
The ITC preliminary decision already stated that Motorola’s Driod series does not violate Apple patents and now over on this a final review for the same has come into effect from those of initial findings confirming that Motorola Mobility did not violated Apple’s patent. Apple can appeal to the Federal Circuit, and given that it has done before, it’s likely...
In the new orders related to piracy which Indian Court had given last week, the Indian Music Industry consortium is hoping to combat piracy at some certain good extend. The Calcutta High court ordered that all Indian ISPs need to block 104 domains, including the BollywoodMP4.com and FreeIndiaSongs.com, which appear to be local music download sites. The access for...
A German court has reportedly ordered file-sharing site RapidShare to proactively filer thousands of files uploaded by its users. The decision comes after the three different verdicts led by lower court, which ruled that the site had not take enough steps to prevent piracy going on its server. The initial judgement reports states that the site need to be monitor...
