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Microsoft responds to US DOJ penalty
News Neukom, Microsoft's senior vice president for law and corporate affairs. Microsoft said the key part of the law it is alleged to have breached refers to it not requiring PC makers to also license another software product.
[October 21, 1997, 15:50]
Most UK Web sites break accessibility laws
News If most people are breaking a law it often means there is something wrong with the legislation, but Deri Jones, chief executive of SciVisum -- the Web site testing firm which commissioned the study -- said that the gap between the legislation and...
[March 23, 2004, 12:25]
Brown grants data spot-check powers to the ICO
News It is also important that the law is changed to make security breaches of this magnitude a criminal offence," said Thomas. The law needs to be changed urgently so that people's personal details are properly protected.
[November 22, 2007, 10:31]
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[February 21, 2006, 7:00]
Intellectual property laws in flux
News Yochai Benkler, of the New York University Law School, said a proposal moving through the US House of Representatives could make it illegal to use information that used to flow freely by restricting how information about the world can be collected...
[April 7, 2000, 10:39]
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[July 1, 2003, 8:00]
SCO puts limit on its legal payments
News Under the new fee agreement, which SCO expects to be completed in coming weeks, the company will limit its payments to $31m for the entire case, but the law firm stands to gain a larger fraction of any settlement SCO achieves.
[September 1, 2004, 9:25]
Freedom of speech v the will to protect children
News The Internet is new technology and technology is always ahead of the law but we are just trying to apply a commonsense law that works well in the real world to the Internet," Peterson said. Legitimate sites like these would be prevented from...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
Microsoft vs EC: The story so far
News The Commission is seeking to make new law that will have an adverse impact on intellectual property rights and the ability of dominant firms to innovate," Microsoft said. In April, it released a position paper accusing the Commission of creating a...
[April 24, 2006, 13:20]
Database to resolve Internet adoption disputes
News The critical point is immigration -- you can affect an adoption under foreign law, but [to keep the child] you need to comply with the country law in which you are bringing the child back," said Robin Bynoe, partner at city law firm Charles Russell.
[August 7, 2001, 16:58]
Ofcom pleads for Telecoms Package to pass
News At the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) conference in Brussels on Thursday, chief executive Ed Richard said if the Telecoms Package failed to become law by the end of this year, it would be a "significant blow" to...
[June 25, 2009, 11:38]
Copyright?
Talkback We are preventing this device to be manufactured by the law to protect someones income. What a hell is this - protecting someones income by the law? Obligating others to pay to the mediacorps by the law for the synthetic right society gives to the...
[August 27, 2009, 10:08]
Microsoft plugs Passport hole
News The flaw comes as a new California law goes into effect that would require companies to give notice to their customers when unencrypted personal information may have been compromised. Companies that do not comply with the California law open...
[July 3, 2003, 8:03]
Vonage seeks retrial in Verizon patent case
News One day after the high court released a unanimous opinion widely viewed as one of the most sweeping changes to patent law in years, the struggling internet phone company asked the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit to put its pending appeals...
[May 2, 2007, 8:15]
Chatroom Danger: Wonderland paedophiles given the thumbs up
News Another is testing where old law is inadequate to new circumstances. These obligations are enforced with the full majesty of the law. None of the defendants received anything approaching the maximum sentences available, even given the light maxima...
[March 15, 2001, 12:48]
Internet 'grooming' legislation faces delays
News The grooming initiative was developed in August by the Scrutiny of the Criminal Law subgroup of the Home Office Internet Taskforce on Child Protection. It is still in its preliminary stage, but is designed to address a recognised gap in the law...
[October 2, 2001, 13:28]
AOL giving away spammer's ill-gotten gains
News The law, which has not gone without criticism, not only arms Internet service providers with legal weapons against those who fire off unsolicited e-mail, it also allows courts to seize any property that a convicted spammer has obtained using money...
[August 11, 2005, 9:45]
e-Communications directive: MEPs vote on cookie compromise
News Data retention: telcos and ISPs could be required to retain traffic and billing data for fixed periods for national security and law enforcement purposes under national legislation, but only where such measures are "necessary, appropriate and...
[June 11, 2002, 16:02]
IBM unveils world's smallest transistor
News Chipmakers increase the performance of their processors by adding more transistors to them following the curve of Moore's Law, a rule that states transistor counts will double every two years. However, if transistors can no longer be made smaller...
[December 9, 2002, 8:05]
Canada's ISPs may get 'spy' role
News If there are new powers needed for law enforcement authority, make that case. The United States has a similar requirement, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, but it applies only to pre-Internet telecommunications companies.
[August 28, 2002, 13:12]
