By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
A Romanian man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal fraud charge for his role in setting up fake Web sites in order to steal credit and debit card details. read more »
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service\Seattle Bureau 22 Jul, 2008
The "spam king" was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals. read more »
Apple's demand that a Mac clone maker recall computers because the company installed Mac OS X on the machines may be an extreme measure, but it's hardly unprecedented, an intellectual property attorney said Friday. read more »
By Paul Meller, IDG News Service\Brussels Bureau 17 Jul, 2008
The European Commission Thursday sent Intel a new set of antitrust charges, the second such charge list within a year, Europe's top regulator said in a statement. read more »
At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003 , The SCO Group Inc. imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell Inc. and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code. read more »
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US online) 16 Jul, 2008
Apple Inc. has asked a federal court to require Psystar Corp., the small computer maker marketing Intel-based systems with Mac OS X pre-installed, to recall all the systems it's sold, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 15 Jul, 2008
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has told Microsoft executives that the company's search advertising deal with Google would reduce the Internet search market from two poles to one, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, IDG News Service\Nairobi Bureau 15 Jul, 2008
Kenya's prison officers are at the center of an investigation over their involvement in a SMS (Short Message Service) syndicate that defrauded the public through nonexistent lotteries. read more »
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 15 Jul, 2008
In an unprecedented move, Linux vendor Red Hat has published the legal details of a patent-infringement settlement it made last month with Firestar and DataTern. read more »
In Johannesburg (or Jozi), street lights work and are obeyed; the computerized system has cracked down on all errant motorist until they have all towed the line. I even commented to a friend that we need such a computerized system in Kenya, but we have to get rid of the thugs who carjack motorists at night before we can obey lights at night. read more »
