People who use Facebook on their smartphones have more reason to be concerned about data privacy following a report that the social media giant struck deals allowing at least 60 device makers to access users’ personal information.
Read moreMore teens say they use social media like YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram “almost constantly,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey released Thursday.
Read moreApple went last in closing arguments Friday afternoon as they tried to convince an 8-person jury to award them more than a billion dollars in damages resulting from Samsung’s infringement of three design patents related to the original iPhone.
Read moreIt was Samsung’s turn to call witnesses at day three of the heavyweight patent fight between Apple and Samsung on Thursday. The case, which is in its third iteration at the U.S. District Court, is entirely about damages.
Read moreBoth sides refined their strategies on the second day of the Apple and Samsung patent trial on Wednesday.
Read moreIn the seemingly never-ending smartphone patent war between Apple and Samsung, both sides delivered opening arguments in a Silicon Valley federal courtroom, this time on how to fairly calculate damages Samsung owes Apple for infringing five of Apple’s patents.
Read moreAn iPhone owner dismissed without prejudice Monday his federal class action accusing Apple computers of intentionally slowing the operating system in older phone models.
Read moreIn a stunning reversal, the Federal Circuit on Tuesday revived Oracle’s $9 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over Google’s Android smartphone platform, sending the long-running case back for a trial on damages.
Read moreRuling on more than 30 motions Monday, a federal judge partially dismissed, mostly with leave to amend, class claims against Huawei’s and Google’s allegedly defective co-created Nexus 6P smartphone.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal Monday of a class action accusing Apple of wiretapping, by failing to deliver text messages to people who had switched to other brands of smartphones.
Read moreAnother battle in Apple and Samsung’s seemingly ceaseless smartphone patent wars played out in front of a federal judge on Thursday, this one pertaining to Samsung’s redesigns following a jury verdict for Apple in 2014.
Read moreApple knowingly releases system software updates that slow down the performance of older iPhones to induce customers into buying the latest model, iPhone users claim in a class action filed Thursday, without telling them that a simple battery replacement will resolve the issue.
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Homeland Security officers improperly searched laptops and smartphones without warrants from people entering the country, 10 U.S. citizens and one green card holder claim in a federal class action Wednesday.
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A federal judge dealt Qualcomm a major blow Friday by denying its request to block Apple from filing lawsuits internationally while the two tech giants battle stateside over cellphone chipset technology.
Read moreVerizon customers who accused an online ad company of using “zombie cookies” to collect personal data through their smartphones will have a second chance to sue the company as a class, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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At a nearly 3-hour hearing in San Diego federal court on Friday, attorneys for Apple and its contract manufacturers argued why Qualcomm should not be granted an injunction to effectively pause nearly a dozen lawsuits it faces in four countries filed within the last year.
Read moreReviving Uber’s bid to arbitrate price-fixing claims, the Second Circuit found Thursday that the company’s embedding of terms of service in a hyperlink did not render them unreasonably inconspicuous.
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Urging denial of class certification, an Apple attorney told a federal judge Thursday that the Silicon Valley giant did not trick customers into paying more for iPhones with false promises about data security.
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