Legal

Patent firm Lodsys backs out of dispute with Kaspersky Lab

A court in Texas passed an order dismissing the claims and counterclaims

House Democrats push ahead on immigration, H-1B

Democrats introduce their version of Senate's immigration bill, say debate on issue is likely to produce compromise legislation

‘Mr. Sham’ patent troll drops lawsuit against Fortinet

No-nonsense California judge dismisses case ‘with prejudice’

US DOJ opposes company requests to publish surveillance statistics

Allowing companies to report surveillance requests would drive suspects to other services, officials say

Yahoo concerned that release of redacted FISA papers may mislead

The company had earlier asked the court to release certain documents to show it resisted NSA data collection

More NSA leaks to come, Guardian says

Journalists from the British paper provide new details around the process for publishing leaks

SAP seeks an edge from NSA surveillance worries

SAP's global data center network could give it an advantage over US-based vendors, says co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe

India puts Nokia assets on ice in tax tussle

A court released only some of the assets frozen such as bank accounts

Rivals to again review Google’s promises in EU antitrust case

The EU competition chief expects a resolution of the case involving search results for Google services 'by next Spring'

Security industry in ‘rut,’ struggling to keep up with cybercriminals