Google’s ad racket faces federal hammering
Judge calls monopoly move illegal
A federal judge has torn into Google’s ad tech stranglehold, ruling the company illegally built monopoly power that let it hike prices and pocket fat margins on web advertising.
Apple misses court date
Might miss $20 billion too
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has taken a legal punch to the wallet after a US appeals court told it to sit down and shut up during the juicy remedy phase of Google's ongoing antitrust saga.
HP dodges blame for sabotaging its printers
Pays lawyers instead of customers
A US District Court judge has approved a settlement between the makers of expensive printer ink, HP, and a group of furious customers who were understandably miffed that their printers were rendered inoperable by an unwanted firmware update.
Nintendo admits emulation is technically legal
Despite all the legal threats
While the former maker of playing cards, Nintendo was pressuring and shutting down emulation projects like Yuzu, Citra, and Ryujin it appears the gaming company knew that emulators were legal.
Siri has been spying on users
Selling their conversations for targeted advertising
Despite claiming that “unlike other companies” it was not spying on users and flogging their data to advertisers the fruity cargo cult, Apple has just paid out in a court case where it was doing just that.
Apple does not want to fund its own search engine
Just wanted to take money from Google without any effort
Fruity cargo cult Apple has told a US court that it is not interested in creating its own search engine and would rather just make a ton of cash by leeching off its best mate Google.
Court rules NSO Group the baddie in hacking case
Exploited a WhatsApp flaw
A US judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware.
Google Chrome could be sold for $20 Billion
Historic antitrust crackdown
Alphabet’s Chrome browser could fetch as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business.
App developers sue over removals
Google and Apple in court
App developers Musi and Sarafan Mobile have sued Apple and Google in California federal court over unjustified app removals based on legal issues with the big tech companies.
Apple 7, 8, 10, Xs and Xr infringe Qualcomm patent
Judge recommends ban on some iPhones
ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara has declared some verdicts. Apple is infringing one of three patents and she recommends a ban on iPhones manufactured in China being imported into the USA. This is a hardware patent 674 and it doesn’t look that there is a quick workaround.