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Lawsuits attack New York spamming ring
News Microsoft and New York's attorney general took aim at spam on Thursday, with a series of lawsuits. In conjunction with New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer's office, the software giant filed several lawsuits against a New York-based...
[December 19, 2003, 10:25]
Sidekick outages spark flurry of lawsuits
News A number of lawsuits have been filed following the T-Mobile Sidekick outage, including two filed in federal court in Northern California on Wednesday that allege both negligence and false claims on the part of Microsoft and T-Mobile.
[October 15, 2009, 9:24]
EFF: Don't protect US telcos from spying lawsuits
News The telecoms companies can walk away from lawsuits as long as the government claims the request was "lawful" and authorised by the president. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US-based advocacy group for internet users, is expected to argue in...
[December 2, 2008, 11:17]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
News The first of the threatened lawsuits from SCO against companies who use Linux but have refused to sign up to the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux are likely to land this year, the company said.
[November 26, 2003, 10:30]
RIAA files 750 more lawsuits
News The Recording Industry Association of America filed on Thursday another round of lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including students on 13 university campuses. The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study...
[October 29, 2004, 9:19]
Mobile risk: Could cancer lawsuits come to Europe?
News A spokesman for Motorola in the US claimed that in the past all similar lawsuits had been withdrawn, or rejected by the courts. If the impending lawsuit against Motorola is successful in the US, it could force mobile phone manufacturers here to...
[August 4, 2000, 10:20]
Intel threatens new round of chipset lawsuits
News Chen Chun-shen, Intel's Asia-Pacific regional president, told the Taiwan Economic News on Thursday that the company would not hesitate to file lawsuits against companies, such as Via, which make chipsets for Pentium 4 without a licence from Intel.
[August 10, 2001, 16:55]
Canadian music industry readies lawsuits
News The Canadian music industry is going to court to seek the identities of 29 online file-swappers, in preparation to filing lawsuits similar to those that have targeted hundreds of US computer users. The information gained from those requests would...
[February 16, 2004, 9:25]
New wave of lawsuits hits file-swappers
Talkback RIAA president Cary Sherman said in a press conference to announce the lawsuits. Our message should be as clear as ever: We can and will continue to bring lawsuits against those who distribute music to millions of strangers.
[January 23, 2004, 14:44]
Open-source code finder aims to prevent lawsuits
News Such lawsuits have already taken place, including a recent case where the author of open-source networking software netfilter successfully sued Dutch company, Sitecom, for breaching the General Public License (GPL).
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
Microsoft fires off spam lawsuits
News Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against unnamed defendants who it believes sent spam that violated the US anti-spam law CAN-SPAM. The seven lawsuits, which were filed on Wednesday, claim the defendants compromised computers to route spam...
[December 2, 2004, 15:00]
CA settles accounting lawsuits
News Computer Associates International said it would issue 5.7 million shares to settle a group of shareholder lawsuits related to the software maker's accounting practices. The lawsuits stemmed from allegations by investors that the company hid...
[August 26, 2003, 12:10]
Net-porn filtering hit with lawsuits
News Blocking of constitutionally protected material can happen, but it isn't fatal or terminal," The Family Research Council's Jan LaRue said in a statement outlining the groups opposition to the lawsuits.
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
Mobile industry faces flood of lawsuits
News Government bodies and regulators will both be targeted in lawsuits that will claim they have acted negligently by not promoting devices that could reduce exposure to emissions from mobile phones. A number of class action lawsuits are already...
[November 14, 2001, 12:15]
Microsoft files lawsuits over online 'malvertising'
News Aiming to crack down on a growing problem, Microsoft said it filed five lawsuits on Thursday against parties it suspects of posting online advertisements laden with malicious code. Microsoft likened the latest lawsuits to prior legal action that it...
[September 18, 2009, 9:07]
Red Hat's restatement prompts lawsuits
News In other events mentioned in some lawsuits, Thompson on 14 June announced his plan to resign, a move that also sent the company's stock down at the time. At least nine law firms have announced legal actions on behalf of Red Hat investors in the...
[July 16, 2004, 8:50]
Napster faces new lawsuits
News Although the lawsuits contribute little that is new to the company's legal troubles, they do threaten to make life more difficult -- and potentially expensive -- for the troubled file-swapping service.
[March 8, 2001, 9:06]
Canadian ruling won't derail lawsuits
News The story, citing unidentified sources, added that the CRIA would begin serving lawsuits as early as January. Instead, she pointed to a press release issued on 4 December, a day after the RIAA issued 41 lawsuits against individuals in the United...
[December 17, 2003, 9:20]
Diamond and RIAA agree to drop lawsuits
News The Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies also signed the agreement to drop pending lawsuits. "Diamond Multimedia and our RioPort subsidiary are pleased to bring an end to this legal dispute as we move forward with the music industry on the...
[August 5, 1999, 9:10]
RIAA launches more lawsuits against swappers
News The Recording Industry Association of America launched a new round of lawsuits on Tuesday against online music swappers, targeting 482 individuals around the US. As with previous rounds of suits filed by the music industry group, the "John Doe...
[June 23, 2004, 11:20]
