Margret Johnston - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 31/08/2000 Judge OKs Microsoft Class-Action Suit

A California judge has ruled that a class-action suit filed on behalf of consumers against Microsoft can proceed to trial. The suit alleges that Micro...

Article | 30/08/2000 Net fraud complaints are largely over auctions

Complaints about online auctions comprise nearly half the messages received by the US government's new Internet Fraud Complaint Centre, a project aime...

Article | 23/08/2000 MS/DOJ: Microsoft asks Supreme Court to decline case

Microsoft on Tuesday again argued against a direct appeal to the US Supreme Court of the antitrust case pending against the company, saying there is n...

Article | 23/08/2000 'E-Readiness' gap threatens economic growth

An analysis of 42 countries' current ability to participate fully in the digital economy paints a grim picture for most of them. The authors of the re...

Article | 21/08/2000 Wireless web market to grow

The size of the global market for small wireless internet devices will grow from $US10 billion today to $73 billion by 2005, according to a study cond...

Article | 28/07/2000 AOL, TW Execs: Merger Won't Harm Competition

Executives of America Online (AOL) and Time Warner spelt out arguments for combining the two companies in a hearing before the U.S. Federal Communicat...

Article | 27/07/2000 U.S. Senators Propose Web Privacy Legislation

Responding to a groundswell of public concern about privacy on the Internet, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators Wednesday proposed a bill that would ...

Article | 24/07/2000 FBI Demos E-Mail Sniffer Program 'Carnivore'

The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation has unveiled new surveillance software for uncovering evidence in email and it has a pleasant sound...

Article | 18/07/2000 U.S. Updates Encryption Export Policy

The U.S. on Monday announced an update to its encryption export policy affecting companies that sell encryption software to users in the 15 European U...

Article | 10/07/2000 Online privacy fears growing as fast as Net

Public alarm about online privacy is growing nearly as fast as the internet, according to a new paper published by the Internet Policy Institute.

Article | 20/06/2000 MS/DOJ: Appeals court to receive arguments on stay

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday set a schedule for Microsoft and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to file motions in ...

Article | 19/06/2000 Napster to play big Boies

The lawyer whose arguments in the Microsoft antitrust case helped convince a judge that the company should be split in two has been called to perform ...

Article | 2/06/2000 MS/DOJ: Judge allows more time for briefs

Microsoft and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) are getting another chance to spar over the goverment's proposal to break up the company.

Article | 27/04/2000 Congressional Staffers Hear Online Privacy Debate

To Jason Catlett, a lot of companies are using the World Wide Web in a way that could be compared to a long-distance telephone company devised by Geor...

Article | 26/04/2000 White House Gets Microsoft Briefing

Justice Department attorneys update presidential staff on antitrust trial, now in remedy phase.