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European Antitrust Deal With Microsoft Barely Affects Browser Market - 15 octobre 2010
When Europe settled an antitrust case over Web browsers with Microsoft in December 2009, it hoped to dislodge the world’s biggest software maker from its dominant position in that market by requiring it to offer rivals’ products.
As part of that, Microsoft in March started sending software ballot screens to 200 (...)
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Irish ISP wins major legal victory against record labels - 12 octobre 2010
UPC, one of Ireland’s largest internet service providers, has won a major legal victory against four of the world’s most powerful record companies over the much-contested issue of online music piracy.
The High Court in Dublin ruled today that there was no precedent in Irish law to force ISPs to identify and (...)
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Irlande : victoire juridique d’un FAI contre les ayants droit musicaux - 12 octobre 2010
UPC Broadband, l’un des principaux fournisseurs d’accès à Internet (FAI) en Irlande, n’aura pas à participer à la "riposte graduée", a tranché la justice irlandaise, mardi 11 octobre. Le FAI refusait d’identifier les internautes et de couper leur connexion, en cas de soupçon de téléchargement illégal.
La Haute cour de (...)
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Meet The Patent Thicket : Who’s Suing Who For Smartphone Patents - 11 octobre 2010
A few folks this week sent over a story in the Guardian by Josh Halliday and Charles Arthur with a graphic purporting to show who was suing who in the smartphone space, following the news that Microsoft had sued Motorola. You can see that graphic here :
Meanwhile, someone in our comments had pointed to a very (...)
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Six Tech Firms Settle Federal Hiring Probe - 26 septembre 2010
WASHINGTON"”The Justice Department and six leading technology companies reached a settlement Friday over civil charges that the companies violated antitrust law by agreeing not to poach each other’s skilled employees.
The settlement prevents Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc. and (...)
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Skyhook Sues Google Over Location Software - 15 septembre 2010
Skyhook Wireless, which makes software that shows smartphone users where they are on their phone’s maps, filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming Google had persuaded Motorola and another phone manufacturer to break contracts with Skyhook and use Google’s competing service.
In a separate suit, also filed Wednesday, (...)
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Un tribunal donne raison à eBay contre Craiglist - 13 septembre 2010
C’était la grande bataille des deux principaux sites d’annonces en ligne américains : un tribunal a finalement donné raison à eBay, jeudi, en annulant une série de mesures pour diluer sa part de 28,4 % dans le capital de Craigslist, a annoncé eBay dans un communiqué.
Un tribunal commercial d’arbitrage du Delaware a annulé (...)
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The Paul Allen Suit : A Look at the Patents - 7 septembre 2010
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing is suing 11 companies, including tech giants Apple and Google, alleging patent infringement. Below, a look at the patents in the lawsuit.
Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information, With Particular Application to Browsing Information Represented by (...)
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Google, Facebook To Microsoft’s Paul Allen : Your Argument Is Invalid - 6 septembre 2010
The entire Internet (aka Facebook, Google, Apple AOL, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube) has just been served with a vague and vast patent violation suit from Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen. As patent suits are notoriously unpopular, the response from tech pundits has (...)
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Pour Google, la plainte d’Oracle est une attaque contre l’open source - 14 août 2010
Hier, Oracle annonçait avoir déposé une plainte contre Google pour violation de brevets. Selon l’entreprise américaine, la firme de Mountain View a "violé sciemment, et à plusieurs reprises, la propriété intellectuelle d’Oracle" en ne respectant pas ses brevets sur la technologie Java.
Dans cette affaire, c’est le système (...)
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Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit - 13 août 2010
Today Oracle sued Google over Java patents and copyrights that they claim Google’s Android OS infringes. The lawsuit claims that Google knowingly infringed on those patents, and that the continued distribution of Google’s Android is harming Oracle’s Java Business.
You can read the actual complaint, the patents (...)
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Oracle sues Google over Android OS - 13 août 2010
Oracle claims that Google’s Android mobile operating system infringes its patent on Java
Software company Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of patent infringement with the Android mobile operating system.
The legal complaint, filed in California, concerns Oracle’s Java software, (...)
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Oracle porte plainte contre Google - 13 août 2010
L’éditeur informatique Oracle a annoncé jeudi qu’il avait intenté un procès à Google pour violation de brevets, portant sur la technologie Java. Oracle avait racheté Sun Microsystems, l’éditeur de Java, en janvier.
Oracle juge que Google a "en connaissance de cause, directement et à plusieurs reprises violé la propriété (...)
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Quon : US Supreme Court Rules Against Privacy on Employer-Issued Devices - 17 juin 2010
The United States Supreme Court issued its decision today in City of Ontario, California v. Quon, ruling that a public employer’s examination of an employee’s personal text messages on a government-issued pager did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Justice Kennedy’s opinion for the Court remarked that a review of (...)
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Google Hit With Another Antitrust Lawsuit. Does It Have Microsoft Ties ? Google v. myTriggers - 4 mars 2010
Google, Inc v. myTriggers.com, Inc., 09 CV 14836 (Franklin County Ct. of Common Pleas, Ohio). Google filed its first amended complaint on January 20, 2010. myTriggers filed an answer with counterclaims on February 2, 2010. See both pleadings here.
About a year ago, Google was sued by an obscure company called (...)
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AdWords Collections Attempt By Google Mutates Into Antitrust Lawsuit - 4 mars 2010
Last year, we wrote about an odd antitrust lawsuit against Google by a company named TradeComet. The lawsuit was a joke. Basically, the company was an arbitrage player that tried to create spam-like pages that people would find on Google searches, and would make money by then getting people to click on (...)
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Google’s sudden music blog purge and its implications - 12 février 2010
Yesterday, in response to allegations of DMCA violations, several popular music blogs were wiped off the face of the net. They were hosted by Google via Blogger, and it was only after they were completely erased that the owners received emails to the effect of "We got one too many complaints "” you’re deleted. Love, (...)
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Los datos de cientos de niños adoptados aparecen en redes P2P - 25 janvier 2010
Los datos personales de un gran número de niños en proceso de adopción o adoptados y las correspondientes parejas de adoptantes, se hallaban en redes de intercambio de ficheros P2P ; la información se contenía en dos bases de datos .mdb. La Agencia Española de Protección de Datos ha sancionado a la Asociación que estaba (...)
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Liberté de la presse et protection des données personnelles (CJCE 16 déc 2008, Tietosuojavaltuutettu contre Satakunnan Markkinapörssi Oy, Satamedia Oy) - 16 décembre 2008
Liberté de la presse et protection des données personnelles (CJCE 16 déc 2008, Tietosuojavaltuutettu contre Satakunnan Markkinapörssi Oy, Satamedia Oy) par S. PREUSS-LAUSSINOTTE
La Cour de justice des Communautés européennes (CJCE) a rendu un arrêt sur recours préjudiciel d’un juge finlandais à propos de l’opposition (...)
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Google in Shift on ‘Abortion’ as Keyword - 21 septembre 2008
After a lawsuit from a Christian anti-abortion group, Google is allowing religious organizations to take out ads using the keyword “abortion,” a rare case of the search giant admitting it was wrong.
In March, Google rejected an ad from the Christian Institute, a British organization, that read, in part, “UK (...)
