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0	Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong on the Mobile Phone Wars: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video) We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Samsung mobile head Won-Pyo Hong. Samsung is th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0	Judge Orders Divorcing Couple to Share Facebook Passwords [WTFriday] I hate you; you broke my heart; I never want to see you again. Oh, and can you check my Facebook while I'm at yoga to see if my sister got back to me? That's what a Connecticut couple's doing after a judg... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
1	N.J. Facebook ID Theft Case Could Impact Other States Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when the woman allegedly decides to create a fake Facebook profile to slander her ex-boyfriend. Dana Thornton, 41, of Bellville, N.J., was indicted on one count of fourth-degree identity theft in Morris C... 0 Published 100+ days ago in AllFacebook - The Unofficial Facebook Blog -...: Profile, Details
0	AOL's Biz Dev SVP and Strategy Chief Heads to Spotify Jared Grusd, AOL’s SVP of business development and chief of strategy, is leaving the New York Internet giant to work at Spotify, according to sources close to the situation. At AOL, according to his bio, Grusd “oversees the organization resp... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0	Samsung's Galaxy Tablets Infringe On Apple's Patents Says US Judge [Samsung] A US judge agreed with Apple's claim that Samsung's Galaxy tablets infringe on their iPad-related patents. This opinion was issued as part of an injunction request filed by Apple. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The StingRay Is The Virtually Unknown Device the Government Uses to Track You Through Your Phone [Privacy] There's a battle going on in the U.S. judicial system over how much freedom the government should have in tracking us. At the center of this debate lies a device called the StingRay. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	AWOL Tech Executive Resurfaces After 20+ Years On the Lam [Crime] After $100 million in back taxes to Ireland, Singapore and elsewhere, and 20 years after he vanished off the face of the Earth, tech baron William H. Millard has surfaced in a rather unsurprising locale: ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Wins Round Two Against Galaxy Tab in German Courts [Apple] Rule against the Galaxy Tab for patent infringement once, shame on you. Rule against the Galaxy Tab for patent infringement twice, well, that's when maybe Samsung's screwed for real. In Germany, at least.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	HTC Arms Itself With Patents From Google, Strikes Back At Apple [Android] HTC isn't backing down in its legal battle with Apple. The Taiwanese handset maker obtained nine new patents from Google last week and is using them in a new offensive against Apple. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Claims Android Started With Them [Patents] In the early 1990s, Android head honcho Andy Rubin worked as a low-level Apple engineer. And that, according Apple's latest ITC filing, is grounds enough for them to potentially block Android in the US. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	AT&T Is Suing the People Who Want to Stop the T-Mo Purchase [At&t] For months, Bursor & Fisher has represented the masses—such as they are—so opposed to the proposed AT&T-mo power coupling that they've resorted to legal means to stop it. Last week, AT&T final... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Patent Cold Wars, Visualized [Patents] It's one thing to say that everybody is suing everybody over mobile patents. It's another entirely when you actually see the battle lines all drawn out for you, as Thomson Reuters has so painstakingly don... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The US Patent System Is Killing Innovation [Patents] HTC sued Apple over mobile patents today. Again. Pretty soon Apple will likely sue them back. Again. Shrug. Throw it on the pile. And while the patent Cold War continues to heat up, weep for the real casu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Presents Misleading Evidence in German Case Against Samsung [Apple] Apple filed an infringement complaint against Samsung and won an injunction that halted European sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Unfortunately for Apple, the images of the Samsung Galaxy Tab it submitted to... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Is Also Suing Motorola Over the Xoom Tablet Design [Patents] The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn't the only tablet on Apple's lawsuit radar. Foss Patents unearthed a paragraph from the Samsung complaint which mentions that Apple also filed a complaint against Motorola,... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Facebook Terms of Service Deciphered For Dudes [Facebook] Facebook's constantly-evolving Terms of Service are too long and complex for most people to be bothered to read. So the dudes at Slacktory re-wrote the entire thing in bro-speak, yo. You can, like, unders... