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Have the rest of Epic Games 15 days of free games leaked?

Moshe Jacobs — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:10:01 +0000

The Epic Games 15 days of free games 2021 event is already well underway and it would appear that the rest of the lineup of free games to expect over the next few days has leaked. Read more...

PewDiePie bemoans foul play after DMCA takedown

Usama Jawad — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:58:02 +0000

Firewatch's developer recently filed a DMCA complaint against PewDiePie in protest of the YouTuber using a racial slur in an unrelated video. PewDiePie has now cried foul play over the DMCA takedown. Read more...

If you claimed water-damage on your Sony smartphone, you could be eligible for a 50% refund

Dreyer Smit — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:54:01 +0000

After misleading marketing materials resulted in several water-damaged Xperia phones, Sony has been hit by a class-action lawsuit where those affected might get a refund on the device. Read more...

Opera and Vivaldi kick off 'Browser Wars' over Microsoft's falsified claim

Usama Jawad — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 09:44:02 +0000

Microsoft may have unintentionally kicked off 'Browser Wars' after it claimed that Edge was the only browser to offer a specific feature - even though Opera and Vivaldi have had it for years. Read more...

Oracle forced to throw out 129 of 132 patent infringement claims against Google

Denis Wong — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:03:16 +0000

You may recall the lawsuit Oracle filed against Google towards the end of last summer over what Oracle alleges are bits of intellectual property Google lifted from Sun Microsystems, of which Oracle acquired in 2009.... Read more...

Hackers claim iPhone 2.0 breakthrough

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:14:02 +0000

It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way... Read more...

Intel to launch X48 in mid March, sources claim

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:10:20 +0000

Intel has informed motherboard makers that it will definitely launch its X48 chipset in mid March, two months later than its original launch date, according to industry sources. The X48 chipset was originally slated for... Read more...

Opera Latest "Victim" in Microsoft Anti-Trust Claim

Steven Parker — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:38:58 +0000

Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, says it has filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the company of abusing the dominance of Windows to give Internet Explorer an unfair edge in the market. However... Read more...

Cops pull TV-links, claim facilitation of infringement

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:20:55 +0000

Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of the internet (linking to stuff) might be under... Read more...

Hackers claim to revive 'bricked' iPhones

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:30:31 +0000

Apple seems to be facing the same problem Microsoft faces with WGA, and console makers everywhere for that matter. In a tug of war for which the hackers just won the last round, Apple Incorporated... Read more...

Monster.com Identity Attack May Claim More Victims

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:00:20 +0000

According to digital security firm Symantec, as many as 1.6 million records belonging to several hundred thousand people from Monster.com Worldwide's job search service may have been stolen by the trojan horse Infostealer.Monstres in a... Read more...

Juror in the clear over MP3 claim

Steven Parker — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:06:45 +0000

The attorney general has decided not to take action against a Muslim juror who allegedly listened to music during a murder trial. Ruhela Khanom, in her 20s, was accused of hiding an MP3 player and... Read more...

Facebook site faces fraud claim

Tom Warren — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:58:33 +0000

Social networking website Facebook could be closed if legal action in the US by a rival site's founders succeeds. Three founders of ConnectU say Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the site... Read more...

We hacked into Apple's iPhone, claim security researchers

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:41:49 +0000

It arrived in a blaze of publicity and had frenzied gadget fans queuing for days before its launch last month. But just weeks after Apple's iPhone was unleashed on American shoppers, researchers say they have... Read more...

NASA backs quantum computing claim

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:55:56 +0000

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum computing in February. NASA engineers used their experience with submicrometer dimensions and ultra-low... Read more...

Sony Claim 'Europeans Don't Mind Waiting'

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:49:53 +0000

Some one needs to get Sony a PR firm. Not that their statements are always wrong (though some are), but just because you can say something, doesn't mean you should. Case in point: Sony executive... Read more...

Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:50:39 +0000

Thanks franzon who posted this article in Back Page News. The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer a computer... Read more...

Privacy tool bar is adware claim

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:33:26 +0000

A BROWSER which claims to allow increased web privacy, has been blasted as adware which cannot do what it says on the tin. Browzar promises punters that it will leave no trail as users have... Read more...

AOL Stands Against Badware Claim

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:21:54 +0000

StopBadware.org on Monday put AOL's version 9.0 on its "Badware Watch List." The anti-spyware group cites, among other factors, the inclusion of bundled software applications and nondisclosure of additional installed components as reasons for... Read more...

The Pirate Bay Threatens Compensation Claim

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:46:42 +0000

Sweden's self confessed daddy of BitTorrent has revealed that if the findings of an ongoing legal fiasco deem The Pirate Bay legal, the site's owners can claim compensation from the Swedish state. The popular tracker... Read more...

Researchers Claim First Transparent OLED Pixels

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:59:49 +0000

Researchers located at the Technical University of Braunschweig, claim to have developed the first transparent OLED pixels. Their approach was to use transparent TFTs (thin-film transistors) made of a 100-nanometer-thick layer of zinc-tin-oxide, which... Read more...

