San Francisco: A US judge on Tuesday set a December 6 court date to hear Apple Inc's request for a permanent injunction against Samsung Electronics' smartphones, which could delay the potential impact of Apple's crushing legal victory. Apple on Monday identified eight devices it will seek preliminary injunctions against, and said it would file for a permanent sales ban. A hearing about the preliminary injunctions had been scheduled for September...
11:26 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Helsinki: Shares in mobile phone firm Nokia leapt 10 per cent on Monday on hopes it can benefit from a setback to rival Samsung, which has lost a high-profile court case to Apple that could lead to an injunction against some of its products. A US jury found South Korea's Samsung Electronics copied critical features of Apple's hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the US company $1.05 billion in...
04:55 PM, Aug 27, 2012
San Francisco: In August 2010, just a few months after Samsung Electronics launched its Galaxy smartphone, a team of Apple Inc lawyers flew to South Korea. Apple's late co-founder, Steve Jobs, had already told Samsung executives at a meeting earlier that summer that he considered the Galaxy S, based on Google's Android operating system, an illegal copy of the iPhone. But given the extensive business ties between the two companies...
10:55 AM, Aug 27, 2012
San Jose: Apple Inc scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a US jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the US company $1.051 billion in damages. Here is all that you need to know: The issue: Apple Inc. claimed Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphones and computer tablets "slavishly copied" the iPhones and iPads. Samsung countered with...
10:04 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung is all set for bounce-back. The Korean company has now geared up to contest the US court verdict that found Samsung had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple, the Cupertino-gaint, $1.051 billion in damages. "We will move immediately to file post-verdict motions to overturn this decision in this court, and if we are not successful, we will appeal this decision...
12:12 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Madrid: The 2012-13 La Liga season will begin on schedule this weekend following an emergency meeting between disgruntled clubs and the professional soccer league (LFP) to discuss a TV rights dispute. Officials from a group of 13 clubs said on Tuesday the issues had not been resolved at the LFP assembly in Madrid. But progress was made and the presence of secretary of state for sport Miguel Cardenal had helped...
10:23 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mysore: The upcoming plea by the Tamil Nadu government in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking release of 25.373 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet) of water from Karnataka, the shortfall based on the distress water sharing formula, has come as a shock to the drought-hit farmers. The riparian states demand for water from Cauvery would not go well as the reservoirs are yet to be filled up in Cauvery basin...
11:00 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the application filed by the State of Tamil Nadu on the Cauvery row seeking convening of a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority on August 17. A Bench comprising Justice D K Jain and Justice Madan B Lokur heard the submissions of senior counsel C S Vaidyanathan, Additional Advocate General Guru Krishnakumar and Umapathy Ganeshan averring that the application was filed for directing...
12:43 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Mumbai: Nothing is more real than real estate, as the ground underneath our feet continues to shrink with every new construction. This fact was borne out on Sunday when a dispute over a piece of land between IPS officer Marie-Lou Fernandes and Pimpleshwar temple trust, Dombivli took an ugly turn. The trustees allegedly locked Fernandes inside the plot. Top cops from Thane visited the spot, but failed to release her....
05:26 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: New Delhi: China has indicated that an early resolution of the border dispute with India is not feasible. Sources say that such an opinion is being conveyed to diplomats and journalists by China. The view in India doesn't appear to be very different. CNN-IBN has learnt that official circles see the dispute between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, who have fought a bitter war in 1962, as complex. Negotiations...
09:45 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Glasgow: London Olympic organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match on Wednesday, prompting the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour. The flag flap began during player introductions when a North Korean player was introduced along with a shot of the South Korean flag. The match against Colombia was delayed for more...
01:55 AM, Jul 26, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday charged the UPA government with suffering from "policy paralysis" and said it was "so much struggling with internal squabblings" that it could not even look into "livelihood issues" such as the Cauvery river water problem. The AIADMK chief said her repeated pleas to the Centre and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that the 2007 final verdict of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal...
11:23 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Mahela Jayawardene said that the players are now in a better frame of find to face the games ahead. ...
10:47 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Phnom Penh: Pakistan on Thursday said it is willing to go by the agreement that it had in the past with India to resolve some of the disputes like Sir Creek and Siachen. "If you look at may be some of the disputes that we have. We have Sir Creek, we have Siachen... Pakistan has already made it clear that we are willing to go by the agreement that we...
10:52 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Beijing: On the heels of a recent settlement of trade dispute with a Chinese firm, Apple Inc faced another lawsuit in China as a Shanghai-based company claimed that the US giant's voice technology Siri has infringed on a patent involving its own personal assistant software. Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co Ltd, the developer of the voice technology called Xiao i Robot, has sued Apple in China, asserting that Siri has...
12:16 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Shanghai: Apple Inc has paid $60 million to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to end a dispute over the iPad trademark in China that saw the world's most valuable technology company engaged in a protracted legal tussle with a near-bankrupt Chinese firm. The announcement of the court-mediated settlement was made on the web site of the Higher People's Court of Guangdong province. Apple and Proview Technology (Shenzhen), a unit of Hong Kong-listed...
10:27 AM, Jul 02, 2012
While Ed Cowan missed out, out-of-favor paceman Mitchell Johnson was awarded a contract. ...
11:08 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Four people were killed and 20 others injured on Tuesday in a clash between two groups in a dispute over a piece of land in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district, police said. The clash took place at Lakshmipuram village in Vangara mandal of Srikakulam district in north coastal Andhra Pradesh, about 700 km from here. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has ordered a probe into the incident. The rival...
04:12 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Loop Telecom moved the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on Tuesday for compensation for its cancelled 2G licence. ...
07:22 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Ruling out any negotiations with Vodafone in the Rs 11,000-crore tax dispute case, the Finance Ministry on Monday said it would reply to the notice given by the British telecom major after passage of the Finance Bill by Parliament. "How can the government negotiate with Vodafone?" a top finance ministry official said when asked whether government is contemplating to waive penalty and interest in respect of the tax...
08:20 PM, May 07, 2012
