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Article | 18/02/2009 Texas man gets prison time for software piracy

A 24-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for selling counterfeit software on about 40 Web sites, the US Department of Justice...

Article | 11/02/2009 Alleged software counterfeiters indicted

Two U.S men have been indicted on several software counterfeiting related charges for allegedly selling pirated software on eBay and through Web sites...

Article | 4/02/2009 Dell: Stimulus package can be improved

An economic stimulus package going through the U.S. Congress has provisions that could start a trade war and fails to address U.S. competitiveness, De...

Article | 29/01/2009 US House passes $819 billion stimulus package

The US House of Representatives has passed an US$819 billion economic stimulus package, with money for broadband deployment, health IT and a national ...

Article | 29/01/2009 Google, partners release net neutrality tools

Google and a group of partners have released a set of tools designed to help broadband customers and researchers measure performance of Internet conne...

Article | 28/01/2009 Verizon reports growth in Fios, wireless

Verizon Communications posted net income of US$1.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, up slightly from the fourth quarter of 2007, with growth in ...

Article | 23/01/2009 Bugs in tech documentation continue to rise

The number of bugs in technical documentation for Microsoft communication protocols continues to grow, according to court documents filed for ongoing ...

Article | 22/01/2009 US high court refuses Internet age restrictions case

The US Supreme Court has refused to resurrect a law requiring Web sites containing "material harmful to minors" to restrict access based on age, presu...

Article | 22/01/2009 Web users all a Twitter during inauguration

Live coverage of U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration on myriad of television stations and Web sites Tuesday wasn't enough for Twitter users. Th...

Article | 19/01/2009 Firm seeks to bar Nokia, RIM, Palm from importing devices

A patent-holding company from Texas is seeking to bar six companies -- including BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Palm and Nokia -- from importing...

Article | 16/01/2009 Court orders White House to preserve e-mail

A US judge has ordered employees of President George Bush in the White House to search for and preserve e-mail messages on their workstations and othe...

Article | 15/01/2009 US businesses concerned about ICANN changes

Some Internet-based businesses in the US would support the splitting of the domain-name governance system instead of allowing an agreement between the...

Article | 13/01/2009 Judge: Rambus destroyed documents related to patent lawsuit

Rambus plans to appeal a decision by a Delaware judge who found that the company had destroyed documents related to patent lawsuits it has filed again...

Article | 1/01/2009 11 in China sentenced for software piracy

A court in Shenzhen, China, sentenced 11 members of a software counterfeiting operation Wednesday, with the defendants getting between one and a half ...

Article | 17/12/2008 Auditor: IRS doesn't check cyberaudit logs

The US Internal Revenue Service's IT staff hasn't routinely checked its cybersecurity audit logs, according to a report released this week by the agen...