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| Airbus firm ex-chief held in fraud inquiry
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| A former co-chief executive of Airbus parent EADS was detained Wednesday in connection with an investigation into alleged insider trading, a French judicial official said.
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May 28, 2008 |
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| Airlines to pay $504M in price-fixing scam
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| Four airlines involved in one of the largest antitrust settlements in history.
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June 26, 2008 |
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| Amazon defies French courts over shipping costs
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| Amazon.fr is continuing to pay daily fines rather than comply with a court order which forbids it from offering free shipping for some purchases made from its French website.
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January 16, 2008 |
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| Amazon sues New York over Amazon Tax
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| Amazon has sued New York over an ingenious new law that would force the mega online retailer to collect taxes it doesn't like collecting.
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May 2, 2008 |
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| AMD now has 'more than allegations' against Intel
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| As Intel and AMD near the end of the discovery process in their US antitrust battle, the two companies have begun fighting over whose testimony will make it to the big dance. In a legal filing, AMD has pointed to the employees at some of the technology world's biggest names - HP, Dell, IBM and others - who it thinks will help make its case.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| AP lawsuit threatens the Net
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| Wire service Associated Press is attacking Verisign in case which literally threatens the integrity of the Net.
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October 15, 2007 |
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| AP Sues VeriSign's Moreover
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| The wire service is charging copyright infringement by the Moreover news aggregation services.
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October 10, 2007 |
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| Appeal Court Overturns FTC Order Against Rambus
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| The court overturns the FTC's order accusing Rambus of advocating its technologies as the new standard without approaching any actual standard-setting organization.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Appeals court lets 'Vista Capable' class action proceed
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| In a big blow to the case against Microsoft's allegedly confusing "Vista Capable" labeling program for PCs, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied Microsoft's petition to overturn a decision granting the case class action status.
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April 23, 2008 |
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| Apple Gets Hit with IBrick Suit
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| A California man, Timothy Smith, has filed a lawsuit against Apple in a Santa Clara County Superior court, accusing the company of turning his unlocked iPhone into useless piece of electronics. In court papers filed by Smith's attorney Damian Fernandez, it is alleged that Apple is violating California's antitrust laws.
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October 8, 2007 |
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| Apple music monopoly lawsuit seeks class-action status
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| A class-action suit filed against Apple alleges the company unfairly uses technological restrictions with its iPod line and iTunes Music Store to beat out competitors.
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January 4, 2008 |
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| Apple, AT&T named in visual voicemail lawsuit
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| Klausner Technologies on Monday announced that it has filed a patent lawsuit against Apple and AT&T for selling the iPhone.
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December 3, 2007 |
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| Broadcom Co-founder Drugged Drinks, Indictment Says
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| Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas on Thursday was indicted for possession and distribution of drugs and on charges of backdating stock options that caused the technology company to write-down $2.2 billion in profits.
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June 5, 2008 |
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| Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Carriers of Text Message Price Gouging
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| When you do the math on it, sending a text message requires such a tiny amount of bandwidth that, based on data transfer rates, they should round down to free. Clearly, that's not the case, with every single carrier using text messaging as a fun excuse to gouge their customers with insane prices for such a popular feature.
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May 20, 2008 |
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| Cornell Bests HP in Patent Case
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| Hewlett-Packard does not agree with a jury's decision last week to pay damages to Cornell University for infringing on a patent, but the company declined to say Thursday if it will appeal the case.
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June 5, 2008 |
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| Court Backs FCC in Verizon Broadband Ruling
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| The ruling lets stand the FCC's 2006 decision to deregulate some of Verizon's commercial broadband obligations.
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December 7, 2007 |
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| Court Clears Way for Mobile-Phone-Unlocking Lawsuit Against T-Mobile
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| Without comment, the high court's seven justices declined to review two lower-court decisions that allowed the lawsuit. The case could ultimately revamp the relationship between mobile-phone carriers and their customers.
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October 11, 2007 |
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| Crime and delusion on Wall Street
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| Prosecutors allege two ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund managers misled investors. Perhaps, but Wall Street has long been kidding itself about the credit crunch.
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June 19, 2008 |
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| Dell Hit with Patent Lawsuit
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| The lawsuit complains that both Dell and Motion Computing violated patents related to tablet PCs.
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December 7, 2007 |
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| DOJ ends its quest for Amazon sales records
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| A federal judge in Wisconsin said that the federal government's request for the records of sales by an indicted man raised some concerns, causing the US Attorney's Office to drop the subpoena.
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November 28, 2007 |
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| eBay dumps ValueClick
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| ValueClick pays FTC $2.9m over misleading ads.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| EU Court Delivers Blow to Copyright Holders
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| Countries inside the EU do not have to disclose names of Internet file sharers in civil cases, a European Court has ruled.
