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• Iran expands smart censorship
• LG in sabotage probe
• Driverless cars could kill off ambulance chasers
• Hollywood makes up settlement figures
• Qualcomm’s Chinese nightmare to spread

Iran expands smart censorship Posted: 29 Dec 2014 02:47 AM PST The former religiously tolerant Achaemenid empire, which became the religiously less tolerant Sassanid Empire before becoming the cross-eyed religiously intolerant Iran wants to expand its policy of "smart filtering” of the Internet. For those who came in late, the Iranians have a policy of censoring undesirable content on websites without banning them completely. more»

LG in sabotage probe Posted: 29 Dec 2014 02:45 AM PST Prosecutors raided the headquarters of LG as part of a probe into whether the South Korean company had damaged the washing machines of rival Samsung Electronics at retail stores in Germany. Apparently there is an increasingly bitter rivalry between the two companies which compete in home appliances, TVs and smartphones. more»

Driverless cars could kill off ambulance chasers Posted: 29 Dec 2014 02:44 AM PST  One of the first casualties from the introduction of driverless cars could be the end of ambulance chasing personal injury lawyers. Google, which just announced a "fully functional" prototype of its self-driving car, is looking for auto industry partners to bring the technology to market within the next five years. more»

Hollywood makes up settlement figures Posted: 29 Dec 2014 02:42 AM PST For years Hollywood has been claiming that it has made giant settlement figures with those it considered pirates, to use fear to drag the IT industry into doing its bidding. But now, thanks to the Sony hack, those figures are being questioned. more»

Qualcomm’s Chinese nightmare to spread Posted: 29 Dec 2014 02:23 AM PST Making China’s antitrust probe go away is going to cost Qualcom more in the long run. Word on the street is that other countries are going to have a look at the firm’s highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung. more»

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