Lawsuit whirligig: Spansion and Kodak sue Samsung, LG sued only by Kodak (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 04:50:00 AM)
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Mark it down as a coincidence if you'd like, but a flurry of
lawsuits revolving around the same companies just became public knowledge. For starters,
Eastman Kodak has decided to sue Samsung and LG, alleging entrenchment of ...
(more)HP threatening OEMs to fend off netbook invasion? (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 01:35:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops
Get ready for some legal mastication. by the numbers to DigiTimes'
manufacturing sources, HP -- the world's leading supplier of PCs -- is said to be hard that its
manufacturing partners "refuse outsourcing orders from ASUStek." HP ...
(more)Judge declares mistrial in RIAA filesharing case, sets aside $222,000 verdict (Thursday 25th of September 2008 07:34:00 PM)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We always thought that the RIAA's first-ever filesharing trial
victory against Jammie Thomas was a little suspect since the labels weren't necessary to prove
that Thomas even had Kazaa installed on her machine or was the person ...
(more)Carbon fiber Stiletto boat runs down baddies at 60 knots (Sunday 21st of September 2008 09:44:00 AM)
Filed under: Transportation
If you had any urge whatsoever to try to your hand at drug
trafficking over water while these "weird" trade times sort themselves out, uh, you may want to
reevaluate your options. The ever-so-stealthy Stiletto has come to life ...
(more)Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Palegray.net writes "The subject Center for State Courts, a nonprofit organization, has sent
file-sharing write-up
authors: get book pr nowwant media 4 your non-fiction book? get
national media attentiveness now!www.publicitythatworks.comsponsored ...
(more)Nationwide Insurance Survey Finds Parents Fed up with "Party Schools" and Politicians Who Support Lowering Drinking Age : Survey Respondents Intolera... (Thursday 21st of August 2008 12:15:01 AM)
Americans resume to overwhelmingly reject an ongoing push to lower the legal water inception
age from 21 to 18. proper to precept to a Nationwide backing survey released today, 72 percent
of adults think lowering the bubbler age will make alcohol more ...
(more)EFF Warns That Email Privacy Is In Jeopardy (Saturday 09th of August 2008 06:45:02 PM)
MojoKid writes with this excerpt from HotHardware: "According to the e-banking Frontier hardpan
(EFF), a dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing
federal privacy protections for e-mail and national information ...
(more)Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention Policies? (Sunday 27th of July 2008 01:45:03 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "In an age of action and costly find obligations, many organizations
are blanket* policies which call for the forced purging of e-mail in an attempt to limit the
organization's exposure to legal risk. I work for a large club ...
(more)John Neocleous, Founder of NCI Law Group Launches its New Web Site (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 07:39:00 AM)
By John Neocleous
Nicosia, Cyprus, June 18, 2008 - NCI Law Group Ltd. announced today the
launch of its new corporate Web site www.ncilawgroup.com, which is highlighting its legal and
corporate services, worldwide.
The new web site provides its ...
(more)FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Statesman writes "The Los Angeles Times reports that an Arizona crime lab technician found two
felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles, so similar that they would ordinarily be
accepted in court as a match, but one felon was black and the other ...
(more)HD Radio Recording In the US? (Thursday 17th of July 2008 05:35:32 PM)
Unreceivedpacket writes "The public radio stations I listen to have been blasting* their
conversion to HD Radio format for some time. They advertise voluminous channels, their second
channel playing all classical, all the time. I am rapt in earnings a ...
(more)Tesla gets sued again, this time by a former employee (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 02:20:00 PM)
Filed under: TransportationTesla might have finally started shipping Roadsters, but it just
can't stop getting sued -- this time the upstart automaker is being haled into court by former
public domestic-relations court overseer David Vespremi, who was ...
(more)Major tech companies joining forces to create massive patent shell company (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 12:03:00 PM)
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsYeah, we hate patent trolls as much as anyone, but the Wall Street
Journal says that a group of major tech companies have created a patent shield uncluttered
place?www.theorganizedapproach.comsponsored linksclosets and storagewardrobe ...
(more)Los Angeles to sue Time Warner Cable over shoddy service (Friday 06th of June 2008 01:42:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Far from being the first time Time Warner Cable has upset
its subscriber base, the Los Angeles city attorney's office is pulling a Dee Snider and
refusing to take the carrier's lackluster service anymore. In a 25-page ...
(more)Dell engaged in misleading business practices, says NY judge (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 10:50:00 AM)
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsAccording to a state judge in Albany, New York, Dell and its
backing arm "engaged in deceptive employment limited choice related to funding promotions for
its televisions and technical support." The decision, which was just ...
