Welcome news from Nick Bilton: the FAA finally is revisiting the policy that keeps Kindles, iPads and the like turned off during takeoffs an… Read more at paidContent »
A shell company capped off a week of patent controversy by suing two popular phone makers for including a button that lets users put a smile… Read more at paidContent »
Two Android phone users who purchased defective products from Google’s app-store have filed a lawsuit, saying the company’s 15-minute refund… Read more at paidContent »
A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address… Read more at paidContent »
Manchester United football club is demanding that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bar all Android apps that contain its logo. Read more at paidContent »
While its relevance in the realm of traditional linear television is more questionable than ever, the CW’s youthful, digitally literate core… Read more at paidContent »
Aereo, a bold new service that brings broadcast TV and DVR to your iPad and iPhone, started its engines in New York City today — and the re… Read more at paidContent »
“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read more at paidContent »
News companies have notched a victory in their long running push to charge digital aggregators for curating their content. On Wednesday, lic… Read more at paidContent »
When Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gather… Read more at paidContent »
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more at paidContent »
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly asked Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to supply information as part of its investigation into whether Google… Read more at paidContent »
Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today — claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company po… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The lawsuit adds to the… Read more at paidContent »
The legal fallout continues over Google’s decision to circumvent privacy settings on the iPhone. Court records show that there are now at le… Read more at paidContent »
As regulators on both sides of the Atlantic investigate publishers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for allegedly colluding to fix the price of e-book… Read more at paidContent »
Barry Diller’s latest investment in media disruption hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already in court. That’s part of the appeal of Aereo… Read more at paidContent »
A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast. T… Read more at paidContent »
A judge has once again rebuffed Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s efforts to unmask the people who used his name to launch racist… Read more at paidContent »
The Authors Guild weighs in on the news that the Department of Justice is investigating Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and five of the big-six publisher… Read more at paidContent »
She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012… Read more at paidContent »
Penguin Group, one of the “Big 5″ publishers caught up in a lawsuit over e-book pricing, says customers agreed not to sue them when they tur… Read more at paidContent »
Germany’s government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. Read more at paidContent »
Sony’s music labels have agreed to pay almost $8 million to bands like Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick which claim the company shortchanged… Read more at paidContent »
A court filing provides new insight into Apple’s version of events concerning an incident in which Steve Jobs told a reporter that “unhappy”… Read more at paidContent »
The Justice Department is about to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and five publishers for conspiring to raise the price of e-books. The warning is a… Read more at paidContent »
A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments — the process… Read more at paidContent »
A controversial Twitter marketing campaign that used celebrities, not Promoted Tweets, to advertise chocolate did not cross a line, the UK’s… Read more at paidContent »
A Twitter account tied to hacking collective Anonymous is telling followers not to be discouraged by news that “top members” have been arres… Read more at paidContent »
Group messaging apps continue to be both a hot communications tool and a legal minefield. Like other developers who decided to build first a… Read more at paidContent »
UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more at paidContent »
A year after the collapse of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books Settlement in a New York court, the government of France has passed a law to digi… Read more at paidContent »
A Proview creditor is looking to collect the $8.68 million it’s owed. This twist comes while Proview is pressing its case in both the U.S. and China that when Apple acquired the iPad trademark in 2006 from Proview, it did not include the rights in China. Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is facing yet another major security breach. Hackers reportedly illegally downloaded over Michael Jackson’s entire back cat… Read more at paidContent »
[Update: Australian paper The Age reported that U.S. prosecutors have drawn up a secret indictment against Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange… Read more at paidContent »
Hulu has joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Inc. and the nation’s five biggest cable service providers in a fight to stop Dish Network (NSDQ: DI… Read more at paidContent »
Well, that was quick. Two weeks ago, media mogul Barry Diller announced an ambitious cloud-based TV service that streams over-the-air channe… Read more at paidContent »
In a sign the country’s intellectual property laws may be getting out of hand, copyright lawyers are suing patent lawyers for using scientif… Read more at paidContent »
At midnight, Google’s official blog posted a notice confirming that the company’s new privacy policy went into effect. Reaction so far sugge… Read more at paidContent »
Record labels’ equity in Spotify has allowed the music subscription service to start and to flourish. But, if the company decides to file fo… Read more at paidContent »
