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Ministry of Sound, a London night club and dance music brand, is suing music streaming service Spotify for copyright infringement. Ministry of Sound claims that Spotify has refused to delete users' playlists that copy Ministry of Sound compilation albums, some of which contain "Ministry of Sound" in...
A three-judge panel from the Superior Court of New Jersey's appellate division has pushed the envelope a little further in defining who is liable for accidents caused by texting. Namely, the panel has established a new standard of responsibility and ruled that texters whose communications distract a...
BlackBerry is looking to spin off its BlackBerry Messenger service into a separate business so as to compete with other instant messaging apps. The company announced back in May that it would make BBM, once available only on BlackBerry devices, available to devices running on iOS and Android as well...
Nokia sent a letter to India's commerce ministry threatening to leave the country because of Indian taxes. The letter said that the "political risk" in India was increasing due to tax claims from the government. India's passage in March of a retroactive income tax violates a bilateral treaty between...
At some point, as an analyst, you have to look for what ails an industry, and right now, it isn't the economy or even a lack of innovation behind the tech industry's woes. Instead, it is what appears to be a massive attempt by the U.S. government to destroy it. While I call out the administration in...
China's Communist Party used Twitter-like social media platform Sina Weibo to report the details of the trial of Bo Xilai, a former Party star who is in the process of being taken down on corruption charges. The court overseeing the case, located in the eastern city of Jinan, set up a Weibo account ...
The U.S. government is investigating bribes that Microsoft is alleged to have given to officials in Russia and Pakistan in return for contracts, marking the expansion of an ongoing probe. The Russia investigation apparently centers on software resellers funneling kickbacks to execs at a state-owned ...
Brazil has proposed new laws that would force e-businesses selling to Brazil-based consumers to store personal data about said customers on local servers. Google and Facebook have raised objections to the plan, saying that such requirements would, in the words of Facebook Brazil, "entail huge costs ...
London editor Alan Rusbridger wrote a column Monday detailing how British law enforcement had destroyed hard drives at his newspaper's offices. The destruction was purportedly to prevent additional leaks about the National Security Agency. Prior to destroying the hard drives, Rusbridger writes, an o...
If you look at what Carl Icahn had been doing with Dell -- and now with Apple, it starts to read like a protection racket. These were popular in the 1920s with organized crime -- you paid the syndicate a fee if you wanted to say in business. I'm wondering if Icahn has found a legal way to extort mon...
China's Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center are teaming up to probe IBM, Oracle and EMC over security issues. The upcoming investigation could be more than a simple tit-for-tat in the ongoing cybersaga between the U.S. and China. The probe follows Edward Snowden's allegat...
A hacker was able to gain access to a baby monitor on Saturday night, terrifying a Texas couple as they heard the virtual intruder speak offensively to their sleeping daughter. The parents use an Internet-connected baby monitor that is equipped with a camera to monitor the activity in their 2-year-o...
Lon Snowden, the father of famed leaker Edward Snowden, and the family's lawyer have obtained visas to travel to Russia, where Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum as the U.S. seeks to extradite him on federal charges. Speaking on ABC News' This Week, the senior Snowden and the lawyer di...
The NSA reportedly is reading communications between Americans and foreigners abroad, despite its denials. The NSA responded to the allegations by stating its activities are lawful attempts to gather intelligence about foreign powers and their agents, foreign organizations, foreign persons or intern...
Hot air, maybe. But it's Edward Snowden, so it's news. Pavel Durov, the 28-year-old Russian CEO of social network site VKontakte, has offered Snowden a job as a security software developer. VKontakte is akin to Facebook and has 100 million active users, mostly from Eastern Europe. Last week, Russia ...
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