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24 May 2000
America’s Nasdaq market, comprising technology, internet and telecom companies, has plunged to its lowest level since November 1999. Its current level is 36% below its level in early March.
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23 May 2000
Yahoo! has been found guilty of breaking French law and, according to the Judge in a Paris court, committed “an offence to the collective memory” of France by allowing the on-line auction of Nazi memorabilia.
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23 May 2000
Microsoft has again attacked the proposal by the US Department of Justice to split the company into two separate companies in a new brief filed yesterday.
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23 May 2000
In a reversal of policy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has told the US Congress that self-regulation alone has not adequately protected consumer on-line privacy and, as a result, legislation is now needed to supplement self-regulatory efforts and...
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22 May 2000
The leading internet advertising company, DoubleClick, has been counter-sued by two separate companies over its DART patent, a technology that allows web sites to display ads automatically targeted to individual viewers according to their tastes and internet...
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22 May 2000
By a vote of 504 to 0, the European Parliament has adopted a report calling for immediate measures to combat the widespread theft of creative works within the EU. The action is expected to generate a series of EU anti-piracy initiatives in the upcoming...
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22 May 2000
An Australian computer technician has agreed to serve 100 hours of community service and pay A$31,500 to the Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA) for his involvement in a software piracy business.
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22 May 2000
Jodie Bernstein, Director of the US Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, presented Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testimony on Thursday last week before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the House Judiciary Committee...
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19 May 2000
A new virus, similar to the Love Bug virus of two weeks ago, is today spreading through computer systems. Several thousand computers have already been affected.
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19 May 2000
Slashdot.org, a news hub ‘for nerds,’ has received demands from lawyers acting for Microsoft that it remove several messages in one of its discussion forums. Microsoft claim that the messages, which discuss Microsoft’s tweaks to an open-source...
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