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- Lawsuit filed against NebuAd, ISPs
- Sixteen plaintiffs – and potentially millions more – launched a class-action lawsuit against NebuAd and 26 of its ISP partners in California court, ClickZ reports. The suit claims NebuAd and the ISPs violated privacy and computer security laws. Only six ISPs -- CenturyTel, WOW, CableOne, Embarq, Knology...
- Tags: Computer Security, Lawsuit, Electronic Communication, Internet Service Provider, Computer, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Online Communications, Productivity, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Real vows fight for RealDVD, adjusts outlook
- Like everyone else, Real Networks is bracing for an uncertain economic future. But CEO Rob Glaser sees two potential bright spots that could help the company ride the storm. On an earnings call with analysts, Glaser said that the company's latest product, the controversial RealDVD, which allows users to import...
- Tags: Revenue, Lawsuit, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Court to Oracle: Offer settlement price in SAP suit
- A federal judge has given Oracle until February 13 to provide a specific dollar amount to settle a lawsuit it filed against SAP last year. The suit alleges that TomorrowNow, an SAP subsidiary, illegally accessed Oracle copyright material and has asked for at least $1 billion in damages. ...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- RealDVD goes live, let the lawsuits begin
- ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz offers his views on the recent lawsuits filed by the movie industry against Real Networks for its new RealDVD software. The movie studios are suing Real Networks alleging the software violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Diaz says consumers should be able to enjoy...
- Tags: Software, Lawsuit, Movie, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, Movie Studio, Tools & Techniques, Management, Sam Diaz Memo, RealNetworks, Hollywood
- Videos 2008-10-01
- Studio, Real trade lawsuits over RealDVD
- U.S. movie studios sued Real Networks in federal court today, alleging that Real's RealDVD product violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and breaches Real's contract with the DVD Copy Control Association. Read the MPAA's complaint. The move follows Real's release of the software today,...
- Tags: MPAA, Lawsuit, Movie, RealDVD, DVD, CSS, Public Relations, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuit
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuitThis is stupid. I already do this with AnyDVD and mymovies.Its essentially built into my movies if you pay for the anydvd software. On top of that.. you can also rip HD and Blueray.The only thing you cant do directly is burn the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Standing Up, RealDVD, DVD, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- RealDVD officially launches, so do lawsuits; Is it 'StealDVD'?
- Update: RealNetworks announced Tuesday that its RealDVD software, which allows you to rip and burn DVDs easily, officially launched. And the lawsuits weren't far behind. In a statement Techmeme, RealNetworks billed RealDVD as a "watershed" product. The software, which goes for $29.99 on sale, allows you to...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Movie, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, RealDVD Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery life
- Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery lifeThe disclosure is a bit vague, in my opinionIt is obvious to all who have owned a cell or any rechargeable device the eventually, the battery will need to be replaced. We also understand from past experiences: If all phones before required a...
- Tags: Engineering, battery, iPhone Battery Life, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery life
- Bloomberg is reporting that Apple won't face a lawsuit claiming that the company didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost including delivery. A U.S. District Judge in Chicago granted Apple's request that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Lawsuit, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM
- A class-action lawsuit has been filed against EA over the SecuROM DRM mechanism built into the Spore game. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Lawsuit, Digital-rights Management, Electronic Arts Inc., Class Action, Class-action Lawsuit, Spore, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Productivity, Digital Media, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?
- Former Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold has been collecting patents, extracting fees from technology companies via his company Intellectual Ventures. Is Myhrvold a patent troll with tech cred? The Wall Street Journal has a long account of Myhrvold's patent collecting efforts and how he is winning multimillion dollar...
- Tags: Technology Company, Lawsuit, Patent, Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuit
- Graphics giant NVIDIA has been hit by lawsuit which claims that the company breached US securities laws by concealing for at least eight months the fact that its GPUs were affected by a serious thermal defect. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Security, Lawsuit, NVidia Corp., BIOS, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Family entertainment act
- Family entertainment actGnR"...from aperformance of such work in a motion picture exhibition facility,shall–..."My understanding was that the works in question were not aquired from a "peroformance"Am I wrong?I Didn't say that he wasn't guiltyHey Rich,While I'm glad one of my comments is sufficient to become a blog entry itself, apparently...
- Tags: Sales strategy, marketing, sales, Family Entertainment, lawsuit, entertainment
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Can Psystar take a bite out of Apple?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the brewing suit-countersuit situation between Apple and Psystar. In an effort to quash the sale of Psystar's cheap Mac OS-running computers and preserve its carefully crafted image and reputation, Apple sued the Miami-based company. Now Psystar has lobbed back...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Apple, Psystar, Mac, clone, lawsuit, countersuit, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz
- Videos 2008-08-28
- Video: Will Facebook apology backfire in a lawsuit?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the class action lawsuit against Facebook over their Beacon advertising program. They discuss the consequences of possible privacy violations, how Beacon changed to an "opt-in" program, and why CEO Mark Zuckerberg's admission of guilt may have been a bad...
- Tags: Facebook, Lawsuit, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Will Facebook apology backfire in a lawsuit?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the class action lawsuit against Facebook over their Beacon advertising program. They discuss the consequences of possible privacy violations, how Beacon changed to an "opt-in" program, and why CEO Mark Zuckerberg's admission of guilt may have been a bad...
- Tags: Facebook, Beacon, lawsuit, advertising, Zuckerberg, privacy
- Videos 2008-08-19
- Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?
- Why wait for the lawsuit to be filed before taking appropriate action, or at least responding to the SFLC? Is it that any publicity is good publicity? After all the suits of the last year do vendors still think the SFLC is bluffing? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Lawsuit, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuitFragmentParagraph 3 Sentance 1 is a fragment, its missing the part that we need... what the lawsuit is actually about!Nothing new here folks, move along, move along.This isn't something new here. Microsoft is always infringing on someone elses IP.Are these guys...
- Tags: Corporate communications, MS Silverlight, video, patent, lawsuit, Olympic Games, Web, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit
- updated: Could your online video experience with the Summer Olympics games be in jeopardy? Silverlight, Microsoft's rival to Adobe's Flash for Video and the technology powering the online video coverage of the games, is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Gotuit Media, a suburban Boston company...
- Tags: Web, Lawsuit, Online Video, Video, Gotuit, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
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