Uber said it is considering legal action against a decision which would force its drivers to pay GST on their first dollar earned from August. …read more Source:: Legal
Month: May 2015
Appeals court reverses part of $930M verdict against Samsung in Apple case
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•More than a third of the massive judgement against Samsung will be reassessed as the trade dress dilution aspect vs Apple wasn’t violated says an appeals court. …read more Source:: Legal
David Foster’s utopia reflects digital music dichotomy
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•Music producer-songwriter says the likes of YouTube are “the biggest crusher” of the music industry, but admits he too uses the website for quick referencing. This conflicting picture says a …read more Source:: Legal
Microsoft reiterates no Windows 10 free upgrade for Non-Genuine users
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•Microsoft is attempting to clarify its policy, one more time, regarding whether Non-Genuine Windows users will get a free Windows 10 update. …read more Source:: Legal
Zero Day Weekly: Venom, Black Hat 2015, hyped reports, FTC cyber-extortion controversy
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•A collection of notable security news items for the week ending May 15, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, application and mobile security, malware, reports and more. …read more Source:: Legal
With the launch of its Edge browser, Microsoft ends an antitrust era
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•This week, Microsoft’s browser developers made a startling announcement. As Internet Explorer rides off into the sunset, the company declared that its new Windows 10 browser, Edge, is an app. …read more Source:: Legal
Do you need a container-specific Linux distribution?
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•By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols You’ve always been able to run containers on a variety of operating systems: Zones on Solaris; Jails on BSD; Docker on Linux and now Windows Server; …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google stomps on scammers — and helps open source
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•By Simon Phipps Scammers masquerading their malware as genuine open source downloads may finally face a new challenge finding Windows users to victimize. At the end of April, Google quietly changed its rules for …read more Source:: OpenSource
US House passes Bill to end domestic NSA bulk data collection
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•American residents could soon be exempt from the NSA’s dragnet, unless surveillance is approved by the secretive FISA court, with the USA Freedom Act passing the US House of Representatives …read more Source:: Legal
Right to be forgotten one year on: Google processes over one million links
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•Google has received around quarter of a million removal requests by Europeans since it was forced to accept them by a ruling last May. …read more Source:: Legal