Software giant Microsoft will invest the US$7 million it is expecting from a damages settlement with 'spam king' Scott Richter into fighting Internet crimes, paying its legal bills and "rewarding" the state of New York.
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has listed use of ISPs as the government's censors as one of the top concerns in the Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill.
The federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, has introduced amendments to federal parliament that would ease police access to stored voice-mails, e-mails and text messages.
Amazon.com said Tuesday that it filed 11 lawsuits against marketers that allegedly used its name when sending bogus e-mail, charges that echo a widening problem for companies operating online.
A US Attorney's office has alleged that PayPal violated laws regarding the processing of online gambling payments, and is asking parent company eBay to hand over nine months of the gambling-related earnings in settlement.
Who would have imagined that Ericsson's new local managing director would have an immediate past enmeshed in international espionage?
The federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, has introduced amendments to federal parliament that would ease police access to stored voice-mails, e-mails and text messages.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
Australian company directors and officers are being warned of the damaging impact cybercrime can have if they don't address risks effectively.
An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and the elimination of bulk marketing that uses domain-name information.
Privacy advocates fear that a Web monitoring tool that is under development may lead to more covert surveillance.
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Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
Microsoft's antitrust case and the Judge's ruling focus on Windows, But what about the Pocket PC? The OS for handhelds is stranded in limbo for both Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers supporting it.
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