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Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...while Apple was mulling its options to replace Amelio as chief executive, Bill Gates announced that his company would invest $150m in Apple and develop... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

...the Apple fans who booed Jobs when he brought in Microsoft chairman Bill Gates via video conference to announce the Microsoft deal, Jobs said: "We... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jason Hiner

MPs flag privacy concerns in Freedoms Bill

...Measures in the government's Protection of Freedoms Bill to reform how it retains information on the national DNA database may... Read more

10 October, 2011 by Sade Laja

US House panel approves ISP data retention bill

...UK's sister site CNET News. A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial internet providers are required to store to... Read more

29 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

New Zealand passes 'three strikes' file-sharing bill

...New Zealand after its government passed a controversial 'three strikes' file-sharing bill on Thursday. The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill allows copyright owners to... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Darren Greenwood

US privacy bill to exclude government agencies

...A new bill in the US Senate designed to protect personal data will exempt data... Read more

13 April, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

ID card scrappage bill to gain royal assent

...The bill abolishing the National Identity Scheme is expected to gain royal assent on... Read more

21 December, 2010 by Kable

Localism Bill to encourage the release of raw data

...released into the public domain, according to the government's new Localism Bill. A guidance document to the bill, published on Monday, includes a section... Read more

14 December, 2010 by Kable

Senate committee approves website shut-down bill

...last week, support for the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) bill broadened beyond groups traditionally active in online copyright disputes to include the... Read more

19 November, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

US file-sharing bill faces speedy vote

...the technology sector by announcing it would try to fast-track a bill designed to grant the US Department of Justice wide authority to combat... Read more

30 September, 2010 by Greg Sandoval

SOPA, Protect IP support wavers in face of online protest

...An unprecedented online protest against a Hollywood-backed copyright bill may be working: some of its previous supporters in the US Congress... Read more

19 January, 2012 by Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills

Sopa piracy bill allows provision for IP blocking

...A little-noticed portion of a House of Representatives copyright bill could require internet providers to monitor customers' traffic and block the addresses... Read more

21 November, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Websites employ pop-ups to protest piracy bill

...Websites in the US opposed to a federal anti-piracy bill have resorted to using pop-ups to warn users about the proposed... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft gears up for Novell antitrust suit

...put to the test. Some 13 years ago, a feisty, often condescending Bill Gates became the public face of a beleaguered Microsoft accused of breaking... Read more

18 October, 2011 by Charles Cooper

G-Cloud changes focus of datacentre rollback

...over consolidation to save money, according to deputy government chief information officer Bill McCluggage. In the past, the G-Cloud strategy called for reducing the... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

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