According to reports, the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission has found that Samsung and Oppo have been pre-installing apps on its smartphones without informing consumers, infringing on consumers’ right to …read more Source:: Legal
Month: July 2015
Chinese mainland misses out on Apple Music launch
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•The initial launch of Apple Music has skipped the Chinese mainland, but in future faces stiff competition from local music-streaming services Tencent and Baidu, which shoulder high-cost royalties in order …read more Source:: Legal
Microsoft, Kyocera settle patent suit over Android phones
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•Microsoft and Kyocera have settled a dispute over Android patents, and simultaneously entered into a patent cross-licensing arrangement about which no details are available. …read more Source:: Legal
Supreme Court decision threatens programmers’ API rights
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•The Supreme Court decision that let stand a lower court decision that Java’s application programming interface may be subject to copyright could be a developer disaster in the making. …read more Source:: Legal
Open source lives! The R project is the real deal
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•By Matt Asay Once open source became a big deal it was just a matter of time until it became big business. When we crossed that line, it was foreordained that defending the …read more Source:: OpenSource