-By Peter Burrows Get ready for “rubberbanding.” That’s the way the screen on an iPad or iPhone seems to bounce when you scroll to the bottom of a file — and it’s among the terms jurors must understand as Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. face off in a patent trial this week. […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a split decision on Arizona’s tough 2010 immigration law, upholding its most hotly debated provision but blocking others on the grounds that they interfered with the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy. The court unanimously sustained the law’s centerpiece, the one critics have called its “show […]
New York City has long been known as a refuge that celebrates immigrants, whether they are here legally or not. But some worry that a new federal policy beginning tomorrow will turn the city’s atmosphere from friendly to frightening. The U.S. government is mandating a program called Secure Communities be enforced in the city starting […]
Defenders of Apple’s e-book deals with the major publishers portrayed the “agency” pricing model as Apple’s idea — an initiative by Steve Jobs to help the company’s new tablet computer compete in a market dominated by Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, however, the Justice Department argued that the agency model came […]
There is one area, besides copper mining and home foreclosures, where Arizona is a national leader. It’s at the front of a movement by states and local governments to seize control of immigration from the federal government. In 2010 it passed a law, S.B. 1070, that made the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants its official […]
By Matthew J. Schwartz, InformationWeek Good news for Megaupload users: Your data just got a two-week reprieve from being deleted. Friday, U.S. district attorney Neil MacBride had written to Megaupload’s lawyers, informing them that federal investigators had finished reviewing Megaupload data, and that it could be deleted from servers just one week later. “It is […]