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren't the Same Thing [Crime] The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals recently ruled in favor of a company who claims their computer system was sabotaged by a labor union that told its members emails to their employer about a dispute. But the ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu After Google’s legal head David Drummond let forth with a blog post about how Microsoft and Apple had formed an evil patent cabal against the search giant, the software giant’s PR head Frank Shaw was not having any of it. In his post, Drummon... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0	Anonymous Mounts Legal Protest Against PayPal [Hackers] Anonymous has PayPal in its crosshairs but this time it's using a legal strategy to battle the online payment processor. Following PayPal's recent comments about the Antisec movement, the hackers are aski... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Acting Like Animals: Run Lemur Run! Dear Tom Tykwer, I’d like to let you know that I’m suing you for everything you have, on account of you shamelessly stealing the idea for your opus “Run Lola Run” from the story that is my life. After watching the film, I’m... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Daily Squee - Cute Animals: Profile, Details
0	Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament, Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec) — as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks — march on down to the British Parliament to answer questions fr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0	Those Smiling Monkey Pictures Are Likely Public Domain [Photography] We can all breathe a sigh of relief as those macaque monkey pictures may belong in the public domain. Neither the photographer nor the news agency that published the images can claim a copyright because t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	If a Monkey Steals Your Camera, Who Owns the Photos? [Legal] You can't forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	States Are Lining Up to Investigate the AT&T-Mobile Deal [Blip] While no local governments have actually moved to prevent AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile USA, a whole bunch have started firing off subpoenas at both Ma Bell and Sprint, the deal's most vocal opponent. The nine states are requesting data re... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Should I Be Worried About Dropbox's Changing Terms of Service? [Ask Lifehacker] Dear Lifehacker, More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	People Staring at Computers Project Raided By The Secret Service [Legal] Busted! Kyle McDonald, the man behind the People Staring at Computers project, was raided by the Secret Service on Thursday. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung "Streamlines" Lawsuit Against Apple, But Pledges to Fight On [Blip] The ongoing patent lawsuit shenanigans between Apple and Samsung got a tad bit simpler this week after Samsung withdrew its coutersuit against Apple over some patents or something. The whole thing is—oh hey look new iPhones in October... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Wants to Block all iPods, iPhones, and iPads from the US [Blip] Last we heard, Apple brought the you-copied-our-shit fight to Samsung's home turf. Now Samsung's firing back, asking the International Trade Commission to ban US imports of every iPod, iPhone and iPad. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Google's Getting Subpoenaed by the FTC in Antitrust Probe [Google] The FTC is getting ready to serve Google with a subpoena in an emerging antitrust case against the search giant. There had been rumblings about a probe for the past few months, and the committee is now moving ahead with the investigation. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Kind of A Dick Move [Copyright] Photographer and 72-room New York City mansion dweller Jay Maisel successfully chiseled thousands of dollars out of independent (and awesome) Web developer Andy Baio over an iffy copyright infringement cl... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Probably Can't Make Amazon Stop Saying "Appstore" [Blip] Apple's been trying to stop Amazon's use of "Appstore" since its inception. Unfortunately for them, the federal judge presiding over the case said that Apple's difficulty in presenting evidence of customer confusion will likely lead to her ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Now Owns the Patent On Your Smartphone's Touchscreen [Apple] According to PC Mag, Apple was just awarded a major patent that could affect the entire smartphone market. More than three years after filing for it, Apple now has the patent on capacitive touchscreen tec... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	PS3 Hacker Resigned to Prison Sentence after Money Dries Up [Fight The Power] American hacker George Hotz got all the headlines for his exploits trying to bring Linux back to the PS3, but he was only one of many working towards the same goal. And while Hotz today walks free, not ev... