Microsoft is moving to stop one of its former executives from joining cloud rival Salesforce.com, amidst increasing animosity between the two companies. – Microsoft and Salesforce.com find themselves locked in
conflict again, after the software giant filed a lawsuit to stop a former
executive from joining its cloud-services rival.
Salesforce.com had hired Matthew Miszewski whose LinkedIn
page states his former position as general
manager of world…
Verizon has filed a lawsuit against the FCC, claiming that its new net neutrality rules give the FCC authority beyond whats provided to it by Congress. – Verizon Communications is suing
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, challenging the bodys new
rules regarding the contentious issue of net neutrality. The appeal was filed
Jan. 20 with the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit.
quot;Today’s filing is the result of …
New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo is about to charge Lehman’s accountants, Ernst & Young, with fraud for allowing Lehman to cook its books using the infamous “Repo 105″ shell game. This comes only weeks after a Lehman retirement fund sued Leh…
The Budapest District Court has aquitted Efraim Zuroff in a case brought against him by Sandor Kepiro. The WW2 Hungarian war criminal sued Zuroff, alleging that the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center had caused damage to his “reputation and honor”.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Čedomir Jovanović is suing former U.S. Ambassador to Serbia William Montgomery for defamation.
He also intends to launch a proceeding in the U.S. on the same grounds, the LDP has announced.
Foxconn Singapore said Creative, the maker of the Zen music player and Ziio tablet computer, repeatedly failed to make payment and didn’t give any “substantive” reason for its refusal, according to a Sept. 8 lawsuit filed with the Singapore High Court. A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 3.
Lindsay Lohan’s mum Dina is filing a lawsuit against TV show ‘Glee’ after poked pun at her daughter’s condition. In an episode of the renowned TV series that went out this week, Gwyneth Paltrow guest starred as a substitute Spanish teacher. She asked her class questions in Spanish, which included “Lindsay Lohan is totally crazy, [...]
Microsoft is suing Motorola for the second time in two months, this time over patents related to technology in Windows Phone 7 and the Xbox 360. – Microsoft fired a lawsuit against Motorola for the second
time in two months, claiming the manufacturer has violated agreements to
license at “reasonable rates” patents related to H.264 video compression and
wireless LAN.
In the lawsuit, Microsoft insists that Motorola made
patent-related comm…
Microsoft is suing Motorola for the second time in two months, this time over patents related to technology in Windows Phone 7 and the Xbox 360. – Microsoft fired a lawsuit against Motorola for the second
time in two months, claiming the manufacturer has violated agreements to
license at “reasonable rates” patents related to H.264 video compression and
wireless LAN.
In the lawsuit, Microsoft insists that Motorola made
patent-related comm…
Google has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging the Department of Interior is unfairly restricting competition for a cloud-hosting contract. – Google is suing the federal government, alleging that the Department of the
Interior unfairly restricted the search engine giant’s ability to bid for a
contract to update its e-mail and messaging system. Microsoft’s BPOS-Federal
suite eventually won the contract, estimated at $59 million over a f…
Apple sues Motorola for infringing on patents related to multitouch and other access technologies in its Android smartphone lineup. Motorola had sued Apple earlier this month. – Apple fired back at Motorola for what it alleges is an infringement on
patents for multitouch and other touch-screen-related technologies the rival
phone maker employs in its popular Android smartphone lineup.
Three weeks after Motorola sued Apple over smartphone-related patents, Apple
filed tw…
Facebook is taking accused spammers to court. – Facebook announced it filed three separate lawsuits against spammers this week.
The lawsuits, filed in federal court in San Jose, accuse Steven Richter, Jason Swan, and Max Bounty Inc. of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the CAN-SPAM Act and other state and federal laws. Facebook is seek…
Motorola is accusing Apple, both in the United States and with the ITC, of infringing on 18 patents related to the Apple iPhone, iPad, iTouch and some Mac computers. – Motorola Mobility is the latest tech company to engage in a legal
dispute with Apple. On Oct. 6, the company filed a complaint against
the iPhone maker with the ITC (International Trade Commission),
accusing Apple of infringing on Motorola patents in technology used in
the Apple iPhone, iPad, iT…
A leading Georgian opposition party has filed a lawsuit against Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
RIA Novosti reports quoting a Russian business daily on Thursday that they accuse him of crimes against humanity.
ArcelorMittal Singapore Pte, claiming a former warehouse manager stole steel products and sold them at a discount to fund his gambling, sued scrap metal trader Guan Peng Hardware Pte for the return of the goods.
Low Kok Leong stole about 4,000 tonnes of steel products valued at $7 million and sold them to four companies including Guan Peng at a fraction of their actual value, according to lawsuit filed with the Singapore High Court last month. Low has admitted to the theft, according to the suit.
Microsoft has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola, alleging that its Google Android smartphones violate nine patents. Android phone makers have been in Microsoft’s patent crosshairs. – Microsoft has filed an intellectual-property lawsuit against Motorola,
alleging that the manufacturer’s Google Android smartphones violate nine of its
patents.
quot;The patents at issue relate to a range of functionality embodied in
Motorola’s Android smartphone devices that are essential to t…
Apple has reportedly filed a suit against Nokia in Britain, extending legal accusations of patent infringements that have gone on between the two since October 2009. – Apple, furthering its legal wranglings with global handset leader Nokia, is
extending its lawsuit in Britain,
according to Reuters. Apple already has suits against Nokia in the United
States and with the International Trade
Commission (ITC) and Nokia has likewise filed suits in the same courts a…
Oracle, which now owns the Sun server, storage and workstation franchises, filed a new legal action against Micron, charging the company with price fixing over a span of about five years. – Data center software and systems maker Oracle, which has seen its
own share of litigation over the past several years–especially
involving the acquisition of Sun Microsystems–is seeking legal
restitution against solid-state memory maker Micron for alleged
price fixing.
Oracle, which now o…
ICAP handles $1 trillion in daily trades and “in one fell swoop” risked losing long-standing relationships with customers including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kim Rosenkilde, chief executive officer of London-based ICAP’s Asian operations, said in papers filed with the Singapore High Court this month.
Uniloc USA continues its legal battles, this time slapping Adobe Systems, Symantec and several other companies with a suit over anti-piracy technology. – Uniloc USA
has filed a lawsuit against several corporations, alleging unauthorized use of
Uniloc’s anti-piracy technology.
Named in the lawsuit are Adobe Systems, Symantec, Pinnacle Systems (part of
Avid Technology), National Instruments Corp., Pervasive Software, CA
Technologies, Sonic Solutio…
