Microsoft se quita los guantes contra Google | Resultados relevantes – CNET News

Microsoft left little doubt Friday that it was one of the companies leading the charge against Google worldwide.

In a blog post entitledCompetition Authorities and Search,” Microsoft Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner said part of the motivation for Microsoft and Yahoo&después de;s search deal waswe are concerned about Google business practices that tend to lock in publishers and advertisers and make it harder for Microsoft to gain search volume.The post comes at the end of a week in which European authorities asked Google to explain its search algorithms after complaints from competitorsone of which is owned by Microsoft.

Microsoft would obviously be among the first to say that leading firms should not be punished for their success,” Heiner wrote in one of Microsoft&después de;s strongest public statements regarding Google to date. “Our concerns relate only to Google practices that tend to lock in business partners and content (like Google Books) and exclude competitors, thereby undermining competition more broadly.

A Google representative declined to comment on Microsoft&después de;s post.

For all the obsession about Google&después de;s supposedly deteriorating relationship with Apple, make no mistake: the two most diametrically opposed companies in the tech industry are Microsoft and Google. The two titans are increasingly locked in a struggle to define the next generation of computing.

Microsoft, por supuesto, has two franchises to defend against Google's moves into operating system and office productivity softdespués de, as well as the broader philosophy that the Webrather than the desktopis the platform of the future. And for all Google's financial might, it remains mostly a one-trick pony with the vast majority of its resources financed by its search dominance: exactly where Microsoft is aiming with Bing and the Yahoo partnership.

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Denunciante del sitio Volver Después de que Microsoft retira su demanda | Nivel de amenaza | Wired.com

Cryptome, the secret-document-spilling site, is back online Thursday, after Microsoft withdrew a copyright complaint that shuttered the site the day before.

Microsoft’s efforts to suppress a document about how to subpoena online user data backfired, leading instead to widespread attention to (and republication of) the document it tried to suppress.

Microsoft did not apologize in its Thursday statement, and defended its use of copyright law to keep its law enforcement manual private.

Like all service providers, Microsoft must respond to lawful requests from law enforcement agencies to provide information related to criminal investigations. We take our responsibility to protect our customers privacy very seriously, so have specific guidelines that we use when responding to law enforcement requests. En este caso, we did not ask that this site be taken down, only that Microsoft copyrighted content be removed. We are requesting to have the site restored and are no longer seeking the document’s removal.

Cryptome’s proprietor John Young published the 22-page document earlier this week. leading Microsoft to take legal action Tuesday. El documento, which contains no trade secrets, advises law enforcement how to file subpoenas (.pdf), outlines what data Microsoft keeps on users of its online services such as Xbox Live and Hotmail, and explains how to parse the resulting user data.

Cryptome’s hosting provider, Network Solutions, chose to shutter the entire site and lock down the domain name, even before the Thursday deadline for Young to remove the document. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a U.S.-based host is immune to liability if it makes sure the allegedly offending content is taken down during the time that a counter-claim is being considered in court.

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Gobierno suizo pide a UBS a pagar los costos legales en disputa de impuestos con EE.UU..

Los EE.UU.. puede haber triunfó Suiza en el hockey olímpico de los hombres el miércoles, pero su batalla tributaria con Suiza sigue.

Agencias suizas de noticias informó el miércoles que el gobierno pediría sede en Zurich, el gigante bancario UBS para reembolsar los gastos legales externos derivados de larga disputa legal del banco con EE.UU.. autoridades sobre las acusaciones de evasión fiscal por parte de EE.UU.. ciudadanos con cuentas de UBS.

Un acuerdo para resolver este litigio por la liberación de los nombres de 4,450 EE.UU.. ciudadanos con cuentas de UBS fue alcanzado tentativamente en agosto pasado. UBS se basó en los abogados de Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Cravath, Swaine & Moore y Stearns de Florida Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson en esas negociaciones, mientras que el gobierno suizo mantiene Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman de comercio internacional la práctica silla de Stephan Becker y Palm Beach, Florida basado en el abogado John Dotterrer en la materia. (UBS también hizo una $780 millones de multa y accedió a entregar casi 300 nombres de los clientes como parte de un acuerdo de enjuiciamiento diferido la golpeó con EE.UU.. los fiscales en febrero 2009.)

