Tech Shout!

A couple staying in Pennsylvania has sued Google over invading their privacy. The couple claims that Google has disturbed their privacy by showing pictures of their home on the ‘Street View’ website.
According to Aaron and Christine Boring’s lawyer, Google entered their private driveway for taking images for its site. The driveway lets one see […]

Apple has settled lawsuit against the company’s false advertising strategy for MacBook and MacBook Pro last week, reported AppleInsider. The two professional photographers had sued Apple in May 2007 claming that neither of the laptops deliver “millions of colors” as mentioned in Apple ads.
In May 2007, Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley, residents of San […]

Gibson Guitar has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against MTV Networks and Harmonix, and Electronic Arts claiming that they have infringed its patent.
Gibson Guitar was awarded patent for musical-simulation setup combining a musical instrument with a specialized computer interface in 1999.
The lawsuit is filed at Federal District Court in Tennessee. According […]

On Friday, Robert Alan Soloway, the man who is aptly known as the “spam king” pleaded guilty in Seattle US District Court. Federal investigators found that Soloway has sent out millions of unsolicited commercial emails with forged headers since 2003 using a botnet of zombied computers from his Newport Internet Marketing Corp.
For this, he […]

Apple is sued again!This time Atlanta-based ZapMedia Services has sued the iPod maker over its iTunes online music store and iPod music players. ZapMedia Services said that Apple is illegally using a patented method for distributing digital media over internet.
ZapMedia has raised a question over the way of sending music and other digital content […]

Renowned online auction site eBay has agreed to settle a patent dispute with MercExchange, where it will purchase from MercExchange three patents that include search, online auction, and fixed price sales.
eBay made known to investors that it would acquire MercExchange’s patents and in return MercExchange would discharge all claims and appeals pertaining a seven-year […]

Popular Chinese search engine Baidu, has been sued by the China Music Copyright Society. Baidu has been accused of linking to its members’ music without seeking permission.
According to the local music industry group, Baidu provided broadcast and download services without approval.
The lawsuit which was filed in Beijing dates back to January. The lawsuit […]

A Moroccan computer engineer has received a three years of sentence in jail for creating a Facebook profile in the name of a member belonging to the royal family.
The engineer named Fouad Mourtada, 26, had police officials on his doorstep on 5th February on suspicion of taking on the identity of King Mohammed […]

Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology (Xunlei, which translates to “Thunderbolt”), one of China’s most renowned P2P file-sharing network operators, has been dragged to court by the Motion Picture Association, on the charges of copyright violation and seeks damages and legal costs of yuan 7 million ($980,000).
“Spider-Man 3,” “War of the Worlds” and “Miami Vice” are […]

An American woman sued Best Buy for $54 million after losing a woman’s laptop. Raelyn Campbell took her laptop worth $1100 to Best Buy for servicing on a broken power switch in May 2007.
In August, after returning from her business trip, when she inquired about her laptop, she was told that her laptop is […]