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31 Aug 2001
In a new twist to Microsoft’s ongoing antitrust battles, the European Commission has said in a Statement of Objections that it believes that the company may have violated European antitrust rules by using illegal practices to extend its dominant...
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31 Aug 2001
A US federal judge has confirmed that owning the rights to a trade mark does not necessarily mean that the trade mark holder is entitled to domain names on the internet which incorporate that trade mark.
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31 Aug 2001
A venture capital arm of the CIA is financing SafeWeb, a web site that allows users to evade censorship, to give the people of China better access to Western information in a country that heavily censors the web.
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30 Aug 2001
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has published a survey it has conducted with UK companies trading on-line. It reveals that two thirds of respondents have in the past year experienced a "serious incident" such as hacking, virus attack or credit...
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30 Aug 2001
The new judge in Microsoft’s high profile antitrust trial, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, has ordered both sides in the trial to report back to her on the outstanding issues by 14th September. A meeting has then been scheduled for 21st September to discuss...
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29 Aug 2001
The UK Campaign for Digital Rights will tomorrow protest in London and Edinburgh. The group is demanding that charges in the US be dropped against Russian programmer Dmitry Skylarov who was yesterday indicted for breaching US copyright law.
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29 Aug 2001
A WIPO tribunal has awarded the domain name university-of-oxford.com to Oxford University, despite the Australian who originally registered the domain name claiming that he had changed his own name to Mr Oxford-University.
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29 Aug 2001
The Victoria Supreme Court has decided that a defamation case against a US web site can proceed in the Australia courts. The decision effectively confirms that publishers should comply with the strictest laws of every country in which an article can be...
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28 Aug 2001
The Taliban militia has banned access to the internet in Afghanistan and has said that anyone disobeying the new rule will be punished by the religious police under Islamic Law.
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28 Aug 2001
Microsoft has this week released the latest version of its dominant internet browser, Internet Explorer 6.0, without support for Java, the programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, its latest move in a long running dispute between the two companies....
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