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Article | 8/03/2006 Defendant pleads guilty in porn spam case
A New Hampshire woman has pleaded guilty to spam-related charges in connection with a pornographic e-mail operation, the U.S. Department of Justice (D...
Article | 6/03/2006 Patent showdown heads to Supreme Court
The "near automatic" injunctions that judges issue when a company is found to be infringing a patent hurt innovation, tech organizations are arguing a...
Article | 2/03/2006 Former US government IT worker guilty of hacking
A former IT system auditor for a US government agency faces a five-year prison sentence on a computer hacking charge after secretly monitoring his sup...
Article | 1/03/2006 AOL sues big phishing organizations
America Online (AOL) has filed three civil lawsuits against major phishing "gangs," seeking US$18 million from the groups, the company said Tuesday.
Article | 24/02/2006 IT exec sentenced to eight years for data theft
Scott Levine, formerly principal owner of email marketing firm Snipermail, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges related to theft of ...
Article | 16/02/2006 US lawmakers scold tech companies for China censorship
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday ripped into four U.S. technology companies, calling them a "disgrace" for allowing the Chine...
Article | 2/02/2006 Porn spammer pleads guilty
A California man accused of managing the computer system used to send hundreds of thousands of pornography-related e-mail messages has pleaded guilty ...
Article | 31/01/2006 Patent ruling forces Microsoft Office upgrade
Microsoft is telling new corporate customers to update versions of its Office suite and Access software package following a 2005 patent infringement r...
Article | 31/01/2006 Japanese firm pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing
Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) manufacturer Elpida Memory has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$84 million fine for participating in an "international ...
Article | 15/12/2005 Software 'pirate' pleads guilty to charges
A California man who operated a Web site selling millions of dollars of pirated software has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal copyright infrin...
Article | 9/12/2005 Study: Big benefits from reduction of software piracy
A 10-point drop in the estimated 35 percent global software piracy rate would create 2.4 million jobs and US$400 billion in economic growth over four ...
Article | 5/12/2005 Consumer advocates push for network neutrality
Would Internet users want to pay US$0.05 every time they visit Google.com, Yahoo.com or any other Web site? That's one possibility if the U.S. Congres...
Article | 8/11/2005 Grokster shuttered in court settlement
Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendor Grokster has closed down as part of a settlement in a 3-year-old lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. entertai...
Article | 17/10/2005 Gates to students: We need your ideas
Microsoft needs students interested in computer science to program the IT innovations of tomorrow, including Tablet PCs that users can write on with a...
Article | 14/10/2005 Samsung to pay US$300M fine for DRAM price fixing
Samsung Electronics and its U.S. subsidiary Samsung Semiconductor have agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$300 million fine for participating in an "i...

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