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Kim Dotcom Cleared Following Bail Hearing, Questioned on Video Games

Kim Dotcom, of Megaupload fame, has walked away from his bail hearing after being cleared. He has been on bail since February 2012, and has faced allegations of breaching his ...

November 28, 2014 at 11:58 pm by

Steve Jobs Granted 141 Patents Since Death

Apple’s co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, has been granted 141 patents since he passed away in October 2011. The number, which is more than the 9 Bill Gates has ...

November 28, 2014 at 9:58 pm by

EU Votes In Favor Of Breaking Up Google

The Euopean Parliament has voted in favour of ‘breaking up’ Google. MEPs (Member of European Parliament) voted 384 to 174. The Parliament itself can’t break ...

November 27, 2014 at 4:43 pm by

ASA Tackles Vloggers Misleading Advertising

The UK’s Advertising Standards Agency has asked popular YouTube vloggers Dan and Phil to remove an ad for Oreo cookies, after it was found to be misleading. The ad in ...

November 27, 2014 at 12:45 am by

Google Updates Search Algorithm, Demotes Piracy in Favour of Legal Content

We’ve all been told time and time again that the internet has the capacity to be the Wild West of all digital content, potentially harming the back pockets of media ...

October 22, 2014 at 9:58 am by

Police Ordered to Hand over Clones of Dotcom’s Data

In what can be described as a small victory for the New Zealand entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in his ongoing legal battle over Megaupload, the New Zealand Court of Appeal ruled ...

September 8, 2014 at 3:57 pm by

Sony Being Sued for Deceptive Marketing of Killzone: Shadow Falls Graphics

Sony Computer Entertainment America are now facing a lawsuit due to “deceptive marketing” of Killzone: Shadow Fall. It’s not the first time graphics have ...

August 7, 2014 at 8:24 pm by

KlearGear Ordered to Pay £180,000 to Customers That Posted Negative Review Online

John and Jen Palmer were awarded $306,750 (£180,122) by Judge Dee Benson in the U.S. District Court in Utah, following a legal case that stemmed from a bad review posted on ...

June 26, 2014 at 7:38 pm by

77% Of Lawyers Can’t Be Trusted With Protecting Your Confidential Data…Surprising?

Whoever said you can’t trust a lawyer? Well whoever it was probably had a point. Recent survey data suggests that most lawyers take virtually no action to encrypt and ...

June 3, 2014 at 9:58 am by

Samsung Think Dyson Suck, Countersuing Them For Brand Damage

In August 2013 the UK based vacuum cleaner company Dyson took Samsung to court, accusing them of infringing on their patents. Dyson accused Samsung’s new ...

February 17, 2014 at 6:53 pm by

Google Refuses To Pay French Privacy Fine, Has To Admit Guilt On Google France

Google recently lost a legal dispute in France for failing to tell French citizens exactly what happens to the personal data that Google collects about them. As a result ...

February 8, 2014 at 11:45 pm by

European Parliament Exploring The Decriminalisation Of Individual File Sharing

TorrentFreak reports that several members of the European Parliament have started a coordinated platform to urge the European Commission to update its outdated policy on ...

November 10, 2013 at 1:19 pm by

IsoHunt Brought Back From The Dead, New Spin-Off Created

Earlier this month torrent indexing site IsoHunt was forced to shut down after its owned Gary Fung faced a lawsuit from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which ...

October 30, 2013 at 10:33 am by

Unhappy Customer Suing Apple Over iOS 7

Sometimes smartphone vendors do things we don’t like – for instance they might release an update that causes more problems than it fixes or they might just stop ...

October 19, 2013 at 3:22 pm by

Google Faces Antitrust Investigations In Brazil

Google is not exactly unfamiliar with legal action of an antitrust nature as it has faced antitrust lawsuits across a variety of locations in recent times, most notably in the ...

October 13, 2013 at 8:43 pm by

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