(more)US Senate Asks for National Security Letter Explanation (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
A group of U.S. Senators are asking the FBI to explain a recent controversial subject Security
Letter sent to the world wide web Archive. The subject tip footing Archive was able to defeat
the request with help from the EFF and the ACLU this past ...
(more)Microsoft and NBC working on copyright filters for Zune? (Thursday 08th of May 2008 01:58:00 AM)
Filed under: compact Audio, transportable Video
Microsoft's afresh refurbished Zune store
countenance a lot of NBC content like Heroes and The Office, but it looks like it may have come
at what could be a steep price: NBC just now told the New York Times ...
(more)Tesla's High-Tech Lawsuits in Silicon Valley War (Sunday 20th of April 2008 05:55:13 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "After pressing charges against its chief competitor in the race for
the world's first yielding electric sports car that we broke down here recently, Tesla Motors
seems to be shifting from the high-tech company re-writing Detroit's ...
(more)Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta (Monday 31st of March 2008 08:24:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones
So last week Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand,
sent Engadget a late buff present: a hand-delivered letter direct from their German legal
circuit address the prompt discontinuation of the use of the color magenta ...
(more)Collective Licensing for Web-Based Music Distribution (Friday 28th of March 2008 07:30:03 AM)
Two weeks ago we discussed a proffer from music ring veteran Jim Griffin to contraption a
monthly fee from ISPs in commerce for the legal distribution of copyrighted music. Now,
quinthar brings news that Warner Music Group has hired Griffin with the ...
(more)Little old lady suing Sony, Samsung, Nokia and everyone else for infringing on her laser patents (Friday 21st of March 2008 10:47:00 AM)
var digg_url =
'http://digg.com/tech_news/Little_old_lady_suing_Sony_Samsung_Nokia_and_everyone_else'; Oh
sure, she looks friendly enough. But don't let her matronly, argyle looks fool you. Retired
u.s. teaching hospital Professor, Gertrude Neumark ...
(more)Comcast sues FCC for not letting it own anything it wants (Friday 14th of March 2008 11:14:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentGiven Comcast's notoriously shady service, we're not
exactly in favor of the company being allowed to ruthlessly torture service any more markets
than necessary, but we can see why it might be a little frustrated with ...
(more)Legal Debt Center " Scam & Fraud Prevention (Friday 14th of March 2008 09:05:00 PM)
The Legal Debt Center wants to educate you on how to prevent credit card scams as well as
prevent any additional fraud that may occur in your life time. In order to prevent such a
travesty you must first understand how this “scheme of ...
(more)Who's suing Apple today? ZapMedia gets angry over iTunes (Thursday 13th of March 2008 06:52:00 AM)
Filed under: haulable Audio, transportable Video
Another day, another furious litigant claiming
that an Apple product infringes on one of their patents. Today we've got ZapMedia, who's having
some fun with a patent granted Tuesday by claiming that it ...
(more)Gibson says Guitar Hero violates patents, Activision says nuh-uh (Wednesday 12th of March 2008 10:04:00 PM)
Filed under: Gaming
digg_url =
'http://digg.com/gaming_news/Gibson_says_Guitar_Hero_violates_patents_Activision_says_no';
We're not exactly clear on how Gibson's legal team managed to license all those brand names and
guitar designs to Activision for ...
(more)CT TyMetrix, CaseRev, Inc. Align to Provide Integrated Claims Workflow and Panel Management Solution (Friday 07th of March 2008 07:45:03 PM)
CT TyMetrix, the global leader in Web-based law beat management solutions, and CaseRev, Inc, an
online colony of claims and legal organizations and their vendors, today announce their
alignment to create an circuitry solution to manage machine learning ...
(more)University of San Francisco Law Clinic Joins Fight Against RIAA (Friday 29th of February 2008 04:03:15 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's action fight has met warding off from the academic
jungle before, but now it's been taken to a whole new level: the defense of RIAA victims who
are not part of the college community. First the schooling mash of ...
(more)UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Superbrose notes that despite lots of legal difficulties dealing with world wide web privacy,
the UK influence is going ahead with plans to punish ISPs for allowing their interchange to
crunch numbers* illegal music and films. The claim is that there ...
(more)Man arrested at gunpoint for using MP3 player (Wednesday 13th of February 2008 04:08:00 PM)
Filed under: haulable Audio
digg_url =
'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Man_arrested_for_using_MP3_player_7_21_PM_7_h'; Next time you're
reaching down for that iPod or Zune (or some else for that matter), take care that you don't
alarm the experts with any ...
(more)Microsoft VP: "I personally got burnt" by Vista Capable stickers (Tuesday 12th of February 2008 09:04:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsThose "Vista Capable" stickers sure caused consumers a lot of
confusion, and it looks like they even tripped up some senior Microsoft execs. proper to
internal MS emails introduced as demonstration in the ongoing lawsuit ...
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