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WTO Boss Rails Against 'dot-com Types'
News The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has blamed "dot-com types" for recent anti-capitalist violence at WTO gatherings. In April, a group of UK demonstrators organised a "virtual sit-in" against the trade group Free Trade Area of Americas...
[July 9, 2001, 16:32]
Game Companies Blast Pirates In New Case
News Such anti-piracy efforts are becoming increasingly common, but the trade group said the three alleged hacker rings they uncovered are some of the most sophisticated yet, employing hundreds of people around the world in global counterfeiting...
[August 16, 1999, 16:25]
Intel Tipped To Lose Antitrust Case
News The Japanese Fair Trade Commission has reportedly decided that this practice violated Japan's anti-monopoly law as it harmed Intel's competitors. An Intel spokesman confirmed on Monday that it is working with the Fair Trade Commission, but was...
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
Anti-spyware: Into The Front Lines
News After a first report on the issue last November, Schwartz's group filed a first round of complaints with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday about so-called anti-spyware products that the group contends are abusing customers' trust.
[February 12, 2004, 14:40]
MPs Demand Spam Protection For Businesses
News One of its key conclusions is that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has erred in its implementation of its anti-spam laws, by deliberately not giving corporate email accounts the same protection as personal ones.
[October 6, 2003, 17:05]
Government Backs Anti-spam Mission To US
News Did we think the Department of Trade and Industry could cock up the UK's anti-spam law? Last month, the chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission warned that these proposed laws would not address the growing spam problem, and might actually make...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
Free Speech Victory For DVD Crackers
News Our respect for the legislature and its enactment of the (trade secrets law) cannot displace our duty to safeguard the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. In this case, the DVD Copyright Control Association, an industry group aimed at...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
China Joins Spam Talks
News Among those taking part in the two-day ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) event, hosted by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), are representatives of the DTI itself; EU member states; Asian partner countries including China, Japan and Korea...
[February 23, 2005, 8:55]
Tech Companies Broadside Anti-piracy Plan
News This legislation would be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into the commercial marketplace," said Ken Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group that includes IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Motorola and...
[October 23, 2001, 8:59]
New Back Orifice Promises NT Break-ins
News The first version of Back Orifice, so named to poke fun at Microsoft's Back Office product, was released in August last year at the annual hacking trade show called DEF CON. With great fanfare at a Las Vegas trade show, the hacker group Cult of the...
[July 8, 1999, 15:26]
Tech Industry Quiet Over Netscape Lawsuit
News Representatives at ProComp, a Washington-based trade group to "Promote Competition & Innovation in the Digital Age," said they would have been flabbergasted had Netscape not sued. The chickens are coming home to roost for Microsoft," said Ed Black...
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Opinion: Yahoo!'s Awkward Corner
News Trade drives the Internet and trade is decidedly jumpy about the lack of harmonised laws on a whole host of cyber issues. I predict that global trade will sooner or later demand that legal issues be homogenised across countries to prevent the...
[July 25, 2000, 16:57]
Anti-spyware 'deceiving Consumers'
News In a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission, the Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said software developer Mail Wiper and its marketing affiliate Seismic Entertainment Productions have misled consumers in promotions for anti...
[February 12, 2004, 11:20]
Asian Powers Seal Operating System Plan
News The pact was announced by Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma at the ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) economics ministers meeting in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. China needs to be involved early as it is a big market, and the...
[September 8, 2003, 10:25]
Malaysian Minister Warns That High CD Prices Fuel Piracy
News The refusal of recording companies to lower prices despite repeated calls by the government was helping fuel the trade in pirated movies, music and software, alleged the deputy domestic trade and consumer affairs minister, S.
[June 3, 2003, 9:23]
Anti-spam Tool Brings MSN Under Fire
News Known as port 25 blocking, the measure has been adopted by most major Internet service providers as a way to prevent spammers from using random ISPs to ply their trade. Almost everyone else including EarthLink and MindSpring implemented this a year...
[April 9, 2001, 11:54]
Exclusive: Microsoft Accused Of Apathy Over Piracy
News Hough bought the software from a Microsoft distributor at a trade price of £310 (excl. They include special trade offers from all over the country with one advertising the full version (not upgrade) of Microsoft Office 97 (Small Business Edition...
[June 8, 1998, 11:05]
Anti-war Hackers Strike The US Navy
News Jack Clark, product manager at McAfee, said: "Virus writers will use any occasion that they think will work on computer users, no matter how sick -- be it the attack on the World Trade Centre or the war with Iraq.
[March 21, 2003, 17:17]
Microsoft Foes Can Testify At Hearing
News US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a flood of orders Thursday giving a number of trade groups, Microsoft competitors and other parties permission to participate in the Tunney Act process, but she limited the majority to 10-minute...
[March 1, 2002, 8:53]
Anti-spam Laws May 'do More Harm Than Good'
News Anti-spam proposals in Congress are not strict enough and would do more harm than good, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. In response to public outcry and clogged inboxes, politicians have been busily drafting more and...
[August 20, 2003, 11:10]
