Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Facebook’s new lawsuit

Paul D. Ceglia has filed a lawsuit in a New York Court alleging that he owns 84% of Facebook and, although Facebook is trying to dismiss it as a frivolous lawsuit, the Judge has found it to have enough entity to order a freeze in all asset transactions for Facebook. The issue arises from an allegation made by the plaintiff (claimant in England) that the current Facebook CEO, Zuckerberg, was paid U$S1000 to build the site, on which Ceglia kept 50% of the interest that grew 1% per day from January 1st 2004 until the day of completion, February 4th 2004. This implies that Ceglia owns 84% of the resulting site.
It is not the first time that Zuckerberg and Facebook  get involved into legal trouble originated in him taking either the idea, the code or, in this case, the whole company from somebody’s creativity (besides other cases for many other reasons). Settling this out of court will not help in convincing the more than 500 million users, most of whom are young, that rules are supposed to be complied with and that respecting others’ IP rights is needed...

Consumer Report also does not recommend iPhone 4

As explained in the previous post, it seems that Apple's disregard for costumers and the truth hit a wall with the facts about iPhone 4. The Cuppertino's compny blamed the carrier, then said that it was normal for many phones but Consumer Report tested them and concluded that it was not true: the problem is with the design of the phone and it is no joke...