Yesterday’s Apple’s legal action against HTC patent infringement seems to have wider scope, reaching out to Google Android and possibly all android phones.

Apple claims that HTC has infringed 20 of its patents that it had .. Read Further »

Apple’s revenge had been bearing colors. Round 2 brought positive hope: all that had escaped from Apple’s control will return back.  And, finally it’s all over. As per the latest upcoming news, the US District Court for the Northern California has permanently forbidden Psystar from selling modified versions of OS X.

The story doesn’t stop there, Psystar .. Read Further »

Back in October, Nokia filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of a number of litigations costing $1Billion.

Today, Apple decided to respond back with strong statements. They have filed counterclaim the U.S. District Court of Delaware, Apple  denies infringement and stresses that Nokia attempted to copy the iPhone and infringed 13 Apple patents in the process.

The key takeaway on the counter fight was:

“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” Bruce Sewell, Apple’s SVP.

In 2007, Apple introduced .. Read Further »

Psystar had been making official Hackintosh, going seriously against the Apple’s policies. Apple finally got hold of the the company, and the lawsuit settled with loss of millions to the Psystar.

In the begining, Psystar played a trick and before Apple could file a case against them, they throwed the ball in Apple’s court by suing them with a Lawsuit which claimed: “Apple’s terms violate U.S. monopoly laws”.

Psystar believes Apple’s terms violate U.S. monopoly laws. “What if Microsoft said you could only install Windows on Dell .. Read Further »

World’s 2nd most popular p2p BitTorrent site, Mininova, today resigned from it’s leading position, saying bye bye to Piracy forever.

Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August. Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service.

The Lawsuits had been going worldwide to hunt Pirates down.  Mininova had been warned by the Court and seems like they accepted the defeat for the good of the industry.

PirateBay, the leader of all pirates, has been able to survive all attempts for shutdown. .. Read Further »

If you are a hackintosh [OSx86] fan, you probably heard of Psystar, the company that openly allowed what Apple strictly prohibits – “Installation of Mac OS X on PC“. Though, there are large no. of projects that lets user do that, but this company made it a Official Business and stood bravely against Apple.

They’re best known for frequently getting into legal hot water with Apple over everything from trademarks to copyrights to selling Apple’s OS X operating on non-Apple computers. Apple just took Psystar back to basics on that last issue, winning summary judgment in a California court on copyright violations and Digital Millennium Copyright Act .. Read Further »

The top chip designers had been in battlegrounds since decades. Finally, Intel and AMD on Thursday said they are willing to settle all the legal disputes including antitrust litigation, for $1.25 billion.

The moment of joy was expressed by AMD .. Read Further »

Open Source lovers will do anything to save Linux’s future. Though Microsoft claims themselves to be Open Source friendly, proof being their 20k lines of code drop for Linux Kernel a month ago, but still it was watched closely- Why Microsoft gave Open Source Linux Kernel Drop.

People are not convinced with what Microsoft does. A group of Linux players will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing threat of patent litigation from the software giant, this tuesday.