Alan Patmore found himself hit with a lawsuit from his former employer Zynga late last year after he left the ailing company for another called Kixeye. According to Zynga, Patmore had pilfered 763 files when he left the company, among them being confidential designs, while also claiming that Kixeye was aware of this theft and […]
Google has been in hot water since it was revealed that it had harvested data, such as user names and email addresses, from wireless networks. The Internet giant sought to have the lawsuit against it dismissed, saying that claims it had violated the Wiretap Act weren’t valid, something an appeals court in the US ultimately […]
Google has been facing some serious heat in Europe with the European Commission investigating the Internet giant over allegations that it was preventing competition within the market. The investigation was specifically looking into concerns that Google is blocking competitors, such as Microsoft, when it comes to search results returned online. The investigation has been ongoing […]
The seemingly endless saga over the regulation of the Internet in the US will be starting a major chapter this week as Verizon and the FCC head off to the US Court of Appeals over issues regarding Net Neutrality. At stake is not only the regulation of the Internet as a basic modern commodity but […]
Following in the footsteps of Facebook — which revealed its first Global Government Requests Report just a few weeks ago — Yahoo is finishing out the week by publishing data of its own. The firm’s first “global law enforcement transparency report” covers governmental requests for user data from January 1st through June 30th of this year, and the outfit plans to put out subsequent reports every six months. Of note, Yahoo claims that it’s including “national security requests within the scope of [its] aggregate statistics,” and for the paranoid in attendance, you may be relieved to know that said requests comprise “less than one one-hundredth of one percent (<.01%)” of Yahoo’s global userbase. Feel free to dig in at the links below, but sadly, you won’t find anything other than high-level macro figures. (As an aside, that logo.)
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Source: Yahoo Transparency Report
The Apple ebook price-fixing legal spat has been a long one, with the Department of Justice and Apple butting heads over various aspects of the case, not the least of which was what Apple called “draconian” suggestions on the DoJ’s part. The Justice Department later agreed to modify some of its penalties, most of which […]
The Federal Trade Commission has made its first ever action against a maker of connected everyday devices, TRENDnet, for what it says is lax security despite promises stating otherwise. TRENDnet makes a variety of wireless webcams, connected home security cameras, and other such devices that connect to the Internet, devices that the FTC states left […]
The case seems to be going Microsoft‘s way as a federal jury in Seattle ordered Motorola to pay Microsoft $14.5 million in damages for breach of contract. This is the latest development in an on-going spat between the two companies involving the licensing of patents owned by Motorola and used by Microsoft in a number […]
Amidst its legal battle over ebook price fixing accusations, Apple has received a ruling in its favor on another lawsuit. Back when iTunes still used the FairPlay DRM, Apple was hit with a class action lawsuit claiming that the protection system violated anti-trust laws. Though FairPlay was dropped from the service back in 2009, the […]
When it comes to games that requires gamers to farm and grind many hours to find specific items or mine raw materials that can be sold, it’s quite a boring task and some gamers have resorted to using bots to do the dirty work for them. Unfortunately for a lot of games, the use of bots is considered to be against the terms of use and companies such as Blizzard have banned player accounts for using bots in the past.
The developer has been in the courts fighting Bossland GmbH, a company that developed the Honorbuddy bot that has been used in World of Warcraft, and according to a recent report, Blizzard has since reportedly forked out a whopping €650,000 that would see the sales of the bot banned at least as far as Germany is concerned.
This is thanks to a ruling back in 2013 where the courts stated that if Blizzard wished for the sales of the bot to be banned in Germany, they’d have to pay that amount. This was confirmed by one of the developers who stated that players in Germany will no longer be able to purchase or authenticate the bots from now on.
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