When legal wrangling turns serious and lawyers send corporate IT departments a barrage of emails looking for information to use as evidence in an upcoming trial, the IT geeks often aren't up to the challenge.
After spending more than three hours hearing arguments from a raft of attorneys from both sides of the fence, a federal judge here has ruled in favour of Wikileaks.
The creators of PornoTube, a pornographic video sharing site, have been sued by US adult-film company Vivid Entertainment for infringing copyright by allowing users to illegally post clips from its films.
A date for round two of the ongoing legal battle between Telstra and Communications Minister Helen Coonan has been set by the Federal Court..
Communications Minister Helen Coonan has hit back at Telstra, accusing the telco of sour grapes, after it announced it had filed suit against her over its failed bid for some AU$1 billion of WiMax funding.
As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, the company that claims ownership of the Unix name says Apple is infringing its trademark.
The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?
Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
E-mails are usually regarded as being primarily an IT issue which is handled by way of backups, but most IT managers haven't prioritised corporate governance, regulatory compliance and the risks associated with actions such as legal discovery. This could cost a company dearly.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
The Lexmark Z818 is a good-looking but otherwise humdrum colour inkjet printer. However, it is affordable.
Microsoft's experimental office of the future is full of gee-whiz work tech. But would any of it really be an improvement over the tech you use today?
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
Does the power of the world's most popular search engine pose a threat to the Web's independence?
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