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31 Oct 2002
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has taken legal action against two accounting firms that allegedly took some $18 million from British investors in an unlawful investment scheme using the internet. Neither firm was authorised by the FSA to undertake...
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31 Oct 2002
A US District Court judge on Wednesday issued an order barring Intel from manufacturing and selling its Itanium processors, in a patent infringement dispute with rival Intergraph. The order was immediately suspended to allow Intel to appeal the ruling....
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31 Oct 2002
The UK government yesterday accepted the vast majority of recommendations made by a Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Communications Bill. The Bill aims to update and simplify the current regulatory framework for the telecoms industry, and to reform...
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31 Oct 2002
A US federal appeals court has dismissed a class-action anti-trust lawsuit filed by Gravity Inc. against Microsoft, according to media reports. Gravity claimed that Microsoft conspired with Compaq Computer and Dell to maintain its monopoly over operating...
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30 Oct 2002
Alan M. Ralsky and his Michigan-based company Additional Benefits LLC, considered to be among the most prolific senders of spam, have settled a lawsuit filed by Verizon last year, according to the Associated Press. The agreement requires Ralsky to stop...
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30 Oct 2002
The European Commission has imposed a total fine of €167.8 million on Japanese games company Nintendo and seven of its official distributors in Europe for "colluding to maintain" artificially high price differences in the EU between 1991 and 1998....
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30 Oct 2002
An appeals court in Leeuwarden, Netherlands has upheld the conviction of 22-year old Jan de Wit, author of last year's Kournikova worm which resulted in a sentence of 150 hours of community service. The worm, spread in February 2001, was distributed by...
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30 Oct 2002
A Canadian TV producer has sued her former ISP, seeking over $110,000 damages, alleging that the company's act of withholding her e-mail messages during a billing dispute cost her "a valuable business opportunity", according to media reports. Nancy Carter...
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29 Oct 2002
Swedish software maker Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters, alleging that the news agency hacked into the company's computer system and obtained an earnings report from a confidential web site. The charges followed an internal...
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29 Oct 2002
Alex Nikitin from London has insured his fingers for £375,000, ahead of the World Cyber Games, which are being held in Korea this week, according to news sites Ananova and VNUNet. The 17-year old games fanatic believes that missing a game because...
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