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Canada: Downloading music is legal
News Downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, although uploading files is not, Canadian copyright regulators said in a ruling released on Friday. In the same decision, the Copyright Board of Canada imposed a...
[December 15, 2003, 8:50]
File sharing legal - Canada
News Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the record industry a sharp setback in its international fight against file swappers.
[April 1, 2004, 8:40]
Canada's ISPs may get 'spy' role
News They also claim that by enacting these proposals, Canada will be following its obligations under the Council of Europe's cybercrime treaty, which the country is in the process of considering. Canada and the United States are nonvoting members of...
[August 28, 2002, 13:12]
EC approves data flow with Canada
News The European Commission has ruled that Canada should be the third non-EU country to be allowed to transfer personal data with EU businesses. It was decided on 20 December that the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents...
[January 9, 2002, 17:07]
UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia
News The Home Office has started sharing fingerprint data with Canada and Australia for the purpose of checking deeper into the backgrounds of migrants under suspicion. The agreement, announced on Friday, covers the reciprocal exchange of fingerprints...
[August 21, 2009, 15:41]
AT&T sues MCI for Canada call routing
News MCI continues to secretly route phone calls through Canada, even though it is under investigation for doing so by state and federal regulators, AT&T alleged in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. But in what AT&T dubs the "Canada Gateway Project,” MCI is...
[September 3, 2003, 17:50]
BBC: Canada makes offer to MS
News Canadian government authorities in British Columbia have encouraged Microsoft to move there, the BBC reported. The offer comes as the company awaits a penalty ruling in the antitrust suit brought against it by the US government.
[June 2, 2000, 15:27]
Sun scores StarOffice deal in Canada
News Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students. The deal, signed on 27 May but not announced in the United States...
[June 8, 2004, 9:05]
"Mafiaboy" arrested in Canada for DoS attacks
News A Canadian teenager was arrested Tuesday in connection with distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks on major Web site in February, according to reports. The 15-year old teen was detained over the weekend by police in Montreal on suspicion of...
[April 19, 2000, 11:15]
Learn virus writing skills in Canada
News While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum. This autumn, the Canadian school is offering a class...
[May 28, 2003, 13:50]
Mac dealers: iBooks in short supply
News Even as Apple finds itself awash in an inventory sea of Power Mac G4 Cubes, dealers in the United States, Canada, and the UK are wondering why they haven't been able to get their hands on 366MHz or 466MHz iBook models for three weeks or more.
[November 7, 2000, 11:53]
Canadian government demands $120m refund from HP
News Canada claims that there is insufficient evidence that the charges were justified. Canada's repayment demand comes after internal audits and a police investigation into billing irregularities related to computer subcontractors.
[March 12, 2004, 7:30]
Microsoft opens Canadian front against Lindows
News Microsoft has expanded its legal battle against Linux seller Lindows, suing the software maker for trademark infringement in Canada. A Microsoft representative confirmed that the suit was filed late on Wednesday in the Federal Court of Canada in...
[February 20, 2004, 9:30]
Canadian ruling won't derail lawsuits
News A ruling in Canada declaring downloading music through peer-to-peer services legal, but uploading illegal, may do little to prevent the music industry from taking its own action against file swappers.
[December 17, 2003, 9:20]
UK ISPs reassured over 'royalty tariff' claim
News As a critical court case gets underway in Canada this week in which a songwriters association will attempt to extract royalties from ISPs for what it says is illegal music downloads, UK ISPs have been reassured they are safe from such threats over...
[December 2, 2003, 12:40]
Microsoft plans Canadian development centre
News Amid challenges over getting enough foreign programmers admitted into the US, Microsoft plans this autumn to open a development centre in Canada. The software maker currently has just over 900 workers in Canada, most of whom are based in Toronto...
[July 6, 2007, 9:42]
Dell's laptop problems take another twist
News After the issues around its notebook computers last year, Dell now finds that open season has been declared as it faces legal action in Canada from a user who complained that the company carried on selling the computers after it knew they suffered...
[January 15, 2007, 15:50]
Privacy experts: TJX breach was 'foreseeable'
News The risk of a breach of sensitive personal information held by retail giant TJX earlier this year was foreseeable, but the company failed to put in place adequate security safeguards, an investigation by privacy authorities in Canada has concluded.
[September 26, 2007, 14:12]
HP forks out $105m to Canadian government
News Separately, Canada said it is satisfied that HP has fulfilled its contract obligations. HP determined that it was important for the company to honour its contractual obligations, rather than engage in protracted litigation with the government of...
[May 17, 2004, 16:35]
SMEs shrug off downturn to up IT spend
News According to a survey of SMEs across the UK, US and Canada by skills body CompTIA, over half of UK small businesses expect they will increase their spending on technology and telecoms over the next 12 months — a two percent rise on 2007 figures.
[November 12, 2008, 6:30]
