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The European Court of First Instance buzzed with energy this week as Microsoft and the European Commission squared off over a damaging 2004 ruling that, along with a fine of 497 million euros (US$613 million), creates a new Microsoft product and exposes the company's valuable intellectual property.
Major international music artists based in Canada have banded together to form a group aimed, among other things, at protesting the recording industry's practice of targeting fans with lawsuits. Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan are among the group's members. Most of the campaignin...
The New York Department of Education took Toquir Choudhri to the City's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, which presides over disciplinary cases from almost every city agency. Choudhri, an employee for 14 years, had disobeyed a supervisor's order to stop surfing on the Internet. Administ...
The Patti Santangelo "Fight Goliath" campaign was officially launched about four months ago and since then, it's raised an impressive $13,140.21. Santangelo is the New York mother of five targeted by the Big Four record labels' Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Actually, there's very...
Hundreds of technology patents from Fortune 500 companies will go to the highest bidders on Thursday in what could be the first live, multi-lot technology patent auction in the United States. Sellers in the auction include Siemens, BellSouth, AT&T, Kimberly Clark and 3Com, as well as mid-sized ...
New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against Direct Revenue, an Internet pop-up advertising company, for surreptitiously installing spyware on unsuspecting users' computers via free games or software. Adware accompanying the free downloads tracked Web ...
The European recording industry announced a wave of new lawsuits against alleged illegal music file traders this week, but the move was seen as more of a ripple in the vast ocean of peer-to-peer activity. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the European equivalent of the Recor...
Former Credit Suisse First Boston banker Frank Quattrone -- who became a poster boy for all of the excesses of the dot-com era on Wall Street -- recently had his conviction for obstruction of justice overturned by a U.S. Appeals Court in New York City. Now, speculation is growing that Quattrone, fam...
StreamCast Networks has filed suit against Skype and Kazaa in a U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claiming copyright infringement violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, otherwise known as the Rico Act. StreamCast is alleging that it owns the...
Could Apple's troubles in Europe get any worse? It's on the wrong end of a lawsuit from The Beatles in the UK, who say iTunes breaks a $26 million settlement under which Apple Computer agreed to stay away from the music business; there's a distinct possibility Apple's digital rights management techn...
French legislators approved a bill this week that will force technology companies such as Apple Computer to share proprietary technology with rivals. Such a move is not only a recipe for disaster but completely unnecessary. The digital music market has always been a tumultuous place. For a long ti...
Last week a number of surprising issues flared in the press. First, IBM says it is now aggressively going after SCO's funding sources to see where the bodies are buried, so to speak; an IDC report puts Windows ahead of Unix for the first time since, well, ever; and Apple's OS, considered the "secure...
Law enforcement officials in Belgium and Switzerland raided the headquarters of a key portion of what has been described as "the world's largest peer-to-peer facilitator" this week, shutting down eDonkey's Razorback2 file-sharing server on the grounds that it allowed more than a million users to ill...
A lot of interesting things happened last week. RIM finally released its plan to work around NTP's patents, Google decided to use some of the massive amount of cash it got from investors to buy real estate on desktop PCs, and ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina stepped back into the limelight, talking about ho...
Many cases centered around document management, retention and disposition could be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court in the next year, as companies run into challenges resulting from a disorganized or inadequate document management strategy, experts tell TechNewsWorld. The Supreme Court has, in past...
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