Summary: Facebook has won a December 2008 lawsuit against Power Ventures. Facebook accused Power Ventures of using Power.com to spam and Facebook users and steal data from the social network. U.S. District Judge James Ware has declared Facebook the winne

Summary: The Facebook Fellowship Program is the social networking giant’s way of supporting the academic community. Here are the 2012-2013 winners and what they’re researching. Facebook has announced the 2012-2013 Facebook Fellowship winners. After consi

Amid the increasing availability of personal information on the Internet and what some call archaic laws governing how long data can be kept and if/when it should be removed, the European Commissioner is seeking to give people “the right to be forgotten.

The World Intellectual Property Organization is a relatively representative body. Which might be why the US has been avoiding it. Last week, we observed that major content companies have enjoyed a steady drumbeat of victories in Congress and the courts o

For decades, there was one really successful financial model for making big, profitable games: a publisher providing project funding to a developer in exchange for a large share of any eventual profits. It's a model that's seen its share of disruptions i

Lastly, having spent a little more time with Mountain Lion, I hope we'll get the newer version of Safari ASAP. At the top of the list of neat improvements: we'll be granted the ability to search directly from the URL bar. Yes, finally, just like Opera, F

Reading Cookies Safari allows third-party domains to read cookies. Modifying Cookies If an HTTP request to a third-party domain includes a cookie, Safari allows the response to write cookies. Form Submission If an HTTP request to a third-party domain is

Summary: You need a new phone. Amazon and Facebook both release smartphones. Every other one sucks by comparison. You only have enough money to buy one. Which one do you get? Just a few days after the Kindle Fire tablet launched, it was speculated that A

Summary: Retailers are opening Facebook storefronts only to be forced to shut them down soon after. Is this Facebook’s fault or are the companies not taking the right approach? Over the past year, GameStop , Gap , JCPenney , Nordstrom , and other retaile

Summary: After hacking into Facebook, Glenn Steven Mangham has been jailed for eight months. The attack cost the company $200,000, and resulted in an investigation by the FBI and British law enforcement. 26-year-old Glenn Steven Mangham, a student in the

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), on Friday, dismissed Android smartphone maker HTC's patent complaint leveled against Apple, stating the former had not infringed on HTC's patents in its implementation of the iOS software. The judgment was f

Why do I feel like everybody is lying to me all the time? I cannot get around the idea that every technology company with a major platform is doing everything it possibly can to get as much data from me as it possibly can through any means necessary. No

Summary: Orange is bringing Facebook via Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) to Africa. The service allows users to access the social network from phones without Internet or a data service. Mobile phone operator Orange today announced it is br

Popular site JotForm doesn't host music or movies or child pornography, all of which have led US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to seize other Internet domain names without advance warning (sometimes making serious mistakes). JotForm also does

Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites: Yesterday morning, an international band of book publishers shut down the websites "library.nu" and "file.it." The sites hosted over 400,000 copyrighted titles, with the operators earning millions in ad revenue.

Summary: Facebook’s real name policy just got an interesting change: you are now able to use pseudonyms on the world’s largest social network, assuming you’re famous enough to have one. As expected , Facebook today started allowing prominent public figur

Summary: Do you think Facebook news apps are annoying? Well, they’re not going away. Instead, even more are being added from major media organizations, including from ZDNet’s parent company. Facebook today announced that 12 new media organizations have b

Summary: Facebook is hosting three Mobile Hack events in Europe next month: London on March 5, Stockholm on March 8, and Tel Aviv on March 13. The first two are free and the last one is $10. Facebook has already held three Mobile Hack events in the U.S.

Summary: A German state is using photofits on Facebook to identify criminals. The program, which has already led to eight arrests, is being considered for a country-wide rollout. What if a photofit looks like you? In Hannover, Germany, local police have