Australia Sets Date For Google Keyword Case
News The Australian Federal Court has set a hearing date for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's allegations against Google of misleading and deceptive conduct. Last Friday, Justice James Allsop set a hearing date of 23 June for the...
[November 19, 2007, 11:17]
UK Signs Up To International Anti-spam Agreement
News The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have joined forces with the US Federal Trade Commission, the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the UK Information Commissioner and the...
[July 5, 2004, 10:40]
Aussie Group Claims SCO's Demands Flout Law
News Open Source Victoria claims SCO is violating the Trade Practices Act and has updated its complaint against the company with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Open Source Victoria claims that by demanding that Australian...
[January 22, 2004, 9:10]
Sony's Mod Chip Battle Heats Up
News Sony Corporation Entertainment has accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of using rhetoric and misleading information in a courtroom dispute between the two over the use of modification chips in PlayStation2 consoles.
[February 14, 2002, 10:12]
Sony Continues The Fight For Regional Coding
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped into a Federal Court case to challenge the international agreement on regional coding of DVDs. Fels said Sony Computer Entertainment was moving to prevent consumers from reaping the...
[February 8, 2002, 10:07]
Australian Body Calls For Mod-chip Legalisation
News Sony spent nearly two years in the Federal Court, fending challenges from Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC), convincing judges the chips were illegal under the Copyright Act 1968. The Australian Consumers Association on Monday...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
FTC Cracks International Web Porn Ring
News Allan Asher, deputy chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, said by videophone from Canberra that law enforcement authorities there had raided eight locations, gathering information for possible criminal prosecution or...
[September 23, 1999, 9:29]
Oracle Gets PeopleSoft Green Light In Australia
News Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel said in a statement the regulator would not oppose the proposed acquisition, a move foreshadowed by ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia last month.
[November 24, 2004, 12:50]
Australians Told To Ignore SCO's Letters
News Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) yesterday posted a position paper on its Web site arguing that Australian companies who receive a request for licence payment from SCO should not reply in any way, should seek legal advice and should also...
[May 26, 2004, 9:55]
PS2 Mod Chips Legal In Australia
News Stevens, who elected to represent himself, saw his case benefited substantially from representations made on behalf of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which sought leave to appear in the court as amicus curiae or friend...
[July 29, 2002, 8:34]
Aussie Court Backtracks On Mod Chips
News The decision comes as a blow to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which intervened in the original case to argue in favour of upholding the chips' legality. A year ago, Federal Court Judge Justice Ronald Sackville ruled...
[July 31, 2003, 16:19]
Google-DoubleClick Deal Gets US Green Light
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approved the deal in October. This deal thus would have greater consequences in Europe than in the United States, and in order to fulfill its duty to apply European law, the Commission still has...
[December 21, 2007, 7:34]
Industry Group Says SCO Cannot Alter Old Licences
News An open-source industry group has filed a new complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against controversial software company the SCO Group, saying the vendor is attempting to alter previously granted licences.
[February 19, 2004, 9:00]
Aussie Mod-chip Veto Criticised
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decried a ruling by the Federal Court that mod chips designed to circumvent copy protection features on gaming consoles are illegal. While the ACCC supports Sony's right to crack down on the...
[August 1, 2003, 12:05]
SCO Ready To Hit Australian Linux Users
News He also confirmed he had not heard any further news from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over a complaint from Linux activist group Open Source Victoria. The SCO Group's Australian and New Zealand boss, Kieran O'Shaughnessy, told...
[January 9, 2004, 9:35]
Australian Broadband Adoption Accelerates
News The number of broadband connections in Australia passed the 500,000 milestone at the end of June, according to new statistics released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. This is an improvement from the 16.5 percent and 16.4...
[October 8, 2003, 10:30]
Linux Gets Green Light In New South Wales
News The news comes as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has recently stipulated that Intel's latest Core 2 Duo processors must be at the heart of its own desktop refresh project. The NSW government's Linux requirement is unusual given...
[September 20, 2006, 15:30]
Value 'sells Linux To Government'
News There's a lot of issues that arise with the interaction of an open-source licence and what you have to provide in a government contract," said Peter Bailey from Synod, which used a mixture of open-source and proprietary code for a content...
[January 13, 2004, 9:00]