New Spyware Claim Against Sony BMG

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:26:31 +0000

The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding "spyware" on its... Read more...

Patent Office Rejects NTP Claim in RIM Case

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:16:40 +0000

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (UPTO) hasrejected an NTP patent that is part of the ongoing legal spat betweenthe company and Research in Motion. NTP contends that RIM's popularBlackBerry wireless device infringes five of... Read more...

Federal Court Stops 'Legal' P2P Claim

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:34:13 +0000

A Los Angeles based website which claimed to offer legal trading of copyrighted material has been temporarily banned from making such claims by a federal court, the US government said yesterday. Cashier Myricks Jr.,... Read more...

MSN Stakes Local-Search Claim on Virtual Earth

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:05:31 +0000

Microsoft plans to announce its initial push into local search on Monday as it takes a step closer to launching a competitor to Google's online aerial maps. The company's Internet division is expected to release... Read more...

AMD executive casts doubt on Intel's dual-core claim

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:41:43 +0000

Intel's dual-core platform consists of two separate cores in individual dies packaged together using multi-chip packaging in a single chip, which is not a true dual-core solution, according to Henri Richard, senior vice president for... Read more...

Taldren to close, claim forum reports

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:53:30 +0000

Starfleet Command developer halts US operations, opens Korean MMORPG office Earlier this year, publisher Majesco put Black9 on hold and then reports of Taldren closing followed. Internet posts suggesting the US Company... Read more...

VeriSign Antitrust Claim Against ICANN Dismissed

Fri, 21 May 2004 12:24:06 +0000

VeriSign spokesperson Brian O'Shaughnessy told TechNewsWorld that the dismissal of the antitrust claim involved only one of seven claims from VeriSign in the case. "It is the antitrust claim, which has a high level of... Read more...

SCO adds copyright claim to IBM suit

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:25:57 +0000

SCO Group has significantly widened its Unix and Linux lawsuit against IBM, adding a copyright infringement claim to the already complicated case, sources said Thursday. The Lindon, Utah-based company amended its claims... Read more...

Patent owner stakes claim in Net ad suit

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:21:22 +0000

Just as the online advertising market seems back on track, a patent enforcer with broad rights to Web ad methods wants a cut of the profits. InternetAd Systems, a recently formed company... Read more...

Reports claim Australian court rules mod chips legal

Marcel Klum — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:47:49 +0000

An Australian high court has rejected an appeal by Sony Computer Entertainment in a case which ruled that mod chips were legal, according to reports which have appeared online - apparently contradicting a ruling to... Read more...

Florida: Microsoft class action lawsuit claim forms sent

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:24:03 +0000

Yesterday when I checked my mail, i got claim forms in the ' Florida vs. Microsoft ' Class Action case. Here's some of it: OFFICIAL COURT NOTICE OF FLORIDA MICROSOFT CLASS... Read more...

AMD and Nvidia claim 400MHz bus will beat Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:59:28 +0000

THE COMBINATION OF an AMD Barton and the Nvidia Nforce 2 will beat Intel 3GHz+ Pentium 4 processors "with or without hyperthreading", according to internal documents seen by the INQUIRER. And both AMD and Nvidia... Read more...

California man eases on eBay libel claim

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:32:29 +0000

A Los Angeles man said Monday that he would drop part of a libel lawsuit against eBay after the online auctioneer removed offending statements from the feedback section of its Web site. ... Read more...

RIAA calls hacking claim a hoax

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 03:53:26 +0000

Now it's a hoax... :right: Claims that the music industry hired a group of hackers to create a worm to infect peer-to-peer networks are being dismissed by security experts. ... Read more...

Microsoft claim shakes graphics world

Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:13:42 +0000

Thanks AaronXP, and Timan for the heads up on this one. OpenGL, a widely used cross-platform graphics standard, may be subject to more restrictive licensing following recent claims by Microsoft that it owns patents to... Read more...

LindowsOS backs off its claim to run most Microsoft apps?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:59:23 +0000

Thanks prasanth from out BPN Forum Walmart.com and Lindows were claiming that LindowsOS "delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs."... Read more...

MS disappears claim that Windows is legal requirement

Sat, 04 May 2002 11:45:37 +0000

Microsoft has backed away from its bizarre claim that it is a legal requirement that preinstalled operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine - but only slightly. The Register drew... Read more...

HP, Compaq Claim Merger Victory

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:01:52 +0000

Both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have claimed victory in votes which took place this week that were to decide the outcome of a proposed marriage of the companies. Compaq CEO Michael Capellas said Wednesday shareholders overwhelmingly... Read more...

Researchers Claim to Crack Wi-Fi Security

Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:39:33 +0000

Thank you Darren Proponents deny wireless networking spec is vulnerable to hijack, authentication attacks. A University of Maryland professor and his graduate student have apparently uncovered serious weaknesses in the... Read more...