John Ribeiro - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by John Ribeiro

Article | 3/04/2013 Apple: USPTO reexamination of patent in Samsung suit isn't complete

Apple responded to a Samsung Electronics' claim that the U.S. patent office had rejected multiple claims of Apple's "overscroll bounce" patent by stat...

Article | 3/04/2013 SEC clears social media for investor announcements after Netflix case

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared the use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to announce corporate information.

Article | 2/04/2013 Reliance's Ambani brothers team up on 4G services rollout

Reliance Industries and Reliance Communications are sharing infrastructure for the rollout of 4G services in India, apparently ending a dispute betwee...

Article | 2/04/2013 Facebook dispute over Timeline trademark to go to jury trial

A trademark infringement lawsuit against Facebook over its use of 'timeline' will go to trial before a jury, after a judge ruled that the company had ...

Article | 2/04/2013 Judge rules ReDigi music resale service infringes copyright

Selling a pre-owned digital music file is quite different from selling an old CD in the physical world, and may infringe copyright, a court in New Yor...

Article | 1/04/2013 Saudi Arabia warns Internet messaging applications to follow local regulations

Saudi Arabia has threatened action against Internet-based communications applications if they do not meet local rules, suggesting that the kingdom is ...

Article | 29/03/2013 Bitcoin exchange faces DDoS, even as the digital currency surges

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing.

Article | 28/03/2013 Wisconsin man charged with participating in Anonymous DDoS

A man in Wisconsin has been charged with participation in a distributed denial-of-service attack in February, 2011 against Koch Industries by hacker g...

Article | 27/03/2013 Judge recommends dismissal of Ceglia's ownership lawsuit against Facebook

A judge in New York has recommended that a lawsuit filed by Paul D. Ceglia, claiming half ownership of Facebook, should be dismissed.

Article | 26/03/2013 Ericsson in dispute over standards patents in India

Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consi...

Article | 25/03/2013 US ITC finds Microsoft's Xbox does not violate Google patent

An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a pa...

Article | 22/03/2013 Twitter archive available for a dozen more languages

Twitter is offering archives of tweets in 12 more languages as part of a global rollout of the facility.

Article | 21/03/2013 Schmidt: Chrome and Android will remain separate operating systems

Chrome and Android will remain as separate OSes, each addressing specific requirements, Google's executive chairman said Thursday.

Article | 21/03/2013 Former Tribune staffer denies giving hackers log-in credentials

Former Tribune Company employee Matthew Keys has denied giving a username and password to anyone, or conspiring to cause damage to a protected compute...

Article | 21/03/2013 Website of North Korea human rights group also hacked

The website of a U.S. group focused on human rights in North Korea was hacked at the same time as a cyberattack on South Korean targets on Wednesday.