Latest to add legal war, a company name OIP Technologies has recently filed lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon. The company having only one patent (no. 7970713) in the United States entitled “Method and apparatus for automatic pricing in electronic commerce”, and covers automatic pricing mechanisms that use live price testing for determining demand for products...
Ebay’s owned PayPal, the leading electronic-payments company, said in a March 8 blog post that it wouldn’t allow its service “to be used to purchase material focused on rape, incest or bestiality.” In the move to soften its policy against the stand, the company on Tuesday eased the curb over “obscene” e-books stands as it restricted the use...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reportedly suffered a cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, reports Reuters. There were also reports that there were attempts to jam satellite feeds of the BBC services into Iran and to swamp its London phone lines with automated calls. “It now looks as if those who seek to disrupt or block BBC Persian may be widening their tactics,” director-general Mark Thompson said in the extracts of his speech, which the BBC released in advance....
Interesting to note that AT&T has finally offered the customers to settle the realm they are having with the company but wait it is meant only for those who has successfully took them to court over allegations of slowing his data speeds. Matthew Spaccarelli in February won a small claims in a court against the US based carrier for throttling his data speeds once he used between 1.5GB and 2GB a month, despite having an “unlimited” plan – over on which AT&T has send a letter to Spaccarelli threatened him the company will cut...
While there’s been a lot of legal battles between Apple and Samsung, but for a change as well as a bit surprising too that the Cupertino-based Apple simplifies its ITC suit against Korean giant a bit by dropping one patent and fifteen claims from two other patent lawsuits. Apple has dropped U.S. Patent No. 7,863,533 on a “cantilevered push button having multiple...
According to AFP report, Hacker group Anonymous is believed to be behind attacks on several sites belonging to Tunisian Islamist groups. Over the same few days ago a video in French was posted on YouTube giving the warning of the attacks. The video warned, “We are fighting you… your emails, your bank accounts and transactions will be probed, your hard discs will be copied. If the Tunisian government won’t stop your activities in the weeks to come, Anonymous will.” And, finally this happened, several messages were left on the group’s...
We reported earlier today that Yahoo sued Facebook over the numbers of technology patents infringement. The infringed patents are related to advertising, personalized web pages, social networking and messaging to Yahoo. Over on this, Friendster founder and now of Founder Den Jonathan Abrams, tweeted that Yahoo actually copied Friendster’s features with Yahoo 360. Friendster,...
As we reported earlier that Yahoo planning to sue Facebook over the technology patent issue if in case it did not license those 10 and 20 patents related to advertising, personalized web pages, social networking and messaging to Yahoo. Today, we are getting the confirmation that Internet giant Yahoo has finally sued Facebook for infringing on some of its internet...
Hacker from Anonymous group name, James Jeffery arrested over the issue of stealing tens of thousands of database records from an abortion provider. The total database count is said to be 10,000 of women register with the Britain’s based biggest abortion provider’s website. Jeffery who self-proclaimed himself as a member of Anonymous proudly touted over what...
We know China as one of the world’s largest economy but we also know the country’s love for restricting access to websites – latest to add Chinese government banned the popular China’s owned microblogging site Sina Weibo – the site which boast a userbase larges than Twitter and even also had smashed Twitter’s microblogging speed record. “What they...
