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• Brisbane City Council serves TechnologyOne $50M+ damages claim

  ​TechnologyOne has received a claim for damages in excess of $50 million from Brisbane City Council (BCC).

• ​‘Customers, free market choice’ winners in ERP support lawsuit

  Rimini Street has declared that ‘customers and free market choice are the winners’ a week after the third-party ERP support provider was ordered by a US court to pay Oracle $50 million in damages in a software maintenance case.
  

• Cisco lawsuits aside, Arista forges ahead with EOS

  As it faces down a litigious assault from rival Cisco, Arista Networks is enhancing its switch operating system to expedite DevOps deployments.

• Which Workers Are the Best Fit for BYOD?

  From the always-on salesperson to the clock-punching hourly worker, companies will need to weigh the pros and cons of including each worker type in a BYOD program.

• BYOD Gets Messy with AT&T Class Action Lawsuit

  With a BYOD twist, AT&T agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for overcharging corporate customers for almost seven years. But like most things involving BYOD, this gets complicated.

• Under fire from taxi industry, app developers look to courts, regulators

  A fight brewing between mobile app developers and the taxi industry could end up in the courts and may result in new regulations, according to independent taxi app developers.

• Wednesday Grok: Apple and Samsung, Google SEO tweaks and the BlackBerry London

  Check out the Google spider bait in today's headline — Grok is catching on fast. If you see a lawyer smiling this week, blame Apple and Samsung.

• Dell sues five LCD makers for alleged price-fixing

  Dell has filed a lawsuit against five LCD makers that charges them with colluding to fix prices for products, a Dell spokesman said Monday.

• Apple's lawsuit against HTC is working

  Apple is already reaping the benefits of its patent infringement lawsuit against HTC, according to one analyst.

• HTC says it uses own technology, not Apple's

  Smartphone maker High Tech Computer (HTC) on Wednesday defended itself against accusations of patent infringement by Apple, saying it develops its own technology.

• Sony, LG, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba accused of price fixing

  A home electronics retail store has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Hitachi Ltd. and several subsidiaries, accusing the electronics manufacturers of colluding to fix prices in the U.S. optical disc drive (ODD) market.

• Xerox sues Google, YouTube and Yahoo over search patents

  Xerox has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo, Google and YouTube alleging infringement of Xerox patents on search and integration technology.

• Setback for SAP in Oracle suit

  Oracle has won a battle regarding the way damages can be calculated in its intellectual property lawsuit against SAP, according to a ruling filed Jan. 28 in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

• Bank files lawsuit against victim of $800,000 cybertheft

  A Texas bank is suing a customer hit by an $800,000 cybertheft incident in a case that could test the extent to which customers should be held responsible for protecting their online accounts from compromises.

• Judge nixes class-actions in Microsoft WGA lawsuit

  A federal judge has killed class-action allegations in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers when it fed them anti-piracy software under the auspices of a critical security update, according to court documents.