Google has agreed to pay the United States government $500 million as part of a settlement deal. The government was breathing down Google’s neck due to advertisements that were promoting the sell of illegal drugs.

Sony and LG have decided to make amends on a patent dispute. Back in February, LG filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission claiming Sony’s assortment of Blu-ray players violated eight of LG’s patents. Sony responded by claiming LG violated its patents in some of its mobile phones. The whole thing got so bad, PS3 consoles were seized in Europe by Customs.

Nokia and Apple have decided to end their ongoing litigation. The agreed-upon result is Apple will pay Nokia a one-time fee plus ongoing royalties for the license. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed but Nokia added the result will have a positive impact on cash flow in Q2 for Nokia. “We are very pleased more »

It has been sometime since we last heard Vonage related news, well aside from the unveiling of Vonage World anyway. This latest bit is not a new product announcement, but may still come as good news for previous customers. It seems that Vonage has reached a $3 million dollar settlement with 32 states. And this more »

Despite the attention being on the Palm Pre, it seems that another Palm device has snuck back in from the past to catch one final bit of the limelight. The device is the now classic Palm Treo 600 and users, or more than likely, previous users can make their claim to get up to $27.50 more »

When Google started its Google Book Search Service a few years ago, it annoyed a number of people. Those people included “the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a handful of authors and publishers.” On Tuesday the groups involved reached an agreement, and have submitted it to the court.

The agreement would see Google paying $125 million, but allow them to add millions of books both in- and out-of-print. Of course, most people won’t be able to read entire copyrighted texts before actually buying them, but they will be able to see a few pages of the book. Plenty more information after the break.

While the Treo 600 or 650 may be just a memory (albeit good and bad) for a lot of the Palm users, a class action lawsuit that originally began in 2005 has just received a settlement offer. This lawsuit was dealing with the many issues that were experienced with those models and claimed that Palm more »

Hopefully this will be the final settlement that we see Vonage having to payout, because at this point it seems endless and its a wonder they have anything left to still operate. The recent Vonage settlement with AT&T over the packet-based telephone system that allows “voice conversations to be carried over the Internet” was just more »