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An Australian resident who headed the notorious DrinkOrDie software piracy gang has been jailed in the US
Eyebrows were no doubt raised in Canberra last week after the US Department of Justice threw its weight behind a case that takes Accenture, Hewlett-Packard and Sun to task over alleged kickbacks when working together on big US government procurement deals.
Western Australia's Department of Justice (DoJ) may have split into two separate divisions back in February, but the group's IT unit has come through the process intact.
The US Department of Justice and Microsoft on Wednesday filed a formal application for a two-year extension of portions of their landmark antitrust settlement, with the possibility of stretching it until 2012.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
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