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Java hardware start-up Azul sues Sun
Techguide Start-up says Sun threatened to sue for patent infringement unless it paid steep royalties, gave Sun a company stake.
Sun countersues start-up Azul
News Server maker argues Java hardware Azul infringed six patents and got trade secrets by hiring Sun employees.
Tags: Servers, Lawsuits, Patents
Criminal charges filed against ex-Brocade CEO
News Criminal and civil charges against former top execs cover dodgy stock option moves at the data storage networking company.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Lawsuits, Stock options and grants, Regulations
ACLU chapter flags Facebook app privacy
News Chapter aims to raise awareness of fact that not only can third-party apps on Facebook's platform access your data, they can see some of your friends', too.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security, Privacy, User Data, American Civil Liberties Union, sexual orientation, Northern California, photograph, e-mail, Facebook
Skype founders file copyright suit against Skype
News Joltid, a company founded by Skype's developers, alleges its P2P software is being infringed upon every time someone downloads and uses the popular VoIP service.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Lawsuit, P2P, Northern California, founder, U.S. District Court, spokesman
Verizon awarded 'largest-ever' cybersquatting judgment
News A federal court awarded Verizon US$33 million in a case against an Internet domain registrar the company claims chose names to be easily confused with legitimate Verizon sites.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Verizon Communications Inc., ICANN, Cybersquatting, Northern California, Oakland, San Francisco, News.com, Internet
Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
News Opponents of Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitize orphaned out-of-print works.
Tags: Regulations, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., U.S., revenue, U.S. Department Of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Settlement, antitrust, blog
Oracle sues Qtrax, claims P2P site owes US$1.8M
News Oracle supplied music service with software, but Qtrax's US$1.8 million payment bounced, according to court documents.
Tags: Business applications, attorney, P2P, Northern California, Advertisement, Oracle Corp., database software, California
Psystar bankruptcy protection filing could minimize Apple suit
News Essentially, filing has pressed the fast-forward button on the copyright proceedings and minimized what it could owe Apple.
Tags: Mac OS, Personal Computers, Lawsuits, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Bankruptcy, bankruptcy protection, Northern California, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Thailand to send Ukrainian hacker to U.S.
News A Ukrainian man accused of racking up millions of dollars worth of damage in counterfeit software sales and other computer crimes was ordered to be extradited from Thailand to the United States by a Thai criminal court on Tuesday.
Via knocks out another Intel claim
News A US District judge grants the Taiwan-based chipmaker a summary judgment in a patent infringement case filed by Intel in 1999.
Blackout dims Yahoo services
News Yahoo says its instant messenger services and other personalized services are down as a result of the power crisis in California.
Europe comes out against Oracle deal
News The European Commission has told Oracle that it objects to the software maker's proposed takeover of rival PeopleSoft, but gives the company time to marshal a response.
Tags: Business applications
PeopleSoft sweetens severance packages
News In a move to retain employees, PeopleSoft quadruples the size of the minimum severance package for employees.
Tags: Layoffs
Power outage blackouts Yahoo
News Yahoo blamed a power outage in California for disruption in some of its services on Monday, including Yahoo Messenger.
