News: Standards & Legal

• New York's Intel probe may start new IT antitrust battle
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Jan 11 2008

  With its launching of an antitrust investigation of Intel Corp., New York's state government is once again taking a leading role in challenging a titan of the technology industry. The state played a ...

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• IBM patent complaint against Asustek to be investigated
  Jon Brodkin
  Jan 10 2008

  IBM's patent complaint  against a Taiwanese computer vendor took a step forward last week when the U.S. International Trade Commission voted to investigate IBM's claim that Asustek Computer violated ...

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• UPDATE - New York launches antitrust investigation of Intel
  Grant Gross
  Jan 10 2008

  New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust investigation of Intel, and on Thursday, his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on the company.Cuomo is investigating whether ...

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• New York launches antitrust investigation of Intel
  Grant Gross
  Jan 10 2008

  New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust investigation of Intel, and on Thursday, his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on the company.Cuomo is investigating whether ...

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• BULLETIN - New York launches antitrust investigation of Intel
  Grant Gross
  Jan 10 2008

  New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust investigation of Intel, and on Thursday, his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on the company.Cuomo is investigating whether ...

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• Medco sys admin gets 30 months for planting logic bomb
  Sharon Gaudin
  Jan 08 2008

  A former systems administrator at Medco Health Solutions Inc. was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Tuesday for planting a logic bomb that could have taken down a corporate network that held ...

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• UPDATE - Three companies pay software licensing settlements
  Grant Gross
  Jan 08 2008

  A stock brokerage firm and two mortgage companies have agree to pay a total of more than US$420,000 to settle claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers, the Business Software ...

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• Three companies pay software licensing settlements
  Grant Gross
  Jan 08 2008

  A stock brokerage firm and two mortgage companies have agree to pay a total of more than US$420,000 to settle claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers, the Business Software ...

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• UK looks to relax restrictive copyright laws
  Jeremy Kirk
  Jan 08 2008

  The U.K. is looking to change copyright laws that make it illegal to copy music for personal use and for libraries to archive material under copyright.The U.K. Intellectual Property Office, which ...

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• What's the last legal document you signed?
  STEFAN HAMMOND
  Jan 08 2008

  Do you remember? A gym contract? A receipt for a toaster?Chances are it was a EULA: an End-User License Agreement. Those long scrolling block of text that you never read, but just click "Agree"? ...

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