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It's raining lawsuits in India: Micromax and OnePlus face off in battle of the Cyanogens Summary: After the Ericsson-Xiaomi fracas, this is the second lawsuit between phone makers in less than a month in India. Just when you were done reading about Ericsson stopping the Xiaomi juggernaut in its tracks, another lawsuit between rival smartphone makers has dominated headlines in India in the last few days. This time, it's a confrontation between Indian phone giant Micromax and Chinese company Shenzhen OnePlus Technology. Late last week, Micromax filed a lawsuit against OnePlus, stopping it from selling its line of phones featuring Cyanogen software. (Cyanogen software is based on the Android operating system, and has gained traction because of its popular customisation possibilities over stock Android.) Apparently, Micromax has an exclusive deal with Cyanogen that prevents anyone else in South Asia from flogging phones with this software on it. The complication is tha...

Spain's Google link tax: 'Clearly insane' law may hurt the news companies it seeks to protect Summary: The upcoming closure of Google News has reawakened the debate over the consequences of a law that experts have described as quite simply "nonsense". "It's a disaster. The evidence that Spain is a 'corruptocracy' in which any lobby can write laws at will (even ones as openly and clearly as insane as this one), in which certain media make its editorial line conditional upon government funding, and where the government has no idea how internet works," says  Enrique Dans , consultant and professor at IE Business School. "The media is going to lose clicks, visits, and, of course, advertising revenues. But mostly they will lose credibility because the role of the press is to monitor the power, not to support it," adds Carlos Sánchez Almeida, a lawyer specialising in ICT for  Bufet Almedia . A recent reform of Spain's I...

Microsoft makes its MSN consumer apps available on iOS, Android, Amazon devices Summary: Microsoft is continuing its cross-platform push, bringing a number of its MSN-branded consumer apps to iOS, Android and Amazon devices. The team inside Bing that built some of the best "Metro Style" Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps have ported those same apps to iOS, Android and Amazon devices, as promised. In September, Microsoft officials said to expect the handful of Bing consumer apps -- which Microsoft has rebranded as MSN apps -- to come to iOS and Android "in the coming months." These touch-enabled apps, which include News, Weather, Sports, Money, Health & Fitness, and Food & Drink, previously were available only for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The new iOS, Android and Amazon versions of these apps are available for download as of December 11 from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon App Store, as well as the Windows and Windows Phon...

Sony hires FireEye's Mandiant following internal security breach Summary: After cyberattack resulted in internal networks being shuttered and confidential files leaked across the web, Sony has pulled in the professionals.  in Sony has tapped security firm Mandiant to assist in the clean-up after yet-another damaging cyberattack. Last week  , reports surfaced that the electronics giant was dealing with the aftermath of network intrusion, and as a result, was forced to shut down Sony Pictures Entertainment computer systems. FireEye's Mandiant forensic team, in conjunction with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is assisting with the aftermath and subsequent investigation the security breach,  according to Reuters . Mandiant is a well-known security incident response arm of FireEye which deals in forensic analysis, repairs and network restoration. The company was also asked to assist in the catastrophic security breach experi...