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January 29, 2008 |
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| Ex-Broadcom exec charged with stock-option backdating
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| Nancy Tullos has agreed to pay more than $1.3 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest. She further agreed to pay a civil penalty of $100,000.
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March 5, 2008 |
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| Ex-Broadcom exec latest casualty of stock option probe
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| Nancy Tullos, former Broadcom human relations chief, pled guilty Tuesday to charges of obstruction of justice. She will also assist the feds in their case against the company.
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November 28, 2007 |
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| Facebook 'violates privacy laws'
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| A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site Facebook accusing it of violating privacy laws.
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May 30, 2008 |
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| Former VP of HP Charged with IBM Trade-Secret Theft
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| A former Hewlett Packard vice president is being charged with trade-secret theft for allegedly forwarding "confidential" IBM sales information to his HP superiors, according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| FTC Settles with HP Private Eyes
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| The agency wins $600,000 in judgments, but key players can only pay $3,000.
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May 29, 2008 |
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| Google cheers anti-Comcast legislation
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| Just after Comcast copped to throttling P2P traffic, a new net neutrality bill appeared on Capitol Hill.
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February 14, 2008 |
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| HP and Acer end their patent litigation
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| Engaged in patent-infringement lawsuits in three federal courts, and under two US International Trade Commission investigations for well over a year, HP and Acer summarily ended their battle on Sunday.
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June 9, 2008 |
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| HP Reaches Settlement in Gray Market Case Against Maxicom PC Inc.
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| HP today announced it has reached a settlement with Maxicom PC Inc., its owner-operators, and a sales representative who were defendants in gray market litigation that HP filed in February in a Florida federal court.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| IBM Sued for Cancer Cluster
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| Civil action accuses Big Blue of decades of dumping toxic chemicals at historic plant.
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January 3, 2008 |
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| Intel and Dixons raided by Competition Commission
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| Officials from the European Competition Commission, accompanied by local officials, raided Intel offices in Munich and those of Dixons Store Group International in the UK today as part of an investigation into alleged illegal collusion - that Intel and retailers worked together to fix prices.
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February 12, 2008 |
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| Intel: Too Soon to Say Whether FTC Dropped Antitrust Investigation
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| In response to a New York Times story this morning that cites unnamed officials at the Federal Trade Commission as having indicated its chairman has decided not to pursue a formal investigation of Intel's antitrust conduct with regard to AMD, Intel spokesperson Chuck Mulloy called the report "speculation."
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October 22, 2007 |
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| Intel, AMD Lawsuit Pushed Off to 2010
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| Decision comes on the same day Intel was fined $25 by Korean Authorities for unfair practices against AMD and customers.
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June 5, 2008 |
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| Intel, AMD See Date With Justice Pushed Back to 2010
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| AMD is accusing Intel of using illegal subsidies in order to coerce 38 companies in North America, Asia and Europe to use its products, in some cases threatening retribution if those companies used or sold AMD products.
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June 6, 2008 |
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| iPhone Lawsuit Seeks Over $1 Billion in Damages
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| Lawyers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T seeking $1.2 billion in damages because the iPhone is locked to AT&T's wireless network.
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October 12, 2007 |
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| ITC sides with Nokia in Qualcomm legal fight
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| The two cell phone giants still have several pending legal actions, including a separate ITC case that questions Nokia's 3G products.
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February 28, 2008 |
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| Jury Orders Microsoft to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $367 Million
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| Microsoft hopes to overturn a jury decision against it for patent infringement against Alcatel-Lucent.
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April 5, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Hit With Patent Suit Over RoundTable
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| FullView's patent, which builds on other patent applications dating back to 1995, covers a camera system that combines the fields of view of several cameras to form a continuous 360-degree view.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Hits 21 US Resellers With Piracy Lawsuits
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| Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in 14 U.S. states against resellers in which it alleges they engaged in the sale of pirated software, it said Tuesday.
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June 10, 2008 |
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| Microsoft tries to offset $512 million patent judgment with IMS counterclaim
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| It's way too early to declare the battle between Microsoft and arch-rival Alcatel-Lucent over. Last week, a judge upheld a big jury decision against Microsoft and tacked on some interest. That just made the defendant a little angrier.
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June 23, 2008 |
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| Mitsubishi, Samsung, Sony Sue Vizio for MPEG-2 Patents
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| Lawsuit claims Vizio refused to license patents and violated 15 patents total.
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June 5, 2008 |
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| Nearly 300 arrested in mortgage probe
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| Nearly 300 people have been arrested in a 3-1/2 month national coordinated mortgage-fraud probe to be disclosed on Thursday, a U.S. Justice Department official said.
