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After winning a verdict of nearly $25 million in a federal trade secrets case earlier this year, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has filed a motion to withdraw from its representation of LBDS Holding Company, LLC. Noting that it is unusual to do so after a favorable jury verdict and while a motio
Authorities in the United States and Mexico appear to have conspired to take down a political website, and the incident is being swept under the rug, setting a dangerous precedent. 1dmx.org, a site featuring user-submitted content on police abuse at political demonstrations in Mexico, was blocked fr
Raymie Stata has been a champion of Hadoop since its early days, helping to bring the technology into Yahoo and then drive its usage across the company. Now, Stata is co-founder and CEO of Altiscale, a startup offering Hadoop as a service to companies fed up with managing their own big data infrastr
Springpad, the online and app-based platform for saving and sharing web content, managing notes and collaborating on projects with others, has announced that it’ll be shutting up shop come June 25th. Despite ongoing development of the service, it’s evidently struggled to compete with the
Samsung is said to be working on yet another smart watch model expected to be unveiled this summer — one that would completely replace a smartphone rather than simply being an accessory to one. In addition to taking calls, the new stand-alone watch from Samsung is expected to capture pictures, send
Redbox’s streak of big growth is over: the company says it plans to uninstall more than 500 of its DVD/Blu-ray rental kiosks this year. The move comes after Redbox saw its revenue increase by just 3 percent last year, and The Wall Street Journal says it’s not likely to see better results
F5 Networks has acquired Defense.net, an 18-month-old startup that helps customers prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks to servers with a cloud-based security product. The deal will help Seattle-based F5 compliment its software offering, which already includes an existing on-premise DDoS Pr
When you’re in a hurry to get that much needed sugar fix, you can’t be bothered to futz with things like actual currency or debit cards. Thankfully, Tim Horton’s now allows mobile payment options from iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices for nabbing a half-dozen quickly. A select f
The NSA has been recording nearly every phone call made in Afghanistan, according to WikiLeaks. The recordings are being made as part of the same program that was reported earlier this week to be capturing nearly every call in the Bahamas, as well as phone records from
Martha Stewart loves her iPad, and apparently she’s picked up a sweet new toy for it. Stewart says that she’s recently become taken with Parrot’s AR.Drone 2.0, a lightweight copter that’s controlled using smartphone and tablet apps. She wrote a short blurb about it in the May
T-Mobile yesterday launched the long-awaited Voice over LTE service, becoming the first of the big four wireless carriers to offer the service to its subscribers. CTO Neville Ray made the announcement in a blog post. What took some shine off the announcement is the fact that the technology debuted i
If you’re hoping to pre-order books by J.K. Rowling, Michael Connelly, and other Hachette Book Group authors, you’ll have to go somewhere besides Amazon. An ongoing standoff between Amazon and one of the leading New York publishers has escalated. The online retailer has removed pre-order
