Neowin News Feed for: Dispute

Paramount channels including CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon disappear from YouTube TV

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:24:01 +0000

Paramount and YouTube have failed to reach a contract renewal after the former accused the latter of one-sided terms. Read more...

SESAC removes a ton of songs from YouTube and YouTube Music due to a dispute

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:36:02 +0000

Thousands of songs from Adele, Nirvana, and others have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music due to a dispute with SESAC. Read more...

Woman settles 'Windows' brand dispute with mighty Microsoft over a reading tool

Sayan Sen — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:40:01 +0000

A businesswoman based in the U.K. has settled a brand dispute with Microsoft over the "Windows" branding. The said woman, Kate Mckenzie, had built a reading tool dubbed "Word Windows". Read more...

Stardock ends Star Control IP dispute with "amicable settlement"

Boyd Chan — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:42:02 +0000

In a legal battle that has stretched for more than a year, common ground has been found and an agreement brokered that will resolve all disputes regarding the Star Control franchise. Read more...

Chinese courts decide against Samsung in Huawei patent battle

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:34:01 +0000

A Chinese court this week ruled against Samsung in an ongoing patent dispute with Huawei. The company has also been instructed to stop sales of all products that use the technology in question. Read more...

Microsoft, Google, and other tech companies side with Apple in legal battle against Qualcomm

Usama Jawad — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:44:01 +0000

A lobbying group representing major tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, has aligned itself with Apple in the company's ongoing legal dispute with Qualcomm. Read more...

Apple contractors accuse Qualcomm of violating antitrust laws

Mina Esapa — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:14:01 +0000

In the latest suit in a legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm, four contractors for the Cupertino company have brought a suit against Qualcomm, accusing it of violating antitrust laws. Read more...

Amazon employees strike in Germany

Jerry Grey — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:34:01 +0000

Employees at Amazon's warehouses in Germany are on strike in a long-running dispute over better pay and conditions, but Amazon has promised Christmas orders will be delivered on time. Read more...

GoDaddy faces challenger in the form of ByeDaddy

Paul Ferson — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:50:44 +0000

GoDaddy faces down another challenge, in the form of ByeDaddy; a service which allows you to search for domains registered with the company. Read more...

Microsoft UK pays former female executive over £1 million

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:00:46 +0000

A new report claims that the UK division of Microsoft has paid a former female executive over £1 million after she was allegedly passed up for the managing director of Microsoft UK. Read more...

BBC still wants iPlayer on Xbox 360

Paul Ferson — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:08:01 +0000

The BBC has confirmed that it still wants to bring the iPlayer to the Xbox 360 in the future, though Microsoft's stance is causing issues that may prevent a future release. Read more...

Nokia licenses patents to Apple, ending two-year dispute

Denis Wong — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:52:59 +0000

While Nokia is going through some of its toughest days in its painful transition to Windows Phone handsets, there is a small light at the end of the tunnel. The long-standing patent dispute between Apple... Read more...

eBay tightens rules around unpaid item disputes

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:48:20 +0000

EBay has announced changes to the unpaid item dispute process; a move aimed at curbing the friction that can occur between buyers and sellers when something goes wrong at the auction site. The announcements specifically... Read more...

Microsoft, Symantec settle Windows dispute

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:25:36 +0000

After nearly two years of litigation, Microsoft Corp. and Symantec Corp. have settled a dispute over data-storage technologies in Microsoft products. The suit, filed by Symantec in May 2006, alleged that Microsoft wrongly used Symantec's... Read more...

Apple Unlikely To Go To Court In iPhone Trademark Dispute

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:56:00 +0000

Apple is more likely to reach a deal with Cisco Systems than to risk losing a trademark suit over the use of the name iPhone, experts say. In going to court, Apple would have to... Read more...

Top U.S. court intervenes in Microsoft patent dispute

Fred Derf — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:31:19 +0000

The Supreme Court will intervene in a patent dispute between Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Corp. over Windows programs distributed overseas that contain AT&T "speech codecs". An appeals court had already ruled that Microsoft had infringed... Read more...

Palm and Xerox Settle Graffiti Dispute

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:24:09 +0000

Palm and Xerox have been locked in a battle for nine years over the Graffiti software (known as Unistrokes from Xerox ) which allows users to input data by writing alphabet like characters onto their... Read more...

