After Apple got down and dirty with the legal eagles in Australia and stopping Samsung from releasing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, Samsung certainly protested, but now they’ve dropped a tidy little lawsuit against Apple in return against several of its oh so shinily crunchy Jobsian iDevices.

Samsung’s plans to launch a version of its 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab in Australia have been railroaded by Apple, who has extended its lawsuit to stop Samsung from launching anything until the lawsuit is settled and/or the courts grant approval.

No, Google hasn’t joined Dr Who’s Autons, but instead has “received” the unluck o’ an Irish lawsuit.

When companies fail to live up to their promises, are hard to contact and hard to get compensation from, it should come as no surprise that its customers will rise up and revolt in as public a manner as possible, with Vodafone’s Vodafailure in stopping the Vodafail site and class action a portentous corporate omen.

The latest chapter in Facebook's woes has been opened, with a resident of New York filing a case claiming that he owns 84 percent of the social network.

In another significant victory for the record labels against online file sharing, a New York judge has ruled that popular peer-to-peer system LimeWire and its founder are responsible for copyright infringement.

RealNetworks has given up its effort to sell the DVD backup product RealDVD and will refund its customers' money and pay the movie studios' legal expenses.

iiNet chief executive Michael Malone this afternoon rejected a renewed legal challenge by a coalition of film and TV studios as “disappointing and frustrating”, adding it would not stop illegal downloads of copyrighted material.

The Australian Computer Society has issued a one paragraph statement stating that it has settled the lawsuit filed by its former chief executive Kim Denham after she was sacked in May 2009.

The traffic infringement and management branch of Tenix Solutions has terminated a contract with IT services firm Oakton and has filed a claim for $19.36 million in damages, Oakton alleged this morning.