February 8, 2011
Sony is turning up the heat on the hacking community as they seek to eradicate the PS3 jailbreak from the Internet, reports Wired. Sony is now promising to sue anyone that posts or links to the code in question. To those ends, Sony is seeking to force …
Tags: dmca, geohot, hacking, law, legal, modding, News Worthy, ps3, Sony
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February 8, 2011
Ruh roh, Sony. In retaliation to patent infringement claims Sony has made against LG, the latter is pleading with the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban imports of PlayStation 3 consoles, Bloomberg reports. The reason? Also related to patent in…
Tags: ban, console, gaming, hardware, law, legal, LG, News Worthy, Playstation 3, Videogames
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January 26, 2011
If you have trouble chewing bubble gum and walking at the same time, you should probably wait until you’re stationary before whipping out your cell phone to fire off a text. For those of you who live in Arkansas or New York, restrictions such as thi…
Tags: hardware, law, legal, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy
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January 25, 2011
If you thought Verizon was going to go it alone in their legal quest to overturn the FCC’s recent net neutrality policy decision, you’d be wrong. But who has joined them in their fight? AT&T? Sprint? Nope, it’s MetroPCS according to the Washington …
Tags: 4G, fcc, law, legal, lte, metropcs, mobile, net neutrality, News Worthy, Verizon
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January 25, 2011
Microsoft has filed a U.S. trade complaint that, if approved, would ban TiVo from importing set-top boxes into the U.S., Bloomberg reports. However, the legal scuffle isn’t likely to result in that.
“We have filed a complaint with the International Tra…
Tags: dvr, hardware, law, legal, microsoft, News Worthy, patent, Television, tivo
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January 25, 2011
A Kansas woman is trying to drum up support to make it illegal for cyberbullies to post hurtful comments and photos on memorial websites, The Kansas City Star reports.
The crusade began when Karla O’Malley happened by a car wreck on Christmas Eve in wh…
Tags: cyberbully, Internet, law, legal, News Worthy, online, Social Networking
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January 20, 2011
Verizon has filed an appeal with the US Court of Appeals in Washington today contesting the FCC’s new Net Neutrality policy. Verizon says it is “deeply concerned” with the new regulations the FCC intends to peruse. The press release is short on details…
Tags: fcc, Internet, law, legal, net neutrality, News Worthy, Verizon
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January 20, 2011
It’s hard not to laugh at Cathy Cruz Marrero, who was caught on tape unintentionally diving head first into a fountain located in the Berkshire Mall. Had she been paying attention to her surroundings instead of trying to text message and walk at the sa…
Tags: court, law, legal, News Worthy, text message, text messaging
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