Google, Microsoft Settle Dispute Over China Exec

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:41:23 +0000

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday they agreed to settle pending litigation that had barred a former Microsoft executive from heading up the Web search firm's research efforts in China. Microsoft said the... Read more...

DVD Dispute Burns at PC Makers

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:38:59 +0000

After quietly heating up over recent months, the battle over next-generation DVD formats boiled over Thursday, as Dell and Hewlett-Packard assailed Intel and Microsoft, which have lined up in the opposite camp. ... Read more...

Sony Wins PSP Import Dispute

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:41:00 +0000

Over in the UK, Sony wins a lawsuit against an online retailer who was importing units of the new portable console. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today that it has won its legal dispute with... Read more...

Valve and VU end legal dispute, publishing agreement

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:21:18 +0000

Parties settle longstanding beef out of court--as of August, VUG will no longer distribute any Valve titles, and cyber cafe rights revert to the developer. In August of 2002, Valve took dispute... Read more...

Activision and Viacom settle Star Trek dispute

Todd Tanner — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:21:50 +0000

Publisher Activision and media giant Viacom have settled a legal dispute concerning their Star Trek videogame license agreement, the two companies announced late on Friday. As a result of the settlement, details of which have... Read more...

RealNetworks Returns Fire in iPod Dispute

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:51:25 +0000

With the battle fully joined, RealNetworks defended its Harmony digital music software against accusations from Apple that the technology was "hacked" from the iPod's DRM (digital rights management) application. "Harmony follows in a... Read more...

Apple settles Rendezvous trademark dispute

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:45:54 +0000

The networking software from Apple known as Rendezvous is now OpenTalk. This name changes comes after Apple has reached an agreement with Tibco Software. Last year Tibco Software accused Apple of infringing on... Read more...

In name dispute, it's Googles vs. Google

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:11:09 +0000

Now a days it seems like everyone wants a piece of Google. It's either another search engine, Fortune 500 Company, or in this case a company that sells children's goods called Googles. Googles has filed... Read more...

HP to pay $105 million to settle Canada dispute

Fri, 14 May 2004 21:43:27 +0000

Hewlett-Packard will reimburse the Canadian government $105 million (146 million Canadian dollars) to resolve a contractual dispute, but plans legal action to recover the money from the parties it says are responsible, the Palo Alto... Read more...

FCC mulls appeal in cable access dispute

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 21:23:05 +0000

California (AP) -- A federal appeals court is standing by its October ruling that cable TV operators should open their lines to rivals who also want to use them to sell high-speed Internet service. ... Read more...

Microsoft settles $60 million video patent dispute

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:49:28 +0000

Microsoft has settled a patent infringement case by cutting a licensing deal and paying the plaintiff $60 million. ImagExpo GmbH, a Munich-based subsidiary of the large US industrial manufacturer SPX Corporation, claimed that Microsoft's now... Read more...

Microsoft slammed in patents dispute

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:58:40 +0000

MICROSOFT LOST BADLY at a pre-trial hearing on patents litigation earlier this month, according to articles appearing in the Sacramento Bee and Fortune. At issue in what Fortune calls "the biggest patent case ever" is... Read more...

Apple in court dispute over Unix

Tom Warren — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:10:06 +0000

As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the Unix operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself. Apple Computer is... Read more...

Supreme Court refesr Intel-AMD dispute to Bush administration

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:04:47 +0000

I personally dont believe that Bush will grant AMD any concessions- Intel make massive campaign contributions... money goes along way - especially when the majority of Bush's cabinet are multi-millionares... :) "A report... Read more...

Homestore, AOL Settle Contract Dispute

Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:08:39 +0000

Online real estate company Homestore Inc. said on Thursday it had settled a contract dispute with America Online, the Internet division of AOL Time Warner Inc., and had signed a new 18-month marketing pact. ... Read more...

Amazon settles 1-Click patent dispute

Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:45:11 +0000

Amazon.com Inc yesterday confirmed it has settled a two-year-old patent infringement lawsuit with Barnesandnoble.com LLC, though it declined to disclose the terms. The deal draws a line under what is probably the second-most controversial patent... Read more...

Microsoft patent dispute heats up

Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:13:34 +0000

InterTrust, which makes software that protects songs and videos from being illegally copied, alleges (jn it's second patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft) that Microsoft infringed on its patent for technology that certifies and authenticates drivers.... Read more...