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Article | 5/04/2011 Federal court to review $67,500 music piracy fine
For the fist time, a federal appellate court has been asked to consider the appropriateness of the damages being sought by the Recording Industry Asso...
Article | 29/03/2011 Sprint to fight AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile
Sprint Nextel has vowed to fight AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, calling the deal a bid to create a new telecommunicati...
Article | 29/03/2011 Tech firm owner pleads guilty to E-Rate conspiracy
The former owner of an Illinois technology firm has pleaded guilty to providing bribes and kickbacks to school districts in exchange for networking co...
Article | 26/03/2011 ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison
An identity thief who used a people search website to confirm stolen Social Security numbers has been sentenced to 16 years and seven months in prison...
Article | 22/03/2011 T-Mobile deal will help US, AT&T says
AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA will advance U.S. leadership in mobile data and improve consumers' wireless experience, the company's t...
Article | 12/03/2011 Antitrust subcommittee to investigate search, broadband
A U.S. Senate subcommittee focused on antitrust and consumer-protection issues will investigate competition in the search-engine and broadband markets...
Article | 9/03/2011 Defense contractor charged with stealing secrets on laptop
A former engineer with U.S. military contractor L-3 Communications is facing as much as 20 years in prison on charges that he illegally exported milit...
Article | 5/03/2011 DOJ won't comment on reports of MPEG LA probe
A U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman would not comment Friday on reports that the agency is investigating patent management firm MPEG LA for alleg...
Article | 3/03/2011 FTC, DOJ crack down on money-making schemes
A yearlong sweep targeting bogus employment and money-making schemes has resulted in more than 90 law enforcement and civil actions, including a restr...
Article | 2/03/2011 Man gets 7 years for forcing modems to call premium numbers
A New Hampshire man who made US$8 million by installing unwanted dial-up software on computers and then forcing them to call expensive premium telepho...
Article | 1/03/2011 Accused AT&T hacker makes bail
One of the two men accused of hacking AT&T's website to grab personal information about thousands of iPad users has been released on bail.
Article | 24/02/2011 Belarus man pleads guilty to running identity theft site
A 26-year-old Belarusian man has admitted to running an identity theft website designed to thwart the antifraud measures used by many banks.
Article | 18/02/2011 Romanian pleads guilty to role in $2.7M eBay scam
A Romanian man has pleaded guilty to participating in a well-organized scam that took in about US$2.7 million from unsuspecting users of online market...
Article | 16/02/2011 Lawmaker reintroduces WikiLeaks prosecution bill
New legislation in the U.S. Congress targets WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for espionage prosecution.
Article | 27/01/2011 Senator calls for privacy protections for device location
The U.S. needs consistent rules for how law enforcement agencies can access the ever-growing collection of location-based data from mobile devices, a ...