Categorised as: Legal & News
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Sony fined stg£250,000 over ‘preventable’ PlayStation Network breach News
24.01.2013 Sony has been fined stg£250,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office for what it deemed the preventable hacking of the Sony PlayStation Network platform in 2011 that... -
Google cites an increase in governments demanding citizen data News
24.01.2013 Google’s latest transparency report has shown a steady increase in government and law agency requests around the world for their citizens’ data. -
Legal pressures contributed to death of internet activist Aaron Swartz News
14.01.2013 The legal and financial pressures of a potential public trial are understood to have contributed to internet activist Aaron Swartz’s death at the weekend. The internet freedom... -
Anonymous defaces MIT homepage after death of Aaron Swartz News
14.01.2013 Hacker group Anonymous defaced the homepage of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just hours after the prestigious technology school promised a full investigation into...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Communications -
Twitter defamation first may be the tip of the iceberg News
09.01.2013 Yesterday’s Twitter defamation victory for Declan Ganley over blogger Kevin Barrington may only be the start of a number of such cases as official and public resolve hardens...Categories: Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Businessman pleads guilty to stealing US$100m worth of software News
08.01.2013 A businessman in China has pleaded guilty to selling stolen software from US tech giants to 325 black market buyers in 61 countries worldwide.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media -
National Newspapers of Ireland outlines position on use of hyperlinks News
04.01.2013 National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) said today it made a submission to the Copyright Review Committee to the effect that it believes the display and transmission of links under... -
Microsoft accuses Google of blocking a quality YouTube app for Windows Phone News
03.01.2013 One of Microsoft’s senior legal guns has alleged that Google is preventing the software giant from creating a fully-featured YouTube app for Windows Phone devices. -
Newsmakers of the year: Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Michael D Higgins, John McAfee and Tupac News
31.12.2012 We recall the top newsmakers of 2012, including Presidents Barack Obama and Michael D Higgins, tech industry leaders Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer, the 3D resurrection of Tupac...Tags: McAfee, Eircom, 4G, ComReg, James Whelton, Facebook, Apple, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, YouTube, -
European Commission sounds ACTA’s death knell News
20.12.2012 The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is dead in the eyes of European legislators who have withdrawn a request for the treaty to be examined by the... -
Data Commissioner tells 80 Irish websites to explain approach to EU cookies law News
19.12.2012 Some 80 websites in Ireland – including major Government departments, like the Department of Health and the Department of Finance – have been written to by the Data Protection...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Web -
Instagram to ‘eliminate the confusion’ – will update language in terms of use News
19.12.2012 Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has responded to the outcry to its new terms of use, promising to eliminate the confusion. “We’ve heard loud and clear that many users are confused...Categories: Web, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Samsung abandons Apple injunctions in Europe News
18.12.2012 In the latest twist in the patent wars between the two companies, Samsung is to drop its patent injunction applications filed against Apple for standards-essential patent...Tags: Android, Smartphones, Brand Identity, Tablet Computers, Smartphone, iPhone, iPad, Apple, Patents, Samsung -
Hacker who put Scarlett Johansson images on internet gets 10 years in jail News
18.12.2012 A hacker who hacked the personal email account of Scarlett Johansson and other Hollywood celebrities and placed them on the internet has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. -
Did Facebook buy Instagram just to destroy it? News
18.12.2012 The Facebook-esque changes to the terms of use of photo-sharing app Instagram beg the question: is the photo-sharing app firm serious? It begs one more question, is Instagram... -
The year in comms - the arrival of 4G and superfast broadband is imminent News
24.12.2012 The year 2012 has been a pivotal year in the development of the telecoms industry in Ireland as the first of the various superfast broadband services began to debut in the... -
The year in cloud - how Ireland lay the building blocks for the cloud economy News
29.12.2012 The year 2012 was a year of advancement for cloud computing on so many levels. As well as companies like Google and Microsoft revealing new cloud-based services, it was a year...Tags: Denis O'Brien, Richard Bruton, UCC, Dropbox, Martin Murphy, DCU, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing, HP, Education, Google, Microsoft -
Record labels’ Pirate Bay case against ISPs fast-tracked to the Commercial Court News
18.12.2012 The High Court has fast-tracked the case being taken by big four record labels against Vodafone, UPC, Digiweb, Imagine and Hutchison 3G seeking the blockage of torrent site The...Tags: Imagine , Illegal Downloads, 3, UPC, Digiweb, Vodafone, ISPs, Copyright Infringement, The Pirate Bay -
The technology business week: €150k to develop SMEs’ web presence, lawsuit against Nokia dismissed News
17.12.2012 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Web Development, Phones, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal, Leadership & Management, Internet, Financial, eCommerce, Deals Done, Consumer Tech -
Lawsuit alleging Nokia misled shareholders dismissed News
13.12.2012 A US lawsuit by an investor who claimed smartphone maker Nokia had inflated the introduction of its Windows Phone has been dismissed, Nokia announced today.