When gun-lovin’ Roger Witter saw two men nick a load of iPhones from an AT&T store Gresham, Oregon, he decided to take action.
Instead of sensibly waiting for the feds to arrive, he decided to go all Harry Callaghan on the perp’s asses, and blasted away at their departing car in an attempt to blow out its tyres.
The fall out continues after Google’s Street View cars were discovered to have been scooping up samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks.
Despite posting a comprehensively grovelling apology, a class action lawsuit has just been filed in Oregon district court claiming privacy violation.
Taiwanese tech company Elan Microelectronics have filed a suit against Apple that has the potential to stop the iPad dead in its tracks.
The suit filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission alleges that certain Apple products have violated their multi-touch patent.
There’s a lot to be concerned about the Digital Economy Bill that is being pushed through the law-making process with unseemly haste.
In response, an activist website has sprung up making it easy for the public to contact their MPs and ask them to consider the controversial bill more carefully.
Bosh! Apple’s over-worked lawyers are off again, this time laying down a massive suit against HTC, claiming that the company is infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.”
Microsoft has lost its legal appeal with a small Canadian company called i4i, which will result in the sales of its popular software programs Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 being halted on January 11th, 2010.
The whole she-bang is over some XML code in the software suites which was found to infringe i4i’s patent, landing the smaller company a right little earner to the tune of some $290 million.
Newly proposed government legislation designed to deal with ‘orphan files’ will leave non-commercial websites free to use a photographer’s images without permission, payment or even credit,
The Digital Economy Bill includes changes to the copyright system and is charged with ‘providing essential support for creative industries in a digital world, through proposals on online copyright infringement and changes to copyright licensing.’
In effect, this will allow free and unhindered reproduction of photographs without payment or credit on non-commercial websites.
Nokia’s fortunes may be flapping faster than Deputy Dawg’s ears in a Gale Force 10 wind, but they’re still willing to take on the mighty Apple in a row over patent infringement.
The Finnish mobile giant has announced that it’s suing its rival Apple for infringing their mobile phone technology patents with the iPhone.
Insanely, Apple’s lawyers have mounted a legal challenge to stop the Australian retailer Woolworths from using their shiny green logo, insisting that it is too close to its own.
Although Apple are famously litigious, this surely looks like a step too far - you’d have to be on some seriously mind-bending drugs to confuse the retailer’s effort with the internationality recognised Apple logo.
Despite the law being clear on a citizen’s rights to freely take pictures in public places, UK photographers have often found themselves doing battle with clueless cops and power mad plastic PCs during the course of their business.
Now it seems that things are just as stupid in the States, as comedian Stephen Colbert explains in three steps in this video clip:
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