In the latest patent fights, Apple has been sued by Trans Video Electronics (TVE) over the patents related to digital video distribution naming the two patents that are related to a ‘on-demand’ video service and global distribution of digital video news. The patents are US 5,991,801 and US 5,594,936, was filed first back in 1993 which was previously brought suit...
WikiLeaks has announced that Julian Assange is running for the Australian Senate while under under house arrest in another country. Assange’s case is compared to that of former South African president Nelson Mandela, pointing towards an article and current Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, both imprisoned in their respective countries. As for Assange’s...
The world’s largest social networking site has updated its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The new update is what you have to accept in order to continue using or accessing Facebook, so best is to have a look. The last revision was in April 2011. Overall, interesting is that among us only few bared to look at terms and conditions or even care about the governance. If you want to see the full extent of the changes there is a PDF of tracked changes and links to where you can leave comments in different languages. From the Facebook...
Last month we reported that Creative Technology and QMax, Creative subsidiary firm, sued Huawei for $9.3 million over failed WiMax network in Singapore. Taking a twist in the story, today Huwaei countersued over the now said to be “closed service”, reports Straits Times. Creative launched the WiMAX network, under the QMax banner, in 2008 but the QMax service...
Nokia and Samsung found themselves in the mess again – this time a group of 14 Russian record labels and music publishing companies saying that the Finnish and Korean mobile giant, among others, have been breaking their country’s laws since 2010, according to Russian publication Gazeta.ru. The companies owes 1.2 billion rubles (about $41 million), according to the copyright holders. The group of copyright owners includes Gala Records and Melodiya, estimating that they have lost 1.2 billion rubles so far and if the condition continues...
In a “surprising” note that leads both Apple and Samsung to win any decision against the Apple’s slide-to-unlock lawsuit, a German court suspended a trial in which the Cupertino-based company stated that Samsung had copied the slide-to-unlock technology of its iOS devices: iPhone and iPad. Apple is also locked in a separate legal battle over the slide-to-unlock...
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has slapped Samsung, LG, Pantech and mobile operators SK Telecom, KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp with a combined fine of 45.3 billion won (about $40.1 million) over the biggest mobile manufacturers and operators guilty of colluding to fix prices and defraud consumers, reports Yonhap News. The fine was handed to device makers...
The European Commission is questioning five of Europe’s largest telecommunications companies – Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone – whose CEOs met occasionally, beginning in 2010, over concerns that a series of meetings held among them may have constituted collusion. “The requests for information relate to the manner in which standardization for future services in the mobile-communications area is taking place,” a spokesman for EC Competition Chief Joaquin Almunia explained. “These...
Keen on fighting over the various “legal battles” around the world Samsung and Apple – with the current lawsuit, a Dutch court rejected the South-Korean giant pleads stating its 3G patent bid to ban the sales of Apple’s iPhone and iPad in the Netherlands. The court ruled out that Samsung cannot assert 3G patents against Apple products which are using Qualcomm’s...
The Canadian government in order to bolster mobile competition in the country has announced two significant moves, an auction for the 700Mhz spectrum and second the lifting of foreign investment restrictions for smaller telcos. Canada currently has operates on the 1.7GHz and 2.1GHz AWS frequencies. With the auction, the country switch from analog to digital over-the-air TV signals last August allows for greater building penetration and has less signal loss over long distances. The spectrum will be auctioned off as four blocks, means each...
