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30 Sep 2003
IBM filed an expanded counterclaim against the SCO Group on Thursday in their continuing battle over the Linux operating system. IBM now says that SCO has violated IBM's copyright in seven different types of software, according to CNet News.com.
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30 Sep 2003
The UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and the Association of Chief Police Officers have issued new guidelines for police dealing with computer-based electronic evidence to avoid problems of drawing false conclusions and admissibility in court.
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30 Sep 2003
Scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research near Geneva, yesterday announced that the first phase of what is likely to become the world's largest computer grid had gone on-line. But is grid computing threatened by its own hype?...
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30 Sep 2003
The Law Society is expected to reprimand three solicitors with London law firm Charles Russell over a flippant e-mail that suggested replacing a departing black secretary with a "fit busty blonde." The firm has already settled a tribunal claim of sex...
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26 Sep 2003
The US Congress moved swiftly yesterday to overrule a court that said the Federal Trade Commission had no authority to run a national Do-Not-Call Registry, due in force from 1st October, similar to the UK's Telephone Preference Service.
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26 Sep 2003
California this week enacted the world's toughest spam law. But the law, which prohibits commercial e-mail being sent to California e-mail addresses, unless a recipient has 'opted-in,' is too ambiguous to stand up in court, say the critics.
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26 Sep 2003
The Financial Services Authority yesterday punished Lloyds TSB with a £1.9 million fine, the regulatory body's largest ever for a case of mis-selling financial products. The bank also faces a £98 million compensation bill.
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26 Sep 2003
The family of a man shot by two boys emulating the action of Grand Theft Auto, the popular but violent video game, plan to sue the game's publishers and the family's lawyer this week warned that it could become a class action suit.
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25 Sep 2003
The European Parliament yesterday approved a controversial proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, but only after making amendments to ensure that patents would not be issued for "actual software."
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25 Sep 2003
A company that claims to own patents covering a widely used process of streaming audio or video files over the internet obtained a court order that it used last week to close 42 adult web sites until the operator bought its licences.
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