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This week, European Commission regulators fined Microsoft about US$356 million, adding to the $630.7 million the company has already been forced to pay. Noncompliance with a mandate to disclose technology documents is the official reason for the fine, yet the deadline for such compliance has not yet...
Two class action lawsuits are targeting Windows Genuine Advantage, one of Microsoft's initiatives to stem the massive piracy of its applications. Both suits claim that WGA, which is just a year old, functions essentially as spyware on licensed Microsoft users' PCs in violation of California and Wash...
This week, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved the Communications, Consumer Choice and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, sponsored by Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). If passed by the full Congress, this massive telecom bill will bring consumers significant benefits, espe...
Five major Internet service companies on Tuesday announced that they are joining with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a US$1 million campaign against child exploitation on the Internet. AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online will fund a new Technology C...
As Congress draws closer to passing significant telecommunications reforms, it's clear that a larger issue serves as a backdrop to the hot topics of net neutrality, cable franchise reform, and municipal WiFi. That is, will the Internet be treated like telecommunications, or the other way around? Ne...
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 it was thought the move would induce the nation to toe the line on the theft of intellectual property within its borders, but that hasn't been the case -- and it won't be until the Asian giant steps up its efforts at innovation, according to one...
U.S. District Court Judge James Brady in Baton Rouge has granted a temporary stay on a new Louisiana law signed last week that would outlaw the sale of violent video games to children under 18. The request for a stay was made by two industry organizations -- the Entertainment Software Association an...
Last week was a busy one for some big tech players. AOL is funding Netscape again, and strangely enough the company seems to have Slashdot on its mind as it moves to rebuild its portal business. Also, Creative Labs evidently didn't realize that Apple was going to fight back when it sued the firm, an...
The Recording Industry Association of America is claiming victory over illegal file swapping. The vehement opposer of sites like BitTorrent and eDonkey reported this week that it now considers illegal file trading "contained." Legal digital downloads are up 77 percent, the RIAA said. Album sales, m...
The Federal Trade Commission reported on Friday that a settlement has been reached with the companies behind the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games, which were sued for deceptive practices over hidden sexual content in the game. The companies ...
In an unfortunate turn of events, Adobe has threatened an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in Europe. That two American companies may have their fate decided by European bureaucrats is bad enough, but the underlying assumptions make it even worse. The dispute centers on two issues. First, Micros...
Internet telephony company Net2Phone has sued VoIP vendor Skype in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleging patent infringement of what appears to be almost its entire operating system. There is also a reference in the suit to John Doe defendants, which is unusual in a patent infringement cas...
Being branded illegal by federal government authorities hasn't stunted the growth of online gambling, which will become a US$20 billion worldwide industry by 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association, the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying arm of the commercial ...
Social networking Web sites like MySpace, Friendster and Facebook are becoming increasingly popular with the nation's youth, prompting attempts to control the medium. However, though protecting children is the goal, the outcome is too often the opposite. Recently proposed legislation by Congressman ...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on Monday introduced a bill that would lower the barriers for phone companies to offer video programming. Telecom titans like AT&T and Verizon lobbied for legislation that would make it easier to get local franchises from thousands of mu...
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