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Legal threat to Visa, MasterCard over Wikileaks move

A hosting company has said it will take immediate legal action against Visa and MasterCard over the payments companies'... Read more

8 December, 2010

Verizon joins in Samsung's fight against Apple

The US mobile network operator Verizon Wireless has stepped into the legal battle between Apple and Samsung, asking a... Read more

26 September, 2011

Samsung countersues Apple in Australia

...Making good on a legal threat made three weeks ago in the Federal Court of New South... Read more

19 September, 2011 by Luke Hopwell

Spectrum refarming promises rural broadband boost

...merged operations of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK — duly dropped its legal threat in November. European Commission The European Commission, meanwhile, has been pushing... Read more

6 January, 2011 by David Meyer

Everything Everywhere drops spectrum refarming threat

...merged operations of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK, has dropped a legal threat against the refarming of 2G spectrum for 3G services. The European... Read more

3 November, 2010

Australians told to ignore SCO's letters

An industry group is suggesting that Australian companies and individuals should not make any response to SCO's demands for Linux licences Read more

27 May, 2004 by Iain Ferguson

P2P firms face new legal threat

A leaked letter criticises file-sharing firms for failing to protect their users from 'known risks' Read more

16 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh, John Borland and Stefanie Olsen

SuSE feels safe despite SCO legal threat

A joint development agreement between SCO and SuSE will protect SuSE from any legal action, the Linux seller has said Read more

6 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

High-tech vigilantes face legal threat

Companies should be wary of carrying our counter attacks against hackers, even despite the fact that they still cannot rely on police for help Read more

8 May, 2001 by Madeline Bennett

Bidder's Edge defies eBay legal threat

Online auction portal Bidder's Edge said Tuesday that it has re-listed items from eBay in its search site, despite a warning from the online auctioneer. Read more

3 November, 1999 by Margaret Kane

Shell's outsourcing plans face legal threat

Union argues employees being "dumped" Read more

7 January, 2008 by Nick Heath

SCO downplays legal threat to Torvalds

But still playing hardball about alleged Unix code in Linux Read more

30 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Legal threat looms over data careless UK plc

UK legal experts have warned that lax data security or breaking the rules of the Data Protection Act may result in criminal charges. Read more

24 November, 2000 by Pia Heikkila

US election: Legal threat to websites for leaking exit poll data

At least two US websites could be sued for leaking exit poll results from the US elections. Read more

8 November, 2000 by Graham Hayday

Email poses legal threat

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2 November, 1998 by silicon.com staff

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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