Martha Mendoza

September 12, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Worried relatives, generous volunteers, frantic neighbors, even medical providers are turning to social media now that Hurricane Irma wiped out electricity and cell service to communities across Florida, cutting off most contact with remote islands in the Keys.

By Martha Mendoza

7 minute read

July 16, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A defense attorney says a high-priced prostitute accused of giving a Google executive a fatal dose of heroin had no reason to kill the man.

By Martha Mendoza

1 minute read

April 28, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The high-stakes battle between the world's largest smartphone makers is scheduled to wrap up this week after a monthlong trial that has pulled the curtain back on just how very cutthroat the competition is between Apple and Samsung.

By Martha Mendoza

3 minute read

April 10, 2014 | Legaltech News

So far the biggest problems for a federal judge overseeing a patent battle between the world's largest smartphone makers isn't about stolen ideas. It's getting the roomful of smartphone users to turn off their devices.

By Martha Mendoza

4 minute read

April 10, 2014 | Daily Report Online

So far one of the biggest problems for a federal judge overseeing a patent battle between the world's largest smartphone makers isn't about stolen ideas. It's getting the roomful of smartphone devotees to turn off their devices.

By Martha Mendoza

4 minute read

May 21, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely.

By Martha Mendoza

4 minute read

July 16, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Rights activists, church leaders and drug and gun rights advocates found common ground and filed a lawsuit against the federal government to halt a vast National Security Agency electronic surveillance program.

By Martha Mendoza

1 minute read

June 04, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers.

By Martha Mendoza

5 minute read

November 17, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Satbir Sharma's wife is dead. His family lives in fear in rural India. His father's left leg is shattered, leaving him on crutches for life.Sharma's only hope lies in a new law that gives him the right to know what is happening in the investigation of his wife's death. Most of all, he wants to know what will happen to the village mayor, now in jail on murder charges.

By Martha Mendoza

17 minute read

February 22, 2007 | Law.com

In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunch boxes, they found that one in five contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe. But the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement that it found "no instances of hazardous levels." The FDA disagreed, and it sent a letter to lunch-box manufacturers warning them that their lead levels might be dangerously high. Now, state and federal authorities have begun demanding that lunch boxes be lead-free.

By Martha Mendoza

7 minute read