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School accused of spying on students via laptop webcams in lawsuit
A high school student and his parents have filed a lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Philadelphia. The lawsuit accused the school district of spying on students and family... Read more...
Is Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom an attack on Linux?
You must have heard about Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom by now. While the wheels of the legal system might turn slowly, reactions across the Internet have been swift. Some see the lawsuit as an... Read more...
How a man sued Google--and won
In a Huffington Post article, a man details how his Adsense account was abruptly terminated by Google. After multiple failed attempts to obtain a satisfactory response, he went on to sue the search... Read more...
Facebook 'pokes' used for court notification
Facebook was designed to help people connect with friends and family through messages, wall posts, status updates and a slew of quirky applications. Until now, "poking" was just a funny way to say... Read more...
Microsoft goes after 'career' pirates in court
In
an effort to stamp out hard-core bootleggers - aka ‘career' pirates, Microsoft
has filed a total of 21 lawsuits in Federal courts spanning 14 states in the
United States. Perhaps lending... Read more...
Lawsuit tries to block HP-EDS merger
There are many questions regarding the announced sale of EDS to HP, including what it means for their respective tech staffs, the direction of the new merged company and the new shape of global IT... Read more...
Data theft puts IT on hot seat
The tech industry has been analyzing and evaluating the recent theft of 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from the Hannaford supermarket chain, a Maine-based grocer. And what they are finding... Read more...
HP settles privacy case
In 2006, HP disclosed that misconduct by private investigators and company employees occurred during an attempt to identify the source of a boardroom leak. Now company officials, hoping to put the... Read more...
IBM and PWC settle federal kickback suit for $5.3M
After three years of litigation, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) separately paid fines that added up to $5.3 million, in order to settle a broader set of DOJ lawsuits stemming from multiple... Read more...
Microsoft goes to court...again
Meanwhile, Microsoft has some legal problems of its own (again). The software giant is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that stickers which read "Windows Vista Capable" that were put on some... Read more...






