China’s web giant Baidu is being sued again, this time by an industry group of game developers in China, who charge the company with copyright infringement and are asking for 30 million Yuan in compensation ($4.7m).  Baidu is the most popular search engine in China
 

Small group of game developers suing Baidu for 30m Yuan.

Tian Lifeng, spokesman for the industry group Content Provider Union (CPU) explained that Baidu allowed users to download more than 350 games without authorization. …

Even after the US International Trade Commission’s (ITC) preliminary ruling going against the HTC in its patent lawsuit against Apple, the Taiwanese firm is confident of its strong case, reports Reuters.
HTC is the No. 5 smartphone manufacturer in the world. Last year, the company filed a patent infringement case against Apple accusing it of violating its patents. The lawsuit was filed on May 2010. The HTC asked ITC to impose a ban on import of Apple’s iPods, iPhones and iPads.
HTC now …

Social networking giant Facebook has been under attack again on the privacy issue since last month when Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovik revealed that it continues to track what websites its members surf to, even after they have logged out of their website.
 
Cubrilovik revealed, in long and technically, painfully..boring detail, how when he visited another website that had a Facebook plug-in after having been at Facebook, information about him, including his account ID, was sent …

Twitter has finally secured rights to the trademark for “Tweet” after the micro-blogging website and Twittad, a service that helps Twitter members get paid for tweeting ads, came to an agreement.
 

Twiiter secures rights to 'tweet' trademark

Twittad will give the trademark to Twitter and in return, Twitter will terminate its lawsuit challenging Twittad for the trademark, and reactivate its Twitter account.  Lynne Fox, a spokesperson for Twitter, explained: “We’ve …

A patient has filed a $20million lawsuit against Palo Alto, California based Stanford Hospital for breach of patients’ data, reports ComputerWorld. However, the hospital has put the blame on a third-party billing contractor stating that the contractor was responsible for the breach of data.
On September 28, Shana Springer filed a lawsuit against Stanford Hospital in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking $20 million @ $1000 per compromised record. According to reports 20,000 patients’ data …

Lee Younghee, a senior vice president at Samsung, has announced that the company will now take a bolder stance against Apple in its fight for patents, reports AP. According to South Korean company, Apple is “free riding” its patented wireless technologies.
“We’ll be pursuing our rights for this in a more aggressive way from now on,” said Lee during an interview with AP. Lee Younghee is head of global marketing for mobile communications at Samsung.
However, Lee did not disclose about …

Via Technologies has sued Apple in a U.S. court for allegedly violating patents it holds concerning microprocessor technology, a report from Bloomberg reveals.

Via Technologies has sued Apple in Delaware for allegedly infringing on three U.S. patents the company owns. Image: viagallery.com / Flickr (CC)

According to the report, Via has filed its complaint at a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware and is asking for a jury trial and an injunction against the sale of Apple products which …

An HP shareholder has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company and its top management, alleging that the top executives misled investors about major decisions including the termination of the TouchPad, reports Reuters. According to the shareholder, the misleading information by the world’s largest technology company resulted in falling of the share prices of the company.
The lawsuit has been filed by Richard Gammel, an HP shareholder. The complaint states that HP concealed from …

Seven states of US have joined the lawsuit against proposed AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile, reports Bloomberg. According to the attorney generals of these states, the proposed $39 billion deal is not good for the customers, and it would lead to increase in the rates of wireless services.
AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile would make AT&T the biggest wireless carrier in the country.
The states that joined the lawsuit include New York, California, Massachusetts, Washington, Ohio, …

A Windows Phone 7 user has filed a lawsuit in a Seattle federal court against Microsoft for tracking locations of mobile customers even after getting the request from users to turn off the tracking software, reports Reuters.
According to the lawsuit, the Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft has camera software that was intentionally designed to ignore customer requests of not tracking their location.
Such complaints also surfaced against Apple earlier this year accusing that the …