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UK file-swappers could face jail under new law
News One of the DMCA-like provisions of the EUCD is the criminalisation of circumventing copyright protections, in other words cracking anti-piracy technology on DVDs, CDs, printer cartridges and the like.
[October 8, 2003, 13:40]
Whom do you trust? review
Reviews Now available in a free public beta, Microsoft OneCare offers antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-phishing tools, as well as disk defragmentation tools plus backup and recovery solutions. Anti-spyware yes yes
[February 6, 2006, 10:45]
FAQ: What the appeals court's ruling means
News The most important question was whether Microsoft used anti-competitive tactics -- such as threatening to withhold Windows from PC makers or forcing them to agree to exclusive contracts that shut out Netscape -- to illegally maintain a monopoly on...
[June 29, 2001, 9:29]
Nvidia splits PC market with new chips
News Besides Lightspeed and nView, the most notable advances in the GeForce4 involve more resources devoted to processing special graphics effects such as anti-aliasing, in which designers display selected parts of an image at much higher resolutions...
[February 6, 2002, 12:16]
Microsoft wins Bristol antitrust case
News We are disappointed with the jury's findings, and we still firmly believe that Microsoft engaged in anti-competitive behaviour against Bristol, and that Microsoft is attempting to monopolise additional operating system markets.
[July 19, 1999, 8:47]
Xbox Linux team issues antitrust plea
News Microsoft is acting anti-competitively by preventing users from running software of their choice -- such as Linux -- on the console, and aggressively going after companies that manufacture the "mod chips" necessary to run such unauthorised...
[March 7, 2003, 13:50]
Microsoft quits software trade group
News Last summer, the group filed comments with the European Commission, which also is in the midst of investigating Microsoft for potentially anti-competitive business practises, regarding its views on the matter.
[March 10, 2000, 9:48]
Lawsuit targets Microsoft and the DoJ
News They're sort of the anti-Chicago School of economics," Stanton said. On Tuesday, AOL Time Warner's Netscape subsidiary filed a lawsuit to recover damages from Microsoft for its anti-competitive behavior during the browser wars.
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
BT 'not guilty' of broadband foul play
News Claims made by Freeserve last month that BT was engaging in a range of anti-competitive practices in an attempt to stifle competition in the UK's broadband market have been dismissed by Oftel, the regulator said on Wednesday.
[June 5, 2002, 13:24]
Microsoft marks 10 years of antitrust action
Talkback A plea for relief from Microsoft's escalating anti-competitive tactics.http://itheresies.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_itheresies_archive.html An open letter to antitrust, competition, consumer and trade practice monitoring agency officials worldwide.
[April 14, 2004, 13:59]
Firefox snaps at IE's heels
Talkback This was the cause of the anti-trust law suits in the first place - M$ deliberately hindering competition by bundling the browser as part of the OS so that competitors don't get a look in. What's this about people choosing to use IE in the first...
[November 23, 2004, 12:21]
DTI throws massive cable deal into question
News NTL's attempt to buy the consumer division of Cable & Wireless ran into problems Tuesday with the DTI questioning whether the deal is anti-competitive. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers is concerned the acquisition could...
[November 16, 1999, 15:25]
Intel makes wrong call with Skype
Talkback This isn't some small thing, it's absolutely anti-competitive, monopolistic and unAmerican of Intel to bribe and muscle Skype into adding code to prevent competition from superior 64 bit AMD chips in order to try to continue their domination of...
[March 2, 2006, 4:15]
Symantec's self serving warnings
Talkback Time for a new anti MS lawsuit. This must be anti competitive practice. MS should be forced to provide software without in-built security in order to maintain competition in the industry. Despite everyone clamouring for free software MS has been...
[March 23, 2005, 7:50]
Brit hackers release new multimedia e-zine
News The first edition of Anti-Social, released on New Year's Day, includes a competition to win copies of SuSE Linux and cans of beer. UK underground hacking group Hack-Net has taken the wraps off a funky new interface for reading Anti-Social magazine...
[January 6, 2000, 11:46]
'Microsoft won't make a Netscape of us'
News At Google Press Day in California, co-founder Sergey Brin said Microsoft had behaved anti-competitively in the past when the Netscape browser was giving Internet Explorer stiff competition in the mid-1990s.
[May 11, 2006, 9:30]
Hotmail tools fight the war against spam
News The announcement comes as online services are increasingly touting anti-spam features to differentiate their products from rivals amid fierce competition for subscribers. Microsoft on Thursday plans to unveil new anti-spam tools for its MSN and...
[May 8, 2003, 10:39]
US Government to probe domain name registration
News A spokeswoman for the Justice Department told ZDNN US: "We're looking at the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the Internet address registration industry". Problems have arisen with domain name registration as competition intensifies to...
[July 8, 1997, 11:15]
Judge throws out MS school deal
News Opponents of the settlement proposal, including Apple Computer, had argued the proposal was anti-competitive, as it would help Microsoft make software gains in the education market. Fredrick Motz agreed with opponents that the proposed deal in the...
[January 14, 2002, 8:40]
Freeserve won't let broadband complaint die
News It wants the tribunal to overturn the decision taken last month by Oftel that BT has not made anti-competitive cuts to the cost of BT Openworld's broadband services. Freeserve announced on Monday that it plans to bring the Competition Act Tribunal...
[December 22, 2003, 12:30]
