Policy & Law Archive

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  Proposed UK mobile payment standard sidelined after complaints from Google and Three

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 16, 2012 12:44 pm + 40 comments

  The European Commission (EC) has put the brakes on Project Oscar, a mobile payments standard Continue reading…

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  What makes an idea impossible to patent? Google and Verizon ask the Supreme Court

  By Matt Macari on April 16, 2012 10:00 am + 50 comments

  Abstract ideas, laws of nature, and mathematical formulas can't be patented under US law, and both Continue reading…

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  FCC drops Street View privacy case, fines Google $25,000 for impeding investigation

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 16, 2012 07:26 am + 36 comments

  Google has been fined $25,000 for impeding an FCC investigation into whether Google violated user Continue reading…

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  Netflix CEO complains about Comcast's data caps again: 'In what way is this neutral?'

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 16, 2012 12:18 am + 69 comments

  It's no secret Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings thinks Comcast's data caps are unfair. Last month he p Continue reading…

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  Can EFF defend innocent third parties amid the Megaupload data fallout?

  By Joshua Kopstein on April 13, 2012 03:30 pm + 3 comments

  When the US government seized 25 petabytes of data from filesharing service Megaupload in January, Continue reading…

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  iCloud and MobileMe push email ban upheld by German court

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 13, 2012 07:02 am + 53 comments

  The Wall Street Journal reports that a German regional court in Mannheim has upheld an earlier Continue reading…

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  Google, Oracle and Java: from a patent spat to a copyright conundrum

  By Vlad Savov on April 13, 2012 04:24 am

  Google's use of Java APIs in Android has been the subject of a long-running legal dispute with Continue reading…

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  Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees

  By Matt Macari on April 13, 2012 03:27 am + 312 comments

  Oracle's case against Google has evolved primarily into a copyright infringement suit over the past Continue reading…

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  Apple says ebook price fixing charges are 'simply not true,' that iBookstore broke 'Amazon's monopolistic grip'

  By T.C. Sottek on April 12, 2012 09:46 pm + 369 comments

  Apple has just responded to the US Department of Justice's litigation over price fixing in the ebook Continue reading…

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  Stuxnet virus was planted by Israeli agents using USB sticks, according to new report

  By Joshua Kopstein on April 12, 2012 07:32 pm + 63 comments

  Even before computer security researchers began prying it open, one of the more plausible theories Continue reading…