Apple To Pay $300M To VirnetX After Losing Patent Retrial, Could Be More
Oct 03, 2016 08:20 am UTC| Technology Law
Apple just lost a retrial against VirnetX in a Texas court and has been ordered to pay the notorious company $302 million. At least this is lower than the $625 million that the tech giant was ordered to pay in a previous...
No Hope For Proponents of US ICANN Monopoly, Independence Inevitable
Oct 03, 2016 00:20 am UTC| Technology Law
Right now, the U.S. has control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN, which is an organization that records all domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. This control is about to...
Responding to student protests: should the law be a tool of justice or violence?
Sep 30, 2016 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
What is needed to enable South Africas universities to proceed with the academic year? The answer, according to some, is to deploy private security companies on campuses. Several of those who support such interventions...
Police are operating as a paramilitary force: criminologist reports from Charlotte, North Carolina
Sep 30, 2016 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
After a summer during which the issue of police violence against black Americans has dominated the headlines, it was just another day, another shooting. On September 20, 43-year-old Keith Scott was shot dead by police in a...
Here's one judge who understands that the law needn't be an ass
Sep 30, 2016 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
When Family Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, made his judgment in a recent case about the future of four children who were in foster care he deliberately wrote it so that, as he put it: the mother and the older...
Why do we need 'Pokie-Leaks'? We already know how pokies work
Sep 30, 2016 09:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
A trio of Australian politicians recently called for whistleblowers to reveal secrets about how the gambling industry operates. While it is up for debate as to whether there are questions to be answered about various...
Crime and conmen in the black out: the violent side of the World War I home front
Sep 30, 2016 07:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
As the commemorations for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme continue, its tempting to picture the Britain of 1914-1918 in a particular way: its inhabitants bonded together in a shared mission, brave men enduring...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects