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Article | 29/09/2009 Former Enron Broadband exec sentenced to prison term

Joseph Hirko, the former co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services, was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison on a wire fraud charge related to false claim...

Article | 24/09/2009 US lawmakers question ICANN gTLD plan

Several U.S. lawmakers urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to back off on a plan to offer an unlimited number of new...

Article | 22/09/2009 Internet lenders to pay $1 million to settle complaint

A group of Internet payday lending companies that allegedly threatened customers who didn't make payments with arrest and called customers at work and...

Article | 14/09/2009 Microsoft, Yahoo search deal faces DOJ review

A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft has confir...

Article | 11/09/2009 Grand jury indicts four on music piracy charges

A grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has indicted four alleged members of a music piracy group for conspiracy to c...

Article | 11/09/2009 Official: Book settlement makes 'mockery' of copyright law

Google's proposed book settlement with book authors and publishers, allowing the company to digitize and sell millions of books, makes a "mockery" of ...

Article | 9/09/2009 Group of authors opposes Google book settlement

More than two dozen authors and publishers have filed an objection to a proposed settlement that would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of b...

Article | 4/09/2009 Supporters press for Google Books settlement

A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, suppor...

Article | 2/09/2009 Privacy, consumer groups want news laws to protect Web users

A coalition of 10 U.S. privacy and consumer groups has called for new federal privacy protections for Web users, including a requirement that Web site...

Article | 1/09/2009 EMC acquires cloud support vendor FastScale

EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private cloud infrastructures, the c...

Article | 28/08/2009 US DHS revises border laptop search rules

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released new rules for border agents searching travelers' laptops and other electronic devices, but the r...

Article | 27/08/2009 Sixth State Dept. worker pleads guilty to passport snooping

A sixth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to a charge related to illegally accessing electronic passport appli...

Article | 26/08/2009 Japanese firm pleads guilty to LCD price fixing

Japanese electronics maker Epson Imaging Devices has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $US26 million fine for the company's role in a conspiracy to fix...

Article | 19/08/2009 Trade group releases new list of 'awful' Internet laws

A Maine law that would require e-commerce vendors to get parental permission before collecting any personal information about teens and children is so...

Article | 18/08/2009 Court fines man $210K for selling software copies

A U.S. judge has ordered a Delaware man who sold copies of software packages on an Internet auction site to pay US$210,563 in damages and court costs,...