Según informes de la prensa suiza, la disputa entre U.S. los reguladores y los de UBS hasta ahora ha costado el gobierno suizo $2.3 million. UBS se ha comprometido a reembolsar al gobierno, which hired Becker and Dotterrer to file briefs in federal court in Florida defending the bank, más que $931,000 de que $2.3 million. El suizo podría llegar a incurrir en otra $34.4 millones de dólares en costos como resultado de ayudar a U.S. las autoridades rastrear a los evasores de impuestos estadounidenses. (Lo&después de;s claro en este momento qué parte de esos gastos corresponden a honorarios legales pagados a los abogados externos; Becker y Dotterrer no respondió a solicitudes de comentarios.)

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Global Integrity Gotas de China de la lista la Corrupción-Watch – WSJ.com

China was one of three countries dropped from a corruption-watch list created by non-profit anti-corruption group Global Integrity, which released its annual report earlier this week.

The other countries removed from the watch list were Georgia and Serbia. The Washington, D.C.-based group warned that being dropped from the list doesn’t mean corruption stopped in the countries, but rather that they made progress by establishing minimum anti-corruption safeguards.

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Law.com – Verizon caso de la patente marca un primer para Intellectual Ventures

Large patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures says it’s taking a new customer-friendly approach.

The Bellevue, Washington, company that owns around 30,000 patents for the first time assigned one of its members a patent to use as ammunition in a lawsuit. Verizon Communications, which agreed to pay IV as much as $350 million in a 2008 acuerdo, is using one of IV&después de;s patents to strike back at TiVo in a patent fight.

Don Merino, vice president of licensing at IV, said it’s an example of IV takinga much more customer-centric approach.

We want to figure out how to get out of the, ‘I win, you loseto a much more collaborative,’We both win,"” said Merino.

This is new talk from IV, whose secrecy and vague business plans caused big tech companies to worry in the past about what exactly IV was going to do with all of its intellectual property.

The shift comes as IV has faced competition from San Francisco’s RPX Corp., a patent aggregator that is more upfront about its business model and that has played a more active role in getting rid of patent troll lawsuits against its members. RPX has signed up some of IV’s members, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

In the past year, IV has started to give signals about what it would do with its stockpile of patents. It has struck deals with patent trolls that are now using the IP in lawsuits. Assigning a patent to Verizon is another use of its IP. IV wouldn’t say whether it sold or simply loaned the patent to Verizon for its TiVo fight.

The original lawsuit was filed by TiVo against Verizon in August. IV then looked through its portfolio and found a patent that Verizon could use to hit back at TiVo, Merino said. Verizon asserted the patent on anApparatus and Method of Selecting Video Programs Based on ViewersPreferencesin a counterclaim (PDF) against TiVo on Wednesday in the Eastern District of Texas.

La $350 million Verizon deal was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Merino confirmed on Thursday that Verizon is a member of IV.

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Paso 3 para fines legales: Definir el alcance | Law.com

This is the third installment in a series of articles aimed at helping organizations implement an effective written litigation hold. This article covers step 3: define the scope of the legal hold.

The universe of documents and records to preserve by a litigation hold is commonly referred to as the “alcance” of a litigation hold. The scope of a litigation hold should include documents and records, incluyendo ESI, that are relevant to the facts and circumstances giving rise to the need for a legal hold. En otras palabras, the scope of a litigation hold is directly related to the trigger event. Por ejemplo, in a commercial landlord-tenant dispute the scope of a litigation hold may include the lease, written modification of the lease, rent bills, correspondence related to the lease, and e-mails about the lease. The scope of materials related to a trigger event is guided by past litigation involving similar trigger events or court cases on point with the trigger event that analyzed the scope of documents relevant to the trigger event. The scope can also be guided by the specific preservation demands of a potential claimant, if the preservation demands could be deemed reasonably related to the trigger event by a court.

An organization has a duty to preserve documents and records that itknows, or reasonably should know, will likely be requested [by an opponent] in reasonably foreseeable litigation.Mosaid v. Samsung, 348 F.Supp.2d 332, 333 (DNJ. 2004). The duty to preserve evidencedoes not extend beyond evidence that is relevant and material to the claims at issue in the litigation.Hynix Semiconductor Inc. en. Rambus Inc., 2006 WL 565893, *27 (N.D.Cal. Juan. 5, 2006).

