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Microsoft To Oracle: Cease And Desist
News In an ongoing attempt to keep Larry Ellison honest, Microsoft issued Oracle a standard cease-and-desist letter. And Oracle officials said they planned to show the same demonstration at Fall Comdex 2000.
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Cisco Flaw Presentation Spreads Across The Web
News Cisco's lawyers are sending out cease-and-desist notices to Web sites that have published a controversial presentation by ex-Internet Security Systems (ISS) employee Michael Lynn that exposes the potential dangers of a flaw in the network giant's...
[August 1, 2005, 16:00]
Intel To Comply With Antitrust Ruling
News Intel's Japanese subsidiary, Intel K.K.received the recommendations earlier this month, which called for the company to cease and desist such actions as offering favourable prices to companies that agreed not to use, or to limit, their use of...
[April 1, 2005, 12:05]
RIAA Apologises For More Mistaken Warnings
News Just as the RIAA doesn't publicise the names of whom it sends cease-and-desist notices in order to protect their privacy, Lamy said, the group will not publicise this temp's name. In a second incident, Speakeasy, a national broadband provider, said...
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
Adobe-Macromedia Suit: Born To Settle?
News In its complaint, Adobe alleged that, beginning in 1996, it sent cease-and-desist letters to Macromedia in response to the latter's inclusion of "tabbed palette" features in products such as the now-defunct xRes 2.0 image editing application and a...
[August 15, 2000, 11:40]
New P2P System Crippled By Success
News Visitors were temporarily greeted with a note saying that the site's operators had "received a cease and desist letter during the day of Wednesday, July 16, 2003 for copyright infringement. A spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of...
[July 23, 2003, 11:31]
The MobiTV Debacle: A Mobile Security Issue?
Blog As is goes HowardForums.com was slapped with a cease and desist order by MobiTV due to a link that seemingly “back-doored” the MobiTV content. MobiTV has since suffered the backlash of their decision to issue a cease and desist order, which for...
[March 10, 2008, 13:15]
HP Settles Disclosure Case With SEC
News As part of the settlement with regulators, HP agreed to a cease-and-desist order but neither admitted nor denied any wrongdoing as part of the administrative proceeding, the SEC said. HP and US regulators have settled allegations concerning an...
[May 24, 2007, 9:53]
Where's My G5 PowerBook?
Talkback Apple's G5 PowerBook is the 'book that I would consider, however, they can cease and desist at offering these warmed over models that has yesterday's technology. The G4 is pokey and is not a good substitute.
[February 2, 2005, 21:14]
'Free' OS X Riles Apple
News Macfixit later took down the posting after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Apple. In October, Apple gave away thousands of free CDs that offered owners of Mac OS X a free upgrade to version 10.1 -- the first major update to the new OS and...
[December 4, 2001, 9:37]
Copyright Truce Excludes Key Voices
News They've used similar tactics to combat piracy, ranging from sending cease-and-desist letters to Internet service providers to joining law enforcement in raids on CD and software reproduction facilities.
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Godzilla Vs The Blog Thing
News The owner of the Godzilla trademark has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the small-time blogging site Davezilla, sparking concerns that AOL Time Warner-sponsored Mozilla.org could be the Japanese monster's next target.
[August 15, 2002, 7:28]
ITunes Music Sharing App Goes Online
News If at first you get a cease-and-desist letter, try again. However, he noted that with iCommune there is no central server that stores the locations of available music, and that the software is open-source, making it difficult to stop the software...
[April 16, 2003, 7:29]
RIAA Warns Individual Song-swappers
News The Recording Industry Association of America said it has sent cease-and-desist letters to five people whom it suspects of illegally offering massive amounts of copyrighted music through peer-to-peer networks.
[June 20, 2003, 7:45]
MS Gets Heavy With Shareware Upstart
News Lawyers representing Microsoft sent a cease-and-desist letter last week to Esiod Systems, a small, Washington-based software company formed early this year by ex-Microsoft developers Siddhartha Rao and Caleb Doise.
[June 11, 2003, 9:27]
Bidder's Edge Defies EBay Legal Threat
News Last month, eBay cracked down on auction portals that allow users to search multiple portals for items.eBay claimed that the listings on its site were intellectual property and sent cease and desist letters to third-party search engines that were...
[November 3, 1999, 10:27]
Lindows Holds Firm Over Contested Web Site
News An attorney representing Microsoft sent Lindows a cease-and-desist letter late last week objecting to the company's MSfreePC site. The site offers to process claims on behalf of current and former California residents who qualify for proceeds from...
[October 1, 2003, 11:30]
MS Must Stop Bundling IE 4.0
News District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in an interim order that Microsoft must "cease and desist" practices requiring computer manufacturers to bundle Windows 95 with its Internet Explorer browser.
[December 12, 1997, 9:27]
Intel Granted Antitrust Extension
News Japan's FTC has recommended that Intel's Japan operations cease and desist from such activities, which involved five Japanese PC makers: NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sony and Fujitsu. Facing allegations of antitrust violations in Japan, chip giant Intel...
[March 18, 2005, 14:05]
Amazon Book Ban Backfires
News Amazon spokesman Bill Curry said the bookseller withdrew the book after it learned this past February of the cease and desist order that was in place in the UK. The book, a critical examination of Scientology and its founder, L.
[May 21, 1999, 8:06]
