December 31, 2010
According to the TV jingle, ‘Nationwide is on your side,’ but at least one employee will spend 2.5 years behind bars for being on the wrong side of the law. His name is Qiang “Michael” Bi, and he was found guilty of selling more than 35,000 counterfeit…
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December 22, 2010
Erich Specht, a man who ran a data company called Android Data from 1998 through 2002, won’t be receiving the $94 million payday he was hoping for. That’s the amount he wanted Google to pay him for allegedly infringing on his trademark with the “Androi…
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December 21, 2010
The International Trade Commission in Washington is investigating a complaint by Motorola against Microsoft and will decide whether or not to ban imports of the Xbox 360 game console, Bloomberg reports.
We’d be shocked if the two sides didn’t come to s…
Tags: console, court, law, lawsuite, legal, microsoft, motorola, News Worthy, Patent Infringement, Xbox 360
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December 16, 2010
Julian Assange, the 39-year-old founder of the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, has been granted bail despite objections by the prosecution, BBC News reports.
Assange turned himself in to Swedish authorities more than a week ago, though not for pissing o…
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December 15, 2010
With our without the backing of the Fourth Amendment, we don’t recommend incriminating yourselves via email, but for what it’s worth, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals did rule that Uncle Sam needs a search warrant before he goes snooping in your inbo…
Tags: court, email, fourth amendment, law, legal, News Worthy, Privacy
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December 14, 2010
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen once convinced Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard, and we all know how the rest of that story goes. Allen may have lost some of those persuasive skills over the years, as he was unable to convince U.S. District Judge Mars…
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December 7, 2010
Julian Assange, the man behind the controversial whisteblower site Wikileaks, was arrested Tuesday on a Swedish warrant, according to a CNN report.
Popular opinion held that it was only a matter of time before Assange would have to answer for making av…
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December 3, 2010
Federal authorities believe they have in custody one of the most active spammers in the world. Oleg Y. Nikolaenko, a 23-year-old from Moscow, stands accused of spearheading a global spamming network that on some days accounted for 33 percent of unwante…
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