¿Qué es “pertinente” is a legal term. A definition is contained in the Federal Rules of Evidence:

Relevant evidencemeans evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. “Federal Rules of Evidence,” Regla 401.

The standard for discovery in civil litigation requires the parties to exchange information that isreasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.” En otras palabras, the parties are to exchange relevant information. Guided by these legal principles an organization implementing a litigation hold needs to determine what is relevant to the facts and circumstances that gave rise to the legal duty to preserve evidence. This topic was recently examined in Goodman v. Praxair Services, 2009 EE.UU.. Dist. LEXIS 58263 (Julio. 7, 2009).

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Policía EE.UU. superior del Departamento de Justicia dice que el uso de nuevas herramientas | Reuters

The head of the U.S. Department of Justices criminal division told a gathering of criminal defense lawyers on Thursday that the division was using toolsnot often seen in white collar casesto combat financial fraud.

In a speech at a white collar crime conference, Lanny Breuer cited the use of wiretaps in the Galleon hedge fund insider trading case and the use of undercover agents in a recent prosecution of 22 people under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act FCPA.

“En su conjunto, these two cases reflect a new chapter in white collar criminal enforcement, one that Im confident has not gone unnoticed by you, or by your clients,” dijo.

Out are the days of resting easy in the belief that only self-reporting or tipsters will bring criminality to light. In are the days of proactive and innovative white collar enforcement.

Breuer called the FCPA case the largest single prosecution of individuals in the history of the Justice Departments enforcement of the statute, which makes it illegal to pay bribes to secure business abroad.

En pocas palabras,” dijo, “the prospect of significant prison sentences for individuals should make it clear to every corporate executive, cada miembro de la junta, and every sales agent that we will seek to hold you personally accountable for FCPA violations.

Breuer said the Justice Department would continue to pursue criminal charges against corporationswhen the criminal conduct is egregious, pervasive and systemic, o cuando la empresa no lleve a cabo las reformas de cumplimiento, cambios en su cultura corporativa, and undertake other measures designed to prevent a recurrence of the criminal conduct.

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Gestión de proyectos subcontratados & Consultoría

Con las recientes turbulencias en los mercados financieros, la industria legal se ha vuelto muy sensibles a los costos y el valor total de los servicios, con preguntas como: “lo que es un buen negocio?” y “¿Hay una solución más eficiente?” se pide en las salas de conferencias en todo el país. Muchas organizaciones están funcionando muy magra y simplemente no tienen los recursos para apoyar la contratación de experimentados profesionales de la tecnología jurídica a su personal. Afortunadamente, no es una solución eficiente que no sacrifica la calidad – gestión de proyectos externos de consultoría y.

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Paso 2 para fines legales: Analizar el evento de disparo | Law.com

Once the first step in implementing an effective written litigation hold is taken and a trigger event is identified, the organization needs to analyze the implications of the event. If the event, de hecho, triggered the company&después de;s need to preserve evidence then a litigation hold must be issued.

The standard for when the duty to preserve evidence arises is not clearly delineated. The standard used to determine when the duty arises is aknew or should have known” estándar, as determined by a reasonably prudent person. Failure to plan ahead can have adverse effects in court. Judges may not respond favorably to a company losing or destroying a key piece of evidence in a case where a seriously injured party would lose the opportunity to recover millions in actual damages.

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Paso 2 para fines legales: Analizar el evento de disparo | Law.com

Once the first step in implementing an effective written litigation hold is taken and a trigger event is identified, the organization needs to analyze the implications of the event. If the event, de hecho, triggered the company&después de;s need to preserve evidence then a litigation hold must be issued.

The standard for when the duty to preserve evidence arises is not clearly delineated. The standard used to determine when the duty arises is aknew or should have known” estándar, as determined by a reasonably prudent person. Failure to plan ahead can have adverse effects in court. Judges may not respond favorably to a company losing or destroying a key piece of evidence in a case where a seriously injured party would lose the opportunity to recover millions in actual damages.

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