In a decision that could have far reaching consequences for Sony, the High Court of Australia has found it is legal to mod chip a PlayStation 2.
The creators of PornoTube, a pornographic video sharing site, have been sued by US adult-film company Vivid Entertainment for infringing copyright by allowing users to illegally post clips from its films.
A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing any duties at the search giant similar to those he performed at Microsoft.
Tuesday's preliminary court ruling in the battle over Dr Kai-Fu Lee has been welcomed by Google.
A federal appeals court partially reversed a lower-court decision that had exposed Microsoft to US$565 million in damages.
A patent case in Rhode Island concerning a key component of Microsoft Office is underway with Steven Sinofsky, the company vice president in charge of Office, in attendance and expected to testify.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week suggested that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violated Americans' rights to freedom of speech, but the court stopped short of a definitive ruling striking down the law as unconstitutional.
A PeopleSoft board member testified Monday that former CEO Craig Conway was fired in large part because of his reckless exaggeration to Wall Street analysts when informing them last year that Oracle's offer to buy the company was no longer a disruptive influence.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates acknowledged in the US on Wednesday that an existing version of Windows for ATMs and other specialised machines that lets companies drop included components such as a browser could be configured to run on everyday computers.
Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.
The US National Security Agency and President Bush's wiretapping program may or may not have violated the US Constitution -- we may never find out for sure because the case was thrown out of court last week on "narrow procedural grounds".
America's love affair with patent litigation has moved to another level, with a well-known patent expert arguing movies and movie scripts should be patentable.
One of the directors of an ISP who were sued for breach of copyright by six large record companies has been dropped from the action.
Former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee told a judge in Seattle on Wednesday that he was being honest but not necessarily providing a complete answer when asked by Microsoft officials in June whether he planned to rejoin the software giant after a sabbatical.
Australia's competition watchdog has welcomed a Federal judge's finding that a Sydney man had not violated Sony copyrights by selling and installing mod chips for PlayStation consoles.
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