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Article | 20/11/2009 Company selling 'free' Web auction kits settles with FTC

An online marketer offering supposedly free Internet auction kits has settled a complaint filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for charging cons...

Article | 16/11/2009 DOJ charges two programmers with aiding Madoff scheme

Two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were arrested Friday and charged in connection with the multibillion d...

Article | 11/11/2009 US agencies streamline broadband funding process

Two U.S. agencies responsible for distributing US$7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants by the end of 2010 have streamlined the process by cuttin...

Article | 11/11/2009 Eight indicted for $9 million hack

A U.S. grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight people related to hacking into a computer network operated by credit-card processing vendor RBS WorldP...

Article | 10/11/2009 Eighth person charged with passport snooping

An eighth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing numerous electronic passport files that are...

Article | 10/11/2009 Domain auction site faces shill bidding lawsuit

A Miami lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against domain name auction site SnapNames.com, after the company announced that a former employee was...

Article | 5/11/2009 NY Intel antitrust lawsuit gets mixed reviews

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's decision to file an antitrust lawsuit against Intel doesn't make sense, with prices for microprocessors falli...

Article | 5/11/2009 NY attorney general files antitrust lawsuit against Intel

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against microprocessor maker Intel, alleging that the company engaged in ...

Article | 4/11/2009 Founder of online sports betting business sentenced

Gary Stephen Kaplan, founder of the online sports wagering business BetOnSports, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison on multiple charges related...

Article | 2/11/2009 Former CEO charged with cyber attack on firm

Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of YouSendIt, has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of mail fraud after allegedly launching four denial-of-servic...

Article | 28/10/2009 US smart-grid money could assist broadband

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled US$3.4 billion in grants to update the nation's electrical grid, but the benefits could reach to the b...

Article | 22/10/2009 Study disputes claim net neutrality hurts investment

A new study, by net neutrality supporter Free Press, disputes the often-repeated criticism that new rules will hurt broadband investment by pointing t...

Article | 21/10/2009 Yahoo revenue down, but income up sharply

Yahoo has reported revenue of US$1.58 billion for the third quarter of 2009, down 12 percent from the same period a year earlier, although net income ...

Article | 20/10/2009 ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach

Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security effor...

Article | 20/10/2009 AT&T vs. Google: More than nuns or phone sex

AT&T raised the stakes last week in its recent dust-up with Google over an online voice service, accusing its rival of blocking phone calls to nuns.