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EC ruling 'will speed up future actions'
News The European Commission's investigation into Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour may have taken five years, but future actions - whether they are against Microsoft or any other company - will be much quicker as a result.
[March 24, 2004, 12:50]
Microsoft actions give Linux 'credibility'
News Microsoft's recent efforts against the Linux operating system only show that the open-source platform is gaining ground, according to Richard Seibt, chief executive of Germany's SuSE Linux. At a SuSE press event late last week, he told ZDNet UK...
[June 10, 2003, 15:03]
iPhone records all user actions, warns hacker
News The iPhone is recording everything users see and do on their devices, for caching purposes, an iPhone hacker has said. The device records screenshots of a user's most recent action so that it can achieve the effect of applications fading away when...
[September 12, 2008, 10:31]
A Year Ago: RealNetworks accuses Microsoft
News Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, Rob Glaser, now chief executive of RealNetworks, said Microsoft is taking actions that "unless remedied, will make the computing world less friendly and less useful to customers and...
[July 26, 1999, 6:46]
US Report: Microsoft asks appeals court for help on Windows 98
News Court of Appeals on Tuesday would have no effect on possible new legal actions under consideration by the US Justice Department and state attorneys general. Such new actions under the Sherman antitrust act may be filed in a matter of days.
[May 7, 1998, 11:34]
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux patents
News Microsoft has filed two separate patent-infringement actions against TomTom, including claims relating to the GPS navigation company's use of the Linux kernel. By filing both actions simultaneously we are seeking to both recoup past losses and stop...
[February 26, 2009, 11:26]
Microsoft antipiracy tool 'acts like spyware'
News Microsoft has vowed to better disclose the actions of its antipiracy tool once it is installed on Windows PCs. Still, Microsoft is considering several options to make its actions clear to the user, including amending the software license, the...
[June 8, 2006, 9:10]
US Report: RealNetworks accuses Microsoft
News Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, Rob Glaser, now chief executive of RealNetworks, said Microsoft is taking actions that "unless remedied, will make the computing world less friendly and less useful to customers and...
[July 23, 1998, 16:36]
Ebay execs defend IPO share grab
News Ebay chief executive Meg Whitman in an internal email to employees defended herself and other eBay executives amid an IPO share controversy, saying their actions were "legal" and "quite common". Whitman, who gained $1.78m (£1.14m) from selling IPO...
[October 24, 2002, 9:58]
File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs
News Record companies have joined the movie industry in trying to root out post-Napster file trading, putting new pressure on ISPs to clamp down on subscribers' actions. People using Napster, Gnutella, or the others, keep all content on their hard...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
Telstra caught in online poll swindle
News Updated: Caught in the act of rigging ZDNet Australia online user surveys last week, Telstra has refused to issue a formal apology, saying it can't control the actions of its employees. Unfortunately we can't control all actions of individuals.
[January 29, 2002, 13:56]
Microsoft on Trial : Consumers not harmed by MS
News Microsoft Corp.s first witness in the antitrust case roundly criticised Department of Justice witnesses and attorneys, saying they provided no sound evidence that consumers are harmed by Microsoft's actions or that the company has monopoly power...
[January 12, 1999, 10:31]
Shareholders dismiss lawsuit against Rambus
News Certain shareholders filed suit against Rambus in 2001, alleging that the company's actions while a member of a standards body known as the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council impaired the value of their shares.
[May 29, 2003, 7:54]
Apple execs reaped 'millions' in unlawful profits, shareholders allege
News On Tuesday, lawyers acting on behalf of Apple shareholders filed actions against the company claiming that it "manipulated options grants to sell more than US$1bn in company stock", according to Bloomberg News.
[August 23, 2006, 17:25]
Inside story: Adobe's next Illustrator
News An Actions palette, borrowed from Photoshop 4.x, will offer several preset scripts for common tasks. Users will be able to record custom actions, such as fills and strokes, gradients, and object transformations, then apply them to an illustration.
[June 26, 1998, 9:28]
Microsoft-TomTom suit puts open source on guard
News Microsoft deputy general counsel Horacio Gutierrez said the legal actions were taken after attempts to negotiate on licensing failed. Microsoft on Wednesday filed two separate actions against TomTom before the US District Court in Washington and...
[February 27, 2009, 10:00]
US Report: States and DOJ ready to act against Microsoft
News The separate actions, expected to be filed in Washington, will charge that Microsoft has violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by illegally leveraging its leadership position in the desktop operating system arena as a way of expanding its presence...
[May 14, 1998, 9:13]
Microsoft turns to private detectives
News The company said on Tuesday it has taken action against five rogue traders in the UK so far, and has legal actions pending against another 16. The crackdown is international in scale, with 50 legal actions already filed, including 15 in the US, 10...
[October 31, 2006, 15:24]
AMD-Intel balance unchanged by EU fine
News Antitrust actions can have a dramatic effect when a decision breaks a company into pieces, but the biggest factors in the rivalry between Intel and AMD — and increasingly Nvidia, too — is technology. Antitrust actions can change behaviour, to be sure.
[May 14, 2009, 9:56]
Red Hat has 'no grounds' for lawsuit, says SCO
News In a motion filed late on Monday in US District Court in Delaware, SCO argues that Red Hat has no grounds to sue SCO, as SCO's actions against the open-source Linux operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat.
[September 16, 2003, 9:00]
