legal

Jailbreaking could void your warranty says Apple

  Jailbreaking may now be legal in the United States but that doesn’t mean Apple is happily supporting it. Apple is still against it (rightly so) and have confirmed that jailbreaking any of their device could void the device’s warranty. Cult of Mac got the following statement from the Apple PR. “Apple’s goal has always [...]
  Americans can now jailbreak, unlock their phones or even copy DVDs for non-commercial use without fearing of getting sued. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions. Now users can jailbreak/root their device and even install legal third party applications that were rejected [...]

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion, settle all disputes

  Seems the ongoing semiconductor war between Intel and AMD will end soon. Intel and AMD have reached an agreement where they’ve decided to end all legal disputes and focus on innovation. Both the companies have entered into a cross licensing agreement for 5 years and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion along with an [...]