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Surprise, Surprise, Apple Doesn't Have to Show Samsung the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 [Blip] I'm sure the whole tech-world held their breath when Samsung asked Apple to show their unannounced iPad 3 and iPhone 5 devices in the ongoing court-case over each other's patent infringement. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Congress Is Trying to Plug Juicy Streaming Piracy Hole [Blip] Sharing copyrighted music and movies is illegal. Even simple dumb idiots know that! But streaming? That's a bit more muddled—not addressed in existing copyright law. Not for long! The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted yes on throw... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Committing Crimes at 2 AM? Sign Up for LawyerUp in Case You're Caught [Apps] Every American knows (or should know) they've got a right to an attorney. But when you're being arrested at 2 AM, legal counsel may prove hard to find. Not so with LawyerUp. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	NYT and OpinionLabs Slap Apple Patent Troll Lodsys with Lawsuits [Lodsys] When Lodsys started targeting iOS developers, it probably wasn't looking for the kinds of fights it's been running into. A few days after Apple came to the aid of its devs, word comes that the New York Times and OpinionLabs are counter-trol... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Lodsys Suit Gets Ridiculous As They Go After Adidas and Black & Decker [Blip] Remember Lodsys, that patent troll going after Apple and Google for in-app purchases? Well it looks like they're attacking a few more companies, including Sam's Club, Vitamin Shoppe, and Best Buy for violating their patents. Oh come on! [CN... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Comes to the Aid of Developers in Legal Fight Against Lodsys [Apple] When patent troll Lodsys went after iOS app developers for their use of in-app purchases, Apple quickly got involved, telling the company to step down. Now that Lodsys is refusing to back off, Apple is getting hands-on in this legal battle.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Judge to Copyright Crazy Lawyers: STFU and Stop Wasting My Time [Copyright] Remember that mediocre and wholly forgettable action film, The Expendables? Probably not, because of the two aforementioned adjectives. But 23,322 illegal downloaders were targeted by the film's legal tea... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal $300K From Customer [Law] A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer's online account isn't responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Tennessee Just Made Offensive Online Pictures Illegal [Wtf] Goatse. Tub Girl. Lemonparty. They're in the internet pantheon—and sharing them (or anything else that might shock or offend) will now land you in Tennessean jail, thanks to dubious new law of their... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Should Software Patents Exist? [Qotd] Patents are supposed to encourage invention and protect inventors from being ripped off. At least, this was the reasoning when patents applied to things like steam engines and drillbits. But software? Tha... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Lodsys Raises Middle Finger to Apple and Continues Anti-Dev Lawsuits [Apple] Patent troll Lodsys tried to shake down small devs, claiming they hadn't licensed in-app purchases. Mama bear Apple came to their defense, saying they'd licensed in-app buys for everyone, so eff off. Now, Lodsys sayeth: Nope! Still suing! ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Larry Ellison Is No Friend of the Majestic Redwood (Updated) [Lawsuits] Lest we forget that the mega-rich simply do not think like we common folk, take a look at this lawsuit from Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Updated. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Demands To See the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 In Court [Legal] The legal slugfest between partners-turned-competitors Apple and Samsung continues: Samsung has demanded that Apple release the iPhone 4S/5 and iPad 3 to their lawyers as part of a discovery process to de... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Lawyer Squad Knocks Money out of White iPhone Kid [Apple] Remember the daring youth Fei Lam, who sold $130,000 worth of his own grey market white iPhone 4s long before Apple? Yeah, they weren't pleased about that, and finally sued him. And, it looks like he's al... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Chinese Toymaker Forced to Apologize for Gundam Ripoffs [Culture Smash] China loves Gundam. But China doesn't always love copyright law. That can be a problem! More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	New Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Whopping Felony [Video] You know those semi-shady websites that seem to stream every movie and TV show imaginable? Or, you know, YouTube? If a new bill by Senators Amy Klobuchar and John Cornyn passes, spreading copyrighted works on them will be a felony. More&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
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