Google to pay $1 for trespassing

A Street View trespass case brought by a Pennsylvania couple against Google has ended with the Internet search giant admitting to illegally snapping photos of the couple's home, but it will only have to pay $1 to resolve the lawsuit, reports Red Orbit.

Aaron and Christie Boring charged Google with violating their privacy by photographing their Pittsburgh home and swimming pool without permission. They said the home is on a street that is clearly marked as a 'Private Road.'

“Google could have just sent us an apology letter in the very beginning, but chose to try to prove they had a legal right to be on our land,” the couple said in a statement. “We are glad they finally gave up.”

Apple, maker of the iPhone and iPad, dropped its challenge of a $19 million patent verdict lost to OPTi a day before a court was to hear the appeal, says Bloomberg.

OPTi, which reported $3.25 million in sales for the three months ended 30 September, jumped 15% in over-the-counter trading after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington granted the companies' joint motion to dismiss the appeal.

According to the case docket, the reason behind the request for dismissal wasn't made public. Apple was challenging a verdict it lost last year in which a jury found the company infringed an Opti patent for ways to transfer information among a computer's central processor, memory and other devices.

The Indian Supreme Court favoured widening of the ambit of the ongoing probe into the 2G spectrum case, saying it should also include the period since 2001 when first-come-first-serve was the norm for spectrum allocation, says The Hindu.

“The issue raised in the case is not only limited to 1.76 lakh crore rupees but has a much wider compass. We would not like to prejudice the probe. But, what happened in 2001 needs to be looked into. It is for the CBI to investigate and find out,” a bench of justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly says.

The judges' remarks assume importance as former Telecom Minister A Raja has maintained that he was treading on the footsteps of his predecessors and was following the 2001 policy.