Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 22/09/2008 Google defends Yahoo ad deal amid criticism

Google has stepped up its defense of its proposed advertising deal with competitor Yahoo amid calls for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate ...

Article | 19/09/2008 EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA), US President George Bush, Vice President D...

Article | 19/09/2008 EFF, Public Knowledge sue US gov't over secret IP pact

Two digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to tu...

Article | 16/09/2008 Berners-Lee starts foundation aimed at Web's future

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, will launch a new foundation focused on extending the capabilities of the Web and bringing the In...

Article | 16/09/2008 HP announces 24,600 layoffs in wake of EDS acquisition

Hewlett-Packard will lay off about 24,600 employees over the next three years in an effort to streamline the company following its US$13.9 billion acq...

Article | 15/09/2008 Court overturns Virginia spam law, sides with free speech

The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a state antispam law and the 2004 conviction of long-time spammer Jeremy Jaynes, saying the law is an overly...

Article | 10/09/2008 Malaysia resident sentenced in brokerage hacking scheme

A resident of Malaysia was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison on a conspiracy charge related to an international fraud scheme that hacked into o...

Article | 10/09/2008 P-to-P network administrator gets prison sentence

An administrator of a peer-to-peer network focused on distributing movies has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice sa...

Article | 9/09/2008 Google claims license to user content in multiple products

Google last week removed some language in its Chrome browser's terms of service that gave the company a license to any material displayed in the brows...

Article | 4/09/2008 Google amends Chrome license agreement after objections

Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.

Article | 27/08/2008 Privacy group: US border-crossing database raises concerns

A plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information...

Article | 22/08/2008 Groups ask court to lift gag order in Intel antitrust case

A tech trade group and a handful of news organizations have asked a U.S. court to lift its order to seal documents in the pending antitrust lawsuit br...

Article | 19/08/2008 Google launches white spaces campaign

Google hopes a new Web site will help convince the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to allow a new generation of wireless broadband devices to c...

Article | 8/08/2008 Woman sentenced for Web site with 'obscene' stories

A U.S. woman has been sentenced to five years of probation, including six months of home detention, and forfeiture of her computer after pleading guil...

Article | 7/08/2008 DOJ files complaint against online ad firm

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to seize two houses and US$53 million from the owner of an Internet-based business allegedly engaged in a "m...