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Court pressed to unseal AMD-Intel antitrust records
News News outlets and advocacy groups are seeking access to sealed court records in AMD's antitrust case against Intel. AMD filed suit in 2005, claiming Intel coerced PC and server vendors into shunning AMD's chips, through intimidation and predatory...
[August 22, 2008, 17:36]
iSoft halts legal action against CSC
News Troubled software company iSoft has called a halt to legal proceedings initiated against Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the local service providers for the NHS National Programme for IT, after the latter blocked its takeover by Australian...
[June 7, 2007, 16:59]
Microsoft delays Eolas-prompted changes
News Microsoft said it will delay making any modifications to its Windows operating system and Internet Explorer Web browser because of the Eolas patent case. Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday that it will hold off implementing previously...
[January 30, 2004, 8:05]
Gmail threatened by UK lawsuit
News A UK company is considering filing a lawsuit against Google over its use of the Gmail name. After 15 months of negotiations with Google, Independent International Investment Research has been unable to reach a settlement with the search giant on...
[September 14, 2005, 9:30]
MD departs veteran UK online service CIX
News The 13-year-old service sacked Roland Perry, once a PCW development guru at Amstrad, following his payout to marketing staff made redundant in May, according to Perry's wife and former marketing director Jennifer Perry.
[June 2, 1997, 14:36]
Java is not the only language - Gates
News Speaking at Comdex Internet here, Microsoft's CEO said Java would be only one of several languages used in the future, and that other key languages would continue to emerge. Gates offered his view on Java after a keynote address in which he spoke...
[October 9, 1997, 9:06]
Flash storage firm countersues Intel
News Intel sued Silicon Storage Friday, claiming that its Flash EEPROM memory chips, which can be electrically erased and reprogrammed, infringed on four Intel patents. Silicon's suit today charges Intel with anti-competitive practices.
[November 17, 1997, 13:02]
EU consumer law to defy industry opposition
News Efforts by industry to lobby against proposed EC legislation which they say could threaten the future of e-commerce in Europe, are likely to fail, according legal experts. The legislation in question is the Rome II treaty -- now in draft form...
[May 18, 2001, 17:38]
UK adds voice to Napster Linux row
News It follows a row between Napster users and the Linux community in the US as to whether users of the service are merely following the ethos of open source. Such suggestions have been vigorously denied by creator of the Linux operating system Linus...
[May 23, 2000, 16:52]
Amazon spends $40m to make patent case go away
News Amazon.com paid $40m to Soverain Software to settle a patent-related lawsuit, just days before the trial was set to begin. Under terms of the settlement, announced on Thursday, the parties will dismiss all claims and counterclaims involved in the...
[August 12, 2005, 9:45]
Networks '99: Remote toaster claims world first
News Designed to demonstrate "that appliances previously thought too small to be controlled remotely over the Net can be brought into this ever-expanding market", the RMN stand was doing a brisk trade in handing out toast to hungry visitors to the...
[June 29, 1999, 11:38]
Study: US out ahead on e-commerce
News But many overseas e-commerce sites, selling both inside and outside the U.S.still have a long way to go to meet the customer service standards Americans are used to. That's according to a University of Utah professor who offered preliminary results...
[June 9, 1999, 9:44]
Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
News Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as part of a deal that will let Skype carry on using its core peer-to-peer technology. The deal means Skype's owner eBay can go through with its...
[November 6, 2009, 14:49]
Why?
Talkback This whole business seems like a complete waste of time to me. If people don't know how to install a different browser, they are unlikely to care about which one they use.
[December 18, 2009, 8:07]
COOL KULE
Talkback can you not see? its all about freedom and freedom to choose hence 12.000.000 people have gone away from windows/mac to linux ubuntu,you can choose what you like and its free
[December 17, 2009, 12:32]
yup..
Talkback This is probably more to do with which banner the powers of the EU reside under for the time being, and the anti competitive one's serves this purpose well, until the international community sort out a solid IP foundation, in which all others can...
[December 17, 2009, 23:16]
me to
Talkback i,m sorry also i thought it read microsoft bla bla bla and the anti christ after all he does think he,s god? WHO! MY FREIND BILL GATES
[December 17, 2009, 18:28]
Oh please, mission accomplished my butt.
Talkback "Mission accomplished. We'll now they will be presented with a choice, instead of being rail rolled into just one, so its a win if you ask me. How are you being railrollded? With Win 7 you already have the ability to completely turn off IE.
[December 18, 2009, 20:20]
Sure I can
Talkback "I can't particularly think of why Microsoft has been singled out by the European Commission, therefore. Can you? Its a American company nd they have not always played fair, I acknowledged that. They have deserved some of what they have gotten but...
[December 26, 2009, 1:01]
Mission accomplished..
Talkback We'll now they will be presented with a choice, instead of being rail rolled into just one, so its a win if you ask me.
[December 16, 2009, 21:09]
