Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, has agreed to pay a $US800,000 civil penalty to settle charges that he violated stock-buying requirements in 2002, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 477 more lawsuits against people trading unauthorised music online, including lawsuits against 69 people who allegedly used university networks to download music.
The government of China has agreed to suspend indefinitely its proposed proprietary national standard for wireless LANs after objections from the U.S. government and IT vendors, U.S. and Chinese officials announced Wednesday.
MCI has formally emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is beginning to distribute securities and cash to its creditors.
A start-up company looking to provide legal insurance against copyright claims against open-source software has declared the Linux kernel free of copyright infringement.
Four major U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) are suing more than 220 alleged spammers responsible for sending out hundreds of millions of pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail, the companies announced Wednesday.
Oracle's attempted takeover of PeopleSoft would enhance competition, not harm it, the company has argued in its response to the US Department of Justice's (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the merger.
VeriSign has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), accusing the organisation of overstepping its contractual authority and improperly attempting to regulate VeriSign's business.
MCI has asked a US bankruptcy judge for a 60-day extension to the February 28 deadline for the company to emerge from bankruptcy.
The SCO Group has filed a slander lawsuit against Novell, claiming the company has engaged in bad faith efforts to deny SCO's rights to Unix and UnixWare.
An early test of a multisite, next-generation Internet, powered by IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) went well, and the coalition of groups working on the so-called Moonv6 project will conduct more comprehensive tests starting in February, said two people involved in the project Tuesday.
The US House of Representatives has approved an amended version of a bill that will allow penalties of up to $6 million and five years in jail for sending some email spam, the last step before the bill can be signed into law by President George W. Bush.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should take a mostly hands-off approach to regulating the VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) industry, so that VoIP can continue to grow and provide consumers with a choice as to which type of telephone service they use, a chorus of vendors told the FCC Monday.
The US Senate has approved a national spam bill that would allow fines of up to $US6 million or five-year jail terms for some spammers, but the bill's legislative journey is not over yet.
Distributor of the Kazaa Media Desktop peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software, Sharman Networks, will launch a $US1 million advertising campaign, hoping to mobilise its 60 million users to pressure the entertainment industry to agree to licensing deals with Sharman.
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