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[October 9, 1998, 12:40]
Microsoft sends threatening letters to source-code posters
News Microsoft has sent several letters to people known to have posted Windows source code on the Internet, warning them to stop offering the files and erase any copies. The letters explain to the individuals that downloading or using the source code is...
[February 19, 2004, 7:40]
HMRC letters of apology cost £2.25m
News The government has admitted it cost £2.25m to send letters of apology to people affected by the loss of 25 million child-benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs. Kennedy stated: "The cost of sending letters to the families affected by the recent...
[January 18, 2008, 7:19]
Australians told to ignore SCO's letters
News A newly formed Australian free- and open-source software industry group is urging companies and individuals to ignore SCO's push to secure licence revenues from Linux users. Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) yesterday posted a position paper on...
[May 26, 2004, 9:55]
RIAA warns individual song-swappers
News The Recording Industry Association of America said it has sent cease-and-desist letters to five people whom it suspects of illegally offering massive amounts of copyrighted music through peer-to-peer networks.
[June 20, 2003, 7:45]
Microsoft: Audit, or there'll be trouble
News In its continuing jihad against software piracy, Microsoft's legal department has sent letters to corporate customers demanding they conduct internal audits of their software licenses and submit their findings within 30 days to the software giant.
[June 25, 2001, 9:35]
Major ISPs to issue file-sharing warnings
News Suspected file-sharers of copyrighted material are to receive warning letters from their internet service providers after the six largest ISPs in the UK signed a government-brokered memorandum of understanding with the country's record label...
[July 24, 2008, 16:14]
Open source of contention - SSH!
News For security-conscious system administrators, three letters have become a household word when it comes to securing remote computers: SSH. Yet the three letters also describe the original program developed by Tatu Ylonen in 1995 and trademarked in...
[February 26, 2001, 14:22]
Another 80 song swappers hit by suits
News The Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday said it filed 80 new lawsuits against alleged file swappers, a move that comes after a wave of letters it sent earlier this month that warned targets of their legal risk.
[October 31, 2003, 9:25]
Privacy group fights P2P crackdown
News The privacy advocacy group is sending letters to presidents of colleges across the country, asking them to think before they install monitoring tools on university networks. Last month, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the...
[November 8, 2002, 7:48]
Life before email: A look back at the 'vacuum post'
News Long before the delivery of the first email in 1971, while most of the world was happy to wait around for snail mail, the Germans were busy blasting letters to each other at high speeds. The tubular post, or pneumatic telegraph, was a Victorian...
[November 27, 2008, 14:11]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
News The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released on Thursday show.
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
Movie industry targets Gnutella users
News And read other letters. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA ) has sent hundreds of letters to major Internet service providers and universities, warning them that some people on their networks are violating the Digital Millennium...
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
BT: Anytime can't mean 'all of the time'
News BT said on Monday that narrowband unmetered Internet access packages can't cope with the kind of customers who expect to be connected to the Internet almost constantly, after it said it would send letters to 30,000 BT Anytime subscribers...
[October 16, 2001, 14:17]
The ABCs of .XXX
Leader Six thousand concerned letters have been received by the US Department of Commerce, although whether they are against pornography in general or the configuration of the Internet's name servers in particular is not clear.
[August 17, 2005, 14:15]
VoIP regulation hangs in balance
News Rather than apply as requested, the companies sent the letters, disputing the CPUC's interpretation of their services. Six VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) providers, including Net2Phone, 8x8 and SBC IP Communications, sent letters last week to...
[October 27, 2003, 13:55]
Email answer to anthrax risk
News Over the next two weeks, numerous letters containing spores of anthrax--an infectious, often fatal disease that can be transmitted from cattle and sheep to humans through inhalation or skin lesions--arrived at NBC Nightly News, ABC News, Microsoft...
[October 17, 2001, 8:53]
Orange to launch consumer GPRS this autumn
News The company sent out letters to existing subscribers earlier this week, inviting them to participate in a trial. And read other letters. Orange will follow the lead taken by rivals BTCellnet and Vodafone this autumn when it launches its own...
[June 22, 2001, 13:09]
Boston airport battles with free Wi-Fi
News In an escalating series of threatening letters sent over the last few weeks, airport officials have pledged to "take all necessary steps to have the [Wi-Fi] antenna removed" from Continental's frequent flyer lounge.
[August 4, 2005, 9:50]
Microsoft expands anti-counterfeit drive
News The software maker has filed nine lawsuits and sent more than 50 letters threatening such action, it said in a statement. Other merchants that received letters have agreed to stop selling the software, the company said.
[April 3, 2007, 9:08]
