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28 Feb 2001
In the second day of oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC, judges gave the first hints that the order to split Microsoft could be overturned as they attacked findings and comments made by the District Court Judge in the antitrust...
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28 Feb 2001
New bills have been introduced in the US to provide criminal penalties for sending spam in certain circumstances and to prohibit companies from tracking individual consumers as they browse on-line.
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28 Feb 2001
Steven Laitman, the CEO of the UK interactive games and chat web site e-district.net, has been sacked and the Serious Fraud Office has been called in after irregularities were found in the company accounts, according to a report today in The Times.
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28 Feb 2001
A federal court in California ruled on Friday that individuals cannot be sued for posting negative comments about a public company if the statements are opinion rather than fact. The ruling helps to clarify the growing body of law in the US about on-line...
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27 Feb 2001
Appeal court judges in Washington DC are divided over the findings of the lower court judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, who ruled that Microsoft was in breach of antitrust law and should be broken up into two smaller companies. During a hearing yesterday,...
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27 Feb 2001
The troubled internet retailer eToys yesterday announced that it plans to file for protection under federal bankruptcy law within approximately 5 to 10 days following its failure to find a rescuer. The company is one of the highest profile dot.coms.
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27 Feb 2001
The Port of Helsinki, the port authority of the City of Helsinki, has failed to win the domain name portofhelsinki.com from a company that registered it for a shipping business, successfully arguing that the Port is a geographic name, not a trading name.
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27 Feb 2001
British business is set to fully embrace the internet revolution over the next two to three years, according to a survey of almost 1,000 UK companies published today by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and KPMG Consulting.
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26 Feb 2001
The Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters is presently being negotiated by 47 countries and would ensure that judgments of a court in one country can be enforced by other countries and establish rules for...
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26 Feb 2001
Network Solutions Inc., the largest domain name registrar, is from today accepting domain name registrations in more than 60 new languages from Eastern and Western Europe, such as Russian, German, French, Swedish and Spanish.
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