House bill is in response to embarrassing data leaks
House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks.
The unusual suit surrounded a patent used in the Windows activation process
Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a former employee that it once charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.
Under terms of the deal, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Thursday announced that they have settled all antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes between the companies.
A U.S. jury charges eight people for an attack on RBS WorldPlay
A U.S. grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight people related to hacking into a computer network operated by credit-card processing vendor RBS WorldPlay and stealing US$9 million.
The Commission's statement of objections focuses on its concerns about Oracle owning the open-source MySQL database
The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulatory filing Monday.
They're asking the judge to give them until Friday of this week
Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) need more time to revise the proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuits the author and publisher organizations brought against Google over its Book Search program.
The entertainment industry has been trying to get Telenor to block The Pirate Bay since February
Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum on Friday.
Cuomo's lawsuit targets Intel's rebate payments to computer makers
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against microprocessor maker Intel, alleging that the company engaged in a "systematic campaign" of illegal conduct to protect a monopoly.
The cofounder of a Web-based company is accused of launching DOS attacks
Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of YouSendIt, has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of mail fraud after allegedly launching four denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against the company's servers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The entertainment industry hopes to shut down the file-sharing site
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be closed, and if it isn't, two of the founders will each have to pay a fine of 500,000 Swedish kronor (US$71,500), according to a verdict in the Stockholm District Court on Wednesday.
Red Bend says that Google infringes on its patent when it compresses and sends updates to the browser
Israeli company Red Bend filed a lawsuit this week against Google, charging the search giant with infringing one of its patents.
The online classifieds site is not responsible when people use the site for illegal purposes, the judge found
An Illinois judge this week dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Cook County Sheriff's Office charging Craigslist with facilitating prostitution.
The Georgia company ServiceCloud is suing for trademark infringement
A Georgia company has filed suit in federal court against Salesforce.com, saying the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's use of the phrase "Service Cloud" violates its trademark.
A 2008 data breach resulted from a security tool that was turned off for four months, the FTC says
Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay to compensate potential victims of identity theft for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
The question of bias forces a court to postpone the trial indefinitely
The appeals of those convicted in April in the high-profile Pirate Bay copyright violations trial won't be heard until next year, the court said on Monday.