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  • Machiavelli, schizophrenia and Microsoft's never-ending story

    Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.

  • Aussie privacy law weak

    Privacy legislation recently passed by Australia's Parliament could be among the first laws to fall short of complying with a strict European Union directive banning the flow of personal information about European citizens to countries with inadequate privacy protections.

  • Software laws 'clarified' by Victorian OSS body

    Open Source Victoria, a government-funded software body, published a briefing paper on Tuesday designed to demystify some of the legal issues surrounding copyrights and patents in the software industry.

  • Tech firms fight data protection law proposal

    Companies such as IBM, Oracle and VeriSign are asking for EU laws on data protection laws to be relaxed, to aid global business.

  • Europe: No patents for software

    Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.

  • Microsoft faces AU$721m fine from EU

    Antitrust regulators from the European Union's 25 countries voted unanimously on Monday to levy new daily fines on Microsoft for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.

  • Microsoft: 'Harden your environment'

    The chief security advisor for Microsoft UK, former FBI agent Ed Gibson, on Wednesday said enterprises must take steps to toughen their security environment to foil cybercriminals.

  • On the hunt for Vista bugs

    When it comes to Windows Vista, there are bugs -- and then there are bugs.

  • Vista beta sucks up battery juice

    Windows Vista delivers some pretty snazzy new graphics, but all that "wow" can be a real drain.

  • Dealer in secondhand Microsoft licences sees success

    A company that began trading in second hand licences for Microsoft software last autumn has been attracting business from within the UK and internationally.

  • Lucent sues Microsoft over Xbox technology

    Lucent Technologies has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft over the same MPEG-2 decoding technology at the centre of a 2003 legal dispute.

  • Patent spat forces businesses to upgrade Office

    Microsoft has begun e-mailing its corporate customers worldwide, letting them know that they may need to start using a different version of Office as a result of a recent legal setback.

  • Visto sues Microsoft for patent infringement

    Mobile e-mail developer Visto said on Thursday that it has sued technology giant Microsoft for infringing on several of its patents.

  • Supreme Court won't review Microsoft patent appeal

    The US Supreme Court will not hear Microsoft's appeal in a lawsuit that has resulted in a preliminary jury verdict of more than US$500 million for alleged patent infringement in Internet Explorer.

  • Judge to consider throwing out Google suit

    The next round in the legal battle between Google and Microsoft over former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee could take place October 14 - unless the companies settle their dispute first.

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