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- Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
- A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval PDF by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an option of clearing the matter without long - and expensive - court proceedings. The proposal calls...
- Tags: Facebook, Online Privacy, Settlement, Class Action, Beacon, Class Action Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
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- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- In its stinging rebuke PDF of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuits debate on the issue and takes the matter out of Congress' hands. Here's the major points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Open Book Alliances opens up assault on Google's book settlement
- The Open Book Alliance, a group of library associations, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft, have officially unveiled an effort to derail Google's $125 million class action settlement with the Association of American Publishers and the Authors' Guild. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Settlement, Class Action, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal
- Lawyers and the New York Times are sitting up to take notice of a new "sweeping" objection to the Google Books deal. The objector is Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner. In an interview, he told the Times: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Class Action, Attack, Gant, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- DOJ confirms Google Books investigation
- Is the Justice Department actually investigating the Google Books deal? Yes, the department confirmed to the federal judge reviewing the class action settlement. It is looking into whether the deal violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, The New York Times reports. In a letter to the judge,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Department Of Justice, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart
- With the Google Book settlement showing signs of coming apart at the seams, Google has taken to its blog to make its case for the deal. Background: The settlement, reached in October between Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, would create a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Antitrust investigation into Google book deal?
- The Justice Department is "in contact" with Google and its critics over a proposed settlement that essentially gives Google monopoly control over thousands of books that may belong in the public domain. The Wall Street Journal reported today that antitrust investigators at Justice have been talking with...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Corporate Law, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating
- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Ltd., and four of its senior executives for stock option backdating. The SEC's complaint alleges that Ontario, Canada-based RIM, its former CFO Dennis Kavelman, former VP of Finance Angelo Loberto, and Co-CEOs James Balsillie and...
- Tags: Stock Option, Research In Motion Ltd., Stock, SEC, Backdating, Stock Options, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Scratched 1st-gen iPod nano? A few bucks could be heading your way!
- Are you the owner of a 1st-gen iPod nano? Yes. Is it scratched? Yes. You could be entitled to a slice (a very small slice!) of a multi-million dollar class-action suit settlement. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-01-24
- $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano owners
- $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano ownersGlad to know that you condone this type of behavior[i]On the other hand, with $28 billion in cash in the bank, $22.5 million works out to less than 1/10th of 1 percent of Apple's available cash. C'est la vie.[/i]So it is okay...
- Tags: Litigation, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple iPod Nano, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple Products
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano owners
- Apple has settled a $22.5 million class-action suit filed against the company after receiving complaints from early Apple iPod nano owners that the devices scratched too easily. The settlement calls for Apple to set aside the $22.5 million. Nano users who apply for a refund...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Settlement, Apple iPod Nano, Apple Inc., Attorney, Litigation, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Fix uncovered for mass Zunecide
- Fix uncovered for mass ZunecideWell done Microsoft!!I guess they removed the BSOD to when the clock erred out. Anyway it wasn't that bad as we have the typical Microsoft way to fix things, REBOOT.MS needs a solution fastAnd I'm not talking about a technical solution. It's too late for that....
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Zunecide, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-02
- Google settles book scan suit for $125 million
- Google and The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers said Tuesday that they have settled a book scanning lawsuit for $125 million. The agreement ends a two-year class action suit over Google's scanning of in-copyright books and other written property for its Google Book Search. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Agreement, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Psystar retains Apple-beating law firm
- Psystar retains Apple-beating law firmModifying code is still wrongReselling a modified version of software is illegal and that is going to hurt Pystar. If Pystar were to win, what would that mean to other software vendors? Could they be modified and resold too?I hope Apple gets punished for thisTheir EULA...
- Tags: Litigation, Operating systems, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'there a few people that are out of realitymac bride is one ballmer is also a other one keep spinning idiot spinning .......They aren't dead yet? ]:)The sad thing is......I strongly suspect that he really believes it.Words right outta...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., LINUX IS, SCO Chief
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and awaySame old story"Results in the prior year were impacted by the deferral of $1.64 billion of revenue and operating income and $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007, due primarily to technology...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial accounting, Operational accounting, paragraph, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Q2 earning, Microsoft Q2
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Palm settles lawsuit for excessive Treo 600/650 repairs
- Palm settles lawsuit for excessive Treo 600/650 repairsDie layers, die!Everything about, around, and even near lawyers is evil. Class action lawsuits seem all the more so.Legal fees are ~1.5M and settlement for each injured party is $75. The lawyers collectively endured ~20,000 times more pain and suffering than each Treo...
- Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Palm Treo, excessive Treo, phone, Palm Inc., lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Palm settles lawsuit for excessive Treo 600/650 repairs
- I just received the following notice in my email inbox from an email address (Palm__Inc@news.palmnewsletters.com) with Palm Inc. in the header. Apparently there was a class action lawsuit that was settled out of court and all the details can be found on the Palza Settlement website. The detailed email is...
- Tags: Repair, Lawsuit, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Settlement, Palm Treo, E-mail, Treo 650, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?
- Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?A little logical sleight-of-hand thereJust because end users don't "feel" responsible doesn't mean they aren't responsible. They allowed their machines to get infected, so they should bear the cost of disinfection. This is not a tragedy of the commons, it's plain and simple...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Operating systems, Windows dominance, Windows Machines, botnet, de-fanging botnet, Internet Service Provider, malware, operating system, End Users
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Could Boot Camp be a bad thing for Apple?
- Could Boot Camp be a bad thing for Apple?It's much easier running a virtual machinethen first leaving your hard drive un-partitioned and then installing and using boot camp. I am plenty satisfied with the offerings of both VMWare and Parallels. They suit my needs just fine and there is no...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, software
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
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