I just love stories like this and it is the silly season after all so here’s a story to make you chuckle for the end of the weekend.  A man known as David Stebbins from Arkansas has filed a motion in Seattle against Microsoft claiming that they owe him half a billion dollars. The claim [...]

Categories: Microsoft

If you ever wondered who Apple consider its biggest rival the answer probably lies in the dutch judicial system with an injunction the company has brought against Samsung. In the documents reported on today by Cnet, Apple is trying to ban, so it would seem, every Samsung smartphone and tablet product including the Galaxy Ace, [...]

Categories: Apple

The National Association of the Deaf has sued Netflix, the movie rental company that offers it’s videos via the mail and by online instant access. The NAD is suing them for failure to offer subtitles on enough of its streaming content. The lawsuit was filed last Thursday in U.S District Court of Massachusetts. The NAD [...]

Categories: The Web

Sony have announced that they’re suing the hackers who uncovered the security codes for the PlayStation 3, that the console uses to determine that software is genuine.  This means that anybody who has access to this code can use it in non-approved (and even pirated), software to get that to run happily on the console. Microsoft are [...]

Categories: Apple, Hacking, Microsoft, Security

Google has proposed payments totalling $8.5m (£5.5) to settle a lawsuit brought over the Buzz social network.  Back in February the new social networking beta from the company caused controversy when users could see the contacts information for everyone they were already connected to. Several GMail users who were affected by the glitch sued Google [...]

Categories: Google

Yesterday, the founder of popular screen-sharing app Mikogo shared with the world that he was threatened to be sued by the city of Mannheim if he does not stop using his twitter name, which is http://twitter.com/mannheim.  His name is Mark Zondler, but he and the company is based in Mannheim. Does any of you think [...]

Categories: ask the readers, The Web

Ever since the RIAA and other big guns decided to pull up people for illegal file-sharing of copyrighted material, the news has been full of cases involving these crimes. From individuals to site owners providing links to copyrighted content, it seems no one is safe. I don’t intend to start a debate on whether or [...]

Categories: P2p, Security