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ST Telemedia sells Indosat stake
News Temasek Holdings-unit has announced it will sell its 41 percent stake in Indonesian operator, PT Indosat to Qatar Telecom for US$1.8 billion.
Tags: Acquisitions, Antitrust, Stake, SingTel, Indonesia, Qatar, investment company, telecommunications company, commission, U.S. Supreme Court
Has online piracy reached tipping point?
News news analysis Across the globe, copyright owners are on the offensive and say jobs and future of intellectual property are at stake. Can they do anything about it?
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Entertainment Company, Grokster Ltd., Music, P2P, entertainment, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., antipiracy
US Supreme Court rejects Microsoft antitrust appeal
News Novell can continue with its private suit against Microsoft for alleged antitrust behavior in competing with Novell's desktop PC programs in the 1990s.
Tags: Politics, Antitrust, Business applications
Understand limitations of your online privacy
Blogs Life is about choices. We all make decisions almost every second of our life. Some are menial...should I floss and brush...
Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict
News What made the Swedish court in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case go for guilty? CNET News looks more closely at the verdict to find out.
Tags: Piracy, Defendant, Verdict, Sunde, Server, e-mail, co-founder, File-sharing, Web Site, accounting
Google will take Viacom suit to Supreme Court
News Viacom's Redstone says he's standing up for the principle of copyright protection, but Google is willing to go all the way to the mat.
Tags: Web services, Search, Video, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., Sumner Redstone, YouTube Inc., antipiracy, chairman, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
Aust hacker jailed for three years
News A computer engineer who crashed several government services and caused millions of dollars of damage has reportedly been jailed for three years.
Tags: Hacking, IP, computer, information technology worker, David Anthony McIntosh, Microsoft Windows NT, Hacker, U.S. Supreme Court, team, Hacking
Aust police to get hacking powers
News The New South Wales Government plans to empower state police to hack into computers remotely, with PC owners remaining ignorant about these searches for up to three years.
Tags: PC security, Privacy, Police, European Union, computer, remote access, New South Wales Government, electronic communication, child pornography, security company
Aust state not alone in police hacking laws
News Other jurisdictions besides New South Wales are proposing legislation to allow police to quietly hack into suspects' computers remotely, an Australian cybercrime analyst says.
Tags: Privacy, Hacking, Bill, Telecommunications, Queensland, computer, Victoria, phone, hacking, Facebook
Indonesian court rejects SingTel appeal
News The country's Supreme Court upholds the Central Jakarta District Court's ruling in anti-monopoly case.
Tags: Antitrust, Acquisitions, Mobile, SingTel, Singapore, Indonesia, phone, service provider, commission, U.S. Supreme Court
AP, AHN Media settle intellectual property lawsuit
News All Headline News admits to improperly using AP content in settlement of intellectual property lawsuit involving "hot news".
Tags: Lawsuits, Copyright, VeriSign Inc., Lawsuit, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Associated Press, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media, U.S. District Court Judge
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
P2P bill could regulate Web browsers, FTP clients
News Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to regulate peer-to-peer networks goes a bit further than its sponsors may have intended.
Tags: Peer to peer, Web browsers, Legal, Web Browser, P2P, computer, software, IM, network, East Coast
Last week in legal tech news
News Some U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested that the patent at the heart of a suit against eBay may be too vague and trivial to even be taken seriously.
Tags: Patents
Does sex offender data belong online?
News The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about "Megan's Law," which requires information about sex offenders to be posted on the Internet.
