Tag: Lawsuit
SPORESUIT: EA sued over Spore DRM
The Spore DRM Wars rumble on. The latest development is that a class action suit has been filed in the Northern District of California court. It’s being brought on behalf of Melissa Thomas, and all other Spore purchasers. That includes me, actually…
Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper (allegedly): it looks awful!
With Scrabulous (North America) pulled from Facebook this week, the creators have returned with Wordscraper, which bears a passing resemblance to the original tile-based word formation game.
According to creators Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, Wordscaper is “the only game on Facebook that allows you to play the game the way you want to! With Wordscraper you can build your own board and try out whacky combinations with special high value squares…
Facebook sues identical German site StudiVZ – apparently
Facebook is suing a German social networking site by the name of StudiVZ for producing a site for central Europe that is more or less a direct rip off of the well-established international favourite. Well, that’s what the German company hear but, since the news broke on Friday, they have yet to receive any legal contact whatsoever…
PsyStar finally sees Apple lawsuit
PsyStar, the Californian company selling Mac clones and OpenServe software — effectively rip-offs of Apple’s own products — has finally been sued by Apple…
eBay reaches settlement over Buy It Now lawsuit
eBay has just forked out some of its own hard-earned cash, buying three patents due to their ongoing lawsuit with MercExchange over the Buy It Now service.
MercExchange claims eBay was infringing on their patents, and filed a lawsuit against the company in September 2001, which has now been dropped reportedly.
“We’re pleased to have been able to reach a settlement with MercExchange. In addition to resolving the litigation, this settlement…
RIM BlackBerry sues Motorola over patent infringement, Motorola countersues over…patent infringement
RIM’s throwing the courtcase Motorola’s way now, after exhausting the legal battle with LG over the similarity of their model names to its own ‘BlackBerry’ branding.
But, it turns out that Motorola has turned the tables on RIM and is counter-suing them. Ouch. RIM claims Motorola is copying their…
Ear damaged man seeks similar Microsoft Zune afflicted people, no GSOH required
This is rather shocking, I never thought I’d be writing these words, but unfortunately the time has come for me to spell out on the keyboard that uh-oh-someone-is-suing-Microsoft-for-receiving-Zune-related-ear-damage.
I can barely look at those words 🙁
Joel Geddis was a Zune fan, and bought one of the first generation models. However, in November 2006, he “received an electric…
Think Secret rumour site shut down by Apple: Inquisitive fanboys will have to go elsewhere
It seems that Apple has finally got its own way in the long-running battle with rumour site Think Secret, well known for publishing allegedly leaked stories from the vehemently secretive technology company.
Think Secret got enough of its rumours right to make it fairly obvious that it was getting inside information, and of course that angered Apple.
Site publisher Nick Ciarelli stuck to his principles, and loyalty to his sources, and thus his site paid the ultimate price: closure.
Analyst claims Apple may take issue with Nokia's new touchscreen S60 mobile
Everyone’s competing with Apple in touch-sensitive interfaces, and if they’re not already, they’ve got a team of crack scientists working on it in super-secretive laboraties far, far away. It’s only fair that Nokia wants a piece of the smeary-fingerprint-pie, reportedly working on a new S60 handset which’ll feature a touch-screen.
However, analyst Richard Windsor claims Nokia may have some difficulty releasing the handset, as due…
RIM sues LG over their phone names being too close to the BlackBerry name
Don’t count on Research In Motion launching any new BlackBerry smartphones over the next few months – they’re far too busy suing LG Electronics for trivial matters concerning copyright brand names.
It appears RIM has nothing better to do than accuse LG of taking inspiration from their ‘BlackBerry’ brand…
