May 19, 2013

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T-Mobile USA Sued over Blocking of Text Messages – Suit Filed by EZ Texting

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Ez Texting, a New York-based company that helps businesses send marketing text messages to large numbers of people, filed the suit (PDF)  yesterday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company is one of those that provide the behind-the-scenes infrastructure for the type of ad that asks consumers to [...]

Goldman Sachs to Pay $27 Million Fine to Financial Services Authority of UK

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Goldman Sachs Group agreed to pay a fine of nearly $27 Million to the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority and concede that the company made a mistake in regulatory disclosures about trader Fabrice Tourre, according to people familiar with the situation. The fine (one of the biggest ever imposed in Britain) was related to Goldman’s [...]

Oracle’s Suit Against Google Android OS Doing Favor to Microsoft, Its an Open Source Software Tread

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Oracle’s suit against Google has one clear winner: Microsoft. With Google’s Android tied up in litigation, and Oracle becoming the latest villain in the open source community, Microsoft has a chance to make inroads in the mobile market and elsewhere. Oracle’s suit against Google over its Android mobile operating system signals a major reversal in [...]

We May Forget Credit or Debit Cards Soon, It will Replaced by Smartphones

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Mobile Service Providers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are attempting to give credit card companies a run for their money with the planned introduction of new smartphone technology. This technology will allow customers to use their smartphones as payment devices by merely waving their smartphones. Should the technology be successful, credit card companies might have a [...]

Viacom Lose Their Lawsuit with YouTube – Court Says Youtube Working Under DMCA Act

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Today, the court granted Youtube’s motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. The decision follows established judicial consensus that online services like YouTube are protected when [...]