Google sued for wrong directions

Google is being sued by Lauren Rosenberg for $100 000 for wrong directions and being hit by a car, states Thaindian News.

Rosenberg was following directions from her smartphone, which directed her to walk along a rural highway where there was no sidewalk.

According to the lawsuit, Google undertook the duty to exercise reasonable care in providing safe directions to patrons of its Google Maps service, but failed to warn Rosenburg of the dangers.

CSIRO is set to gain $1 billion from a WiFi patent it holds, writes Smart Company.

The group has been in legal disputes with Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Nintendo and other tech companies for royalties pertaining to its WiFi patent, with a settlement struck for $250 million.

CSIRO has opened a new case against Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-mobile, Lenovo, Sony and Acer. “CSIRO is poised to hit a home run... any company using WiFi technology has no choice to pay up,” says Trevor Choy, an intellectual property lawyer.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy is determined to implement the mandatory voluntary Internet filtering system, reports ZeroPaid.

The filter, first proposed as a mechanism to protect children, has turned into an attempt to make it mandatory for all ISPs to filter the Internet for inappropriate content and offensive and illegal material.

The filter has met criticism from US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and tech giants Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, which fear mandatory filtering of material could block content with strong social, political and educational value, while promoting a false sense of security to parents.