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Media player row: Will the EU read between the lines?
News Whereas I devoted a significant amount of research and analysis to the US government's antitrust proceedings against Microsoft, I've treated the European Union's deliberations over the same as little more than a footnote to the whole Microsoft...
[January 7, 2004, 11:45]
EC acts against UK over data protection
News The European Commission has launched infringement proceedings against the UK, claiming the country is not sufficiently complying with European data-protection laws. In a statement, the Commission said the proceedings addressed "several problems...
[April 14, 2009, 16:53]
Insolvent BenQ Mobile faces liquidation
News Insolvency proceedings were opened in Germany on Monday, after administrators were unable to find any investors willing to buy the struggling company. Under German law, a company has three months' grace after filing for bankruptcy before formal...
[January 2, 2007, 13:00]
EC cracks down on local-loop unbundling
News The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Portugal after accusing the countries of failing to properly implement EU regulations on local-loop unbundling.
[March 21, 2002, 14:31]
Whose law is it anyway?
Blog I returned to work today after a two-week vacation (lovely, thanks), only to find the European Commission had finally kicked off formal proceedings against the UK government over the BT/Phorm debacle (full story here).
[April 14, 2009, 17:25]
DRAM-maker Qimonda files for insolvency
News The memory maker announced the opening of insolvency proceedings on Friday, with outside lawyer Dr Michael Jaffé taking on the role of preliminary insolvency administrator. Qimonda, which was spun off from the chipmaker Infineon in 2006, said the...
[January 26, 2009, 14:37]
Expert: Windows can be broken into parts
News Andrew Appel, the 14th witness in the proceedings to determine a remedy for Microsoft's antitrust violations and a computer science professor at Princeton University, began his testimony here late on Tuesday before a sparsely filled courtroom.
[April 11, 2002, 7:31]
PC World Business sued over Net pricing error
News Graeme McKenna has issued proceedings against PC World Business in the small claims court for £2,080 -- the correct price of the CDs he ordered online last month. PC World Business now has until 16 August to respond to the proceedings.
[August 4, 2003, 10:00]
RIM loses ground in patent dispute
News US District Judge James Spencer denied RIM's request to halt the proceedings until the US Patent and Trademark Office re-examines whether the patents are valid. This court cannot and will not grant RIM the extraordinary remedy of delaying these...
[December 1, 2005, 8:55]
Antitrust: Microsoft makes case for delay
News The district judge, while disqualified by virtue of deliberate and repeated violations of clear ethical rules, entered findings of fact and conclusions of law that have been and will be relied upon in subsequent proceedings in this case and...
[August 15, 2001, 9:34]
FAQ: What the appeals court's ruling means
News After 76 days of trial and some later proceedings, US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in April 2000 ruled that Microsoft violated two sections of the 1890 Sherman Act. The next step is up to the government, which must tell the court what it...
[June 29, 2001, 9:29]
Aussie Kazaa case heads for November trial
News On Thursday, Justice Murray Wilcox set a tentative trial date of 29 November, and directed discovery and affidavit proceedings be completed by October. Ellicott's submission was rejected due to lack of evidence and Wilcox ruled that Sharman should...
[July 2, 2004, 12:05]
Attorney: Naughton was sent 'unsolicited' child porn
News In other developments during Monday's proceedings, Naughton briefly took the stand to answer prosecution questions about his high-tech work experience, and defense attorney Bruce Margolin revealed that the Walt Disney-affiliated Infoseek fired...
[November 30, 1999, 9:27]
Nasa hacker loses final legal challenge
News Under 'Rule 39', citizens can make an emergency application to halt extradition proceedings if they believe their human rights will be infringed upon. In terms of legal challenges and court proceedings, we've gone as far as we can," Todner said.
[August 28, 2008, 13:17]
Naughton: Child porn 'unsolicited'
News In other developments during Monday's proceedings, Naughton briefly took the stand to answer prosecution questions about his high-tech work experience, and defence attorney Bruce Margolin revealed that the Walt Disney-affiliated Infoseek fired...
[November 30, 1999, 15:26]
Microsoft on Trial: New 'Sabotage' claims
News To expedite the proceedings, U.S. What's more, the Apple executive's testimony, released late Friday in the form of a 53-page document by the government as part of the proceedings in the Microsoft antitrust trial, included a bold prescription...
[November 2, 1998, 14:01]
A Year Ago : Microsoft on Trial: New 'Sabotage' claims
News To expedite the proceedings, U.S. What's more, the Apple executive's testimony, released late Friday in the form of a 53-page document by the government as part of the proceedings in the Microsoft antitrust trial, included a bold prescription...
[November 1, 1999, 6:00]
Nasa hacker wins right to appeal against extradition
News The Home Office had refused to halt the extradition proceedings, despite McKinnon having been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum. If he chooses to charge McKinnon, the judicial review will not take place, as...
[January 23, 2009, 15:44]
No surprise here: DoJ rips MS remedy, Part II
News Ohio and Illinois, the two states that broke ranks with the 17 others suing Microsoft by refraining from calling for a breakup, continued to hold back from calling for a structural remedy, but voiced their agreement that "Microsoft's Proposed...
[May 18, 2000, 8:20]
MPs take McKinnon fight to US ambassador
News The cross-party group of politicians is pushing for the US to end its extradition proceedings against McKinnon on human-rights grounds. But at the meeting on Wednesday, Johnson acknowledged he did have the power to stop proceedings, Meacher's...
[September 10, 2009, 16:16]
