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McBride denied telephone service
Talkback If the lawyers can argue their case and refer to some obscure law, taken completely out of context, the court will rule in their favour, no matter how pathetic the case is or how poorly the law was defined.
[February 6, 2004, 19:16]
Council of Europe approves cybercrime treaty
News The treaty also addresses the controversial interception of communications data for the purpose of criminal investigations, and requires signatory states to grant law enforcement authorities the power to collect or record traffic or content data...
[September 21, 2001, 14:09]
Ballmer: Don't stifle innovation
News That advice would change if, and only if, the European Commission is now saying that the law in Europe is now different than the law in the United States. Smith noted that the same competitors that sought action from the European Commission had...
[March 25, 2004, 7:35]
EngCalc (Automotive) - Windows Mobile Calculator
Downloads List of Calculators Airflow Alternate DepressionCFM of Carburetor (Displacement in)Circle Surface AreaCoil Spring RateCone Surface AreaCoolant PercentageCoolant VolumeCost-Annual Gas Cost ApproximationCrawl RatioCrawl SpeedCube Surface...
[October 31, 2005, 7:00]
Cyberattack threat spurs US rethink on power grids
News The proposed law could require any owner, user or operator of the bulk power system to abide by interim measures established by Ferc to address current security threats until Ferc could address the threats under its normal protocol.
[September 15, 2008, 13:35]
US praises DeCSS non-publication decision
News In August, federal judge Lewis Kaplan agreed with the MPAA's assertions and ruled that 2600 was breaking the law by linking to the code. What's more, the government said, Kaplan properly enforced provisions of the controversial Digital Millennium...
[February 23, 2001, 8:39]
Lack of reporting hits cybercrime fight
News We have five or six different law enforcement agencies who ware all saying we're responsible for cybercrime. A major cause of this, believes Spinks, is that there is no central point of contact with law enforcement.
[April 25, 2002, 16:47]
US approves billion-dollar cybersecurity bill
News Just as the threat of terrorism has been exploited as a way of securing passage of other pet law-enforcement projects, the cybersecurity threat can also be an occasion for shifting to the government the costs of what are or should be private...
[November 14, 2002, 7:59]
US states weigh antitrust aspect of Oracle bid
News We're not interested right now in private actions, since they'll be plenty of law firms who will be willing to address that. State attorney general offices not only have the power to represent consumers on antitrust matters, but also act as the law...
[June 25, 2003, 9:21]
Oracle judge seeks expert technology advice
News It's not uncommon to use (court-appointed) expert witnesses in technology cases, especially when something is very complicated," said Stan Gorinson, an antitrust and business law partner with Kilpatrick Stockton.
[March 16, 2004, 9:35]
Mixed signals on mobile phone safety
News As of Tuesday, not one bill had been enacted into law. If not voted down, the bills have been stalled in committee and are unlikely to see the law books. But since the initial rush of legislation, 14 states in the US have outright rejected the bills.
[May 23, 2001, 10:07]
P2P firms face new legal threat
News Stevenson said in an interview on Monday that it should "come as no surprise to anybody that we talked to attorneys general, particularly the chief law enforcement officer in California, because of the impact that illegal file copying and stealing...
[March 16, 2004, 14:05]
Hollywood's war on open source
News This time the industry is armed with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law passed in 1998 that gives copyright owners unprecedented control over products such as DVDs or CDs. Small wonder then that two industry trade groups -- the...
[February 28, 2000, 9:05]
Don't throw buyers' rights overboard
Leader Briefly, the law will affect everything from software licence audits to RFID tagging and even printer ink cartridges. Few would disagree that patent law, copyright law and perhaps even trademark law need constant revision as the environment in...
[May 18, 2005, 13:30]
Government backs anti-spam mission to US
News The Spamhaus Project, an anti-spam organisation that helps ISPs to block spammers from sending huge numbers of junk email, has accused Timms of "bungling" the implementation of anti-spam law, because the legislation brought in this week will only...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
Tracking money trails with technology
News Alternative monetary schemes like hawalas (a traditional system used in the Muslim world to transfer cash across borders) traditionally move funds around, and they are clearly physical pieces that are being moved physically through the world and...
[November 21, 2001, 10:35]
Microsoft fires back at Sun in Java case
News Microsoft went on the offensive on Friday in the antitrust case brought against it by Sun Microsystems, accusing its bitter rival of violating California law through "unfair competition". That California law, also known as section 17200, prohibits...
[February 24, 2003, 8:10]
Business should 'use privacy laws, not abuse them'
News Despite a perceived complexity in much of this legal framework, France insisted that common sense is the best guide, and urged business managers and IT directors to understand the framework of the law and its key principles -- while leaving the...
[January 31, 2002, 11:52]
Push to talk heads for Wi-Fi
News The technology development was disclosed by the Federal Communications Commission in a notice of proposed rulemaking on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), a 160-page document released last week that discusses how to...
[August 12, 2004, 9:35]
'Windows only' Dell draws fire from Linux community
News Andrew Rigby, European competitive law specialist at Tarlo Lyons law firm in London, said such a deal contravenes European competitive law and explained that even if Dell Belgium felt obligated to sell only Windows, as Schepens implied, it would...
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