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Blogger sued for $340,000 over Twitter account

Mobile phone blog PhoneDog has sued a former employee for taking its Twitter followers when he left. Blogger Noah Kravitz originally started tweeting as @Phonedog_Noah, and had accumulated 17,000

Yahoo awarded $610 million in lottery spam case

Yahoo has won a lawsuit against spammers who made use of its name in a non-existent lottery, and was awarded $610 million damages in a default judgment. A default judgment is entered when defendants

Absolute Software sued for capturing nude chats on stolen laptop

A U.S. District Judge last week ruled against Absolute Software , a company that provides services to track and recover stolen computers, in a case where the company captured sexually explicit images

Microsoft sues spammers who abused Hotmail filters

A lawsuit has been filed against spammers who hired people to open millions of Hotmail accounts in order to deliberately misidentify spam and game spam filters developed by Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT )

Microsoft sues Salesforce.com for patent infringement

Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has sued one of its rivals in the cloud-computing arena for allegedly infringing nine of its patents. Filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle, the suit against

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

Nokia sues Apple over iPhone

Nokia filed a lawsuit in U.S. court, claiming Apple has infringed on 10 Nokia-owned patents that cover technologies such as wireless data transfer and span WCDMA, GSM and WiFi technologies. Analysts

Lawsuits happen when the crackberry phenomenon goes awry

It was nearly three years ago when Webster's New World college Dictionary declared "crackberry" the new word of the year. The ability for corporate executives to read email received in real-time from

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

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