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Apple execs reaped 'millions' in unlawful profits, shareholders allege
News Life for Apple's lawyers became even busier this week after a fourth lawsuit over stock options allegedly granted on the wrong dates was filed. On Tuesday, lawyers acting on behalf of Apple shareholders filed actions against the company claiming...
[August 23, 2006, 17:25]
PC makers attack new Windows fees
News PC makers and several states allege that new Microsoft licensing agreements, arrived at under the proposed antitrust settlement between the software maker and the US Justice Department, impose harsher terms on some manufacturers than agreements...
[February 22, 2002, 12:12]
Second WGA lawsuit faced by Microsoft
News Microsoft has been named in a second lawsuit over its antipiracy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, which plaintiffs allege acts as "spyware" on their systems. In this most recent lawsuit, the parties allege Microsoft violated the Computer...
[July 6, 2006, 9:45]
Court hears Nasa hacker 'at risk of psychosis'
News They allege that McKinnon accessed 97 US government computers, including US army, navy and Nasa computers responsible for national defence and security, and naval munitions supply. The deletion also took down a US Naval Weapons Station computer...
[June 9, 2009, 17:54]
Cisco faces lawsuit for alleged fraud
News Net2Phone and Adir allege that Cisco was supposed to include the Adir Internet-based voice technologies in its products -- a potential boon for a fledgling company such as Adir. In the complaint, Net2Phone and Adir allege that "Cisco had seriously...
[March 20, 2002, 9:16]
Nokia accused of selling faulty phones
News La's counsel told the court that Nokia had engaged in deceptive and misleading advertising by marketing the phones carrying the alleged defect as capable of carrying out their functions and violated the phones' express warranty terms as they...
[May 6, 2003, 14:13]
Nasa hacker closer to extradition after CPS refusal
News They also allege that he caused $700,000 (£500,000) worth of damage by deleting files, and that he disabled the function of a warship. US prosecutors allege that McKinnon was politically motivated in his hacking attack on US army, navy, airforce...
[February 26, 2009, 16:36]
Sun may have broken bribery laws
News The suits, filed on 20 April and 30 April in Santa Clara County Superior Court, are aimed at stopping Oracle's $7.4bn acquisition of Sun and allege a breach of fiduciary duty. The complaints generally allege that the consideration offered in the...
[May 11, 2009, 14:39]
DoJ to seek charges against Microsoft
News A second Section 2 charge will allege attempted monopolisation of Internet software. A third set of charges, under Section 1 of the act, cites some otherwise-common business practices, such as exclusive contracts, that the government will allege...
[December 6, 1999, 14:35]
VeriSign slapped again over redirection
News VeriSign has not alleged, and cannot allege, that the co-conspirators compromised a majority of the ICANN Board of Directors," the court stated. It cannot allege that the 'supporting organisations' within ICANN's structure that do include...
[August 27, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft slaps firms with piracy lawsuits
News The suits, which Microsoft publicised on Wednesday, allege that two software distributors in California and three in Virginia violated copyright and trademark laws that protect the Windows franchise. Specifically the suits allege the companies sold...
[June 16, 2005, 9:35]
Italian regulators open Google News inquiry
News Competition regulators in Italy have opened an inquiry into Google News at the behest of publishers, which allege they are banned from search results unless they agree to be part of it. According to a report on The Wall Street Journal's website on...
[August 28, 2009, 11:44]
Legato shareholders fight EMC bid
News The two lawsuits allege that Legato executives, and the company's board of directors in particular, timed the announcement of the acquisition to shed a positive light on the $1.3bn (£0.82bn) bid by storage systems manufacturer EMC and to attempt...
[July 18, 2003, 10:27]
Alleged teen hacker could get 38 years
Blog Prosecutors allege that Omar Khan hacked into his school computers in Orange County using his teachers' passwords to alter his grades, changing one from an F to an A. A teenager who has been accused of hacking into his school systems to change his...
[June 23, 2008, 13:21]
Net-porn filtering hit with lawsuits
News Though the suits vary in scope, both allege that forcing schools to filter is unconstitutional because it censors online speech. As expected, the American Civil Liberties Union and American Library Association filed separate suits Tuesday...
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
World Online faces legal action
News Dutch lawyer Bob van de Goen -- acting on behalf of the 1,000 private investors -- will also allege that World Online founder and ex-chairwoman Nina Brink illicitly sold 15m shares in the company and will question whether the prospectus should...
[May 15, 2000, 15:36]
IBM wants judgement on SCO's Linux copyright
News The request appears in an amended counterclaim that Big Blue filed on Tuesday in its legal battle with SCO, whose main claims allege that IBM violated contract provisions by distributing Linux products that illegally incorporate Unix code that SCO...
[March 31, 2004, 9:00]
First 'warspamming' case reaches court
News Prosecutors allege that Tombros used a laptop to sniff out insecure residential wireless access points in a Los Angeles suburb, before using them to send spam across the Internet. A US citizen is thought to have become the first person to be...
[September 7, 2004, 15:15]
Google accused of bio-piracy
News The organisers allege that Google's collaboration with genomic research institute J. Search giant Google has been accused of being the "biggest threat to genetic privacy" for its alleged plan to create a searchable database of genetic information.
[March 29, 2006, 18:15]
Publishers sue Gator over pop-ups
News The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dow Jones and seven other publishers allege that Gator's ads violate their copyrights and steal revenue. A group of publishers this week sued the Gator online advertising network in a bid to bar the company...
[June 28, 2002, 9:53]
