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FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

The FBI today announced the arrest of eight U.S. men accused to hijacking PCs for use in a million-strong botnet that accounted for $20 million in economic loss. In its "Bot Roast II" crackdown, the FBI said it also served 13 search warrants in the U.S. and...

Tags: U.S. District Court, FBI, Bot, Distributed Denial Of Service, Computer, Florida, AKILL, Michael Downey, Federal Government, Phishing, Security, Government, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?

Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?And one for Doctorsand one for lawyersand one for plumbersand one for electriciansand one for, aw heck, you get the idea...Amazingly, our court system and indeed the country seems to have managed for 200+ years...

Tags: U.S. District Court, IS IT

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?

Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...

Tags: General, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Additional Resources

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

Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim

A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right. I have confirmed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California: The Kivalina...

Tags: Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case

Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale

eBay's $2 billion sale of Skype to a group of investors could be complicated by a lawsuit filed by a company owned by Skype's founders. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a company named Joltid, which is owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?

M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges

So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....

Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Recap 0.5 (Windows)

Better Access to Public Court Records RECAP is a free extension for Firefox that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts. It contributes to a public archive hosted by the Internet Archive, saves you money by showing when...

Tags: Center For Information Technology Policy, Internet, Litigation, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Personal Finance, Microsoft Office, Databases, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-08-14

Examine the patent that made selling Microsoft Word a crime

Updated: Microsoft is barred from selling any Microsoft Word products that can open XML files (.xml, .docx and .docm), according to a U.S. District Court ruling in favor of i4i, a small Canadian company that sued the software giant for patent infringement. What's this mean Techmeme? For...

Tags: Word-processing, Patent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Microsoft and Nokia expected to bring Office to Nokia phones

That's pretty interesting......I can't imagine Quick Office will be too happy about this though.Some time ago MS and Nokia announced thatthey agreed to port Silverlight to Series 60 phones, IIRC.I don't know how far they have advanced, but if MS is able to deliver office web apps via Silverlight on...

Tags: Symbian OS, Word processors, Operating systems, phone, Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology

Apple is the target of a lawsuit by Tsera LLC, a technology firm based in Texas, claiming it infringed on its patent for a touchpad interface. Briefs filed in Federal District Court in Texas claim that Tsera owns “all right, title and interest in” a patent filed...

Tags: Patent, Apple Inc., Trackpads, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Sony settles digital camera lawsuit with CalTech

Sony settles digital camera lawsuit with CalTechouchwonder how much of a donation they made lol.RE: Sony settles digital camera lawsuit with CalTechAny details about the settlement available?RE: Sony settles digital camera lawsuit with CalTechMost of the details weren't disclosed in the press, but the case is California Institute of Technology...

Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, digital camera lawsuit, California Institute of Technology, digital camera, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

High drama and low points in RIAA trial

High drama today at the illegal music downloading file of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, as RIAA expert witness Dr. Doug Jacobsen testified that he recently found a log file on the defendant's hard drive indicating that an external drive was used to copy files over. That information was not...

Tags: Hard Drive, Drama, RIAA, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-16

New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAA

Reporting from the new Jammie Thomas-Rasset trial, Marc Bourgeois notes that jury selection is just about complete at this writing and that the jury is overall younger than the last one, surely good news for the defendant. Even so, it's an uphill battle for Thomas-Rasset, Ars Technica...

Tags: RIAA, Thomas Trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kiwi Camara, Peer To Peer (P2P), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you

Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon,  for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-08

FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content. Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) was shut down by a district court...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Server, Bot, FTC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-06-04