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There may well be sobs for those who will likely end up missing out on being able to buy a nicely realistic figurine of Steve Jobs, given that Apple shut down sales of a similar doll last year and with no reason why Apple would suddenly be lenient over the use of Steve Jobs' image.

A new year and a new Steve Jobs action figure has appeared'¦ and has semi-disappeared, via the site appearing not to load, but has just loaded after a very, very long load time.

Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has been granted the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the UK against his impending extradition to Sweden. Of the two grounds cited in the request for leave to appeal, one was accepted for further consideration, the other rejected.

Yesterday, Facebook and the US Federal Trade Commission agreed to settle charges that Facebook deceived consumers by failing to keep the promises they made regarding privacy.

Anti-piracy organisation the Business Software Association has announced it paid a company employee $5,000 to dob in his then employer - a Melbourne manufacturing business - for software piracy. Only it didn't - it actually paid $20,000.

Neeeeiiiiiin! Ze Germans haf banned ze Galaxy in ze country of Germany und ze rest of ze European Union except for ze Nezzerlands, und Samsung ist very annoyed while Apple ist happien. Achtung!

Facebook's attempts to stop companies from using the words Face or Book in their trading and domain names has found a new target: the cheekily named Shagbook, accused of sneakily trading off Facebook's fame.

Record holiday downloads at Telstra's BigPond Movies: despite piracy, people really are willing to pay to legally and conveniently download video content, with record numbers great evidence of that!

Servient, a leader in e-discovery technology who's Predictive Review process combines advanced machine learning with attorney review, has announced that William O. Schieffelin and Michael R. Manzo have joined the company as senior electronic discovery consultants.

Is making 12,000 calls to people on the Do Not Call Register blatant enough to attract a significant fine?  ACMA thinks so.

The current dispute between Mark Zuckerburg and the Winklevoss twins hinges on one small but crucial question.  What was the correct valuation of Facebook shares at the time the original settlement was struck?

The PS3 has been a bastion of upholding the closed platform flag since its 2006 launch.  Sony has repeatedly tried to foil hacking techniques primarily through firmware releases.  Occasionally  the lawyers are called in, and it looks like Sony is heading down that path again, with a restraining order placed on the creators of the latest attempt to bypass PS3 security.

With Adam Brimo's Vodafail website and Piper Alderman's class-action lawsuit having had major media publicity, it's time for an update from the Vodafailures themselves, along with new complaints about Three Mobile.

When companies fail to live up to their promises, are hard to contact and hard to get compensation from, it should come as no surprise that its customers will rise up and revolt in as public a manner as possible, with Vodafone's Vodafailure in stopping the Vodafail site and class action a portentous corporate omen.

Following allegations of rape a couple of months ago, Swedish prosecutors yesterday announced they wish to have Wikileaks founder Julian Assange returned to Sweden for questioning.

In an email to all US-based registered users of Google Buzz, Google has announced details of the settlement reached with a group of Buzz users concerned about privacy flaws in the product.

Australian organisations need to crank up their vigilance when it comes to protecting their trademarks online, and particularly on social networks, according to intellectual property lawyer, Jonathan Feder.

One of the first jobs that will likely face Martin McEniery when he returns from annual leave tomorrow is to pore over the service level agreements between Virgin Blue and Accenture's Navitaire division, following the devastating computer system failure the airline endured at the weekend, which left thousands of passengers delayed or stranded.

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Previously, the Lower Merion School District has insisted that they only ever spied on lost or stolen school-owned laptops.  The latest court filings show this is patently false.  School for spies, or spies for school, you decide.