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Court battle highlights email rights
News Anti-Intel crusader Ken Hamidi's long-standing battle to highlight alleged unfair labour practices at the chip giant is set to get another day in court this week. At a hearing on Wednesday, Intel is expected to ask the California Supreme Court to...
[April 1, 2003, 8:32]
Court pressed to unseal AMD-Intel antitrust records
News News outlets and advocacy groups are seeking access to sealed court records in AMD's antitrust case against Intel. The New York Times, Situation Publishing, Dow Jones, The Washington Post, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the...
[August 22, 2008, 17:36]
Court cracks down on file-swapping company
News A Dutch court on Thursday ordered file-swapping software maker Kazaa to prevent people using its product from engaging in copyright infringement or face thousands of dollars in fines. The court's decision comes in a suit brought by Dutch copyright...
[November 30, 2001, 10:37]
Microsoft ruling: Court's decision
News The Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance overturns the appeal of the software giant and orders it to pay a €497m (£344m) fine originally levied by the EU executive in 2004.
[September 18, 2007, 16:57]
False feedback okay - court
Talkback Your headline and summary implies that the court reached an unreasonable decision. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! No. All it did was what it was obliged to do - apply federal law. If critisism of anyone is due, it is the Federal...
[February 11, 2004, 11:50]
Court gives go-ahead to Hewlett lawsuit
News HP, which believes it narrowly won a 19 March shareholder vote on the deal, asked a Delaware court to dismiss the suit, a request that was denied Monday. Hewlett Revocable Trust issued a statement saying it was "pleased" with the ruling and...
[April 9, 2002, 8:34]
Court gives nod to Mac OS X refund
News A Los Angeles Superior Court judge gave preliminary approval to the settlement at a hearing last month. Apple denied those claims in court filings but said it was willing to settle in order to avoid the legal costs of continuing to fight them.
[October 31, 2003, 10:10]
US lawyers 'threatened' Nasa hacker, court hears
News Moreover, in a letter to McKinnon dated 9 April, 2003, Gibson said the US authorities would reserve the right to prosecute McKinnon under US military law, which carries much more stringent penalties, Pannick told the court.
[June 16, 2008, 18:08]
Court dismisses charges against HP's Dunn
News The three other remaining defendants — former HP attorney Kevin Hunsaker; private detective Ronald DeLia; and Matthew DePante of data-brokering company Action Research Group — pleaded no contest to a count of fraudulent wire communications at...
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
Court outlaws EU-US passenger data transfer
News A 2004 deal between the European Union and the United States had been deemed illegal by the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg. The Luxembourg Court has now ruled that the deal goes against European Community law, and has concluded it should...
[May 30, 2006, 12:30]
Court upholds ex-Intel worker's deluge of critical emails
News Setting a new precedent in Internet law, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an ex-Intel worker did not trespass on company computer systems when he emailed thousands of messages critical of his former employer to staffers at work.
[July 1, 2003, 9:22]
Court throws out Via charges against Intel
News The English High Court has ruled against Via Technologies in a lawsuit against chipmaker Intel over the licensing of Pentium 4 patents, ruling that Intel's refusal to license the technology to Via did not constitute market abuse.
[June 20, 2002, 15:50]
Court sides with Microsoft in Sun lawsuit
News Sun's claims came in spite of the fact that the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction against Microsoft, pending further clarification from the US District Court in San Jose, California.
[August 24, 1999, 8:12]
Court rejects Microsoft bid for delay
News A federal appeals court on Friday delivered Microsoft a blow in its antitrust battle with the government, denying a request that could have indefinitely delayed further proceedings in the case. The order, issued by the US Court of Appeals for the...
[August 17, 2001, 16:58]
Court victory in the fight against spam
News A British businessman has won what is believed to be the first court victory of its kind in the fight against spam. The decision, which comes three years after the European Union passed the directive on privacy and telecommunication, is believed to...
[December 28, 2005, 12:20]
Court rules against TorrentSpy in hacking case
News A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy — a BitTorrent search engine — that accused the movie studios' trade group of intercepting the company's private emails, was tossed out of court last week. But while a US district judge found that the Motion...
[August 29, 2007, 11:05]
Court resists trend in Net address case
News In a rare victory for an individual domain name owner, a federal court has thrown out the cybersquatting claims of a truck manufacturer against a computer consultant. In June 2000, the company filed suit with the US District Court for the Eastern...
[September 6, 2001, 10:56]
Court sets back Sun's Java push
News A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language.
[June 27, 2003, 8:41]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
News The court case between Microsoft and desktop Linux-maker Lindows.com, over Microsoft's ownership of the word 'windows', has been delayed for at least another three months. This time, the US District Court in Seattle has rescheduled the trial for 1...
[November 25, 2003, 14:30]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
Talkback Presumably this court action is just another stage in Microsoft's bid to own the word "windows", and by extension "window", outright. But when it achieves that, what next? Will it, I wonder, build a case for levying an annual royalty, if not on...
[December 1, 2003, 14:37]
