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Article | 31/07/2000 Survey: Consumers Back Napster
The law is the law, but that doesn't mean that you have to agree with it. That, at least, is the result of a poll of nearly 1600 home Internet users w...
Article | 28/07/2000 Federation of the Blind Drops Suit Against AOL
The US-based advocacy group the National Federation of the Blind dropped its lawsuit against America Online on Wednesday after the company agreed to m...
Article | 28/07/2000 Australia victim of more computer-associated crime than US
Australia's corproate internet economy suffers from more hacker attacks per website than its US counterpart, proposes vice president of business softw...
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 | 28/07/2000 Office Upgrade Previewed By Microsoft
Microsoft has demonstrated the next version of its Office productivity suite, including some features that will usher in the company's .NET strategy, ...
Article | 28/07/2000 e-consumer protection lobbyist slams TRUSTe online privacy crusade
An initiative announced this week by Truste amounts to nothing more than a vague and opportunistic attempt to assure consumers that vendor's sites gua...
Article | 28/07/2000 Napster Files Appeal Against Judge's Ruling
MP3 music sharing company Napster has sought an emergency stay of a damaging injunction against the firm ruled by the court in a hearing on Wednesday.
Article | 27/07/2000 Microsoft Argues for Appeal in Lower Court
In court papers filed on Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear its appeal in its antitrust case directly, arguing instea...
Article | 27/07/2000 Global research says Aussies to shop online in droves
Almost one third of Australians would be potential online shoppers in the next six months, according to a global e-commerce survey.
Article | 27/07/2000 Napster Served with Injunction
The judge in the case brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against MP3 music distribution company Napster Inc. has issued a...
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 | 27/07/2000 Judge in Napster Case Finds in Favour of Music Companies
The judge has found in favour of the plaintiffs in the case against MP3 music sharing company Napster Inc., but only in terms of the recognition of th...
Article | 26/07/2000 MCA ends deal with Spike
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has dropped web design company Spike and signed a $200,000 sponsorship deal with multimedia agency Deepend Sydney...
Article | 26/07/2000 Shockwave Player Goes 3D
The movie A Perfect Storm features 200-foot waves created with 3D graphics software. Imagine those waves streamed over the Internet to your PC.
Article | 26/07/2000 AOL Rivals Unite to Force Open Instant Messaging
Leading technology and instant-messaging (IM) companies Tuesday united to pressure America Online to open its instant-messaging service.
Article | 26/07/2000 Online Privacy Gets a Boost
Truste, a leading privacy seal program, has joined forces with 12 high-tech companies, including Microsoft, Intel, AltaVista, Verizon Communications a...
Article | 25/07/2000 Singapore Reveals Five-Year Plan For Net Dominance
Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) aims to make broadband access to the Internet pervasive by 2005, to give the city-state a competitive...
Article | 25/07/2000 VeDSL : The Other Voice Choice
VeDSL? Yes, that's correct-it's not a typo for voice over DSL. It's a new technology from Aware that stands for voice-enabled DSL that lets you add vo...
Article | 25/07/2000 FBI's Carnivore a Picky Eater
For all the controversy over the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) e-mail surveillance system, it turns out that Carnivore is a picky eater...
Article | 25/07/2000 Does Carnivore eat privacy rights?
Carnivore, the FBI's ominously named system of Web surveillance, is not a threat to the privacy rights of Americans, say law enforcement officials.

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