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WeatherBug Debuts HTML5 Mobile Lightning Widget for Developers at SXSW
08 March 2013 9:00 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); AUSTIN, Texas & GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Just in time for severe weather season, WeatherBug is unveiling its new...
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First NSTIC Pilot Goes Live with Secure Online Identity Verification via Smartphone
08 March 2013 4:54 PM | No CommentsRESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Daon®, a leading provider of identity management and authentication solutions worldwide, and the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), today announced that AAAE is the initial pilot participant to...
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Faith Wonderworks Establishes Infant and Child Educational App Specialty Label “Kids App Planet”
08 March 2013 9:56 AM | No CommentsTOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Faith Wonderworks, Inc. (FWW) that is known for its mobile entertainment site in Japan established “Kids App Planet”- a new label specializing in educational for smartphones and tablets geared for...
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Rokform Announces the Updated RokShield v3 iPhone 5 Case
07 March 2013 5:00 PM | No CommentsSANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rokform®, a leading manufacturer of functional and creative cases and accessories, announces the updated RokShield v3 case now being solely made...
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Incredimail Recreates the Email Experience
07 March 2013 3:00 PM | No CommentsTEL AVIV, Israel & SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Perion Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: PERI), developer of the leading email client Incredimail, today debuted its latest version of Incredimail, forever changing the email experience for iPad...
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lawsuits Archive
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PS3 Linux class action lawsuit coming at ya
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No CommentsLooks like Sony now finds itself on the business end of a class-action lawsuit. You'll recall that a recent PS3 firmware update removed the "Other OS" option from the console, preventing owners from installing Linux (which was one of the selling points when the PS3 first came out in 2006). The removal upset one California gentleman, who filed suit with the note "Sony's decision to force users to disable the Other OS function was based on its own interest and was made at the expense of its customers."
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A cornucopia of Apple lawsuits
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No CommentsApple doesn't like HTC, not one bit. In fact, Apple recently filed a lawsuit against the Taiwan-based company, alleging that it has infringed 20 iPhone-related patents. This has already been discussed to death, but it gives us an opportunity to look at some of Apple's other forays into the world of lawsuits. It's terribly exciting.
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Comcast settles bandwidth throttling lawsuit for $16 million. That’s 4 hours of revenue.
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsWhoever says the legal system in this country is broken, well, you're right. Comcast was caught tampering with its customers' packets two years ago. It bitched and moaned like nobody's business, earning itself no friends. The Federal Communications Commission sanctioned the gigantic corporation in what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Big deal. A class action lawsuit was filed, which was just settled for $16 million. Comcast raked in $34.3 billion in revenue in 2008, meaning that this settlement amounts to four hours of revenue. That's right: four hours. Take that, corporate America!
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Netflix sued in privacy suit over releasing movie rental records (in a roundabout way)
Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
Netflix is in a spot of trouble. The movie rental company has been sued by a woman who claims that it ostensibly revealed her sexual orientation. Against her wishes, obviously. Such an act amounted to an invasion of privacy, the suit argues.
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FTC accuses Intel of ‘strengthening its monopoly,” slaps it with a lawsuit
Posted on December 16, 2009 | No CommentsLooks like Intel is in a bit of Dutch. The Federal Trade Commission sued the company for using its position in the market “to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly.” Not good, no.
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Should we sue cellphone companies over car accidents caused by distracted drivers?
Posted on December 7, 2009 | No CommentsYou knew this was coming. Someone's driving a car. They're talking on their cellphone, too. The car crashes. It crashes into another car. The driver of the other car dies. And now the family of the killed driver wants to sue someone. That “someone” just so happens to be the wireless provider and the manufacturer of the phone.
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Apple hit with iPhone digital camera patent lawsuit
Posted on December 4, 2009 | No CommentsLooks like Apple's lawyers will be extra busy in the coming days. Some entity by the name of St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants has filed suit against the house that Jobs built, alleging that the iPhone infringes upon several of its patents.
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Psystar settles with Apple to the tune of $2.7 million (but won’t pay up just yet)
Posted on December 2, 2009 | No CommentsMore Psystar news for you. We now know that the Florida-based company will have to pay Apple $2.68 million in damages over its little Hackintosh business. (That's a partial settlement, not court-mandated or anything.) Go ahead and go to its Web site: everything is out of stock!
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Psystar, she is dead
Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
Apple has been given a permanent injunction against Psystar, preventing the company from selling Hackintoshen and their Rebel EFI software. The company has been accusing of "trafficking in circumvention devices."
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Datel files lawsuit against Microsoft to ‘restore competition’ re: memory cards
Posted on November 24, 2009 | No CommentsAnother Xbox 360 lawsuit? Oh, yes! Datel, which makes all sorts of video game accessories, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft because it “has taken steps to render inoperable the competing Datel memory card for no visible purpose other than to have that market entirely to themselves.”
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Law firm asks, ‘Were you banned from Xbox Live? We want to help.’
Posted on November 20, 2009 | No CommentsIt's safe to say that we hear at CrunchGear think you should be able to do whatever you want with hardware that you buy. Let's take console modding. You wanna flash the drive on your 360 for whatever reason? Fine, go ahead. But don't think that you can log onto Xbox Live with said modded console, and play your misbegotten wares (or is that warez?), on Microsoft's network. It's against the TOS, it makes a mockery of the entertainment medium that you purport to support, and, well, is unfair to the other players.
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Eminem and Apple sitting in a tree, reach-ing set-tlements fairly quickly
Posted on October 2, 2009 | No CommentsWhen is an update not an update? Today we learned that Eminem has reached a settlement with Apple over what he claims was the unauthorized use of his songs. Eminem said the record label has the right to the recordings, but not the right to turn around and sell said recordings to Apple.
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Microsoft’s new security policy: lawsuits
Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
The word for the day is "malvertising". It's a linguistic mashup that means "malicious advertising". Not deceptive, or antagonistic, but actually harmful. You know, the kind of online advertising that delivers a virus payload that jacks up your sister-in-law's computer and then she calls you and you have to try to troubleshoot it over the phone and she doesn't listen and just keeps clicking that damned mouse -- you can totally hear her clicking clicking clicking -- while you're trying to be methodical and solve the damned problem. You know, that kind of advertising. Well Microsoft has had enough, and they're finally going to do something about it! They're filing lawsuits against malvertisers! Thank the maker!
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AT&T and Apple sued for misleading MMS marketing
Posted on August 28, 2009 | No CommentsGreat Ceasar's ghost! A woman in Ohio is charging the double-As for breach of contract for… mum… not supplying MMS with the 3.0 firmware. She writes in the lawsuit:
"Millions of customers, as a result of the false and deceptive representations and concealments of Apple and AT&T purchased the 3G and 3GS, waiting for the wonderful day in June 2009 when the new application would be available which would allow MMS," the court filing states. "Unfortunately, after downloading the new 3.0 Software Update application, MMS still did not work on both the 3G and 3GS."
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TiVo files patent infringement against AT&T and Verizon for “Time Warping”
Posted on August 27, 2009 | No CommentsAh, patent trolling: the last refuge of a dying company. Don’t get me wrong. I love my TiVo. It’s like a friend and a lover. We still have the old DVD-burning Humax model - I didn’t even upgrade to the wonky cable-card HD model - and the fact that I, a fairly plugged in [...]