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The low-down on domain name disputes
News Court orders are obtained by proving in a court of law that you have a legitimate claim on the domain, and the defendant does not. Registering your claim The odds are more even when there is a three-member panel, with complainants winning 60...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
IT jobs to go at Barclays
News IT staff claim that a new performance benchmark and grading system has recently been introduced and once the job cuts have been implemented Barclays will replace the staff with "higher performers". Other suppliers are also facing increased scrutiny...
[August 31, 2005, 15:35]
Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
Blog Comment It could also be that they claim IP rights to the three palm trees, the sandy island and the boat. In any case if you add up all the sample pictures included in all the versions of Windows based on NT ever released, I'll bet they come up to at...
[September 14, 2009, 3:28]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Some analysts claim the French government's interest in open source is driven by anti-Americanism but French officials claim that it's actually down to a fundamental difference in philosophy. Experts claim that proprietary software fees are...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Programmer demands $25m for writing Kazaa
News Sharman, which bought the Kazaa software from its original owners, a European company called Kazaa BV, says Toader's claim is without merit. Sharman filed suit to combat the claim in Washington state court, and a judge granted an injunction barring...
[March 19, 2004, 8:20]
T-Mobile, Virgin broadband ads fall foul of watchdog
News T-Mobile, however, said the leaflets referred to the capacities of mobile broadband, not its speed, and "maintained that they did not make any claim that implied a direct technical comparison to fixed-line broadband", according to the ASA.
[October 17, 2008, 11:32]
Security guru backs writing down passwords
News I claim that is absolutely wrong. I claim that password policy should say you should write down your password. Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords because it forces users to use the same weak term on many systems...
[May 23, 2005, 15:20]
Jane Wakefield: Anarchy in the UK
News The National Crime Intelligence Service (NCIS) spent two years -- under the banner of Operation Trawler -- desperately looking for evidence that Internet crime was rife and failed to come up with a single statistic to back such a claim.
[May 2, 2000, 12:42]
Former exec sues Google over 'youthful' culture
News Steve Langdon, a spokesman for the company, said only that it considers Reid's claim to be "without merit" and that it plans to "defend itself vigorously" against the charges. Langdon would not respond to Reid's claim in his suit that he was...
[July 27, 2004, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The researchers claim that all emotions are composed of various mixes of these fundamental psychic notes, although I suspect that most emotions caused by being made to look like a toadstool would lack a couple of those components.
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You'll also have to trust them that they actually own the Unix copyright they claim, not trust Novell who claim otherwise, and take SCO's word for it that you couldn't get rid of the Unix components in Linux even if you knew what they were.
[February 27, 2004, 16:05]
Labour wades in to delayed IR35 appeal
News This 5 percent flat rate deduction is to cover expenses -- but many consultants claim that this simply won't be enough to allow them to finance training costs. IT contractors claim that it is unreasonable of the government to expect them to keep up...
[November 20, 2001, 16:54]
SCO's financial situation worsens
News SCO is embroiled in a legal battle with IBM over its claim that the software giant included SCO's Unix intellectual property within Linux. IBM has denied this claim, and is countersuing SCO. SCO accuses Novell of slander over this claim.
[January 18, 2007, 16:19]
Hackers' code exploits Sendmail flaw
News We do not claim that our way of exploitation is the only one," one of the group's members said in an email. The LSD group -- whose four members claim to be graduates of the Poznan University of Technology -- say that releasing such code enhances...
[March 5, 2003, 7:55]
Airstrikes prompt defacement of Israeli websites
Blog Palestinian sources claim over 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in the past week. Israeli sources claim four Israelis have been killed in Palestinian rocket attacks in the same period.
[January 2, 2009, 16:31]
Why Research In Motion won't blink
News But negotiations stalled between the two companies, after the US Patent and Trademark Office dismissed all but one of eight patents mentioned in the original claim. That is the claim the jury found. But current events continue to raise clouds of...
[June 24, 2005, 11:05]
Time crisis: Will customers get their goods?
News Any claim that could have been brought against Time or Tiny can be brought against the credit provider under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974," said Joanne Barker, senior lawyer at Which? If the company has gone into liquidation then a...
[July 27, 2005, 15:35]
Mandrake Linux download policy angers club members
News The decision to allow the downloads to Silver members and higher left out about two-thirds of the Mandrake Club members, despite the club's original claim that "All membership levels enjoy the same benefits.
[March 22, 2002, 13:39]
419 spammers use Holocaust to boost credibility
News In his email, 'Lauder' explained that the victim left no will or relatives, so by Swiss law, it was possible to claim the money. The beneficiary was murdered during the holocaust era, leaving no WILL and no possible records for trace of heirs...
[October 1, 2004, 17:40]
Court victory in the fight against spam
News The company did not defend the claim and a judge ruled in favour of Roberts. Roberts told the BBC that he had limited his claim to a maximum of £300 so that it would qualify for a hearing in the small claims court which made it quicker and cheaper...
[December 28, 2005, 12:20]
