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Thailand's cyber law struggles with tech terms
News Thai experts say the Computer Related Crime Law contains ambiguities that make enforcement difficult, and creates confusion for software buyers.
Tags: Corporate law, Web 2.0, Web sites, Web browsers, Business applications, Law, Thailand, Computer, Article 20, social networking
Report: Apple's Jobs maintained stock-option ignorance
News Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the SEC in a 2008 deposition that he had no idea Apple lawyers had falsified documents nor did he understand the accounting implications of backdating.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Corporate law, Apple Inc., Backdating, CFO, stock-option backdating, Stock, Stock options and grants, job, SEC
EU lawmakers vote to introduce Net neutrality
News The Telecoms Package of laws recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right and makes data-breach notifications mandatory for communications service providers.
Tags: Corporate law, Web sites, Data Management, European Parliament, Internet Access, Telecommunications, Net Neutrality, Internet Service, Internet Service Provider, European Commission
Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
News The Home Office is working with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to remotely search PCs without a warrant.
Tags: Corporate law, Web 2.0, Hacking, Police, European Parliament, Officer, computer security expert, Computer, phone, Wi-Fi
Tiffany appeals ruling in eBay counterfeits case
News Jeweler Tiffany & Co. announces that it is appealing a federal court ruling that eBay is not required under trademark law to police counterfeit listings on its site.
Tags: Legal, Corporate law, Lawsuits, E-commerce, Tiffany & Co. Inc., eBay Inc., Search Engine, intellectual property, general counsel, software
Google-Digg acquisition talks fall through
News With talks of an acquisition in the final stage, Google reportedly decides not to buy the social-news site.
Tags: Acquisitions, Mergers, Legal, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Digg, RFC, Google News, TechCrunch
Sophos to offer US$340M takeover bid for German rival
News The U.S. provider of Internet security software says it will offer a premium for the shares of Utimaco Safeware AG, a German software specialist in the field of data loss and encryption.
Tags: Security, Data security, Privacy, Legal, Corporate law, Mergers, Acquisitions, Utimaco Safeware AG, Sophos Plc., Stock
US spammer hit with 30-month prison sentence
News A New York man receives 30-month prison sentence for sending nearly 1.3 million spam e-mail messages to AOL subscribers.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Legal, Corporate law, Security, Junk E-mail, America Online Inc., Spammer, Server, Anti-spam
ICO: UK may get data-breach notification law
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said draft EU legislation may prove the catalyst needed to get data-breach notification into U.K. law.
Tags: Corporate law, Legal, David Smith, Data Breach, Information Security, Europe, London, Silicon.com, U.K., Microsoft Office
Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News The mobile phone giant and chipmaker enter into a 15-year licensing agreement that settles all patent litigation between the two companies.
Tags: Antitrust, Legal, Lawsuits, Corporate law, Patents, Patent, Qualcomm Inc., Mobile, phone, performance
Report: Microsoft, EU in talks over antitrust issues
News Bloomberg says that Microsoft is looking to settle several pending issues before European Union Competition boss Neelie Kroes steps down at year's end.
Tags: Regulations, International governments, Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Service level management, Operating systems, Corporate law, Web Browser, European Union, Bloomberg L.P.
Net-neutrality clause likely to delay EU telecoms reform
News Implementation of reforms to the EU's telecommunications laws will probably be delayed by the last-minute addition of a Net-neutrality clause, the European Parliament has said.
Tags: Corporate law, Web sites, European Parliament, Fiber, Internet Access, Telecommunications, European Union, Broadband, Internet Service Provider, agreement
Web radio, music industry reach agreement on royalties
News After two years of negotiations, larger online radio stations agree to pay music industry 25 percent of revenue or a flat per-stream rate, whichever is greater.
Tags: Corporate law, Sales/revenue, Domain names, Web browsers, Music Industry, Internet radio, performance, broadcaster, revenue, blog
Report: US Justice Dept looks into telecom dominance
News Department of Justice is reviewing potential anticompetitive practices by large phone companies.
Tags: Corporate law, Federal Government, Lawsuits, Regulations, Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Telecommunications, Carrier, U.S. Department Of Justice, Wireless
US Justice Dept opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
News Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
Tags: Federal Government, Lawsuits, Corporate law, Digital rights management (DRM), Copyright, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Intellectual Property Right, antitrust
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