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29 Apr 2005
EBay CEO Meg Whitman, Chairman Pierre Omidyar and former vice president Jeffrey Skoll have agreed to pay $3 million to the auction site to settle a shareholder lawsuit that accused them of profiting from Initial Public Offerings ( IPO ) in breach of their...
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29 Apr 2005
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has made significant headway in its attempt to update an international Treaty that streamlines the administrative procedures for national and regional trade mark applications.
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29 Apr 2005
On-line advertising revenue in the US last year exceeded $9.6 billion, up almost 33% on 2003 and beating the previous revenue record in 2000 by nearly 20%, according to a report released yesterday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau ( IAB ) and PricewaterhouseCoopers....
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29 Apr 2005
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday filed a lawsuit against an internet marketing firm, alleging that it was the source of spyware and adware that has been secretly installed onto millions of home computers.
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28 Apr 2005
By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco for The Register. This article has been reproduced from The Register, with permission.
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28 Apr 2005
A European Parliamentary Committee has rejected calls to remove the 'country of origin' principle from the draft Services Directive – a move that would have forced some European traders to comply with the relevant laws of all 25 Member States, rather...
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28 Apr 2005
The UK subsidiary of security software firm Fortinet has settled an action brought against it because it was allegedly not complying with the terms of the General Public Licence (GPL), which underpins the distribution of most open source software.
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28 Apr 2005
Microsoft has been warned to urgently implement sanctions imposed on it in March last year for its breach of European antitrust laws. Failure to do so will oblige the Commission "to take formal steps to ensure compliance," said a Commission spokesman....
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27 Apr 2005
One third of workers have missed deadlines because legitimate e-mails are blocked by spam filters, according to a survey by messaging firm Mirapoint that assessed the impact of spam controls on the reliability of e-mail.
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27 Apr 2005
Nearly 80% of all outsourcing relationships will be renegotiated, according to a new survey by Gartner. Lack of flexibility is the main issue leading to renegotiations, followed by a need to improve the relationship between the supplier and customer....
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