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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,...

Article | 18/08/2009 Man indicted for massive credit hack

A 28-year-old Miami man was indicted Monday for the largest credit and debit card theft ever prosecuted in the U.S., with data from more than 130 mill...

Article | 17/08/2009 BetOnSports founder pleads guilty to racketeering

The founder of Internet- and telephone-based gambling operation BetOnSports has entered guilty pleas to three U.S. charges, including a racketeering c...

Article | 14/08/2009 Lawyer: IE8 default installation 'troubling'

Microsoft's decision to make Internet Explorer 8 the default browser on computers where the user elected an express installation raises questions abou...

Article | 12/08/2009 Former antitrust enforcer defends Google book settlement

A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors that would allow the tech giant to digitize and sell millions of books raises no ...

Article | 11/08/2009 Microsoft to change default browser installs

Microsoft, in response to complaints that Internet Explorer 8 was being designated as the default browser during some installations, will change the i...

Article | 7/08/2009 Internet gambling payment processor faces charges

The operator of several companies that allegedly processed more than US$350 million in illegal Internet gambling payments has been indicted on bank fr...

Article | 6/08/2009 Google to buy On2 Technologies

Google has reached an agreement to buy video compression technology vendor On2 Technologies in a stock deal worth about US$106.5 million, the companie...

Article | 5/08/2009 Three sentenced for providing tech to China

Three men have been sentenced to U.S. prison for attempting to transport sensitive and advanced U.S. technology, including integrated circuits, to Chi...

Article | 5/08/2009 Google offers Voice product to US military members

Google is offering its free Voice call management service to members of the U.S. military beginning Tuesday, the company said in a blog post.

Article | 4/08/2009 Report: Acting White House cybersecurity director resigns

The acting director of cybersecurity in U.S. President Barack Obama's White House, Melissa Hathaway, will resign, according to a report in the Wall St...

Article | 4/08/2009 Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple's board

Google CEO Eric Schmidt will resign from Apple's board of directors, three months after new reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission was checkin...

Article | 30/07/2009 Civil rights activists champion Google book deal

A proposed settlement allowing Google to digitize millions of books will have huge benefits for minority populations and their access to valuable info...