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June 19, 2008 |
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| New Chinese law finds Yahoo in copyright violation
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| Chinese courts handed the world's recording industry a significant victory Thursday, finding the search giant's Chinese music service was committing copyright infringement.
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December 21, 2007 |
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| New Energy Law Is Good for Business
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| Scores of companies will benefit from the recently adopted energy legislation.
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January 14, 2008 |
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| Nortel pays $35m to end fraud probe
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| Nortel has agreed to pay $35m in damages to shareholders hurt by the company's fraudulent accounting practises.
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October 16, 2007 |
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| Patent Reform Bill Progresses
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| Compromises on a U.S. patent reform bill may be close, supporters say.
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March 14, 2008 |
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| Qualcomm Barred from Using Broadcom 3G Patents
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| A judge rules that Qualcomm must stop selling 3G cellular chips that infringe on Broadcom patents.
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January 2, 2008 |
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| Qualcomm Lawyers Reprimanded in Broadcom Case
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| A federal judge took action against Qualcomm and six of its outside attorneys for hiding documents in the patent lawsuit.
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January 8, 2008 |
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| R.I. high court overturns lead paint verdict
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| Setback in state efforts to get companies to pay for home cleaning.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Samsung corruption probe to continue through April
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| Following a raid in January of the office of Samsung's chairman Lee Kun-hee, the lead Korean prosecutor in the case is being given extra time to complete his investigation.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| Scientists sue Intel in Core 2 Duo clash
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| A band of boffins is suing Intel, claiming the chip giant pinched their patented technology and used it in the Core 2 Duo processor design without their say-so.
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February 8, 2008 |
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| Settlement Reached in Cablevision Lawsuit
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| The cable operator agrees to a pact worth $34.4 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit over its stock options awards practices.
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June 5, 2008 |
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| Start-Up Sues Google Over E-Mail Switching Tool
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| Google was named Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.
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June 24, 2008 |
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| Steve Jobs in new securities fraud case
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| Apple boss Steve Jobs, master marketeer and creator of the Jobs reality distortion field, is again in trouble over securities fraud allegations.
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July 2, 2008 |
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| Suit claims IBM dumped chemicals in upstate New York
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| IBM has been accused of releasing chemicals into the air, ground and water in the upstate New York village of Endicott where the company started. IBM says the legal action has "no basis in science or law."
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January 4, 2008 |
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| Supreme Court to hear AT&T appeal in DSL price fix case
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| Considered to be the most controversial of several cases of this kind, California ISP linkLine's antitrust case against the former SBC Communications will be heard by the US Supreme Court.
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June 24, 2008 |
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| Supremes reject Microsoft's Novell request
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| The Supreme Court rejected an attempt today to throw out a claim by Novell that Microsoft tried to undermine the market for Novell's WordPerfect in the mid-90s.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Supremes wave through HP class action
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| The US Supreme Court has declined to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against Compaq for selling defective floppy disks. HP, which bought Compaq in 2002, had argued a lower court decision wrongly certified a nationwide class of plaintiffs.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Symantec drops Microsoft lawsuit
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| Microsoft and Symantec have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed two years ago over the use of Veritas code in Microsoft products, including Windows Vista.
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April 3, 2008 |
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| Tellabs Sues Fujitsu, Claiming Patent Infringement
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| Tellabs claims include Fujitsu reconfigurable optical systems and components that Fujitsu markets within its FLASHWAVE.
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June 12, 2008 |
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| US courts erode protections for online publishers
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| Two recent judgments could erode vital protections for web publishers in the US. The rulings could undermine protections from liability for user-posted material previously enjoyed by publishers.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| Warner Music sues MP3 search engine for infringement
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| One of the big four record labels, which just this week was part of a landmark deal for MP3 access through Last.fm, announced earlier it is suing a completely different firm that offers similar access though without any kind of compensation plan.
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January 25, 2008 |
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| Woman charged over hedge-fund exec escape
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| Girlfriend of fugitive accused of helping stage convicted financier's suicide.
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June 20, 2008 |
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| Yahoo continues to spurn Microsoft
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| It's a lot like a forced mediaeval marriage.
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March 5, 2008 |
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| Yahoo takes new defensive tack against Microsoft's buyout bid
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| Allows more time to nominate board members in effort to head off possible proxy fight.
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March 5, 2008 |
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| ZapMedia sues Apple for iTunes patent infringement
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| ZapMedia on Wednesday sued Apple alleging the company's iTunes Store is using patented technologies for distributing digital media over the Internet.
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March 12, 2008 |
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