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File-sharing company LimeWire was shut down after a US federal judge issued an injunction against the company on October 26. [More]

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will call back for repairs about a total of 1.5 million cars, 740,000 cars in the U.S. and 599,000 in Japan.
The remainder are in Europe and other markets around the world.

The recall is to fix a brake fluid leak that it warned can gradually diminish braking performance in the cars.

He said that no accidents had been linked to the defect.

Toyota is recalling the cars to repair a flaw in which “a small amount of the brake fluid could slowly leak from the brake master cylinder”, which would lead the brake warning lamp to illuminate, the company said.

If at this point the brake fluid is not replaced, “the driver will begin to notice a spongy or soft brake pedal feel and braking performance may gradually decline,” Toyota USA said in a statement.

The autos affected are the 2005-2006 models of the Avalon, the 2004 through 2006 non-hybrid models of the Highlander, the Lexus RX330, and the 2006 Lexus GS300, IS250 and IS350 vehicles, Toyota USA said in a statement. [More]

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The MPAA has gone to extreme lengths to obtain information on illegal filesharing in an effort to shut down popular BitTorrent sites. This included paying $15,000 to a hacker to illegally retrieve information about TorrentSpy that ultimately assisted the MPAA in a court case leading to TorrentSpy’s demise.

New information indicates that the MPAA was also paying this same hacker for information about Swedish BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay.

The hacker offered to provide information about the identities of The Pirate Bay’s founders as well as to turn over evidence of email communication between The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, who notes that information about the founder’s identities is public and easily retrievable online without this type of spying, says that the information contained in those emails is nothing shocking and finds it amusing that the MPAA would pay such a large sum of money to illegally obtain that information.

Nokia and Qualcomm today announced that they’ve reached an agreement to settle all litigation between the companies. The new agreement covers various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMax, LTE and other technologies, and will also see Nokia withdrawing its complaint to the European Commission.

Under the terms of the new 15 year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm’s patents for use in Nokia’s mobile devices and Nokia Siemens Networks infrastructure equipment. Further, Nokia has agreed not to use any of its patents directly against Qualcomm, enabling Qualcomm to integrate Nokia’s technology into Qualcomm’s chipsets. The financial structure of the settlement includes an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Qualcomm. Nokia has agreed to assign ownership of a number of patents to Qualcomm, including patents declared as essential to WCDMA, GSM and OFDMA. The specific terms are confidential.

Both parties seem satisfed. Nokia’s Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo sees the agreement positive for the industry, “enabling the market to benefit from innovation and new technologies.” Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs is also pleased with the deal, adding that it “paves the way for enhanced opportunities between the companies in a number of areas.”

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