Technology/Telecoms - Page 59

Legal departments expect technology to play a much greater role in e-disclosure while many also forecast the costs involved to increase, a recent survey has revealed. | 13yrs

Californian technology giant Google yesterday won a six year legal battle with an Australian watchdog in a significant development for internet advertising. | 13yrs

British users of Apple's Safari internet browser have launched a legal action against rival company Google following claims that the search engine giant tracked the Internet movements of millions of iPhone users. | 13yrs

Two men who carried out a series of cyber attacks as part of the Anonymous hacker group have been jailed in the UK. | 13yrs

The suicide of computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Schwartz last Friday has sparked a debate over the pursuit and punishment of so-called cyber criminals, with two top US prosecutors taking heavy criticism. | 13yrs

Google will be forced to modify the way it displays results in European searches or face competition charges, a Brussels enforcer threatened yesterday. | 13yrs

Californian technology giant Google has been forced to change the way it presents results, but cleared of allegations over bias in its search function, following a two-year investigation by a US watchdog. | 13yrs

One of China's biggest and most visited illegal content search engines has been shut down, just weeks after being added to a US blacklist of major copyright offenders. | 13yrs

A controversial move by on-line photo-sharing web site Instagram to allow advertisers access to user pictures is to be challenged in a California court, claimant lawyers have announced. | 13yrs

Korean technology manufacturer Samsung yesterday said it would drop its request for a European sales ban on certain Apple products, just one day after the Californian giant had a similar request for a US ban against Samsung rejected in court. | 13yrs

Battered in-house lawyers at technology company Hewlett-Packard have been searching for the exit after a series of scandals -- the most recent being a massive $8.8 billion write down of Autonomy last month -- former employees claim. | 13yrs

Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has launched legal action against Samsung, claiming that some of the South Korean manufacturer's essential components infringe patents. | 13yrs

Law firm failures to combat potential risks in sending confidential information in unsecured e-mails has been described as 'madness' by leading digital communications experts. | 13yrs

Californian technology group Hewlett-Packard has said it will take an $8.8 billion write-down following its acquisition of British e-discovery specialists Autonomy, amid allegations that the software maker's executives committed accounting fraud. | 13yrs

US pizza chain Papa John's is facing a $250 million class-action law suit after being accused of bombarding customers with illegal text messages. | 13yrs

Law firm technology chiefs are ditching their lawyer's BlackBerry devices and supporting the use of personal Apple and Android handsets for firm business. | 13yrs

Californian technology Goliath, Apple, has been slapped on the wrist by the UK Appeal Court after a statement on its web site conceding a design infringement verdict to long-time rival Samsung was deemed 'non-compliant'. | 13yrs

Californian technology giant Google has been accused of undermining independent legal advice after suspending a web site that failed to comply with its latest AdWords policy. | 13yrs

Leading Spanish law firm Uría Menéndez has joined with New York's White & Case and Dutch outfit De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek to advise the $1,200 financing of Spanish telecoms company Telefónica. | 13yrs